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What Joomla Needs From Its Hosting: Requirements, Extensions and Upgrades

October 22, 2026 Website Security 9 min read

What Joomla requires from a server according to the project itself, why extensions rather than core decide when you have to upgrade PHP, and how to tell whether a Joomla site fits on shared hosting.

Drupal Hosting Requirements: What to Check Before You Buy

October 20, 2026 Hosting Plans 9 min read

What Drupal needs from a server, including the requirements drupal.org does not list: a shell for Composer and Drush, memory sized for editors, and a document root you can point at web/.

Hosting Requirements for an Online Store

October 15, 2026 Hosting Plans 9 min read

What a store actually needs from its hosting, from transactional database writes and durable sessions to an uncached checkout, and how to size a plan against your own order pattern instead of a traffic average.

Cloud Hosting and VPS Hosting: What the Difference Buys You

October 13, 2026 Scaling 9 min read

Both are virtual machines. This post settles cloud hosting versus VPS on the three things that actually differ: where the disk lives, what happens when hardware fails, and whether the bill is fixed or metered.

How to Back Up a Website So the Backup Actually Works

October 8, 2026 Website Security 9 min read

What a complete website backup contains, how to take a database dump that restores cleanly, where the copies belong, and how to prove a backup works before you need it.

Semi-Dedicated vs VPS: More Capacity or Your Own Server?

October 6, 2026 Scaling 6 min read

Semi-dedicated and VPS hosting fix different shortages: one adds capacity on a managed server, the other hands you the operating system and its upkeep. How to tell which one your site is short of.

Why Your Website Is Slow: Server, Network, or Browser

October 1, 2026 Small Business 8 min read

A measurement-first way to find out which layer is costing you the seconds, so you stop guessing and stop paying for upgrades that fix nothing.

What WordPress Hosting Actually Needs to Do Well

September 29, 2026 Hosting Plans 9 min read

The five things WordPress genuinely requires from a server, which marketed WordPress hosting features are worth paying for, and how to match a site to a hosting tier before you buy.

Website Security Basics Every Small Business Should Have in Place

September 24, 2026 Website Security 9 min read

The short list of website security basics that stops most real compromises of a small business site, and why plugin updates and password reuse matter far more than the exotic attacks people worry about.

How to Choose a Domain Name You Will Not Regret

September 22, 2026 Small Business 8 min read

A domain name has to survive being said out loud, typed from memory, and used as an email address for years. Here are the tests to run on a candidate before you pay for it.