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How to move your website to a new host without downtime
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Is WordPress good for beginners?
A practical starting point for your first WordPress site: what you can do yourself, what needs maintenance and how to choose hosting.
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Understand cloud hosting, shared plans and VPS hosting, including resource limits, management and the questions to ask before moving a website.
Read moreWhat is load balancing?
How load balancers distribute requests, detect unhealthy servers and fit into a hosting design with shared sessions, databases and backups.
Read moreHow to move your website to a new host without downtime
Plan a hosting move with backups, staging checks, a final data sync and DNS testing. Keep email and orders in the migration checklist.
Read moreWhat is a UK hosting company actually worth?
Most owners either wildly over-value or wildly under-value their hosting book. Here is the multiple buyers actually use, what moves it up and down, and how to sanity-check your own number before you talk to anyone.
Read moreHow to sell a hosting client base without losing the customers
The money in a hosting sale is tied to customers staying. Here is how to prepare the book, run the handover and say the right things at the right time, from someone who has been on the receiving end of both good and bad handovers.
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How to create 301 redirects in WordPress
Create permanent WordPress redirects, map old pages to relevant replacements and test status codes, loops and query strings before publishing.
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What is an Apache server? An in-depth overview of apache web server software
Apache is one of the most popular open-source web servers, prized for its reliability, flexibility and scalability. Here is an in-depth look at what it is and how it works.
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What is WHOIS Privacy? Everything You Need to Know About It
WHOIS is the public record of who owns a domain. What it still shows since 2018, the free .uk opt-out most people miss, and when privacy is worth buying.
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