Keeping control of your domain
Keeping your domain separate from your hosting is best practice, and we will say so even though we sell domains. Why it matters, what we suggest, and how to point a domain at Rack1.
The Rack1 blog
Notes from
Notes from
the rack
Practical writing about hosting, performance and getting websites onto the internet without drama. No launch announcements, no filler.
Why a static site beats a tuned server
You can spend a fortnight optimising a database-driven site and still lose to a folder of files. Here is the arithmetic behind that, and when it stops being true.
Moving a WordPress site without any downtime
A practical order of operations for migrating WordPress to a new host, including the two steps people usually get backwards.
Deploying a Hugo site from GitHub Actions
A complete workflow that builds your site on every push and publishes the output, with the two settings that trip people up.
Hosting that gets out of the way.
Every plan includes the edge CDN, daily offsite backups and Rack1 Burst.