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Hosting5 min read
Eight questions worth asking any host, including this one: the renewal price, who takes the backups, where support actually lives, and which claims on a hosting page mean nothing at all.
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A transfer moves the registration, not the website. The downtime people suffer comes from the DNS zone disappearing with the old registrar, and it is entirely avoidable if you do one thing first.
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A bot that runs on your laptop is a prototype. What it takes to keep one up on a hosted container: restarts, tokens, logs, memory, and how the free weekly backup behaves when the slots fill up.
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The question is not how much traffic you have. It is whether anything you need lives below the control panel, and whether you want to be the person patching the machine.
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Automatic provisioning is a queue, not a promise. What happens between the card being charged and the login details appearing, why a retry is normal, and the orders that still wait for a person.
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Cybersquatting is registering a name that belongs to somebody else's brand and waiting to be paid for it. How it works, what it costs the owner, and the steps that keep your own name out of reach.
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Freelancing, e-commerce and dropshipping, video, blogging, teaching, social media management and micro-tasks: what each one asks of you, where to start, and the habits that decide whether any of them pays.
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Most sites use far less disk than the owner expects, and the ones that do not are usually storing images at full camera resolution. How to work out the figure you need rather than guessing upwards.
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Hosting has a direct effect on how quickly a page loads: the disk, the web server, the resources the plan reserves and the distance to the visitor all show up in the loading time.
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