“The fastest web server is not the one with the best benchmark. It is the one that keeps your revenue graph pointing up when traffic hits at the worst possible time.” OpenLiteSpeed and Nginx sit in a strange place in founder conversations. Every second or third technical cofounder swears by one of them. Most growth … Read more
“cPanel will not disappear, but its pricing model created the single biggest opening for new hosting control panels in the last decade.” The market already answered the headline question with its budget. After the 2019 cPanel price shift, mid-size hosts that moved away reported hosting cost cuts between 25 and 60 percent, with CyberPanel one … Read more
“Developers do not buy servers. They buy faster sprint cycles, lower cloud bills, and fewer 2 a.m. incidents.” DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Linode sit in the same corner of the cloud market: simple virtual machines, predictable pricing, and an appeal to developers who do not want to wrangle 200 AWS services. The money question is not … Read more
“Your disk space is fine. Your inode count is not. That is where shared hosting plans quietly hit their real ceiling.” The real limit on many shared hosting accounts is not storage or bandwidth. It is inode count. Hosting companies rarely lead with that in their marketing copy, but support tickets and churn data tell … Read more
“If your server is in the wrong place, your CAC goes up before you even buy your first ad.” Investors look for teams that treat infrastructure as a growth lever, not just a cost center. For global sites, server location and latency sit right in the middle of that equation. The market shows a clear … Read more
“If your ‘green hosting’ claim cuts carbon by less than 5 percent of total footprint, it is marketing, not strategy.” The short answer: most “green hosting” on the market today shifts carbon on paper, not in the real world. The business value sits in three places: lower long‑term energy risk, better enterprise sales conversion, and … Read more
“The padlock icon protects your connection, not your business.” The market still treats the little padlock as a proxy for “this site is safe,” but the data says something very different. SSL boosts trust, improves conversion rates, and helps SEO, but it does not tell you whether the company is legitimate, the code is clean, … Read more
