Plain-English tutorials on hosting, domains, WordPress and migrations.
Quick answer: Website hosting for small business needs less than most pricing pages suggest: a reliable home for one to a few websites, email at your own domain, free SSL on every site, and room to grow. Shared hosting covers most small businesses. Pick a plan by how many sites and mailboxes you need, not…
Quick answer: Web hosting with free SSL means your host issues and installs a TLS certificate for your domain at no extra cost, so your site loads over HTTPS with the padlock in the browser. A free certificate encrypts traffic just as well as a paid one. What matters is that it covers every domain…
Quick answer: Shared hosting places your website on one server with other sites, and the host handles setup and maintenance for a fixed yearly price. Cloud hosting runs your site on virtual servers from a larger pool, so you can resize resources, usually with usage-based billing and more to manage yourself. Most new and small…
Quick answer: To point a domain to your hosting, either change the domain’s nameservers at your registrar to the ones your host gives you, or keep your current DNS provider and edit the A record (and the www record) so they point to your hosting server’s IP address. Nameservers hand over all DNS. Records change…
Quick answer: To choose a web hosting plan, count the websites and email addresses you need today and next year, confirm the plan runs your software, then compare storage rules, SSL, billing terms, renewal price, upgrade path and how support is reached. Pick the smallest plan that covers those numbers with a little room to…
Website migration means moving a site to a new host, domain, platform or URL structure. Learn the main types, the real risks and how a safe migration works.
Quick answer: To host a website, pick the kind of site you are building, choose a hosting plan that fits it, register or connect a domain, upload your files or install an app such as WordPress, create a database if the site needs one, switch on free SSL, point the domain’s DNS at the host…
Quick answer: To host a Laravel website on shared hosting, build the project on your own computer with production dependencies, upload it to a folder outside the public web root, make the host serve only Laravel’s public folder, create a MySQL database, fill in the .env file, run your migrations and switch on SSL. Then…
Quick answer: With shared hosting, you share a server with other sites and look after WordPress yourself: updates, plugins and backups. Managed WordPress hosting runs only WordPress, and the host handles much of that upkeep, usually for more money and with plugin limits. Choose shared if you can do light maintenance, managed if you want…
Quick answer: To migrate a WordPress site to a new host, back up the files and database, copy both to the new hosting account, update wp-config.php with the new database details, test the copy before DNS changes, then point your domain at the new host. Keep the old hosting active until everything on the new…
