Guides
Five things worth knowing before you spend money.
Written to be useful whether or not you buy from us, which is also why they contain the parts a sales page would leave out — what we do not sell, what we do not measure, and when the cheaper option is the right one.
Servers
Choosing and sizing a machine.
8 min read
How to choose a VPS
Which resource you are actually short of, why memory is usually the answer, when a shared core stops being enough, and how to be wrong cheaply.
9 min read
A VPS for a small business
What a first real server costs once the domain and backups are in the sum, what to keep off it entirely, and the case for not buying one at all.
Managed
Who does the work.
Domains
Names, registrars and the paperwork.
8 min read
How to transfer a domain
Auth codes, registry locks, the five-day window, what to do when the losing registrar stalls, and the DNS checklist that stops a transfer taking your email down.
7 min read
Domain registration in the UAE
Why .ae needs an aeDA-accredited registrar — which we are not — what a UAE business can register with us instead, and how to run a .ae on hosting in Dubai anyway.
A note on what is not here. There is no guide promising a number we have not measured — no latency tables, no IOPS charts, no uptime percentage dressed up as a fact. Where a figure would be useful and we do not have it, the guides say so and tell you how to measure it yourself.
Comparisons
Deciding between two things rather than learning about one.
Shorter, more specific, and built from the same catalogue the cart charges from.