Web hosting fundamentals, comparisons, and choosing the right plan.
Your hosting is the foundation everything else sits on. A great design and perfect SEO won't help if your server is slow, your uptime is patchy, or your provider vanishes when something goes wrong. Picking the right plan matters more than most people realise.
We've been hosting websites since 2001 and we've seen every kind of hosting problem. These articles share what we've learned: what to look for in a host, when to upgrade, and the technical details that separate good hosting from the bargain-bin variety.
449 tickets in our entire helpdesk history. Median first response under five minutes. 66 five-star Google reviews and zero negatives. Eleven recent tickets, anonymised, with timings, customer reactions, and the day we re-registered a customer's domain at our own cost.
A real UK locksmith client. Brand-new site, hosted on 365i, designed by sister company Press Forge. Perfect 100/100/100/100 mobile PageSpeed from day one, then #1 on Google, ChatGPT, and Gemini for "Brewood Locksmith" within 12 days. Zero backlinks at launch.
You know your hosting is slow or overpriced. But what if switching breaks something? We've migrated thousands of WordPress sites. Here's what actually happens, step by step, and why none of the common fears hold up.
That £1.99 hosting deal? Check the renewal price. SiteGround jumps to £13.99. Fasthosts goes from 40p to £11.99. We compared intro vs renewal pricing for every major UK provider and did the three-year maths.
Your contact form submissions vanish. Order confirmations never arrive. The problem isn't WordPress or your plugins. It's that PHP mail() sends email with no proof of identity, and Gmail rejects it. Here's the hosting-level fix.
You've tried caching plugins and image compression. Still slow. That's because you're treating symptoms, not the cause. This diagnostic guide starts where speed actually lives: your hosting infrastructure.
We checked the renewal pricing on Kinsta, WP Engine, Hostinger Pro, Pressable, and SiteGround. Then we calculated what agencies actually pay per site at scale. The gap between per-site pricing and 365i's flat-rate agency plan is staggering.
WordPress 7.0 ships on 20 May 2026 with the AI Client, block-level Notes, DataViews and PHP 7.4 as the new minimum. Every blog covers the features. Nobody is asking whether your hosting can actually handle them. Here's the WordPress 7.0 hosting readiness checklist your provider hopes you won't read.
Most hosting companies sell you a server and disappear. 365i does things differently. From personalised screencast tutorials to one-click DKIM setup and 37 built-in control panel tools, here's what WordPress hosting looks like when someone actually cares whether you succeed.
WordPress released versions 6.9.2, 6.9.3, and 6.9.4 in a single day after discovering that initial security fixes were incomplete. Four vulnerabilities, including a critical PclZip path traversal flaw, are already being exploited. If you manage your own WordPress updates, this is your wake-up call.
Every week someone on LinkedIn announces the death of SEO, websites, or WordPress. The internet has been dying since 2005 and yet here we all still are. Meanwhile, the real conversion killer is painfully boring: your hosting is too slow.
Cloudflare's 2026 State of Application Security report reveals that 94% of all login attempts are bots, 46% of human logins use compromised credentials, and DDoS attacks doubled to 47.1 million in 2025. Here's what UK businesses need to do right now.
SSL/TLS certificates have been capped at 200 days since 15 March 2026. DigiCert moved first with a 199-day limit. The browser ecosystem transitioned without a major incident. Here's what actually happened, and what UK businesses still managing their own certificates should do before the 100-day cap lands in 2027.
56% of deployed AI discovery files fail validation. The files exist, the server returns 200 OK, and AI systems still can't use them. Here's how to test what AI actually sees when it reads your files, fix the three most common failures, and prove your business shows up correctly.
Budget hosting at £2-3/month looks like a bargain until you count the hidden costs. Slow pages lose sales, security gaps mean cleanup bills and GDPR fines, downtime costs UK SMEs a median of £7,500/year, and DIY server management eats hours every month.
Half your visitors leave if your site takes more than 3 seconds to load. This guide covers what makes WordPress fast, how Google measures it with Core Web Vitals, and the practical steps UK small businesses can take right now.
Hetzner just announced price hikes of up to 37% on cloud servers, effective April 2026. OVHcloud warns hardware costs will climb 15% to 35% this year. The cause: AI companies are hoovering up the world's DRAM supply, and every hosting provider is paying the price.
Per-site hosting fees add up fast when you manage client WordPress sites. 365i's agency plan costs £32.99/month for unlimited sites, each with staging, backups, and a full management panel. Here's why freelancers and small agencies are making the switch.
Most cloud comparisons list 47 services you won't use and leave you more confused than you started. This one gives you a five-question decision guide, real pricing from all three providers, and an honest take on when AWS, Google Cloud, or 365i's own managed cloud is the right fit.
Managed cloud servers start at £9.99/month and use the same My365i control panel as shared hosting. No command line, no complicated setup. Here's when dedicated resources, Redis caching, and ElasticSearch make the upgrade worth it, and when shared hosting is still the better choice.
UK domains take 10 minutes and cost nothing. International domains take 5 to 7 days and add 12 months to your renewal. Here's exactly how to do both, from backing up your DNS records to verifying everything works after the move.
A cleanup script with an empty API filter deleted 1,100 BYOIP prefixes from Cloudflare's global routing table on 20 February. It's the third time in four weeks that a major cloud provider has had automation destroy production infrastructure.
73% of websites have robots.txt errors that hurt their search visibility. Our free Robots.txt Checker parses every crawl rule, lets you test URL paths against them, and flags the mistakes that block search engines and AI crawlers from your best content.
One HTTP image on an HTTPS page is all it takes to kill your padlock icon and trigger browser warnings. Our free mixed content scanner checks your pages in seconds, grades your SSL setup A to F, and shows you exactly which resources need fixing.
Your emails might not be arriving, and your domain's DNS could be the reason. Our free DNS Lookup tool checks every record type, grades your SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MX and DNSSEC setup, and flags problems in under 10 seconds. No sign-up required.
Your SSL padlock doesn't protect against clickjacking, XSS, or downgrade attacks. Security headers do. Our free HTTP Header Inspector grades your headers A to F, traces redirect chains, and flags server version leaks. Here's what to check and how to fix it.
We built eight free SEO tools and gave them away. HTTP header grading, DNS health checks, HTTPS inspection, meta tag analysis, robots.txt testing, WHOIS lookups, WordPress security scanning, and sitemap-to-CSV export. No sign-up, no limits, no catch.
WordPress powers 43% of the web. Joomla sits at 2.2%. But market share doesn't tell the full story. With Joomla 6.1 "Nyota" out 14 April 2026 and PHP 8.4 compatibility, Joomla still wins for complex permissions, native multilingual, and MVC architecture.
