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15 May 2026

Why we changed signup to a £1 / 14-day trial

Why the free-trial-and-refund model doesn't work for honest hosting, and what we replaced it with.

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15 May 2026

Leaving Bluehost: A Practical Migration Walkthrough

Step-by-step guide to moving a WordPress site and email from Bluehost to TrueCore, covering export limits, DNS switch, and verification.

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11 May 2026

How to Migrate From cPanel to TrueCore Without Downtime

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.

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11 May 2026

What You Give Up Moving From SiteGround

A frank look at the features you lose and the benefits you gain when switching from SiteGround to TrueCore Hosting.

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11 May 2026

Hostinger vs TrueCore: The Differences That Actually Matter

Both Hostinger and TrueCore charge similar monthly rates, but their philosophies diverge. We compare overselling, support, and infrastructure ownership.

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9 May 2026

TrueCore vs Bluehost: An Honest Review by Someone Who Doesn't Sell Either

A side-by-side look at Bluehost's scale and support versus TrueCore's no-oversell approach, kernel limits and engineer-level ticket handling.

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7 May 2026

Why UK Businesses Should Host in the UK

Why UK businesses benefit from hosting their sites on UK servers, covering latency, legal jurisdiction, and trust signals.

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6 May 2026

How Your SSH Session Is Isolated From Every Other Customer's

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.

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2 May 2026

Why We Check Our Own Backups (And Why You Should Doubt Yours)

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.

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28 Apr 2026

SSH Access on TrueCore: Shell Access and the site CLI

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.

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27 Apr 2026

Why we retired Ghost from our addon catalogue

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.

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26 Apr 2026

What Web Hosting Uptime Numbers Actually Mean

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.

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25 Apr 2026

Setting Up Email Hosting on TrueCore: Mailboxes, Clients, and DNS

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.

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23 Apr 2026

Running WooCommerce on TrueCore: What to Expect

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.

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21 Apr 2026

Understanding Your Hosting Plan: What Units and Slots Mean

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.

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20 Apr 2026

How to Migrate Your WordPress Site to TrueCore Hosting

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.

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19 Apr 2026

Do You Need a Dedicated IP Address? What It Actually Changes in 2026

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.

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18 Apr 2026

UK vs US Hosting: Latency, Law, and What Actually Matters

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.

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17 Apr 2026

How We Back Up Your Data Offsite with Backblaze B2

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.

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14 Apr 2026

What Actually Happens During a Server Maintenance Window

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.

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11 Apr 2026

What Is Web Hosting Overselling and Why Does It Make Sites Slow

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.

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10 Apr 2026

Per-Customer PostgreSQL: How We Isolate Databases Between Accounts

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.

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9 Apr 2026

Why We Built Our Own Control Panel Instead of Using cPanel

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.

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5 Apr 2026

Flame Stars: How TrueCore Rewards Long-Term Customers

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.

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4 Apr 2026

How We Automate Let's Encrypt SSL for Every Site

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.

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1 Apr 2026

Why We Cap Server Slots and Never Oversell

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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