February 2026

TL;DR Ever had a client call you at 2 AM, angry because their site was down for 20 minutes, demanding a full refund? I have. And I learned the hard way that without a clear Service Level Agreement (SLA), you’re flying blind. Your client thinks they’re entitled to perfection. You think 99.9% uptime is generous. […]

TL;DR I’ll never forget the moment I realized customer churn was killing my hosting business. It was a Tuesday afternoon. I had just signed up 20 new clients that month. I felt great. But when I checked my revenue dashboard, the numbers barely moved. Why? Because 18 clients had canceled. I was pouring water into […]

TL;DR I’ll never forget my first reseller hosting migration. It was 2 AM on a Tuesday. I was moving 47 client websites to a new server. My hands were shaking as I clicked the final “Update Nameservers” button. Would the sites go down? Would emails stop working? Would my clients wake up to broken websites? […]

TL;DR Are you tired of watching your cPanel licensing costs eat into your profit margins? You’re not alone. After spending over a decade helping resellers build profitable hosting businesses, I’ve seen the control panel landscape shift dramatically. cPanel used to be the obvious choice. It was reliable, familiar, and customers knew how to use it. […]

TL;DR You just got 50 visitors to your hosting checkout page this week. Ten of them started filling out the order form. But only three actually paid. Where did the other seven go? They’re your abandoned carts. And in the hosting business, they’re costing you real money. After spending a decade managing billing systems for […]

TL;DR Moving to a dedicated server feels like packing up your entire office and relocating to a bigger building. You’re excited about the extra space and power, but terrified something important might get lost in the boxes. I’ve guided dozens of migrations over the past decade. Some went flawlessly. Others turned into midnight firefighting sessions […]

TL;DR Ten years ago, I made my first affiliate commission promoting web hosting. It was $47. I remember staring at that PayPal notification for a solid minute, thinking, “Wait, someone actually bought this because of my blog post?” That single sale changed everything. It proved that sharing helpful recommendations could generate real income. Fast forward […]

TL;DR There is nothing—and I mean nothing—that kills a video platform faster than buffering. I’ve spent the last decade working in server infrastructure. I’ve seen promising startups launch incredible Over-The-Top (OTT) platforms with great content, only to watch their user base vanish in weeks. Why? Because they tried to run a high-traffic video service on […]

TL;DR You’ve just finished building a beautiful website for a client. They love the design, the layout, and the functionality. Then, they ask the inevitable question: “Can you set up my business emails, too?” In the past, you might have sent them to Google Workspace or Microsoft 365. You handed that monthly revenue straight to […]

TL;DR If you’re building or scaling a SaaS product, you’ve probably hit that confusing fork in the road regarding infrastructure. On one side, you have shared hosting—cheap, but risky for a growing app. On the other, you have the massive hyperscale clouds like AWS or Azure—powerful, but complex and capable of draining your bank account […]