Hosting guides, infrastructure deep-dives, and email deliverability from the team that's been running servers since 1992.
Moving mailboxes between providers without losing mail, flags or folder structure. The imapsync invocations we actually use, the flags that...
Most deliverability problems are decided by infrastructure choices made long before anyone hits send. If your stack authenticates every doma...
Splitting mail and web hosting across two providers is common and entirely sensible. It also breaks mail client setup in ways that are easy...
Your clients already believe you host their websites. White-label hosting makes the invoice, the margin and the infrastructure match the per...
Since February 2024, sending more than 5,000 messages a day to Gmail comes with hard requirements. Here is each one, what it means technical...
Somewhere in your agency, a designer is moonlighting as a systems administrator. Here is what managed hosting should actually cover — and th...
SMTP encryption is opportunistic by default, which means it can be silently stripped. MTA-STS, DANE and TLS-RPT close that gap. Here is what...
The price row is the least informative line on a reseller hosting comparison. Per-account licence fees, metered extras, and the support time...
Following on from today’s multiple outages at FidoNet I thought it might be worth while detailing a little on where we host our servers and...
DKIM keys are supposed to be rotated periodically. Almost nobody does it. The ones who try often break their email for a few hours doing it....
Selling DMARC monitoring to a client who’s never heard of it is one of the easiest sales conversations you can have in professional services...
In October 2023, Google and Yahoo jointly announced new requirements for anyone sending more than 5,000 emails a day to their users. The rul...
The domain owner is baffled. Everything is “correct.” Nothing is working. Legitimate transactional mail is being rejected by receiving serve...
One rule in RFC 7208 breaks more domains than anything else in email authentication: the 10-lookup limit, how records go over it, and what a...
11/15 of the top UK digital marketing agencies had no DMARC policy at all, three had p=none and only one had it right. If that’s the state...
This is a productised service that any web or digital agency can start selling this week. It generates £500-1,500 per engagement, takes abou...
cPanel pricing changed in 2019. Since then, reseller margins have been squeezed year after year. Here’s how Enhance compares — from a host t...
Three records. Three different jobs. Most guides treat them as a checklist. This one explains what actually happens when each one fails — an...
Shared hosting has historically meant PHP. Enhance changes that with native Node.js app support. Here’s what actually works, what has limits...
Most email deliverability problems aren’t content problems. They’re infrastructure problems — a PTR mismatch, a DMARC policy set to none, a...
The team behind FXRM has been running email infrastructure since the early 1990s — from MMDF and Sendmail to Postfix and Zimbra. Here’s what...
Most VPS hosts run OpenVZ or Xen. FXRM runs KVM on Proxmox. The difference is more than a product spec — it changes what isolation and resou...
A single SMTP server is a single point of failure. This is the actual HAProxy configuration we use for mail relay failover, including health...
DNS cache poisoning attacks are real and DNSSEC exists to stop them. Here’s what DNSSEC actually does, how to verify it’s working, and why y...
cPanel’s 2019 per-account pricing change quietly restructured the economics of web agency hosting. Five years on, the cumulative effect is r...
A step-by-step guide to migrating away from 123-Reg: how to audit your current setup, transfer DNS, migrate email, and go live without downt...
Shared cPanel hosting concentrates thousands of senders on the same IP pools. One bad actor affects everyone. Here’s the mechanics of why it...
DMARC aggregate reports arrive as XML attachments from every major mail provider. This guide shows you exactly how to interpret them and wha...