Articles & Guides

Can Your Hosting Provider See Your Data? An Honest Answer From a Host

What a host can technically see on shared hosting, a VPS and a dedicated server, what encryption hides, who else is in the chain, and exactly what Packetra keeps.

How 25 Gbps of DDoS Protection Lost to a 2.4 Gbit/s Attack

Every hosting plan lists DDoS protection. The phrase covers everything from a bandwidth safeguard that filters nothing to real scrubbing, and even the expensive tier will not save an edge that is not ready for the residue.

24/7 Hosting Support: A Human or a Bot?

VPS Hosting vs Dedicated Hosting: Which One Do You Need?

A VPS is a slice of a server, a dedicated server is the whole machine. How they differ on performance, isolation, control and cost, with real prices and the signs you have outgrown a VPS.

WordPress Hosting vs Shared Hosting, and When the Extra Money Is Worth It

The pricier plan is not automatically the better one. Shared hosting wins for several light sites, WordPress hosting wins for one heavy one, and most people can tell which they are in about a minute.

How to Choose a VPS Without Overpaying

Most people buying a VPS overpay for cores they never use and under-buy the one resource that actually stops their server working. Here is what each spec on the order page really means.

How to Migrate Your Website to a New Host Without Downtime

Most migration guides are written to sell you a migration service. This one is the actual sequence, including the two steps that cause almost all the downtime people blame on their new host.

VPS Comparison Europe 2026

We compare six European VPS providers on price, jurisdiction, privacy and payment options, including Hetzner, Contabo, OVHcloud, Njalla and 1984 Hosting.

What to Do With a VPS? 15 Weirdly Useful Ideas

Wondering what to do with a VPS besides a website? Here are 15 VPS ideas, from a private password manager and VPN to RSS, analytics and game servers, with the tools to use for each.