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The HostingAdvice team dishes out a daily dose of technology news, product reviews, and profiles of the industry’s movers and shakers. Follow us as we interview executives, engineers, and early adopters of cutting-edge technology.

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Hyperscalers Pour $20B+ Into APAC, Opening Door for Web Hosts

Hyperscalers Pour $20B+ Into APAC, Opening Door for Web Hosts

Three of the world’s largest cloud providers — AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud — are actively investing more than $20...

Own Your Stack? Virtualization Could Save You Thousands

Own Your Stack? Virtualization Could Save You Thousands

Virtualizing servers can save U.S. web hosts up to $4,500 per 1U server annually, according to ENERGY STAR and the...

44% of Hyper-Growth Firms Rely on Managed Hosting for Stability

44% of Hyper-Growth Firms Rely on Managed Hosting for Stability

Nearly 45% of the fastest-growing companies say managed hosting is essential for stability, and 27% have already...

WordPress Growth Stalls at 0.4% YOY as Hosts Go SaaS

WordPress Growth Stalls at 0.4% YOY as Hosts Go SaaS

WordPress’s growth has officially plateaued: Its share grew just 0.4% (43.2% to 43.6%) from 2022 to 2025. It's a stark...

6 out of 10 Businesses Have Experienced Hosting Problems

6 out of 10 Businesses Have Experienced Hosting Problems

A Liquid Web report found that 61% of surveyed hyper-growth businesses (HGBs) say they have experienced hosting and...

Mass June 12 Outage Leaves Thousands of Users Without Access

Mass June 12 Outage Leaves Thousands of Users Without Access

Massive simultaneous outages occurred across Cloudflare, Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure on Thursday, June 12, disrupting...

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Studies

The HostingAdvice team of research and technology experts conducts our studies through nationwide surveys and in-depth data analysis. Our studies cover a range of trending topics and deliver original, reliable data you can’t get anywhere else on the web.

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More Than Half of Americans Don’t Know What Web Hosting Is

More Than Half of Americans Don’t Know What Web Hosting Is

More than 33,000 new domains are registered daily across the internet. Given that staggering number, and the fact that...

73% of IT Leaders Are Leveraging Two or More ‘Alt’ Cloud Providers

73% of IT Leaders Are Leveraging Two or More ‘Alt’ Cloud Providers

Over the years of covering the world of technology, I’ve preached about the perils of putting all your digital eggs...

76% Want Control Over Social Feeds—Not Algorithm Guesswork

76% Want Control Over Social Feeds—Not Algorithm Guesswork

It turns out, people prefer their social media to have features that lesser-known "decentralized" social networks, like...

75% of IT Leaders: Tech Tariffs Will Hurt Bottom Line Through 2027

75% of IT Leaders: Tech Tariffs Will Hurt Bottom Line Through 2027

With Trump’s new tariffs, IT departments across America are left to deal with the reality of tumultuous economic...

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How-To Guides

Leverage our ever-growing database of programming tutorials, website advice, and how-to guides for your next project.

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How DevOps Speeds Up Development

How DevOps Speeds Up Development

I admit — I had no idea there was (and still is) a fair bit of confusion surrounding the exact definition and...

 A Beginner’s Guide to Choosing the Right Text Editor

A Beginner’s Guide to Choosing the Right Text Editor

I used to have a bad habit of opening HTML and other coding files in Microsoft Word. Eventually, I was told to use a...

Understanding Agile in Product Development

Understanding Agile in Product Development

Do you ever feel like projects are overwhelming, with all the tasks and subtasks that require completion? Product...

What Is Cybersecurity?

What Is Cybersecurity?

In 2023, Microsoft launched a report that stated one simple, yet shocking fact: basic security hygiene can protect...

Is Your Website Slow? Here’s How Core Web Vitals Can Fix It

Is Your Website Slow? Here’s How Core Web Vitals Can Fix It

When I think of Core Web Vitals, I’m immediately reminded of this time when I discovered one of my websites had been...

GDPR Explained: What Every Website Owner Needs to Know

GDPR Explained: What Every Website Owner Needs to Know

I fondly remember the great GDPR email apocalypse of 2018. It was May 28 and half of my LinkedIn network was getting...

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Hosting Reviews

The HostingAdvice team dishes out a daily dose of technology news, product reviews, and profiles of the industry’s movers and shakers. Follow us as we interview executives, engineers, and early adopters of cutting-edge technology.

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