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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)

In our experience managing production servers at ServerSpan, roughly 60% of support tickets labeled "website down" are actually performance bottlenecks disguised as outages. The server is up, but the VPS Server is so overloaded it can't handshake on port 443... (Read more)

There is a specific kind of panic that sets in when a server crashes and your hosting provider stops responding. You refresh... (Read more)

Domain names operate on a subscription model, not a purchase model. You pay an annual fee to a registrar who maintains your registration rights with ICANN, the global domain authority. The moment you stop paying, your domain enters a countdown to release back into the public... (Read more)

Is 2026 the year you finally declare independence from Big Tech? In an era defined by spiraling cloud subscription costs, aggressive AI data scraping, and the increasing fragility of platform-dependent businesses, the question "Should I self-host?" has evolved. It is no long... (Read more)