Field notes from the
infrastructure layer.
Performance benchmarks, migration post-mortems, deep-dives on how the stack actually works, and the occasional opinion piece on what hosting should be. Written by the people doing the work.
Daily backups are not a recovery plan
Nearly every host includes backups and describes them identically. The differences that matter — retention, location, and whether a restore has ever been tested — are rarely on the feature list.
Why server location sets a floor your code cannot get under
Distance costs milliseconds that no amount of caching or tuning will recover. It is the one performance decision made before a line of code is written.
How to move a WordPress site without downtime
A migration fails in one of two ways: the site goes unreachable during the switch, or it stays reachable while writing to the wrong database. Both…
Shared CPU or dedicated: which one your site actually needs
Dedicated CPU is the line item separating a $15 plan from a $29 one. It is regularly bought unnecessarily, and just as regularly skipped when it…
What shared hosting actually costs in year two
Almost every advertised shared hosting price is an introductory rate. Here is what four widely used plans renew at, from their own pricing pages, and the…
Hosting that stays out of your way.
Everything we write about here is what we run in production. Free migration from any host, flat pricing, and engineers who answer.