Engineering Resources

Field notes from the people who keep your servers running

Free playbooks our engineers first wrote for their own use. No gated whitepapers and no "ultimate guides" generated by an SEO team, just the checklists we use on migrations and performance work for customers.

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The Hosting Migration Playbook

10 pages · 9-stage process · field-tested by our engineering team since 2008

The actual checklist our engineers run when a customer asks us to move a production site. Covers DNS cutover, zero-downtime database migration, certificate handoff, the 7 disasters we see most often, and a rollback plan you hope to not use.

For: Agencies and engineers moving production sites away from another host. Anyone whose last migration burned them.

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7 Hosting Mistakes Killing Your Load Time

4 pages · the seven hosting defaults that slow a site, with a fix for each

The performance defaults most hosts get wrong, and the diagnostic playbook our engineers walk through when a customer says "the site feels slow." Includes the exact GTmetrix and PageSpeed signals worth chasing versus the ones that don't move conversion.

For: WordPress site owners, performance-sensitive ecommerce, anyone with sub-100ms TTFB ambitions.

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Usable Containers on VPS

4 pages · Docker, Podman and LXC, with the commands to start

A short, practical primer on the three container options that make sense on a VPS: Docker for most web apps, Podman when you want rootless and daemonless, LXC when you need a whole system. Install commands, a first container for each, and a one-table comparison.

For: Anyone about to run containers on a VPS for the first time and wondering which runtime to pick.

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Printable checklists

vBulletin 3.x to Discourse Migration Checklist

20 phases from discovery to archival. Opens in the browser, prints cleanly, no email needed.

Open checklist

Why we give these away

Hosting buyers are technical. They can tell when a "lead magnet" is just SEO bait. We'd rather you have a useful playbook in your inbox than a six-page sales sheet. If you migrate to us afterwards, great. If you migrate elsewhere using our playbook, we still consider it a win, because next time, you'll remember who wrote the checklist.

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