Guides, comparisons and announcements on web hosting, performance, security and email — from the Maxinodes team.
A website move has a rehearsal and a rollback. Email has neither, and it fails quietly — mail doesn't bounce, it lands in junk. Here's what actually breaks when you change hosts, in what order to fix it, and why the mailboxes are the one thing that can't come with you.
Read article →Your business is in Helsinki and the server is in the Netherlands. We measured exactly what that costs, and it turns out to be about 29 milliseconds. Here's why that number matters far less than the one nobody checks.
Most slow websites did it to themselves, and that's good news, because you can undo it, usually without changing hosts. Here's where the load time goes and which fixes fit in an afternoon.
The old host is winding down, or the renewal invoice doubled, and the site has to move. Here is how a free migration to our EU servers runs in practice, and why your visitors won't notice it happening.
A server in Europe does not make your hosting GDPR-compliant by itself. Seven questions and three documents separate hosts that can back the claim from hosts that just put it on the homepage.
