The parts of hosting nobody explains
Why one host loads in 200 milliseconds and another in two seconds on the same code. What a game server, a busy store, an app or a video library each need. And the specs on the plan page, in plain English.
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Hosting for a specific job
What a busy site, a game server, an app or a media library each need from a host.
Hosting for High-Traffic Websites: What Handles the Load
A site that flies with ten visitors can crawl with two hundred at once. The fix is rarely a bigger plan alone. It is caching, worker limits, the database and a CDN, in that order.
Read guide →Game Server Hosting Explained: Latency, Tick Rate and CPU
A game server lives or dies on two numbers most hosts never show: how fast a single CPU core runs, and how good the network route is to your players. Here is what to check before you rent one.
Read guide →Hosting for Web Apps and Software: VPS, Cloud and What You Need
Shared hosting runs PHP and a database and little else. An app in Node, Python, Go or Docker needs root access, long-running processes and resources you can size. That means a VPS, a cloud instance or a platform.
Read guide →Hosting for Large Files and Video: Bandwidth, Port Speed and Storage
Big files stress a host in ways a normal site never does: sustained bandwidth, disk that can keep up, and a bill that can jump if the provider charges for data leaving the server. Here is how to read those specs.
Read guide →Forex VPS Explained: Latency, RAM and Running EAs
A forex VPS is a small always-on Windows machine near your broker's servers, so your expert advisors keep trading when your laptop is closed. Two numbers decide if it is any good: latency to the broker, and RAM per chart.
Read guide →Speed and performance
Why one host loads in 200 ms and another in two seconds on the same code.
What a CDN Is, and When You Need One
A CDN is a network of servers around the world that keep copies of your site. Visitors get served from the nearest one, so pages load quickly everywhere and your host handles far fewer requests.
Read guide →Caching Explained: Page Cache, Object Cache and OPcache
Caching is just keeping the answer so you do not have to work it out again. A fast site uses four kinds at once, and knowing which is which tells you what to ask a host for.
Read guide →TTFB and Hosting for SEO: How the Server Affects Core Web Vitals
Time to First Byte is how long the server takes to start replying. It is the one piece of page speed that is mostly about your host, and a slow one holds back every Core Web Vital that follows.
Read guide →What the specs mean
NVMe, IOPS, LiteSpeed, DDoS protection: the words on the plan page, in plain English.
NVMe, SSD and IOPS: What Hosting Storage Specs Mean
Two plans can both say 50 GB of storage and behave completely differently under load. The spec that predicts that is not the size, it is the storage type and the IOPS limit.
Read guide →LiteSpeed vs NGINX vs Apache: Why Your Web Server Matters
Apache, NGINX and LiteSpeed all serve your site. Where they differ is how they hold up when many people arrive at once, and what built-in caching comes with them.
Read guide →DDoS Protection in Web Hosting: What 'Free Protection' Covers
A DDoS attack floods your server with junk traffic until real visitors cannot get through. Most hosts include some protection. The question is which layers, and whether their answer to a big attack is to protect you or to switch you off.
Read guide →Hosting basics
The decisions that set what you pay and what you can run.
Shared vs VPS vs Cloud vs Dedicated Hosting: How to Choose
The four hosting types are really one question: how much of a server is yours, and who keeps it running. Here is what each gives you and the signs it is time to move up a level.
Read guide →Intro Price vs Renewal Price: The Hosting Discount Trap
Almost every shared host advertises a low first-term price and renews well above it. The headline number is a discount to win you. The renewal is what you pay for most of the time you own the site.
Read guide →Ready to compare hosts?
Take what you have learned to the comparison pages: budget picks, forex VPS, hosting by country and by use case, each with the renewal price shown.