Carrier Neutral Data Centers
A carrier neutral data center lets many network providers connect inside one facility. Learn why that choice matters for uptime, pricing and routing.
Knowledgebase
Clear answers to common hosting questions, written by our editors.
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By Maarten Soetens
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Inode Limit
Inode limit explained: what an inode stores, why many small files exhaust inodes before disk space, and why shared hosts cap file counts on plans.
By Maarten Soetens
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What Is PHP-FPM?
PHP-FPM is a process manager that runs PHP for a web server through FastCGI. Learn how it compares with mod_php and CGI and why it matters for site isolation.
By Maarten Soetens
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What Is a CMS
What is a CMS? A content management system is software for creating, editing and publishing website content without coding. Learn who uses one and why.
By Maarten Soetens
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Database Replication
Database replication copies data from a primary server to replicas. Learn primary-replica setups, synchronous vs asynchronous replication and read scaling.
By Maarten Soetens
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What Is cURL?
What is cURL? It is a command-line tool and library for sending HTTP requests. Learn why it appears in API documentation and what developers use it for.
By Maarten Soetens
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Image Alt Text
Image alt text describes a picture for screen readers and search engines. Learn how the alt attribute works and how it differs from titles and filenames.
By Maarten Soetens
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Does AI Content Hurt SEO?
Does AI content hurt SEO? Search engines focus on helpfulness and quality, not how text was made. Learn the difference between useful and low-value pages.
By Maarten Soetens
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What Is phpMyAdmin?
What is phpMyAdmin? A web-based tool for managing MySQL and MariaDB databases. Learn its uses, alternatives and why access should be restricted.
By Maarten Soetens
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Cloud Vendor Lock-In
Cloud vendor lock-in makes it hard and costly to move to another provider. Learn what creates it, including data gravity and egress fees, and how to reduce it.
By Maarten Soetens
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What Is Uptime?
What is uptime? Learn what 99.9% and 99.99% uptime allow in minutes of downtime, and how monitoring tools measure whether a website is online.
By Maarten Soetens
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LTS Releases Explained
What is LTS? Learn how long-term support releases work for servers, from Ubuntu LTS to Node.js LTS, and why hosts standardize on them and rely on them.
By Maarten Soetens