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Tutorials, guides, how-tos. Everything hosting and server-related.

How To Create an Impressive Website in Terms of Design and Functionality

How to Build a Hobby Website That Can Grow With Its Community

A hobby website often starts as a personal project: a collection of trail notes, a knitting pattern archive, a home-brewing journal or a guide to restoring old electronics. If other people find it useful, the site can grow into a community and a steady publishing operation. Planning for that growth early makes it easier to add contributors, serve readers on different devices and keep the site maintainable without overengineering it.

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How Web Developers Keep Self-Hosted Windows Applications Available to Remote Users

An older business application can still do its job perfectly well while becoming awkward to distribute. An accounting package, scheduling tool or internal database may need to stay on a Windows server, yet users now expect to reach it from home, another office or a browser without installing the full application on every machine.

For developers and hosting teams, that creates a different problem from building a new web app. The question becomes how to keep the existing software centralised while giving authorised users practical remote access. Application publishing and remote desktop delivery can provide that bridge without forcing an immediate rebuild.

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Email Hosting: How to Choose the Right Provider for Your Business

Picking the right email hosting service can feel like choosing a phone plan-dozens of options, confusing pricing, and real consequences if you get it wrong. Whether you’re a freelancer sending proposals from a custom domain or a growing team that needs reliable business email for every department, this guide breaks down everything you need to know about email hosting in 2026.

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5 Reasons Why You Need a Dedicated Server for Your Website

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Server Guide: New Features, Install & Upgrade

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is out, and for server and VPS users it’s one of the more significant LTS releases in recent memory. Between the kernel jump, new security features, and 15 years of potential support, there’s a lot to consider — whether you’re planning a fresh deployment or upgrading an existing server.

This guide covers everything relevant to Ubuntu 26.04 Server: what’s new, whether you should upgrade, how to upgrade, and how to do a fresh install.

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