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The HostingAdvice team dishes out a daily dose of technology news, product reviews, and profiles of the industry’s movers and shakers. Follow us as we interview executives, engineers, and early adopters of cutting-edge technology.

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Why Nearly Half of Businesses Just Ditched the Cloud

Why Nearly Half of Businesses Just Ditched the Cloud

A new Liquid Web report found that 42% of surveyed businesses have switched from the public cloud back to dedicated...

By: Jordan Sprogis

7/24/2025

Google’s June Update Gave Traffic Back to Some Sites, But Why?

Google’s June Update Gave Traffic Back to Some Sites, But Why?

If hosts are seeing an uptick in traffic on client sites, Google may be the reason why....

By: Jordan Sprogis

7/23/2025

AWS Summit 2025: Agentic AI Will Power Next-Gen Web Hosting

AWS Summit 2025: Agentic AI Will Power Next-Gen Web Hosting

This year’s AWS Summit in New York City was all about one thing: The future of the internet is going from cloud-native...

By: Jordan Sprogis

7/22/2025

Is Downtime the Goal? Service Disruption Spiked Across Hosting Layers

Is Downtime the Goal? Service Disruption Spiked Across Hosting Layers

A new Q2 2025 report by Qrator Labs found that application-layer (L7) attacks jumped 74% compared to the same period...

By: Jordan Sprogis

7/21/2025

OVHcloud’s Environmental Tracker Coming to Hosting Soon

OVHcloud’s Environmental Tracker Coming to Hosting Soon

OVHcloud recently launched a brand-new Environmental Impact Tracker that lets users track and measure the full carbon...

By: Jordan Sprogis

7/17/2025

AI in Hosting Support May Be Driving Customers Away

AI in Hosting Support May Be Driving Customers Away

Forty-two percent of businesses currently use chatbots for customer engagement and predictive analytics, according to...

By: Jordan Sprogis

7/17/2025

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Studies

The HostingAdvice team of research and technology experts conducts our studies through nationwide surveys and in-depth data analysis. Our studies cover a range of trending topics and deliver original, reliable data you can’t get anywhere else on the web.

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58% of U.S. Consumers Frustrated By Mandatory App Downloads

58% of U.S. Consumers Frustrated By Mandatory App Downloads

There’s an app for that… but does there need to be? We've all been there before. We fire up our mobile browser, type...

By: Lynn Cadet

7/22/2025

Survey: Only 41% of IT Leaders Prioritize Sustainable Storage

Survey: Only 41% of IT Leaders Prioritize Sustainable Storage

Sustainability may dominate boardroom presentations, but when it comes to making decisions about data storage...

By: Lynn Cadet

7/14/2025

Survey: 66% of People Say They Avoid Businesses With Ugly Websites

Survey: 66% of People Say They Avoid Businesses With Ugly Websites

First impressions are everything, and in today’s digital world, a business’s first impression is often its website....

By: Lynn Cadet

6/24/2025

Survey: Tech Leads Say Cybersecurity is the Hardest Role to Fill

Survey: Tech Leads Say Cybersecurity is the Hardest Role to Fill

After surveying 500 IT decision-makers in the US about IT industry staffing, I figured I would see the same results as...

By: Joe Warnimont

6/18/2025

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How-To Guides

Leverage our ever-growing database of programming tutorials, website advice, and how-to guides for your next project.

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How DevOps Speeds Up Development

How DevOps Speeds Up Development

I admit — I had no idea there was (and still is) a fair bit of confusion surrounding the exact definition and...

By: Sead Fadilpasic

4/14/2025

A Beginner’s Guide to Choosing the Right Text Editor

A Beginner’s Guide to Choosing the Right Text Editor

I used to have a bad habit of opening HTML and other coding files in Microsoft Word. Eventually, I was told to use a...

By: Joe Warnimont

4/9/2025

Understanding Agile in Product Development

Understanding Agile in Product Development

Do you ever feel like projects are overwhelming, with all the tasks and subtasks that require completion? Product...

By: Christian de Looper

3/27/2025

What Is Cybersecurity?

What Is Cybersecurity?

In 2023, Microsoft launched a report that stated one simple, yet shocking fact: basic security hygiene can protect...

By: Sead Fadilpasic

3/20/2025

Is Your Website Slow? Here’s How Core Web Vitals Can Fix It

Is Your Website Slow? Here’s How Core Web Vitals Can Fix It

When I think of Core Web Vitals, I’m immediately reminded of this time when I discovered one of my websites had been...

By: Joe Warnimont

3/13/2025

GDPR Explained: What Every Website Owner Needs to Know

GDPR Explained: What Every Website Owner Needs to Know

I fondly remember the great GDPR email apocalypse of 2018. It was May 28 and half of my LinkedIn network was getting...

By: Sead Fadilpasic

3/6/2025

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Hosting Reviews

The HostingAdvice team dishes out a daily dose of technology news, product reviews, and profiles of the industry’s movers and shakers. Follow us as we interview executives, engineers, and early adopters of cutting-edge technology.

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Cheap Hosting Reviews

Cheap Hosting Reviews

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Dedicated Hosting Reviews

Dedicated Hosting Reviews

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VPS Hosting Reviews

VPS Hosting Reviews

Browse our reviews of the top virtual private server providers and access the most scalable, reliable hosting resources.

WordPress Hosting Reviews

WordPress Hosting Reviews

If WordPress is your platform of choice, our assessments of the web's favorite WordPress hosts should be your first stop.

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HostingAdvice.com is regularly relied upon by leading national news outlets to provide expert commentary on various hosting topics. Below are a few select appearances where you can find our resources referenced and experts weighing in on the latest industry news.

Digital Journal

Evolving US consumer protection laws: A recipe for confusion?

As new U.S. consumer privacy regulation passes state-to-state, this is creating...

Consumer Affairs

The top 10 scams of 2023

As we count down our farewell to 2023, ConsumerAffairs looks back on a year of some...

US News & World Report

Stumped for gifts? How AI can help

Giving just the right things to friends and relatives shows you considered their...

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