Managed, shared and cloud hosting compared on total cost of ownership — renewal prices and resource limits quoted from the providers themselves, and who each plan is the wrong choice for.
Two 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, 2026Hosts publish their limits and never publish what those limits mean in visitors, because the conversion depends on things they cannot know. Here are the seven limits that actually govern a shared plan, the error codes that tell you which one you hit, and a measurement procedure that answers the VPS question with evidence.
Sep 23, 2026WordPress migration is a sequence of about eight steps, and two of them are where nearly every attempt fails: replacing URLs naively, and cutting DNS over without planning for cached negative answers. Here is the documented order, and the parts the official docs leave out.
Sep 23, 2026Hosting is priced per year and bought in multi-year terms, which is how a three-dollar plan becomes a nine-dollar plan without anything changing. Here is the formula, the line items hosts don't advertise, and which components of the total are actually verifiable.
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