AI Crawlers Explained
AI crawlers are bots that fetch web pages for AI training, AI search and user-triggered answers. Learn the main types and how they differ from search bots.
Knowledgebase
Clear answers to common hosting questions, written by our editors.
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By Maarten Soetens
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Hot vs Cold Storage Tiers
Hot vs cold storage: hot tiers serve busy data fast at higher cost, while cold and archive tiers keep idle data cheaper but slower. Learn how tiers work.
By Maarten Soetens
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What Is a Virtual Machine?
A virtual machine (VM) is a software computer with virtual hardware and its own operating system. Learn how VMs work and why a VPS is a virtual machine.
By Maarten Soetens
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What Is WooCommerce
What is WooCommerce? It is a free WordPress plugin that adds products, carts, checkout and orders to a website. Learn how it works and what it stores.
By Maarten Soetens
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What Is RAID?
RAID combines several disks into one storage unit using striping, mirroring and parity. Learn how these building blocks work and why servers use disk arrays.
By Maarten Soetens
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AI in Web Hosting
AI in web hosting covers site builders, support chatbots, content tools, security and monitoring. Learn where AI appears in hosting and why it matters.
By Maarten Soetens
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gTLD vs ccTLD
gTLD vs ccTLD: generic extensions like .com serve a global audience, while country-code extensions like .de signal a local one. Compare trust and availability.
By Maarten Soetens
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Cloud Migration Strategies
Cloud migration strategies are the ways to move applications to the cloud, from lift and shift to refactoring. Compare the trade-offs of each main approach.
By Maarten Soetens
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Gutenberg Block Editor
The Gutenberg block editor builds WordPress content from blocks such as headings, images and buttons. Learn what it does and why WordPress adopted it.
By Maarten Soetens
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WooCommerce vs Shopify
WooCommerce vs Shopify compared on ownership, flexibility, maintenance, cost structure and scaling to help you choose the right store model.
By Maarten Soetens
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Resource Hints Explained
Preload vs prefetch explained: how preload, prefetch, preconnect and dns-prefetch tell browsers what to fetch early, and when each hint wastes bandwidth.
By Maarten Soetens
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Hosted vs Self-Hosted Ecommerce
Hosted vs self-hosted ecommerce compared on control, maintenance, security, cost and lock-in, so you can see which model suits your store and budget.
By Maarten Soetens