Everything We Have Written, Sorted
Resources: Guides On Hosting, Email, Security And Running A Business Online
Nearly 400 guides, written by the people who run the servers rather than by a content agency. No gated downloads, no email address required, no upsell in the middle of an answer.
Start with a topic hub below, or jump straight to the guides people read most.
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Start With A Topic
Eleven topic hubs, each collecting the guides for one part of running a business online.
Topic hub | What is in it |
|---|---|
What to compare, what the specs mean, and which questions actually predict whether you will be happy in year two | |
How to leave a host or an email provider without downtime, lost mail or lost rankings | |
Professional addresses, encryption, deliverability, HIPAA, and why your mail lands in spam | |
Costs, developers, speed, security and the decisions that matter before you build | |
Threats worth worrying about, threats that are marketing, and what to do about each | |
Public, private, sovereign and hybrid, in language that does not require a vendor glossary | |
File sharing, chat, video and project tools, and how to stop paying for four of each | |
Building, hosting and running an online store, including the parts nobody warns you about | |
Builder or WordPress, do it yourself or hire, and what a site really costs to run | |
Email campaigns, SEO, newsletters and what the numbers in your reports actually mean | |
What is genuinely useful, what is a rebranded feature, and where the risks sit |
The Guides People Read Most
Compliance Without A Consultant
What HIPAA compliant email costs · Is Gmail HIPAA compliant? · Is Outlook HIPAA compliant? · CMMC Level 2 for small contractors · The ADA Title II deadlines
Moving Without Breaking Anything
The website migration checklist · Moving hosts without losing rankings · Migrate WordPress yourself, or hire help? · Understanding a cloud migration strategy · Our migration service
Browse By Category
Every guide on the site, grouped the way it is filed. Counts are as of September 2026 and go up most weeks.
Category | Size | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
53 guides | Running the business side: costs, providers, independence, IT decisions | |
43 guides | Sovereign cloud, private cloud, strategy, storage, migration | |
42 guides | Threats, backups, SSL, compliance frameworks, WordPress hardening | |
41 guides | WordPress, accessibility, developers, performance, building sites | |
35 guides | Project management, analytics, process tools, streaming | |
32 guides | Deliverability, encryption, HIPAA, domains, mailbox security | |
24 guides | Campaigns, newsletters, open rates, cost, bulk sending | |
22 guides | Shared, VPS, reseller, what hosting costs, when to upgrade | |
20 guides | Remote work, collaboration platforms, meetings, project tools | |
10 guides | Builder comparisons, WordPress vs builders, choosing a platform | |
5 guides | Checklists, rankings, doing it yourself or hiring help | |
12 posts | What is moving in tech, and what it means for a small business |
Comparisons And Service Pages
Where to go | Type | What it is | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|---|
28 pages | Head-to-head against the hosts, email providers and platforms people switch from | Includes what each competitor does better | |
Service | Moving a site or a company’s email without downtime | Free on most plans | |
Guide | What is covered, what is not, and how to build a recovery plan | Includes a restore checklist | |
28 pages | Hosting and IT written for specific trades and sectors | Churches, clinics, FFLs, campaigns, co-ops and more |
How To Use This Library
1. Start With The Decision, Not The Product
Most people arrive with a decision to make rather than a product to buy. The topic hubs are organised around decisions — choosing a host, switching providers, building a site — because that is the actual question.
2. The Comparisons Say What We Do Worse
Every comparison page has a section on when you should stay with the other provider. If you are weighing us against someone, read that section first. It is the part that tells you whether the rest is worth believing.
3. Nothing Here Is Gated
No email address, no download form, no drip sequence. If a guide answers your question and you go and do it yourself, that is a good outcome and we would rather you had the answer.
4. Ask Us The Thing You Cannot Find
If the answer is not here, tell us what you were looking for. A good share of these guides exist because a customer asked something we did not have a written answer to.
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Resources FAQs
No. Everything is open. There is no email gate, no download form and no drip sequence attached to any of it. If a guide answers your question and you go and fix the thing yourself, that is a good outcome as far as we are concerned.
The people who run the hosting, the mail servers and the support desk. That is why the guides tend to be specific about things like DNS records, restore testing and renewal pricing — those are the questions that actually come through the support queue, rather than the ones a content agency would guess at.
Depends on your decision. If you are choosing a host, start with choosing a web host. If you already have one and want to leave, start with switching providers. If your email is the problem, start with business email. If you are about to build or rebuild a site, start with building a website.
We try hard to make them so, and every one has a section saying when you should stay with the other provider. Our InMotion page says plainly that InMotion is better value if you host ten or forty sites. Our Liquid Web page says their fully managed tier is deeper than our standard plan and their uptime figure is higher than ours. These pages are read by people who will check, and a comparison that only lists wins does not survive that.
New guides go up most weeks, and existing ones are revised when prices, policies or the underlying facts change. Pages that quote a specific figure carry the date it was checked, so you can see how fresh it is rather than guessing.
Yes, with a link back. If you are writing something and want a fact checked or a quote from someone who actually runs the infrastructure, get in touch and we will help.
Tell us what you were looking for. A good share of the guides on this site exist because a customer asked something we did not already have a written answer to, and the fastest way to get one written is to ask.
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Free resources versus resources that cost you something
There is a version of this page on most hosting websites, and it usually exists to capture an email address. Ours does not, and it is worth being clear about why.
Gated resources work. Put a checklist behind a form and you collect addresses. The trade is that the person who needed the checklist at eleven at night, mid-outage, does not get it — and that is exactly the person whose problem we are best placed to solve.
So every guide here is open. The cost to us is a smaller list. The benefit is that these resources get used.
Resources for people who are not our customers
A large share of the traffic to these guides comes from people hosted somewhere else, and that is fine.
If you are on another host and our resources help you fix your own DNS, tighten your own WordPress install, or work out why your mail is bouncing, the guide did its job. Several of the most-read pages here end with a recommendation that has nothing to do with buying anything from us.
The comparison resources are written the same way. Each one names what the other provider does better, because a page that claims to win every row is not information, it is advertising with a table in it.
How these resources get updated
Hosting facts go stale quickly. Prices change, policies change, a provider gets acquired and its support model changes with it.
Any guide quoting a specific figure carries the date that figure was checked, so you can judge for yourself whether it is still current rather than assuming. When a price or policy we have cited changes materially, the page gets revised rather than quietly left up.
New resources go up most weeks, usually driven by something a customer asked that we did not already have an answer for.
What is deliberately missing
You will not find resources here on things we do not do. There is no guide to Kubernetes orchestration, no managed-database tutorial, no GPU compute explainer.
Those are real topics and other companies cover them well. Writing about them purely to catch search traffic would put us in the position of publishing advice on infrastructure we do not operate, and the whole reason these guides are specific is that they come from people who do operate the thing they are describing.
Using these resources with your own team
Several of these pages work better as a shared reference than as a one-off read.
The backup and disaster recovery checklist is designed to be filled in by whoever holds your accounts — where the hosting is, where the domain is registered, who can log in to each, and when someone last tested a restore. The migration guides work the same way: the preparation list is there so the information is gathered once rather than assembled under pressure.
Share them, print them, paste them into your own internal wiki. Attribution and a link back is all we ask.
How to get something out of these resources
A library of four hundred guides is only useful if you can find the one you need. Here is how this one is organised and what to reach for.
Start from the decision you are stuck on
Most people do not arrive looking for a product. They arrive with a decision: whether to move host, whether to hire a developer, whether the email problem is worth paying to fix.
The topic hubs above are built around those decisions rather than around our product line, which is why “choosing a web host” is a hub and “VPS” is not.
Read the comparison pages backwards
Every comparison page on this site has a section explaining when you should stay with the other provider, and it is the most useful part.
The InMotion page says outright that InMotion is better value if you host ten or forty sites. The Liquid Web page says their fully managed tier goes deeper than our standard plan and their published uptime figure is higher than ours. The Brevo page says Brevo bills the same way we do, so there is no saving to claim, and concedes their SMS and CRM breadth.
If those sections did not exist, you would be right to distrust the rest. Read them first.
The guides that save the most money
Three of these resources come up again and again in support conversations, usually after the fact.
What website hosting actually costs. Not the introductory rate. The renewal, plus the things sold separately at checkout. Most people overpay because they compared the wrong number.
Who should own your domain and hosting. The single most expensive mistake a small business makes online is letting someone else register the domain in their own name. Recovering it ranges from awkward to impossible.
What to back up and how to restore it. Nearly everyone believes they have backups. Far fewer have ever tested a restore, and the gap between those two states is where businesses lose weeks.
Nothing here is gated, and that is deliberate
No email address, no download form, no drip sequence waiting at the end of a guide.
Gating resources works as a lead-generation tactic and we have chosen not to use it. If a guide answers your question and you go and fix the thing yourself without ever speaking to us, that is a good outcome. It is also, in our experience, how people end up calling two years later when the thing they are doing gets bigger than a guide.
Where these come from
These are written by the people who run the hosting, the mail servers and the support desk.
That is why the guides are specific about DNS records, restore testing, renewal pricing and the exact settings that decide whether mail is delivered. Those are the questions that actually arrive in the support queue. A content agency would write about “leveraging the cloud”; nobody has ever opened a ticket about that.
If the answer is not here
Tell us what you went looking for. A good share of these resources exist because a customer asked something we did not have a written answer to, and the fastest way to get one written is to ask for it.
We will also tell you when the honest answer is that you do not need us. That happens more than you would expect, and it is usually the start of a longer relationship than a sale would have been.
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Guide counts are as of September 2026. Pages that quote a specific price or policy carry the date that figure was checked.