Compare renewal for 12–24 months — not “from $2.99” — plus backups, panel and traffic. A $3 shared plan often becomes $10–14 in year two; a cheap VPS may throttle CPU under load. Ask support for…
99.9% still allows ~8.7 hours of downtime a year. Check whether planned maintenance counts, if there’s a public status page, and what compensation actually is (a hosting credit ≠ your lost revenue). Use external monitors (UptimeRobot…
For CMS and stores, the bottleneck is usually disk and RAM — not “8 shared cores”. NVMe clearly beats SATA SSD for databases and WordPress admin. RAM feeds MySQL, PHP-FPM and Redis — constant swap won’t…
Message chat/ticket before buying with a real technical question: DNS, SSL, cron limits, WordPress migration. Time the first reply and check if it’s a template or an actual answer. Ask about support languages, live engineer hours…
For a typical WordPress site (blog / brochure), start with 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM and 40 GB+ NVMe. PHP 8.2+, OPcache and object cache (Redis) beat “+2 cores” on a slow disk. Stores or membership…
Take a full backup (files + DB) and stage the site on the new host via temporary URL / hosts. Verify admin, forms, checkout and cron before touching DNS. Lower A/AAAA TTL to ~300s a day…
cPanel is familiar and plugin-rich, but the license raises the bill. Hestia / CyberPanel are free and fine for 1–20 sites if you’ll read docs. ISPmanager is common in UA/RU markets: solid DNS/mail — check version…