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25 articles · Updated 10 October 2026
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Shared Hosting vs VPS Hosting in 2026: 7 Signs Your Business Website Has Outgrown Shared Hosting
Shared hosting vs VPS hosting for UK businesses in 2026: seven signs you have outgrown shared, when to stay, managed vs unmanaged, and how to choose a Cloud VPS.
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WordPress Security Checklist for October 2026: 10 Things to Check Before Your Website Gets Hacked
Learn how to secure your WordPress website in 2026 with our practical checklist covering updates, plugins, backups, malware scanning and hosting security.
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cPanel Reseller Hosting in the UK: WHM, White-Label Pricing and How Agencies Actually Sell It
UK cPanel reseller hosting explained — Fast2Host WHM plans from £25.36/mo, CloudLinux + LiteSpeed stack, white-label nameservers, illustrative margins, migrations and when to jump to a VPS.
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UK Colocation Pricing Guide 2026: How Much Does Server Colocation Cost?
How much UK server colocation costs in 2026 — what drives the bill (space, amps, bandwidth), Fast2Host from-prices by footprint, and how to compare quotes without surprises.
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Customer Story: Colocating a Rack That Feels Like Part of the Office
An anonymised Fast2Host colocation story — why a UK team moved a rack into Cambridge, how remote hands changed break/fix, and what “extension of our office” looks like in practice.
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Cloud vs Colocation: What They Are, How They Differ, and When Colo Wins
Public cloud vs UK colocation explained — definitions, cost and control differences, colo benefits with illustrative graphs, and when a Cambridge hybrid beats all-in cloud.
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UK Leased Lines Explained: DIA vs Ethernet, Business Benefits & Shared Offices
How UK leased lines differ from broadband, Ethernet and point-to-point — product comparison, business benefits, and why Fast2Host supports managed and shared office spaces.
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Raspberry Pi, Mini PC, Intel NUC & NVIDIA Spark Colocation in Cambridge
Colocate Raspberry Pis, mini PCs, Intel NUCs and NVIDIA Sparks in our Cambridge Tier III data centre — rack mounts, power adapters, dual A+B feeds, networking and 24/7 remote hands.
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The Technology Behind Fast2Host
How Fast2Host was built with Astro, 80,000+ lines of automation and AI-assisted engineering — plus charts comparing Astro’s JS payload and LCP against Next.js, Nuxt and traditional stacks.
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GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499): Why This Kernel Flaw Matters on Shared Hosting
GhostLock lets an unprivileged local user escalate to root on Linux hosts. What CloudLinux customers need to know — and what Fast2Host is doing about it.
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We’ve Launched Our New Website — and a New Client Area
Fast2Host’s new site is live, with a clearer layout for hosting, servers and colo — plus a refreshed client area at my.fast2host.com for login, orders and support.
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How to Migrate WordPress to a UK Host Without Downtime
A practical checklist for moving WordPress to Fast2Host — staging, DNS, SSL, and how our free migration team handles cutover.
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cPanel vs Plesk: Which UK Hosting Control Panel Should You Choose?
Compare Linux cPanel/CloudLinux hosting with Windows Plesk for ASP.NET — when each panel wins for UK sites, agencies and MS SQL apps.
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600Gbps Corero DDoS Protection: Why Fast2Host Runs World-Class Edge Defence
How Fast2Host’s always-on 600Gbps Corero SmartWall DDoS protection works — sub-second mitigation, attack types covered, capacity stats, benefits vs scrubbing centres, and why it’s included free on AS48825.
5 min readRead - VPS & Servers
When Should You Move from Shared Hosting to a Cloud VPS?
A practical UK guide to leaving shared cPanel or WordPress hosting for a Cloud VPS — warning signs, what KVM unlocks, migration steps, and when dedicated still makes more sense.
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What Is Colocation? A Practical UK Buyer's Overview
Colocation explained without jargon — racks, power, remote hands and when 1U to full-cabinet colo in Cambridge beats the public cloud.
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Fast2Host Is an Acronis Cyber Protect Partner — With Our Own On-Premises Cluster
Why we run Acronis Cyber Protect as an authorised partner on our own UK on-premises cluster — ransomware defence, granular recovery and data residency without relying on someone else’s backup cloud.
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DDoS Protection for UK Businesses: What Actually Matters
A practical UK buyer’s guide to DDoS protection — always-on vs scrubbing, why Gbps alone is not enough, downtime costs, colo/BGP questions, and how Fast2Host protects hosting and colo customers.
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Colocation Pricing Explained: Why We Charge in Amps
How Fast2Host colocation pricing works — why power is billed per Amp, what your monthly cost covers, the benefits of capacity-based billing, and how rack space + A+B feeds come together in Cambridge.
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Why Hosting in Cambridge (Not “Anywhere UK”) Still Matters
Latency, data residency and operational control — why a privately owned Cambridge Tier III data centre changes outcomes versus rented London floor space alone.
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WordPress Toolkit for cPanel: What It Can Do and How to Use It
A detailed guide to WP Toolkit on Fast2Host cPanel and WordPress hosting — install, harden, Smart Update, auto-updates, clone/staging, integrity checks, vulnerability scans, backups and day-to-day workflows.
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Dedicated Server vs Cloud VPS: Picking the Right UK Footprint
Compare HPE dedicated servers and KVM Cloud VPS — performance isolation, price curves, and which Fast2Host option fits databases, stores and agencies.
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Free Let's Encrypt SSL vs Paid Certificates: When to Upgrade
DV auto-SSL is enough for most sites — when OV/EV, wildcards and higher warranties justify a paid GeoTrust, Thawte or Sectigo certificate from Fast2Host.
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LiteSpeed WordPress Hosting UK: What Matters
What LiteSpeed actually does for WordPress on UK cPanel hosting — with performance graphs vs Apache, typical TTFB stats, LSCache, HTTP/3 and a checklist to use it on Fast2Host.
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Fast2Host vs WordPress.com: Costs, Performance and Addon Limits
Clear comparison of real WordPress (wordpress.org software) on Fast2Host vs WordPress.com hosted plans — monthly cost, speed, plugins, themes and how freely you can copy or move your site.
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