Hosting explained. Platform updates, technical guides, and no-fluff insight from the team that built TrueCore.
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 →A pre-auth CRLF injection bug in cPanel let attackers ransomware around 44,000 servers in a few days. We don't run cPanel — but the bug class is generic, and we audited our own outbound mail code the same week to make sure we hadn't shipped the same shape of mistake.
Read →Every morning, a small daemon reads the day's security advisories, cross-references them against the exact package versions on our fleet, and posts what's actionable to Discord. Here's the design and what it found on day one.
Read →Most hosting providers point your domain at Cloudflare's nameservers and call it a feature. We operate our own three-nameserver fleet — flame-dnsd, on three independent boxes, with sub-five-second zone propagation. Here's why.
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 →When a critical Linux kernel CVE drops, the question isn't 'will the patch land' — it's 'what do you do in the meantime?' Here's how we mitigated Copy Fail across the fleet in hours, before the kernel patch shipped.
Read →What happens to your data if our primary server is destroyed and we lose all the keys with it? Nothing — because we use Shamir secret sharing to split the master key across the fleet, and a single share goes offline with us.
Read →We built a mood dashboard for our infrastructure. Each service tells you how it's doing, in its own words. Here's why, and what it actually looks like.
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 →OPcache stores compiled PHP bytecode in memory so WordPress doesn't re-parse hundreds of files on every request. Here's what it does, how much it helps, and how to verify it's working.
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 →Automated health checks, fleet-wide DNS sync, and Discord alerts — the homegrown monitoring stack keeping TrueCore's infrastructure running around the clock.
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 →WireGuard is a modern VPN protocol built into the Linux kernel. Here's how we use it to connect our fleet of servers without exposing management traffic to the public internet.
Read →Nameservers, A records, TTL, and propagation — a plain-English walkthrough of how typing a URL in a browser ends up loading your site from our servers.
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 →PHP 8.3 is faster and more secure than PHP 7.4. Here's how to check what version your site uses, why upgrading matters, and what we do to keep the platform current.
Read →XDP kernel-bypass drops, nftables bans with automatic escalation, and nginx rate limiting — our layered approach to keeping bad actors off the server.
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 →Three DNS records that determine whether your email reaches the inbox or the spam folder. We configure them automatically — here's what they actually do.
Read →PHP workers, uncached pages, and plugin bloat are the most common causes of slow WordPress sites. Here's how to identify which problem you're dealing with.
Read →XDP packet drops, flame-guardian IP bans, nginx rate limiting, and sandboxed PHP execution sit entirely below WordPress. Here's what we handle so your security plugins don't have to carry everything.
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 →We use Linux cgroups at the kernel level to enforce resource limits. No soft caps, no fair-use policies. Here's what that actually means for your hosting account.
Read →PHP workers, disk I/O, and RAM allocation — the real factors behind WordPress performance on shared hosting, and what separates a fast host from a slow one.
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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