The Traxio blog
Explainers on hosting, domains, WordPress, email and keeping a website healthy.
- Best Free Hosting Options in 2026A non-affiliate guide to genuinely free hosting: InfinityFree, GitHub Pages, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages and WordPress.com side by side, and which suits what.
- Choosing forum software: SMF, phpBB, MyBB and the restSMF, phpBB and MyBB compared side by side, plus Flarum, Discourse and hosted forums: what each is good at, what it needs from your hosting, and how to pick.
- DirectAdmin vs cPanel: What's Actually DifferentBoth panels do the same job. Here's where they genuinely diverge — interface density, resource use, and why hosts price them differently.
- DNS Explained Without the JargonA records, CNAMEs, MX, TXT, nameservers and propagation explained through one honest analogy — and the handful of records every site owner actually touches.
- How Much Does Web Hosting Cost In The UK?Real UK hosting prices in 2026: what shared hosting costs, what a domain adds, why the advertised price rarely survives renewal, and how to work out the true cost.
- How SSL Works and Why the Padlock MattersWhat actually happens in the TLS handshake, what certificates prove and don't, why they're free now, and how to check your own site is set up properly.
- How To Get Email On Your Own Domainhello@yourname.co.uk instead of a Gmail address: the three ways to get it, the DNS records that keep you out of spam, and when each route makes sense.
- How To Move Your Website To A New HostMoving hosts without downtime is mostly a matter of doing things in the right order. The full sequence, including the DNS step almost everyone skips.
- How To Start A Website For FreeHow to start a website for free: what the free options really cost, the setup steps in the right order, and starting with 30 days free, then 99p a month.
- Installing WordPress in Under Five MinutesThe one-click Softaculous route step by step, the handful of settings worth changing immediately, and a first sitting that ends with something published.
- Shared Hosting, Explained ProperlyWhat you're actually sharing, when it's the right fit, and the honest signs it's time to move to something bigger.
- Website Builders vs Web HostingWix, Squarespace and friends versus hosting your own site: what each route costs over three years, where lock-in bites, and a framework for choosing.
- Website Security Basics for Site OwnersThe unglamorous habits — updates, passwords, backups and a few headers — that prevent the vast majority of small-site compromises, ordered by payoff.
- Website Speed Tips That Actually Move the NeedlePast the generic advice: the ordered list of changes with the biggest measurable effect on load time, and the popular ones that barely matter.
- What Is DirectAdmin? A Plain-English IntroductionThe control panel behind every Traxio hosting account, and the handful of screens you'll actually use day to day.
- Why NVMe Hosting Is FasterWhat NVMe storage actually changes for a website, how much it matters in practice, and when caching or image sizes matter far more.
- WordPress.com vs Self-Hosted WordPressTwo products share the WordPress name. What each costs in 2026, what each lets you do (plugins, themes, files, email), and which suits which kind of site.