Guides
Hosting, explained by the people who run it.
Practical guides on web hosting, DirectAdmin, WordPress, managed servers and moving sites — written by the people who run them.
Windows Server
Windows Server vs Linux for Hosting: How to Decide
When a site genuinely needs Windows Server, when Linux is the better and cheaper choice, and the licensing, resource and management differences between them.
Hardware & Datacenter
NVMe vs SATA SSD vs HDD: What the Difference Means for Hosting
How the three storage types differ in latency and IOPS, why a website's workload favours NVMe by a wide margin, and when the difference is not worth paying for.
Security
How to Install Fail2ban and Stop Brute-Force Attacks
Install Fail2ban, understand jails and bantime, protect SSH, Plesk, Nginx and WordPress logins, whitelist your own IP and read what it has banned.
WHMCS
How to Connect WHMCS to Plesk for Automatic Provisioning
Add your Plesk server to WHMCS, map products to service plans, and fix the errors that stop accounts being created, including the 1019 password policy error.
Linux
How to Set Up SSH Keys and Turn Off Password Login
Generate an ed25519 key on Mac, Linux or Windows, install it on the server, test it, and disable password authentication so brute-force attacks cannot succeed.
Plesk
Plesk for Beginners: A Tour of the Panel
Where everything is in Plesk — domains, files, databases, mail, DNS, SSL, PHP, backups, WordPress Toolkit — and what to click for the first ten jobs.
WHMCS
WHMCS Cron Not Running: How to Find the Cause and Fix It
Why invoices and suspensions stop when the WHMCS cron fails, the exact cron command for WHMCS 9, how to read the cron log, and the six failures we see most.
SPF, DKIM and DMARC Explained (With the Records to Copy)
What the three email authentication records do, why mail without them lands in spam, and the exact TXT records to add for Plesk or Google Workspace.
Servers
Managed vs Unmanaged VPS: Which One Do You Actually Need?
What a host does on a managed VPS and what is left to you on an unmanaged one, the real time cost of self-management, and a short test for which to choose.
WHMCS
How to Install WHMCS on a Plesk Server, Step by Step
WHMCS 9 requirements (PHP 8.2+, ionCube 13, MySQL), creating the site in Plesk, running the installer, the cron job and the first settings to lock down.
Linux
How to Create a Sudo User and Disable Root SSH Login
Create a user with sudo rights on Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux or Rocky, test it, then lock root out of SSH without locking yourself out.
Networking
DNS Record Types Explained: A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, NS and CAA
Every DNS record you will meet running a site or email — what each is for, what goes in it, and the mistakes behind "site down" and "mail bounced".