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Engineering notes on WordPress, cloud infrastructure and running production sites from South Africa.
Best WordPress Hosting in South Africa: What Businesses Should Compare
A practical South African WordPress hosting guide comparing local regions, managed responsibility, performance, security, recovery and real operating cost.
Managed WordPress Hosting vs Self-Managed Cloud: Costs and Trade-Offs
Compare managed WordPress hosting with operating WordPress directly on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or another cloud.
WordPress Migration Services: A Zero-Downtime Migration Plan
A step-by-step WordPress cloud migration plan covering discovery, rehearsal, data sync, DNS cutover, verification and rollback.
Fastest WordPress Hosting: Beyond Benchmarks
What makes WordPress hosting genuinely fast: edge caching, PHP capacity, database work, safe cache exclusions, real-user measurement and surge planning.
High-Traffic WordPress Hosting: HA, Load Balancing and Failover
A practical high-traffic WordPress hosting architecture covering caching, load balancing, high availability, uptime targets and tested failover.
Managed WooCommerce Hosting for Reliable Stores
A buyer's guide to managed WooCommerce hosting: checkout-safe caching, database scaling, order protection, security, observability and peak readiness.
Best Cloud Hosting for WordPress: AWS vs Google Cloud vs Azure vs DigitalOcean
Compare AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Vultr, DigitalOcean and Hetzner for WordPress by audience, risk, cost and operational fit.
AWS WordPress Hosting Cost: A Realistic Monthly TCO Breakdown
A practical 2026 guide to AWS WordPress hosting costs, from a small Lightsail site to a highly available production platform.
Enterprise WordPress Hosting: Architecture, Security and SLA Requirements
An enterprise WordPress hosting guide to architecture, governance, security, uptime commitments, recovery and procurement questions.
Managed WordPress Security Services: WAF, DDoS, Backups and Patching
What managed WordPress security services should cover: WAF, DDoS protection, access, safe patching, monitoring, containment and tested backups.
Types of Cloud Computing — a Guide on Cloud Solutions and Technologies
Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of computing services. These computing services are delivered over the internet and usually with pay-as-you-go pricing. The services include IT resources such…
Introduction to Cloud Computing with WordPress
Cloud computing has seen a massive uptake in the recent years, with enterprises and SMBs moving a majority of their services to the cloud. From your Amazon order…
AWS Opens Data Center in Cape Town. What this means for Local Companies using WordPress
In April 2020, AWS announced the opening of its data centre region in Cape Town. The official region’s name is Africa (Cape Town) and the API identifier is…
Why Use WordPress? 5 Simple Reasons Why We Use WordPress
WordPress is, by far, the most popular open source Content Management System (CMS), used by approximately 75 million websites. WordPress is open source, and thus free to install,…
How to create a WordPress High Availability Website on AWS in 6 Steps
Rather than relying on a single instance which is a single point of failure, we will explain how you would go about building a resilient hosting infrastructure for…