# DrivenHost

> Hosting, run by engineers. Web hosting, business email, cloud servers (VPS and dedicated) and reseller hosting for businesses and agencies. Online since 2004; management team with 25+ years in the hosting industry.

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## Pages

- [Home](https://drivenhost.com/index.md): Hosting, run by engineers. Web hosting, business email, cloud servers and reseller hosting for small business.
- [Support](https://drivenhost.com/support.md): How support works at DrivenHost: engineers, not scripts.
- [Status](https://drivenhost.com/status.md): Current status of DrivenHost services.
- [About](https://drivenhost.com/about.md): Who runs DrivenHost and why.
- [Blog](https://drivenhost.com/blog.md): Practical notes on hosting, email and servers.
- [Contact](https://drivenhost.com/contact.md): Talk to us about hosting, email or servers.
- [Web hosting](https://drivenhost.com/hosting.md): Fast, monitored hosting for the site your business depends on. cPanel if you want it, managed for you if you don't.
- [Business email](https://drivenhost.com/email.md): Reliable email on your own domain, with the deliverability work done properly. Or let us set up and manage Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace for you.
- [Cloud servers](https://drivenhost.com/cloud.md): Virtual and dedicated servers for line-of-business apps, agencies and SaaS teams, sized honestly and managed as much or as little as you want.
- [Reseller hosting](https://drivenhost.com/reseller.md): White-label hosting for the sites you build. Your brand, our infrastructure, WHM to run it.
- [Legal](https://drivenhost.com/legal.md): Terms, privacy, AUP, SLA, refunds and other policies.
- [Acceptable Use Policy](https://drivenhost.com/legal/acceptable-use.md): What you can and cannot do with DrivenHost services, and how we enforce it.
- [Accessibility Statement](https://drivenhost.com/legal/accessibility.md): DrivenHost's commitment to an accessible website and client area, the standards we work to, and how to tell us about a barrier.
- [Copyright and Takedown Policy](https://drivenhost.com/legal/copyright.md): How to report content hosted by DrivenHost that you believe infringes your copyright, and how we respond.
- [Data Processing Addendum](https://drivenhost.com/legal/data-processing.md): Terms governing how DrivenHost processes personal data on behalf of customers who are subject to the GDPR, UK GDPR or PIPEDA.
- [Domain Registration Agreement](https://drivenhost.com/legal/domain-registration.md): Terms that apply when you register, renew or transfer a domain name through DrivenHost.
- [Privacy Policy](https://drivenhost.com/legal/privacy.md): What personal information DrivenHost collects, why, how it is protected, and your rights.
- [Refund and Cancellation Policy](https://drivenhost.com/legal/refunds.md): How to cancel, what is refundable, and our 30-day money-back guarantee.
- [Service Level Agreement](https://drivenhost.com/legal/service-level-agreement.md): Our uptime commitment, how it is measured, and the credits you receive if we miss it.
- [Terms of Service](https://drivenhost.com/legal/terms-of-service.md): The agreement that governs your use of DrivenHost web hosting, email, cloud server and reseller services.

## Articles

- [How to Find Keywords Without Paid SEO Tools](https://drivenhost.com/blog/keyword-research-no-paid-tools.md): A practical way for small site owners to find keywords using Search Console, customer emails and free demand checks, before paying for any SEO tool.
- [Spam Sent From Your Email? Here's What to Do](https://drivenhost.com/blog/email-account-compromised.md): What a compromised hosting mailbox looks like from the server side, and the order to work through locking it down, cleaning it up and keeping it shut.
- [Five free checks before a new site goes live](https://drivenhost.com/blog/five-checks-before-launch.md): Five free tools we run on every launch, in order, to catch broken links, certificate gaps, leftover staging settings and slow pages before visitors do.
- [Fixing Duplicate URLs on a WordPress Site](https://drivenhost.com/blog/fixing-duplicate-urls-wordpress.md): WordPress can serve one page at half a dozen addresses. Here is how we sort out duplicate URLs, canonical tags and redirects properly.
- [What File Permissions Should WordPress Use?](https://drivenhost.com/blog/wordpress-file-permissions.md): The file permissions WordPress needs on a cPanel account, why 777 is never the fix, and a ten-minute check you can run today.
- [Six settings we change on every new WordPress site](https://drivenhost.com/blog/new-wordpress-site-settings.md): Six WordPress settings our team changes before a new site goes live, based on the support tickets we end up fixing when nobody does.
- [Which Search Console Numbers Actually Matter](https://drivenhost.com/blog/search-console-numbers-that-matter.md): How to read the Search Console performance report without chasing numbers that mean nothing, and what to fix once you spot a real problem.
- [Old Site Copies Are a Security Risk](https://drivenhost.com/blog/old-site-copies-risk.md): Abandoned staging folders, /old directories and backup zips are a common way into a hosting account. Here is how to find and clear them out.
- [The questions we get about business email](https://drivenhost.com/blog/business-email-questions.md): Seven questions our support queue gets about business email on your own domain: IMAP or POP, aliases, forwarding, catch-all, quotas and moving mail.
- [Robots.txt mistakes that hide your pages](https://drivenhost.com/blog/robots-txt-mistakes.md): How robots.txt really works, the errors we find on live sites, and the short file most small business sites should be running instead.
- [Who Still Has Access to Your Website?](https://drivenhost.com/blog/who-still-has-site-access.md): A quarterly access review takes about twenty minutes and closes the door on old developer accounts, stale FTP logins and shared passwords.
- [The accessibility tools we reach for](https://drivenhost.com/blog/the-accessibility-tools-we-reach-for.md): The browser extensions, the screen reader and the one free habit we open first when a site owner needs a straight answer about accessibility.
- [XML Sitemaps: What Actually Matters for Small Sites](https://drivenhost.com/blog/xml-sitemaps-small-sites.md): A plain guide to XML sitemaps for small sites: what to include, which fields search engines ignore, and the server problems that break them.
- [How to Spot Phishing Emails About Your Site](https://drivenhost.com/blog/phishing-emails-site-owners.md): Phishing aimed at website owners is specific and convincing. Here is how we tell a fake renewal, host or plugin email from a real one.
- [Five image habits that keep WordPress fast](https://drivenhost.com/blog/images-that-slow-sites.md): Five image habits we use on real WordPress sites to cut page weight, from resizing before upload to cleaning out an overgrown media library.
- [Internal Linking for Small Business Sites](https://drivenhost.com/blog/internal-linking-small-sites.md): How to link your own pages together properly: where to add links, what anchor text to use, and the linking mistakes that quietly hold small sites back.
- [How to tell if a WordPress plugin is safe](https://drivenhost.com/blog/is-this-wordpress-plugin-safe.md): Plugins are a common way WordPress sites get broken into. How to vet one before you install it, and how to spot the ones going quietly stale.
- [How to keep your domain name from being stolen](https://drivenhost.com/blog/keep-your-domain-from-being-stolen.md): Domain hijacking usually starts at the registrar, not the server. Here is how to lock your domain, protect the account email and stay on top of renewals.
- [Contact Form 7 vs WPForms: what we see](https://drivenhost.com/blog/contact-form-7-vs-wpforms.md): Two WordPress form plugins compared from the server side: spam volume, mail delivery, page weight and whether the enquiry actually survives.
- [How to Read Search Console's Indexing Report](https://drivenhost.com/blog/search-console-indexing-report.md): A plain walkthrough of the Page indexing report in Google Search Console: which statuses need fixing, which are noise, and what to check monthly.
- [Why your business email lands in spam (and the three records that fix it)](https://drivenhost.com/blog/why-your-email-lands-in-spam.md): Most small-business email problems come down to three DNS records nobody set up. Here is what they are, what they do, and how to check yours in five minutes.
- [Five uptime tools for small sites](https://drivenhost.com/blog/monitoring-tools.md): Five long-trusted monitoring tools that tell you a small site is down before your customers do, and what's actually worth an alert.
- [Redirects done right: moving pages without losing rankings](https://drivenhost.com/blog/redirects-done-right.md): 301s and 302s in plain terms, mapping old URLs to new ones, avoiding chains, and testing, so a site change does not throw away rankings.
- [What a hacked site looks like from the server side](https://drivenhost.com/blog/hacked-site-server-view.md): The signs we see on our servers when a site is compromised, from outbound spam to rogue admins, and why cleanup fails without finding the way in.
- [Six lightweight WordPress themes that don't fight you](https://drivenhost.com/blog/lightweight-themes.md): Six WordPress themes we see running fast on real servers, judged by CPU load and build speed instead of demo screenshots.
- [Local SEO for service businesses: the checklist](https://drivenhost.com/blog/local-seo-checklist.md): A practical local SEO checklist for service businesses: Business Profile, consistent contact details, reviews, service pages, local proof.
- [SSL beyond the padlock](https://drivenhost.com/blog/ssl-beyond-padlock.md): Getting a certificate is the easy part: this Security Monday covers redirects, HSTS in plain terms, mixed content and keeping renewals boring.
- [Top 10 questions we get about moving hosts](https://drivenhost.com/blog/moving-hosts-questions.md): The ten questions every site owner asks before switching hosts, answered plainly: downtime, email, DNS timing, and what we need from you.
- [Core Web Vitals without the jargon](https://drivenhost.com/blog/core-web-vitals-plain.md): LCP, CLS, and INP translated into what visitors actually feel, the usual culprits behind bad scores, and free ways to measure your site.
- [Backups that actually restore](https://drivenhost.com/blog/backups-that-restore.md): A backup only counts if it restores, so this Security Monday covers restore testing, retention, offsite copies and what your host does and does not do.
- [Four backup plugins, compared from the restore side](https://drivenhost.com/blog/backup-plugins-compared.md): We compare four WordPress backup plugins the way that matters: not how they back up, but how the restore goes at 2 a.m. when it counts.
- [Structured data for small sites: what's worth adding](https://drivenhost.com/blog/structured-data-small-sites.md): Which schema types actually earn rich results for a small business site, which ones are safe to skip, and how to add them without bloat.
- [Nothing is broken: why you still need updates](https://drivenhost.com/blog/why-updates-matter.md): Most hacked sites we clean up were running software with a known, already-patched hole, so here is how to update without fear of breaking things.
- [Seven free tools for checking your DNS and email](https://drivenhost.com/blog/dns-email-tools.md): Seven free tools we use every day to diagnose DNS records, mail delivery, and certificates, and the exact question each one answers.
- [Titles and descriptions: the 20-minute SEO fix](https://drivenhost.com/blog/titles-descriptions-fix.md): A quick audit of page titles and meta descriptions is the fastest SEO win most small sites can get. Here is how to do it in 20 minutes.
- [Passkeys, 2FA and your hosting account](https://drivenhost.com/blog/hosting-account-security.md): Your hosting account controls email, DNS and every file on your site, so here is how we lock ours down and who should still have access to yours.
- [Five caching plugins we actually see working](https://drivenhost.com/blog/caching-plugins-roundup.md): Five WordPress caching plugins that hold up on real shared hosting, when each one fits, and how to avoid caching the same page twice.
- [Site speed and SEO: what actually moves rankings](https://drivenhost.com/blog/speed-and-seo.md): Speed is a tiebreaker in search, not a magic lever. Where hosting, caching, and images actually help, and when to stop optimizing.
- [The five WordPress security habits that stop most hacks](https://drivenhost.com/blog/wp-security-basics.md): The five habits we see separating clean WordPress sites from hacked ones on our servers, and how to make each one part of your routine.

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