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Guides, updates, and notes from the HostLagbe team.
What a website actually costs to run in Bangladesh
Domain, hosting, SSL, and the things nobody quotes you for. Realistic yearly figures for a small business site.
cPanel or DirectAdmin: does the control panel actually matter?
Both do the same job. The differences that matter are licensing cost, what your host supports, and how easily you can leave.
Shared, reseller or VPS: how to tell which one you have outgrown
Most people upgrade too early, on the wrong signal. Here are the symptoms that actually mean you need the next tier.
Making WordPress genuinely fast on shared hosting
You do not need a VPS to get a fast WordPress site. Most slow sites are slow for four reasons, and all four are fixable on a shared plan.
Moving a website to a new host without downtime
The order of operations matters more than the tools. Do it in this sequence and visitors never see a broken site.
Your WordPress site got hacked. Here is the order to do things in.
Cleaning the malware first is the mistake. Close the door, then clean, then find out how they got in — otherwise you will be doing this again next week.
Free SSL on cPanel: how to set it up and what breaks afterwards
Getting the padlock takes about two minutes. The mixed-content warnings that follow are what actually cost people an afternoon.
Reseller, master or alpha: which hosting tier you actually need
The three reseller tiers differ by who you are allowed to create, not by how much disk you get. Here is the practical difference, and how to tell which one fits.
Your host backs up your site. That is not a backup strategy.
Host backups solve one failure and miss the two that actually happen. What to keep, where, and how often to test it.