Managed hosting vs colocation, and what managed colocation means
Managed hosting vs colocation comes down to two questions: who owns the hardware, and who runs the operating system on...
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The true cost of downtime: how to calculate it and how to cut it
The true cost of downtime is lost sales, plus paid staff who can’t work, plus the work of recovering, plus...
Ashburn vs Los Angeles data center: pick a coast, or pair both
Measured round trips from 29 cities to our Ashburn and Los Angeles sites, which coast wins where, and how to...
Chicago vs Los Angeles data center: national reach or the Pacific side
Measured round trips from 29 cities to our Chicago and Los Angeles sites, plus a rule for which to pick...
What is a bare metal server?
A bare metal server is a physical computer rented to a single customer, with your operating system installed straight onto...
RTO and RPO explained, with a worked example
Recovery time objective (RTO) is the longest a system can stay down after a failure before the outage starts doing...
Dedicated Servers vs. Virtual Servers: A Comparison
A VPS is a slice of a physical server with its own operating system, CPU cores and RAM. A dedicated...
Best dedicated server hosting in 2026: an honest comparison
Six dedicated server hosts compared on entry price, CPU age, SLA credits, written support times, SOC 2 and 10G pricing....
What is cPanel and how does it relate to WHM
cPanel runs each hosting account; WHM runs the server those accounts live on. Here's what each one does and how...
Open-Source cPanel Alternatives
The free and open-source cPanel alternatives worth a look in 2026, where each project stands today, and when paying for...
cPanel to cPanel migration: how to move accounts to a new server (2026)
Move cPanel accounts to a new server with the WHM Transfer Tool or pkgacct and restorepkg, and get the cutover...
cPanel license cost in 2026: tiers, account limits and bare metal
cPanel prices by account count. Here's how the tiers work, what the Premier Metal tier costs on a dedicated server,...