Deployment, DNS and edge performance notes come from running this site: one Astro build, one Cloudflare zone, one pipeline, reported as it happened. Hosting-plan analysis comes from the providers’ own documentation and pricing pages, quoted directly — and every article ends with the sources you need in order to check it.
28 guides across 5 topics.
Shared, managed and cloud hosting compared on renewal pricing and published resource limits.
6 guides Domains & DNSRegistrars, DNS records and email setup that actually work.
5 guides DeploymentStatic sites, CI pipelines and edge platforms, step by step.
6 guides PerformanceCore Web Vitals, caching and cost per thousand visits.
6 guides ToolsSelf-hosted software and utilities worth your time.
5 guidesTwo machines at the same price can be very different machines, and the difference shows up in five counters that the kernel already publishes. What each one means, which column people misread, and how to build a baseline instead of trusting a number you found in a blog post.
Oct 29, 2026Every Muse account comes with a dedicated Ubuntu machine in Meta's cloud, and the 'free VPS' framing has travelled further than the terms have. The governing document never mentions hosting, promises no uptime, and reserves the right to remove anything you build on it at any time for any reason.
Oct 29, 2026Every free tier advertises the same thing — zero. What differs is how it ends, and that is decided by the business model behind it, not by how generous the vendor feels. Three failure modes, each with the official sentence that authorises it.
Oct 29, 2026A static site looks like it needs no backup because the files are reproducible. The reproducible part is true and incomplete — the things you cannot rebuild from source are the DNS zone, the platform configuration, and the secrets, and all three live only in a dashboard.
Sep 23, 2026Static hosting is sold as unmetered, and the platforms meter three different things under that headline. Some count bytes, some count requests, some count neither — and a site that is cheap on one model can be expensive on another. Here is the accounting, and the formula.
Sep 23, 2026ALIAS is not a DNS record type — it is a vendor extension that disappears when you change providers. Here is what the standards actually forbid at the apex, how Cloudflare's CNAME flattening works instead, and the three failure modes that look like DNS issues but are not.
Sep 23, 2026Most Core Web Vitals advice is about fixing what broke. These are the decisions that are cheap now and expensive later — especially the one about reserved ad space.
Sep 23, 2026Custom domain setup looks like the same three steps everywhere. The apex domain is where the platforms quietly diverge — one uses a flattened CNAME, one asks for an A record, one tells you apex domains cannot use CNAME at all. Here is what each documents, and the error you get for skipping the association step.
Sep 23, 2026Git push to live site in under five minutes, with unlimited bandwidth and no bandwidth bill. The exact configuration, plus the four settings that silently break things later.
Sep 23, 2026