Hosting explained. Platform updates, technical guides, and no-fluff insight from the team that built TrueCore.
A step-by-step, honest walk-through of the migration process, what we need from you, how we move files and databases, possible hiccups, and timing for small, medium and large sites.
Read →Common causes of spam folder placement for small business emails and practical steps you can take, plus what TrueCore Hosting sets up for you.
Read →Why a domain-based email matters for deliverability and brand, plus a step-by-step TrueCore setup and SPF/DKIM/DMARC guide.
Read →We turned a yearly £80 invoice and 2am panic into zero-action automatic SSL renewal. Here's the ACME workflow, monitoring and the trade-offs we made.
Read →Shared hosting database isolation can let one bad query bring an entire server down. See how TrueCore's per-customer PostgreSQL prevents that and why the modest price jump is worth it.
Read →Break down what 99.9% uptime translates to in hours, compare it with tighter guarantees, and see how TrueCore handles downtime and compensation.
Read →A practical guide to how many products, shoppers and daily orders a WooCommerce store can handle on TrueCore's Ember plan, and when to consider moving up.
Read →A practical look at what Shopify locks you into, how WooCommerce on TrueCore compares, and the real steps to move your store.
Read →Introductory rates hide true renewal prices and oversold servers. See why TrueCore's flat pricing is the honest choice.
Read →Honest breakdown of what a £10 per month plan delivers at TrueCore compared with typical low-cost introductory offers.
Read →A look at the server-level tweaks we use at TrueCore to keep Time To First Byte under 200 ms for UK sites, without relying on a CDN.
Read →A practical look at why TrueCore's multi-site plans, strict isolation and transparent tooling are a solid fit for small agencies that need to manage several client sites and separate billing.
Read →A practical guide for UK businesses that need a hosting setup meeting GDPR requirements. See what TrueCore provides and what you must handle yourself.
Read →A plain-English guide to UK data residency, why it matters for small businesses, and what hosting in the UK actually delivers.
Read →A practical guide to running Astro, Hugo, and 11ty on TrueCore Hosting. Build locally or on the server, configure cache headers, and keep things simple with no database.
Read →A practical guide to Drupal's PHP 8.3 and PostgreSQL needs on TrueCore, with tips for Composer, Drush, and the right hosting plan.
Read →A step-by-step guide to running Laravel on TrueCore Hosting, covering PHP 8.3, PostgreSQL 16, Composer via SSH, .env handling, file storage and queue workers.
Read →A non-technical UK business owner learns which hosting features truly matter - real support, reliable backups, transparent pricing - and which marketing fluff can be ignored.
Read →A practical look at what UK freelancers need from a host, and why TrueCore's managed plans hit the sweet spot without surprise limits.
Read →A practical guide to migrate from GoDaddy hosting, covering export tools, SSL handling, and mailbox transfer.
Read →Why the free-trial-and-refund model doesn't work for honest hosting, and what we replaced it with.
Read →Step-by-step guide to moving a WordPress site and email from Bluehost to TrueCore, covering export limits, DNS switch, and verification.
Read →Step-by-step guide to moving a site off cPanel, backing up files and databases, pushing them to TrueCore, and swapping DNS with low TTL. Includes time estimates for each TrueCore plan.
Read →A frank look at the features you lose and the benefits you gain when switching from SiteGround to TrueCore Hosting.
Read →Both Hostinger and TrueCore charge similar monthly rates, but their philosophies diverge. We compare overselling, support, and infrastructure ownership.
Read →A side-by-side look at Bluehost's scale and support versus TrueCore's no-oversell approach, kernel limits and engineer-level ticket handling.
Read →Why UK businesses benefit from hosting their sites on UK servers, covering latency, legal jurisdiction, and trust signals.
Read →When you SSH into our server, you don't actually get the server — you get a sandbox shaped exactly like a server. Here's how flame-bubble uses Linux namespaces, bwrap, and cgroups to keep customers fully separated on shared infrastructure.
Read →We had a freshness-monitor bug that made backups look healthy when they weren't running. We caught it. Here's the story, and why automated 'backups OK' green ticks deserve healthy scepticism.
Read →Every TrueCore account includes SSH access. Here's how to add your key, what's available in the shell, and how the site CLI exposes the same functionality as the portal from your terminal.
Read →We removed Ghost from the addon catalogue. Here's why: it required Node.js, the install was thin, WordPress already covers the use case, and we had no real customer demand.
Read →99.9% uptime permits 8 hours of downtime a year. Most SLAs exclude the failures that actually happen. Here's how to read uptime claims and how to verify them yourself.
Read →How to add a mailbox for your domain, connect it to your email client, and understand what SPF, DKIM, and MX records are configured automatically when you do.
Read →WooCommerce works on our SQLite-backed WordPress install for most stores. Here's what the setup looks like, where the performance limits are, and what actually matters at scale.
Read →We measure capacity in units, not vague percentages. Here's how to read your plan limits, what happens when you approach them, and why we publish server capacity publicly.
Read →Export your content, install WordPress in one click, import your posts and media. A step-by-step guide to moving a live WordPress site to TrueCore with minimal downtime.
Read →Dedicated IPs used to be required for SSL. That hasn't been true for years. Here's what a dedicated IP still affects in 2026 and when it's genuinely worth having.
Read →For UK businesses serving UK audiences, server location affects page load time, GDPR compliance, and local SEO. Here's what the difference actually is in practice.
Read →Plan-based offsite backups to Backblaze B2, from 24-hour cycles on Flameling to 30-minute on Inferno. Here's how the full backup chain works from your site to cold storage.
Read →When we update the kernel or apply security patches, here's the exact sequence of events, how long downtime is, and how we communicate it to customers.
Read →Selling more CPU and RAM than the server physically has is standard industry practice. Here's exactly how it works, why hosts do it, and what it costs your site.
Read →Every Ember plan and above gets a dedicated PostgreSQL database, isolated at the process level. Here's why that matters for performance, security, and reliability.
Read →cPanel costs money per account, carries fifteen years of legacy complexity, and runs things our customers don't need. So we built something that only does what matters.
Read →Flame Stars is TrueCore's loyalty programme — stars earn automatically every month, and you can redeem them for free hosting, gift cards, and more. Here's how it works.
Read →Free SSL, renewed automatically before it expires. Here's how our certificate lifecycle works and why you'll never see a 'certificate expired' warning on our platform.
Read →Most shared hosts quietly sell more resources than their servers have. We don't. Here's why we hard-cap every plan and what it means for your site's performance.
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