6 articles
Tripod vanished and took customer sites with it. How to spot a dying web host, what you can recover after a shutdown, and how to own portable backups.
Marcus Webb··11 min read
Got a malicious content detected email from your host with a cleanup fee attached? How to verify the claim yourself, spot false positives, and respond if it is real.
Colton Joseph··12 min read
Site and admin both down and the host says nothing's wrong? A calm 20-minute triage order: DNS, SSL, suspension, fatal error, hack, plus what to ask your host.
Marcus Webb··14 min read
A Namecheap outage took WordPress sites down for hours. Here's what failover and redundancy mean in practice, why cheap hosts skip them, what to demand instead.
Marcus Webb··13 min read
Your host is down, the status page is stale, and support isn't answering. Here's the exact checklist for surviving a multi-day hosting outage.
Marcus Webb··12 min read
A WordPress backup strategy covering full, incremental, and differential backups, RTO/RPO planning, offsite storage, scheduling, and how to test restores.
Marcus Webb··12 min read