Hosting
Inside a Tier IV Data Centre: What NEXTDC Means for Your Website
NEXTDC and Tier IV explained in plain English: the power, cooling, security and connectivity behind your website, and what a data centre can’t fix.
17 June 2025
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Insights & resources
Practical guides on hosting, website security, maintenance and domains for Australian businesses.
Maintenance
Ransomware and Small Business Websites: Are Your Backups Ready?
Ransomware can hit a small business website too. See how attackers lock or steal site data, and the off-site backup setup that lets you recover without paying.
9 June 2025
Hosting
Moving Hosts? How to Protect Your Google Rankings During a Website Migration
Website migration SEO checklist: what must stay the same when you change hosts, the mistakes that cost rankings, and what to check in the week after launch.
2 June 2025
Hosting
Cheap Web Hosting in Australia: What You Give Up for $3 a Month
Cheap web hosting in Australia looks like a bargain until something breaks. What $3-a-month plans leave out, the renewal trap, and how to judge real value.
26 May 2025
Maintenance
Abandoned Plugins: How to Find the Ticking Time Bombs on Your WordPress Site
Abandoned WordPress plugins never get security fixes, and WordPress won’t warn you. Here’s how to find them on your site and replace them safely.
19 May 2025
Maintenance
Handing Over a Website: What to Get From Your Old Developer Before You Leave
A website handover checklist for switching developers: the domain, hosting, logins, licences and backups to get first, and what to do if they won’t hand over.
6 May 2025
Hosting
Website Migration Without Downtime: A Step-by-Step Plan
Moving hosts doesn’t have to mean downtime. Here’s the cutover order we follow, with a flowchart covering TTL, testing, email and the parallel run.
30 April 2025
Maintenance
Website Speed Test Tools Compared: PageSpeed Insights, GTmetrix and WebPageTest
Ran a website speed test and got a red score? Compare PageSpeed Insights, GTmetrix and WebPageTest, learn which numbers matter and how to test from Australia.
21 April 2025
Hosting
Email Hosting vs Web Hosting: Do You Need Both?
Email hosting vs web hosting: what each one does, why they can live in different places, and how to decide where your business email should live.
11 April 2025
Maintenance
WordPress Redirect Hack: Why Visitors Get Sent to Scam Sites
Customers say your site sends them to scam pages, but you can’t see it? How the WordPress redirect hack hides from owners, how to confirm it and how to fix it.
7 April 2025
Domains
How to Get a Business Email Address With Your Own Domain
How to get a business email address like [email protected]: your three options, what they cost and the DNS records that stop your emails landing in spam.
25 March 2025
Domains
Who Really Owns Your Domain? How to Check (and Why Your Web Designer Shouldn’t)
Who owns my domain? How to check the registrant on a .au WHOIS lookup in two minutes, why it shouldn’t be your web designer, and how to fix it calmly.
17 March 2025