Why Cheap Hosting Often Costs More in Year Two
The signup price is easy to compare. Year two is when you pay in migrations, plugin band-aids, downtime, and support tickets that go nowhere. Here is the math most businesses skip.
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Email Deliverability: Shared IP vs Dedicated Sending
Your site can be up and mail can still hit spam. Shared vs dedicated sending IP is not the whole story, but it matters. Here is when each makes sense and what to fix first.
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Hosting Backups That Actually Restore When You Need Them
Daily backups on a green dashboard mean nothing if nobody has tested a restore. Here is what a real recovery plan looks like, and where backup strategies usually fail in practice.
Read articleHow to Read a Hosting SLA Without the Marketing Gloss
99.9% uptime and 24/7 support sound great until you read the fine print. Here is how to decode uptime math, service credits, exclusions, and what actually matters when something breaks.
Read articleSAGE 50 Hosting: What Canadian Businesses Actually Need
SAGE 50 is not a website. It is Windows, licensing, multi-user access, and backups that actually restore. Here is what to ask before you move your company file off the front-desk PC.
Read articleShared Hosting vs VPS: When It Is Time to Upgrade
Shared hosting is a great start. Staying on it after traffic, custom code, or security needs have outgrown the plan is not. Here are the signs we see before Canadian businesses make the move.
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Self-Hosted OneDev: Git, CI/CD, and Kanban Without the GitLab Footprint
OneDev (theonedev) — MIT all-in-one Git forge with GUI pipelines, Kanban, packages, and code search. ~15k stars. Gitea is lean; OneDev is integrated DevOps on one box.
Read articleSelf-Hosted Cachet: The Status Page Your Clients Check Before Calling You
Cachet (cachethq) — open-source status page with incidents, maintenance windows, and subscriber alerts. ~15k stars. Uptime Kuma monitors; Cachet communicates outages.
Read articleSelf-Hosted Gotify: Push Alerts to Your Phone Without a SaaS Middleman
Gotify (gotify/server) — MIT push notification server via REST + WebSocket. ~15k stars, Android app, priority levels. Uptime Kuma monitors; Gotify delivers the ping.
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