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Web Hosting Blog

Plain-English website hosting guides for comparing plans, avoiding hidden costs, keeping sites secure, planning migrations, and understanding backups, DNS, email and speed.

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How to use this folder

Start with the overview articles, then use the checklists and calculators to compare your own situation. These pages avoid live-price promises and focus on better questions, better records and safer decisions.

Web Hosting Blog

Core hosting guides

Website security

Securing Your Website Against Common Cyber Threats

A practical website-security checklist covering updates, backups, SSL/TLS, WAFs, malware scanning, admin access, permissions, plugins, logs and recovery planning.

Read guide →Hosting types

Shared Hosting vs VPS: Which One Do You Need?

Compare shared hosting and VPS hosting by cost, control, performance, security isolation, management responsibility, backups, support and growth path.

Read guide →Website speed

Website Speed Basics: What Actually Makes a Site Fast

A practical guide to website speed basics, including hosting response time, images, caching, scripts, plugins, CDN, mobile layout and measuring improvements.

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Costs, domains and support

Hosting cost

Web Hosting Cost Calculator and Checklist

A practical web hosting cost worksheet for comparing first-year price, renewal price, domain, email, backups, security, SSL, migration, support and add-ons.

Read guide →Domain and DNS

Domain, DNS and Hosting: The Practical Difference

A plain-English guide to the difference between domain names, DNS, web hosting, email hosting, nameservers, SSL and common migration mistakes.

Read guide →Business email

Business Email and Hosting Checklist

A website-owner checklist for business email, hosting, DNS, MX records, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, mailbox storage, forwarding, aliases and migration risk.

Read guide →Support and uptime

Hosting Support and Uptime Questions to Ask Before Buying

Questions to ask about web hosting support, uptime, monitoring, service credits, backups, restore help, escalation, response times and support scope.

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Maintenance and migration

Backups

Website Backup and Restore Checklist

A practical website backup and restore checklist covering backup frequency, storage location, retention, database backups, off-site copies and restore testing.

Read guide →Migration

Website Migration Checklist Before Changing Hosts

A website migration checklist for changing web hosts, including backups, DNS, email, SSL, staging, redirects, testing, analytics, search console and rollback planning.

Read guide →WordPress

WordPress Hosting Maintenance Checklist

A practical WordPress hosting maintenance checklist covering updates, plugins, themes, backups, security, staging, PHP versions, database cleanup and performance.

Read guide →HTTPS

SSL and HTTPS Basics for Small Websites

A plain-English guide to SSL/TLS and HTTPS for small websites, including certificates, redirects, mixed content, renewal, browser warnings and hosting support.

Read guide →Static vs WordPress

Static Site vs WordPress Hosting: What to Compare

Compare static-site hosting and WordPress hosting by maintenance, speed, security, publishing workflow, plugins, backups, updates and content needs.

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Common questions

Web Hosting Blog FAQ

What belongs in Web Hosting Blog?

Web Hosting Blog covers practical Canadian reader questions while avoiding topics better handled in another PlanOffers.ca folder.

Are these pages live price comparisons?

No. They are educational guides, checklists and calculators. Current prices, availability and terms must be confirmed directly.

Why are there more articles now?

The folder has been expanded so readers can move from basic overviews into practical checklists, worksheets and questions to ask.