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Most hosting control panels have become expensive bloatware. cPanel’s Solo license doubled to $30/month, Plesk jumped 26%, WHMCS raised prices 15%. Meanwhile DirectAdmin costs 1/3 the price with better performance, and free alternatives like HestiaCP work just as well.
After 20+ years in hosting, is GoDaddy still worth it? We examine real customer experiences, renewal pricing that triples costs, security breaches, performance tests, and better alternatives for your website.
Bluehost review analyzing customer experiences across Trustpilot, Sitejabber, and forums reveals billing complications with auto-renewal, website suspensions without warning, data loss when backups fail, support quality inconsistency, and service decline after EIG acquisitions. WordPress.org recommendation indicates compatibility – not quality endorsement.
High availability (HA) hosting eliminates single points of failure through automated failover systems keeping websites online during data center outages, hardware failures, or network disruptions. Learn how WebHostMost HA delivers 99.99% uptime.
This HostGator review analyzes 20,000+ customer experiences across Trustpilot, Sitejabber, and forums. Topics include billing practices after cancellation attempts, file limits on “unlimited” plans, support quality, and EIG ownership impact.
Most developers either overcomplicate email with expensive services they don’t need, or underestimate it with DIY servers that land every message in spam. Learn when to use your own SMTP server versus paid email services based on volume, cost, and deliverability.
Most hosting providers trap you in their control panels Рclicking through endless menus for tasks that take seconds in terminal. This expos̩ reveals the 7 specific powers terminal access unlocks that GUIs deliberately hide, with real performance benchmarks proving CLI is 10-170x faster than point-and-click interfaces.
Your FTP credentials are floating across the internet in plaintext right now. Using FTP in 2025 means broadcasting usernames, passwords, and files to anyone with basic packet sniffing tools. This exposé reveals 5 ways FTP broadcasts credentials to hackers, real breach data showing FTP’s catastrophic security holes, and why SFTP’s military-grade encryption is the only secure alternative.
Hosting providers make billions by scaring people away from “slow shared hosting” and pushing expensive VPS plans. We tested everything and have some uncomfortable truths to share.
VPS companies want you to believe shared hosting is outdated. But modern shared hosting has evolved while budget VPS offerings have become diluted. Here’s why premium shared hosting often delivers better performance, reliability, and value than entry-level VPS plans.
