Guides
Plain language explanations, no jargon required.
What Is Cloud Hosting?
Cloud hosting spreads your site or app across a network of virtual servers instead of one physical machine.
How Cloud Hosting Pricing Actually Works
Hourly billing, bundled plans, egress fees, and the line items that turn an advertised price into your real bill.
What an Uptime SLA Actually Guarantees
How to read "99.9% uptime," what providers actually owe you when they miss it, and why the number matters less than the fine print.
Hosting a WooCommerce Store Without Overpaying
WooCommerce runs on ordinary WordPress hosting, but stores have sharper requirements than blogs: what actually matters, what to skip, and when managed WordPress hosting earns its premium.
A VPS for Self-Hosted Apps: n8n, Uptime Kuma, Nextcloud and Friends
One small server can replace a surprising stack of SaaS subscriptions. How to size it, run everything in Docker, and not become a cautionary tale about backups.
Where to Host a Laravel App in 2026
Shared PHP hosting, a VPS with Forge, or a PaaS: what Laravel actually needs, and why the classic answer is still a $12 server plus a deployment tool.
Bandwidth and Egress Fees: The Bill Nobody Reads Until It Hurts
Compute prices converged; data-transfer prices didn't. How egress actually gets billed, where the traps are, and how the providers in our catalog compare.
The Cheapest VPS That Isn't Junk
Below a certain price, cheap servers cost more than they save. Where the floor actually is in 2026, who offers real value there, and the specs that matter at the bottom of the market.
Managed Database vs Running Your Own: The Real Math
A managed PostgreSQL costs 2-4x the raw server underneath. Whether that premium is worth it depends on exactly one question: what your untested backup is worth.
Managed vs Unmanaged Hosting: What You're Actually Paying For
The real difference between a $5 VPS and a $25 managed instance running the same hardware.
How to Actually Choose Between Cloud Providers
A decision process that starts with your constraints, not with a spec comparison table.
Choosing a Hosting Region: When Latency Matters and When It Doesn't
The 80ms between us-east and eu-central is invisible for some apps and fatal for others. How to pick a region, when multi-region is worth it, and the compliance wrinkle.
Where to Host Docker Containers in 2026
A container runs anywhere, which makes the hosting choice pure economics: PaaS convenience, VPS control, or Kubernetes you probably don't need.
VPS vs Dedicated vs Cloud Hosting
How the three hosting models differ in cost, control, and scalability.
How to Migrate to Cloud Hosting Without Downtime
The order of operations that keeps your site or app online while you move providers.
How to Tell When You Actually Need to Scale
The metrics that mean something versus the ones that just look alarming, and what to do about each.
Where to Host a Next.js App in 2026
Vercel, a PaaS, or your own VPS: the real trade-offs for hosting Next.js, and how rendering mode changes the answer.
Static Site Hosting: When Free Is Actually Fine
Portfolios, docs, and marketing sites can host for $0 legitimately. Where the free tiers genuinely differ, and the three situations where paying becomes worth it.
Where to Host a Ruby on Rails App in 2026
Heroku's successors, the VPS path Rails 8 was built for, and why the database deserves your money more than the app server.
Where to Host a Node.js API in 2026
PaaS, VPS, or serverless for an Express/NestJS/Fastify backend: what each actually costs, where each breaks, and the memory ceiling nobody warns you about.
Where to Host a Ghost Blog in 2026
Ghost(Pro) vs a $6 VPS vs a PaaS: the real trade-offs for the best writing platform nobody wants to maintain.
Cloud Hosting Security: What's Your Job vs the Provider's
The shared responsibility model, and the specific things people forget to configure.
Where to Host a Django App in 2026
What a Django app actually needs from a host, which providers fit at each stage, and the mistakes that make hosting Python more expensive than it should be.
Shopify vs WooCommerce: The Real Cost Comparison
The sticker prices are misleading in both directions. What each platform actually costs at small, medium, and growing scale, including the fees nobody puts on the pricing page.