Running sites alone means the pager is you. Here is what WordPress will now handle without you, exactly where its automatic rollback stops, and how to build a maintenance system that does not depend on you being awake.

Promotional hosting prices renew at a median of 3.25 times the advertised rate, and the cheapest tier is always the worst offender. A worked comparison of what shared and managed hosting actually cost across a full term.

Google's baseline sender rules apply to every site, not just bulk mailers, and Microsoft now rejects unauthenticated mail outright. The most common cause is a form plugin putting the visitor's address in the From: header.

PHP 8.2 leaves security support at the end of December, WordPress now asks for 8.3 or greater, and W3Techs still counts 28.8 percent of PHP sites running a branch that stopped getting patches years ago. Here is the four-month sequence.

Four days after WordPress 7.1 shipped, here is what actually broke, what only looks broken, and the two claims going around that are simply wrong.

Three separate WordPress incidents in ten days broke the oldest promise in solo site ownership: keep it updated and you will mostly be fine.

WordPress 7.0 moved AI into the core software. Seven weeks later came a forced security fix. Here is what a solo site owner should do this week.

Every major WordPress page builder shipped an AI feature in the last five months. They are not the same tool wearing different skins. Here's how to actually choose based on how you work, not which demo looks best.

AI Overviews now front-run 1 in 4 Google searches. Here is how DIY site owners turn a citation into more clicks than a #1 ranking ever gave them.

Google AI Overviews are eating clicks, or maybe they aren't. The studies disagree on the zero-click number, but they agree on something more useful: which sources get cited is now the real dividing line.