Static, serverless and the edge: how hosting quietly changed
The model most small-business sites still use was designed for 2005. What replaced it, why it's faster and cheaper, and where it genuinely doesn't fit.
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Infrastructure
Servers, storage and the estate underneath everything else.
10 articles
DNS explained: the part that breaks at the worst moment
A, CNAME, MX, TXT, TTL — the handful of records that decide whether people reach your site and your email arrives. Plus why 'propagation' is mostly a myth.
What "modern hosting" actually means, and how to check yours
HTTP/3, TLS 1.3, IPv6, HTTP/2 — four things you can check in two minutes that tell you whether your host is maintained or coasting on 2015.
Green hosting: what's real and what's a certificate
Data centres use about as much electricity as aviation. Green hosting is a real choice — but there is a difference between buying power and buying paperwork.
Managing multiple iDRACs: the one-tab-per-server problem
iDRAC is excellent at one server and says nothing about fifty. How teams actually answer estate-wide questions, and the point at which tabs stop scaling.
Dell OpenManage Enterprise: where it fits, and where it doesn't
OME is capable, free with the hardware and the right first answer for most Dell estates. An honest look at what it does well and when teams outgrow it.
Windows 10 is out of support. What that means for your business.
Standard support ended in October 2025. Without Extended Security Updates, new flaws stay unfixed. How to work out what you have and what to do.
Firmware and BIOS drift: the outage you can see coming
Identical servers slowly stop being identical. Drift is boring, invisible, and behind a surprising share of the failures that look random.
How to keep a server hardware inventory that stays true
Every infrastructure team has a spreadsheet that was accurate the day it was made. Here is why they rot, and how to build an inventory that describes itself.
What is iDRAC? Dell's out-of-band controller in plain English
Every Dell PowerEdge server has a small computer inside that runs whether the server is on or off. What iDRAC does, why it matters, and where it stops.
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