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Website uptime monitoring: a simple guide
What uptime really means, how much downtime 99.9% allows, what to monitor beyond 'is it up', free and paid monitoring options, alerts and status pages, and what to do when your site goes down.
How to choose a domain name
How to choose a good domain name for a UK website or business: .uk vs .co.uk vs .com, keeping it short and clear, trade mark checks, registering in your own name, renewal costs, privacy, and avoiding common traps.
Green web hosting: what to look for
How to judge whether a web host is genuinely green: renewable energy claims, certificates, data centre efficiency, offsetting, independent verification, and practical steps to make your own website lower carbon.
Web hosting costs: what you really pay for
A breakdown of the real cost of running a website: hosting, renewals, domains, email, SSL, backups, themes and plugins, with a simple three-year cost worksheet.
Website launch checklist for small UK businesses
A practical pre-launch checklist for a small UK business website: domain and hosting, HTTPS, legal pages and cookie consent, company details, accessibility, speed, search setup, backups and what to check after going live.
Website speed basics: what really makes a site load fast
The factors that genuinely affect page speed, Google's Core Web Vitals thresholds, how to measure them, and a prioritised list of fixes for small sites.
How to move a website to a new host without downtime
A step-by-step migration plan: full backups, lowering DNS TTL, copying files and databases, testing before the switch, moving email safely and what to check afterwards.
Cloud vs. Managed Hosting: When to Make the Leap for Your Growing Web Project in 2026 (and How to Save Real Money)
In December 2025, I was consulting with a promising SaaS startup, a team of brilliant developers who had built an innovative AI-powered content generation tool.
Managed Cloud vs. Self-Managed VPS: Unmasking the True Cost of Performance in 2026
Let me be blunt: if you’re still making your web hosting decisions based solely on the introductory price advertised on a provider’s homepage, you’re setting yo
When to move from shared hosting to cloud and modern platforms
Let me be blunt: if you run a busy e-commerce store or a growing SaaS application on basic shared hosting, you are not just leaving money on the table;
How to choose web hosting: shared, VPS, cloud or managed
A practical guide to the main types of web hosting, what each suits, the features that matter, the renewal-price trap, and a step-by-step way to choose.
Beyond the Bandwidth: Exploring the Environmental Impact of Your Web Host's Data Centres
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Web hosting affiliate programmes: how the money works, and the costs marketers miss
A breakdown of the real cost of running a website: hosting, renewals, domains, email, SSL, backups, themes and plugins, with a simple three-year cost worksheet.
Website uptime monitoring: a simple guide
What uptime really means, how much downtime 99.9% allows, what to monitor beyond 'is it up', free and paid monitoring options, alerts and status pages, and what to do when your site goes down.
How to choose a domain name
How to choose a good domain name for a UK website or business: .uk vs .co.uk vs .com, keeping it short and clear, trade mark checks, registering in your own name, renewal costs, privacy, and avoiding common traps.
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