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It’s Not About Philosophy, It’s About RAM In the open-source community, the debate between MariaDB and MySQL often devolves into arguments about Oracle’s corporate ownership versus open-source purity... (Read more)

The "Fear of the Switch" is Costing You Money In the hosting industry, we call it "Vendor Lock-in by Anxiety." We see business owners clinging to $5/month ... (Read more)

Containerization has fundamentally changed how applications are deployed, offering a promise of "build once, run anywhere" that is incredibly attractive to developers. However, the operational reality of running Docker on a Virtual Private Server (VPS) is often less straight... (Read more)

Step-by-step guide to self-hosting a website on a Linux VPS in 2026. Covers server setup (Ubuntu 24.04), Nginx, firewall, Let's Encrypt SSL, Docker, DNS, backups, and ongoing maintenance. Includes a cost-benefit framework and common pitfalls to avoid.

You’ve done the hard work. You purchased an SSL certificate (or generated a free Let's Encrypt one via your ServerSpan dashboard), you installed it on your server, and you updated your WordPress URL settings to start with https://. You navigate to your homepage,... (Read more)

You enabled DMARC monitoring, and now your inbox is flooded with zipped XML attachments from Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. These are DMARC Aggregate Reports (RUA). They look like gibberish to the human eye, but they contain the only definitive data about who is ... (Read more)