Guidebook 8 of 8
The Foundations
The plumbing nobody explains: your domain, your hosting, your email and your accounts. And whether you own your own front door.
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What’s inside
7 guides, in reading order.
Do You Own Your Own Website?
Who controls your domain, hosting, email and accounts? Most owners cannot say. The five-minute ownership check, and the hostage problem it prevents.
Domains in Plain Language
What a domain is, who really controls yours, the renewal games registrars play, and the twenty-minute setup that makes losing your name very unlikely.
Hosting in Plain Language
What hosting is, what a practice site needs, the ways people overpay, and the three questions that matter more than any feature list.
Business Email That Lands
An address on your own domain, and the three hidden records that decide whether your messages reach the inbox or the spam folder. In plain terms.
Backups and What Breaks
The short list of what actually goes wrong — the expired card, the hacked plugin, the lost laptop, the untested backup — and the minimal safety net for each.
Switching Providers Cleanly
Leaving an agency or freelancer without losing your domain, site, email or history. The exit checklist, the handover talk, and doing it early.
Hiring Web Help Without Getting Burned
What web work fairly costs, the red flags that predict pain, the ownership questions to settle before work starts, and how to compare unlike quotes.
Every guide in it is free to read on this site. The guidebook is the same words, laid out to read in one sitting or to send to someone.
