Choosing the Right Plan articles

Choosing the Right Plan 394 Shared hosting vs VPS: which one does your project need? The difference is not "better" and "worse": it is who administers the machine. On shared hosting, we do. On a VPS,...
Choosing the Right Plan 530 Shared hosting vs dedicated server: when the jump is worth it These are the two extremes: on one side, everything handled by us on a shared machine; on the other, an entire...
Choosing the Right Plan 606 Shared hosting vs Cloud: what actually changes "Cloud" is so worn out in advertising that it has stopped meaning anything. In our catalogue it means something...
Choosing the Right Plan 541 VPS vs Cloud: the difference is the network, not the marketing They are close relatives: in both cases you get a virtual machine of your own, with root access and administration...
Choosing the Right Plan 563 VPS vs dedicated server: virtual resources or the whole machine On a VPS the resources are yours, but the physical machine is divided between several virtual machines. On a...
Choosing the Right Plan 259 Cloud vs dedicated server: flexibility or raw hardware This is the choice between growing fast and in pieces or having a whole physical machine. Both serve large projects;...
Choosing the Right Plan 471 Shared hosting, VPS, Cloud or dedicated: the full comparison Four ways to put a site or a system online, from the simplest to the most powerful. The choice is not about which is...
Choosing the Right Plan 396 Linux or Windows hosting: which does your site need? It is one of the most common questions when buying hosting for the first time - and behind it is nearly always the...
Choosing the Right Plan 319 Becoming a reseller: the plans, what is included and how to start Reselling hosting means selling space on our servers under your own brand. Your customers buy from you, pay you and...
Choosing the Right Plan 255 Dedicated or shared IP: which one you need, and when It is one of the most common questions from anyone growing: “do I need an IP of my own?”. In most cases the honest...
Choosing the Right Plan 249 Is there a free plan? What is included and what is not Straight answer, no hedging: we do not have a free hosting plan, and we do not have a free trial period either. All...
Choosing the Right Plan 346 What you can host here: media, streaming, Windows and the limits Almost anything you put on a website fits on a shared hosting plan. What differs between providers is not the list...
Choosing the Right Plan 186 Business hosting: who it is for, and when it pays off Business plans are the tier above ordinary shared hosting. They are still shared hosting, with the same panel and...
Choosing the Right Plan 186 Pro, Plus, Ultra or Business: choosing without guesswork Shared plans come in four steps: Pro, Plus, Ultra and the Business line. They all carry the same panel, the same...
Choosing the Right Plan 164 "Unlimited": what really is unlimited, and what has a limit The plan tables carry columns that say Unlimited. The word is true in the sense that no counter stops you, but all...
Choosing the Right Plan 290 Reseller hosting: starting out, pricing and billing With reseller hosting you buy a block of resources and split it however you like. You create packages under your own...
Choosing the Right Plan 176 Changing plan: how to do it, and how the amount is settled Either the plan has become too small, or you are paying for more than you use. Both are a change you make yourself,...
Choosing the Right Plan 183 The limits nobody advertises: inodes, processes and memory Disk space and traffic are the limits everybody compares before buying. In practice they are not the ones that stop...
Choosing the Right Plan 238 What WHMCS is, and when you need it Anyone starting to resell hosting discovers quickly that the work is not only technical. There are orders to take,...
Choosing the Right Plan 243 Installing WHMCS on your account The install itself is short. What usually goes wrong is everything done before and after it, which is why this...
Choosing the Right Plan 190 Connecting WHMCS to WHM so accounts are created on their own This is the step that turns WHMCS from an expensive invoice sheet into something that works for you. Wired to WHM,...
Choosing the Right Plan 184 The most common WHMCS problems, and what causes them Almost everything that goes wrong in a WHMCS falls into one of five families: the PHP loader, the licence, the...
Choosing the Right Plan 93 Which hosting plan for a blog: start small and know when to grow For a new blog, the entry plan is enough. A blog is one of the lightest things you can put online: text, a few...
Choosing the Right Plan 89 Which hosting plan for an online shop, and the signs it needs more A small shop with few products and a handful of orders a day runs well on a shared plan, though not necessarily the...
Choosing the Right Plan 82 Which hosting plan for a portfolio or photography site A portfolio asks for little processor and plenty of disk space and well-handled images. Images define it: each one...
Choosing the Right Plan 102 Which hosting plan for a small company website with its own e-mail A small company’s website is usually a brochure site: a few pages, a contact form and mailboxes on the company...
Choosing the Right Plan 79 Which hosting plan for a school or training centre: site, e-mail and online lessons It depends on what the school will put online. A site with information, enrolment and e-mail for the teachers fits...
Choosing the Right Plan 83 Which hosting plan for a church or an association: a simple site, events and videos A church, an association or an NGO usually needs a site that is simple and always up: who we are, opening times,...
Choosing the Right Plan 87 Which hosting plan for a restaurant: menu, photos and bookings A restaurant’s site is light, and one of the first shared plans is enough. A restaurant needs three things: a menu...
Choosing the Right Plan 89 Which hosting plan for a membership, booking or course site where visitors log in A site where people log in with their own account (members area, bookings, courses, a forum) weighs much more than a...
Choosing the Right Plan 78 Which plan for a web application or an API: shared hosting, VPS or Cloud Start with the simplest and move up only when the application asks for it. An application in Node.js, Python, Ruby...
Choosing the Right Plan 75 Online radio or video: which plan, and why an ordinary hosting plan is not it An online radio station or a continuous broadcast cannot run on an ordinary hosting plan. A website hands a file to...
Choosing the Right Plan 70 How many visitors can a hosting plan handle? Why the monthly total does not answer it There is no monthly visit count that suits everyone, and anyone who gives you one is guessing. What decides it is...
Choosing the Right Plan 91 Preparing for a traffic spike: a campaign, a launch or a live event A traffic spike is not solved on the day: it is solved in the days before. What brings a site down in a campaign is...
Choosing the Right Plan 94 CPU, RAM and disk I/O in plain words: what each one limits on your site On shared hosting your account lives in a compartment with ceilings of its own for processor (CPU), memory (RAM) and...
Choosing the Right Plan 86 Entry processes: why a site with few visitors can still hit the limit Entry processes measure how many things are entering your account at the same time: each request to a PHP page, each...
Choosing the Right Plan 72 What cloud hosting really means, and four questions to ask before buying it “Cloud” is an advertising word, not a specification. In some places it means an ordinary virtual server, in others...
Choosing the Right Plan 75 Several websites on one plan: how many fit before you need the next step As many as the plan counts and the resources can carry, and those are two different sums. The first is a matter of...
Choosing the Right Plan 84 Reseller hosting or one plan per client: what suits a freelancer or agency If you have three or four clients, one plan per client or one account with add-on domains is usually enough....
Choosing the Right Plan 122 Buying only a domain, with no hosting yet: what you can and cannot do You can. A domain registered on its own is yours and stays reserved, but on its own it shows no website and receives...
Choosing the Right Plan 57 Which hosting plan for a clinic or health professional: bookings, privacy and what not to publish The short answer: a clinic’s presentation site, with services, team, opening hours and a contact form, is light, and...
Choosing the Right Plan 49 Which hosting plan for a law firm, accountant or consultant: credibility, e-mail and confidentiality The short answer: a practice sells trust, and the site is light: one of the first shared plans is enough. What makes...
Choosing the Right Plan 55 Which hosting plan for a real estate agency: listings, many photos and search The short answer: what weighs on an agency site is the photographs and the property search, which queries the...
Choosing the Right Plan 62 Which hosting plan for a hotel, lodge or tour operator: photos, bookings and several languages The short answer: a tourism site lives on big photographs and several languages, and most visits come from abroad,...
Choosing the Right Plan 55 Which hosting plan for a farm or agricultural business: catalogue, orders by WhatsApp and slow connections The short answer: a farm’s site is usually a simple catalogue: what it produces, when, where to buy and how to...
Choosing the Right Plan 61 Which hosting plan for a news site or magazine: traffic peaks, ads and a growing archive The short answer: a news site has three weights: the peaks when a story spreads, the ads, which load third-party...
Choosing the Right Plan 59 Which hosting plan for a directory or classifieds site: listings, search and spam The short answer: a directory or classifieds site is heavier than a presentation site: lots of people writing,...
Choosing the Right Plan 60 Which hosting plan for a catalogue or price-list site without online payment The short answer: if you show products and prices but the sale is closed by phone, WhatsApp or a quote request, you...
Choosing the Right Plan 52 Which hosting plan for an event, wedding or campaign site that lives for a few weeks The short answer: an event, wedding or campaign site has a short life and, near the date, a peak of visits. It is...
Choosing the Right Plan 43 Which hosting plan for a salon, gym or workshop: opening hours, prices and bookings The short answer: a local service business needs a site that answers four questions quickly: where it is, when it...
Choosing the Right Plan 71 Affiliate or reseller: which suits someone who builds sites for clients The short answer: if you build sites, shops or e-mail for other people, you have two ways to earn from hosting:...
Choosing the Right Plan 59 Which hosting plan for a non-profit that takes online donations The short answer: an association’s or NGO’s site is light, and one of the first shared plans is enough. What needs...
Choosing the Right Plan 65 Which hosting plan for a start-up landing page and waiting list The short answer: a presentation page with a sign-up form is very light: the entry plan is enough. It has one...
Choosing the Right Plan 75 Which hosting plan for a musician or band: music, videos and events The short answer: a musician’s site is a shop window: biography, gig dates, links to listen and a contact to book....
Choosing the Right Plan 66 Which hosting plan for a car dealer or garage: stock, photos and enquiries The short answer: a car dealer lives on listings with many photographs that change every week. To start, the entry...
Choosing the Right Plan 58 Which hosting plan for a construction or trades business: projects, quotes and trust The short answer: whoever hires a builder wants to see finished work, know who you are and ask for a quote without...
Choosing the Right Plan 50 Which hosting plan for a craft or handmade business: Instagram, WhatsApp and a simple shop The short answer: many craft businesses start on Instagram and WhatsApp, and do not need a big shop on day one. A...
Choosing the Right Plan 39 Seven questions to ask before you buy hosting, and what a good answer sounds like The short answer: price is the question everybody asks; the ones that matter are the others. These seven show you,...
Choosing the Right Plan 42 Which hosting plan for a private photo gallery for clients The short answer: a private gallery, where each client views and picks their photos, is different from a public...
Choosing the Right Plan 52 Which hosting plan for an event venue, coworking space or hall for rent The short answer: someone looking for a space wants to see what it is like, know whether it is free and ask for a...
Choosing the Right Plan 47 Which hosting plan for a delivery, transport or taxi service The short answer: someone looking for a delivery or transport service wants to know whether you reach where they...
Choosing the Right Plan 38 Which hosting plan for a bakery or catering business: orders, menu and events The short answer: a bakery or caterer sells what you can see and what is ordered in advance. The site is light, with...
Choosing the Right Plan 47 Which hosting plan for a sports club or league: fixtures, results and members The short answer: someone visiting a club’s site wants to know when the next match is, how the last one went and how...
Choosing the Right Plan 49 Which hosting plan for a travel agency: packages, enquiries and trust The short answer: someone choosing a trip wants to see what is included, the destination’s photos and who is behind...
Choosing the Right Plan 56 Which hosting plan for a wholesale or B2B supplier: catalogue, price lists and account customers The short answer: a supplier selling to businesses needs a site that shows what it sells, lets people ask for prices...
Choosing the Right Plan 40 Which hosting plan for an industrial, mining or energy services company: credibility, documents and tenders The short answer: the site of a company that serves other companies does not need to be big: it needs to be...
Choosing the Right Plan 40 Which hosting plan for a content creator: videos, links and sponsors The short answer: a content creator lives on platforms, and the platforms are not theirs. A site of your own is the...
Choosing the Right Plan 39 Which hosting plan for a web designer or agency with several client sites The short answer: someone who builds sites for clients has to choose between one hosting per client (each with their...
Choosing the Right Plan 45 Which hosting plan for a mobile app: the website, the privacy page and the server The short answer: a mobile app almost always needs a website (that presents it and that app stores require, with a...
Choosing the Right Plan 43 Which hosting plan for a government office, municipality or public service The short answer: a public service’s site exists so citizens can find the right information, forms and contacts. It...
Choosing the Right Plan 41 Which hosting plan for a pet shop or veterinary practice: bookings, photos and products The short answer: pet owners look for hours, services, booking and a place they can trust, often in a hurry. A light...
Choosing the Right Plan 31 Which hosting plan for a student, thesis or hobby project The short answer: to learn, experiment or hand in work with a website, you do not need anything big. The entry plan...
Choosing the Right Plan 23 Securing your WHMCS: the admin folder, two-step login, file permissions and updates This article is for resellers who run their own WHMCS. WHMCS is another company’s product: we neither sell nor...
Choosing the Right Plan 24 WHMCS e-mails landing in spam or not sent: SMTP settings, sender address and templates This article is for resellers who run their own WHMCS. WHMCS is another company’s product: we neither sell nor...
Choosing the Right Plan 31 WHMCS automation settings: when invoices go out, reminders, suspension and termination This article is for resellers who run their own WHMCS. WHMCS is another company’s product: we neither sell nor...
Choosing the Right Plan 24 Taxes and invoice numbers in WHMCS: tax rules, proforma invoices and repeated numbers This article is for resellers who run their own WHMCS. WHMCS is another company’s product: we neither sell nor...
Choosing the Right Plan 25 Payment gateways in WHMCS: modules, bank transfer and confirming payments by hand This article is for resellers who run their own WHMCS. WHMCS is another company’s product: we neither sell nor...
Choosing the Right Plan 22 Which hosting plan comes next: upgrading Pro, Plus, Ultra and Business for more room The short answer: the hosting ladder is Pro, Plus, Ultra, Business Pro, Business Plus and Business Ultra. Each step...
Choosing the Right Plan 28 Need more websites than your plan allows: adding a site and choosing a bigger plan The short answer: Pro counts 1 site, Plus 6, and Ultra and the three Business plans do not count sites. When cPanel...