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Control Panels · August 14, 2026
The open-source panels that survived cPanel’s 2026 price hike
cPanel’s January 2026 price adjustments were not a surprise. They were the continuation of a multi-year trend. What changed is the number of operators who finally moved. The open-source and low-cost panels that absorbed the migrations are the same names that were already gaining …
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VPS · August 13, 2026
When a VPS is the wrong tool
A VPS is a flexible default. It is not the right default for every workload. Choosing it out of habit creates operational work that a simpler platform would have avoided. Consider something else when You only need a simple WordPress brochure site — managed or good shared hosting …
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Hosting · August 13, 2026
Why response time still beats feature lists at renewal
Feature comparison tables are easy to publish. Response time is harder to fake. At renewal, the customers who stay are often the ones who remember that a real person answered when something broke, not the ones who remember a checkbox on a marketing page. What customers actually r…
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Control Panels · August 13, 2026
Running a VPS with no control panel at all — when it makes sense
Not every VPS needs a control panel. Some of the cleanest, most reliable servers we see have none. The decision is not ideological. It is about the workload, the operator’s skills, and the cost of the abstraction layer. When no panel is the better default The primary workload is …
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WordPress · August 12, 2026
WooCommerce on shared hosting vs VPS: where it breaks
WooCommerce runs on shared hosting until it does not. The breaking points are predictable: checkout under load, complex plugins, and admin-side work that collides with storefront traffic. Shared hosting is often enough when Catalog and traffic are modest. The plugin list is short…
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Industry · August 12, 2026
What happens to tickets after a private-equity buyout
When a mid-sized host is acquired by a private-equity firm, the public story is growth and investment. The internal story that customers feel is often different: ticket quality, escalation paths, and the willingness to make exceptions all tend to change. Typical shifts Support is…
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Hosting · August 12, 2026
The hosts that keep honest pricing
The introductory coupon is the easy part of a hosting comparison. The hard part is the invoice that arrives when the coupon dies. In 2026 the market still runs on the same pattern: low headline rates for the first term, then a jump that is sometimes double or triple. Customers wh…
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Industry · August 11, 2026
Honest pricing as a real differentiator in 2026
Most hosting marketing still leads with the introductory rate. A smaller set of providers lead with the rate the customer will actually pay next year. In a market full of coupons, that second approach is noticeable. What honest pricing looks like The price on the website is the r…
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Hosting · August 11, 2026
Why family-owned hosts still answer tickets differently
There is a difference between a support organization that is measured on ticket volume and average handle time, and a desk where the same people who own the company still read the queue. LogicWeb has been privately held since 2004. The ticket desk is not a separate cost center st…
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Networking · August 10, 2026
IPv6 on VPS in 2026: what still breaks
Most VPS providers now offer IPv6. Dual-stack is common. Full IPv6-only deployments remain rare for general-purpose hosting because too many dependencies still assume IPv4. What works Basic web traffic over IPv6 when the client and the path support it. SSH and most modern applica…
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Industry · August 10, 2026
The mid-tier hosting consolidation nobody is writing about
The big brands are visible. The quiet story in 2026 is the continued absorption of mid-tier independent hosts into larger groups, often private-equity backed. The pattern is familiar: a host with a decent customer base, aging infrastructure or a founder ready to exit, and a buyer…
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Networking · August 9, 2026
Anycast for small hosts: when it actually helps
Anycast announces the same IP prefix from multiple locations so traffic is routed to a nearby instance. For large CDNs and DNS providers it is foundational. For a small host the question is whether the benefit justifies the complexity and cost. Where anycast clearly helps Authori…
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