Hosting Mentor

Learn Hosting

Plain-English hosting concepts that make provider comparisons easier to understand.

Understand what hosting does and why websites need it.

Follow what happens between entering a domain and seeing a website.

Understand when WordPress-specific hosting is useful and when general hosting is enough.

Learn why domains and hosting are different but usually work together.

Understand shared hosting, who it suits and where its limits appear.

Understand what hosts mean when they sell WordPress hosting.

Learn what a managed WordPress host may handle for you.

Understand the factors behind hosting prices and renewals.

A practical hosting checklist based on your website, not marketing jargon.

Estimate website storage for pages, images, plugins, databases and email.

Understand bandwidth, data transfer and why traffic affects resource use.

Understand uptime percentages, downtime and what an SLA means.

Learn what a web server does in a modern hosting stack.

Understand HTTPS, certificates and what SSL actually protects.

Learn how CDNs cache and deliver site content from distributed locations.

Build a backup routine that can actually restore your site.

Move a website between hosts while reducing downtime and SEO risk.

Use a staging copy to test WordPress changes before touching production.

Improve WordPress performance by fixing the highest-leverage bottlenecks first.

Reduce common WordPress risks with updates, backups, strong access controls and sensible hosting.