WordPress
There's no magic number of WordPress plugins that will break your site. What matters is understanding how plugins work, why modular design keeps you secure, and how to monitor your server's actual resource usage.
WordPress
Ghost offers a focused, lightning-fast publishing experience that WordPress struggles to match. Here are 10 features that make Ghost stand out for content creators and publishers.
WordPress
A complete walkthrough of setting up a WordPress website with Elementor hosting, from choosing a plan to customizing your site with templates, global styles, and SEO.
WordPress
LearnDash Cloud gives you a fully managed WordPress course site with LearnDash pre-installed, starter templates, and premium plugins — all from $25 a month.
WordPress
A complete walkthrough for migrating your WordPress site from slow shared hosting to Cloudways, covering everything from backups and the migration plugin to DNS changes and SSL setup.
WordPress
A complete walkthrough for launching your first WooCommerce store on Cloudways, from server setup and domain configuration to accepting payments and optimizing performance.
Self Host
A complete walkthrough for configuring Mailgun on your self-hosted Ghost instance, covering DNS setup, bulk newsletter delivery via API, and transactional email via SMTP.
WordPress
Cloudways SafeUpdates takes the fear out of WordPress updates by automatically staging, testing, and validating every plugin and theme update before it touches your live site.
Self Host
A complete beginner's guide to installing Ghost CMS on DigitalOcean using their one-click installer, from creating a droplet to configuring DNS and SSL.
WordPress
Ghost CMS is purpose-built for bloggers and content creators, but WordPress still has a massive ecosystem advantage. Here's an honest breakdown of both platforms after making the switch.
Productivity
Cloudron gives you a graphical interface to install and manage open source software on your own server, eliminating the command-line headaches that keep most people away from self-hosting.
WordPress
Elementor Cloud bundles WordPress hosting on Google Cloud with Elementor Pro and a Cloudflare CDN for $99/year. Here's what it's like to build a real website on it from scratch.
