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?
The question most owners can't answer: who actually controls your domain, hosting, email, and accounts? The five-minute ownership check, and the hostage problem it prevents.
Domains in Plain Language
What a domain actually is, who really controls yours, the renewal games registrars play, and how practices lose their name — plus the twenty-minute setup that makes losing it nearly impossible.
Hosting in Plain Language
What hosting actually is, what a practice site genuinely needs, the overpaying patterns to recognise, and the three questions that matter more than any feature list.
Business Email That Lands
An address on your own domain, and the three invisible records that decide whether your messages reach inboxes or spam. The deliverability basics, in kitchen-table 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 conversation, and doing it before relations sour.
Hiring Web Help Without Getting Burned
The nervous buyer's protection page: what web work fairly costs, the red flags that predict pain, the ownership questions to settle before any work starts, and how to compare quotes that look nothing alike.
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