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Tutorials Jun 4, 2026

Managed WordPress hosting in 2026: who is still worth it

Managed WordPress was a real category in 2015. A decade later the boundaries have blurred, the prices have not come down, and the differentiation is in places the marketing pages never mention. Here is an honest look at WP Engine, Kinsta, Pressable, Pantheon, Cloudways and the modern alternatives, written for site operators who pay the invoice.

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Deep Dives Jun 4, 2026

The Great cPanel Revolt of 2019

For two decades cPanel ran a huge share of the web from behind the scenes, taken for granted like electricity. Then its new owners changed the pricing, and the industry discovered how much it depended on it.

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#reseller hosting #cpanel #control panel #hosting industry

Deep Dives Jun 3, 2026

Bond-Villain Data Centres: Servers in Bunkers, Silos and the Sea

Most data centres are deliberately boring grey sheds. A few sit inside nuclear bunkers, missile silos, mountains and on the sea floor, and look like the lair of a film villain. The theatrics are mostly practical.

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#data center #infrastructure #oddities

Deep Dives Jun 1, 2026

The Most Expensive Typo in History

In 2017 one mistyped command at Amazon took a huge slice of the internet offline for four hours, and the status page meant to report it was down too, because it ran on the very service that had failed.

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#cloud #AWS #resilience #outages

Deep Dives May 31, 2026

The Email That Could Not Travel More Than 500 Miles

A department head reported, in all seriousness, that they could not send email more than 500 miles. It sounded like nonsense. It turned out to be exactly, measurably true. The best war story in IT.

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#sysadmin #email #tech folklore #smtp

Deep Dives May 29, 2026

The Web Hosting Niches You Did Not Know Existed

Hosting is less a single product than a family of specialists, from game servers tuned for milliseconds to hosting built for autonomous AI agents.

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#web hosting niches #managed wordpress #game hosting #reseller hosting

Deep Dives May 26, 2026

The Great Domain Gold Rush of the 1990s

For a few wild years a handful of letters and a dot could be worth more than a house, and the companies whose names were on the line mostly slept through the start of it. The 1990s domain name gold rush.

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#domain investing #domain names #internet history #dot com

Deep Dives May 24, 2026

The Morris Worm: The Night the Internet First Fell Over

In November 1988 a single program written by a graduate student spread until a tenth of the internet ground to a halt. The night the network lost its innocence and computer security was born.

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#security #outages #internet history #morris worm

Deep Dives May 22, 2026

The BBS Era: The Internet Before the Internet

Before the web, getting online meant dialling a phone number that rang a single computer in a stranger spare bedroom. The strange, intimate, hobbyist world of bulletin board systems, and how it quietly invented online community.

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#forums #bbs #internet history #retro computing

Deep Dives May 21, 2026

A Short History of Web Hosting: From Bedroom Servers to the Cloud

How keeping a computer switched on went from a hobbyist chore to a global utility, told through every era of web hosting from CERN to the cloud.

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#web hosting history #cloud hosting #shared hosting #industry

Deep Dives May 20, 2026

The Lost Furniture of the 90s Web

Tiled backgrounds, the blink tag, a cartoon workman digging next to coming soon, and a counter announcing you were visitor 206. Almost all of it is gone. A fond tour of the clutter of the amateur web.

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#internet history #web design #nostalgia #retro web