Author: Olly

Most UK businesses need a managed account on a shared machine. That is the answer for most of the people who ring us about this, and it saves a lot of money…

People say “my web host won’t help me” and mean one of two very different things. Either the host is refusing to do something that is genuinely theirs to do, which is…

OpenCart’s documented system requirements are short enough to fit on a postcard, and almost any hosting plan sold today meets them. That is exactly why so many shops end up somewhere that…

Here is the number first. Fully managed WordPress hosting from us starts at £1 a day + VAT, which comes to about £30 a month + VAT. Look around the rest of…

Most of the drama in leaving IONOS comes from one question nobody asks until it is too late: who is holding your DNS? Answer that on day one and the rest is…

Yes, it does, though not in the way hosting adverts like to suggest. Hosting can hold a website back. It cannot push one forward. Sort out the slowness and the outages and…

The email lands on a Tuesday. Something along the lines of “the PHP version your account uses is no longer supported and will be removed on the 30th”. Then a paragraph about…

Keeping an old PHP website online safely has less to do with the code than with what surrounds it. Separate the old application from everything else. Keep everything that is not the…

People expect this to be the scary bit. It usually isn’t. To move a WordPress site to a new host without your visitors noticing, which is a fair aim for a brochure…

A slow WordPress site is hardly ever a mystery. It is one of five things: enormous images, a plugin misbehaving, no caching, a theme doing far more than it needs to, or…