Hosting, Security and Keeping a Site Alive
Hosting is the part of a website nobody thinks about until the morning it stops working. This guide covers choosing it, securing it, backing it up in a way that actually restores, and the handful of settings that quietly decide whether your email reaches anyone.
7 articles · about 32 minutes end to end · free, and none of it is gated
Everything in This Guide
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Website Downtime: What It Costs and How to Find Out Before Your Customers Do
Most owners learn their site is down from a customer, hours later. What an hour costs, what uptime percentages mean, and how to be told first, for free.
4 min read October 8, 2026 Read - 02
SSL Certificates and HTTPS, Explained Without the Jargon
What the padlock actually means, why you should never pay much for one, and the renewal failure that takes sites down every year.
4 min read September 27, 2026 Read - 03
Website Maintenance Costs and Plans for Small Business
What it costs to keep a small business website running in 2026, line by line from published prices, and what a maintenance plan should include.
5 min read September 17, 2026 Read - 04
Your Website Has Been Hacked. Here Is What to Do, in Order.
Restoring a backup and carrying on is how sites get reinfected within two weeks. The order of operations matters, plus how to tell what actually happened.
5 min read September 15, 2026 Read - 05
Why Your Business Email Goes to Spam (and the Three Records That Fix It)
Quotes that never arrive are usually sitting in a junk folder because three DNS records are missing. What SPF, DKIM and DMARC do, in plain English.
5 min read September 14, 2026 Read - 06
Website Backups That Actually Restore
Almost every business has backups. A startling number find out on the worst morning that they do not work. What to have, where, and how to test it.
5 min read September 13, 2026 Read - 07
How to Choose Web Hosting, Without Regrets
What "unlimited" really means, why the renewal price is the real price, and the backup question almost nobody asks.
4 min read August 30, 2026 Read
The Shape of It
What This Guide Covers
Choosing It
What you are actually buying, and the red flags.
Protecting It
Backups, certificates, updates and breaches.
The records that decide whether your mail is delivered or binned.
Tell Us What Is Broken.
We Will Tell You What It Costs.
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