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Should You Buy Hosting Before or After Your Website Is Built?
Buy the domain early, but time the hosting plan to your project. Who is building the site, what to ask your designer, and how a plan bought too early can sit idle.
7 October 2026
What to Check on Your Hosting Account in the First Week After You Sign Up
Confirm free SSL, set up and test email, find your daily backups, record a baseline and test the support route, all inside the first week of a new hosting account.
3 October 2026
Go AI Lite vs Plus vs Pro vs Max: Which Hosting Tier Does Your Business Need?
Websites, email, storage and price across all three billing cycles, compared tier by tier, so you can pick the Gotka hosting plan that actually fits.
29 September 2026
Gotka's 30-Day Money-Back Hosting Guarantee: What It Actually Covers
Covers your first order of a new hosting plan only — not renewals, account transfers or AUP terminations. What's covered, and what isn't.
26 September 2026
How to Secure Your cPanel Hosting Account: Passwords, 2FA and Who Has Access
Credential-stuffing attacks are rising fast. A practical guide to cPanel account security — strong passwords, two-factor authentication and access control.
22 September 2026
How Much Website Storage Does a Small Business Actually Need?
Most small business sites use just a few hundred MB to a few GB of storage in year one. What fills it up, and how to pick a Gotka plan from 50GB to 400GB.
17 September 2026
cPanel Hosting Explained: What the Control Panel Actually Lets a Non-Technical Owner Do
cPanel is the dashboard behind most hosting plans, including Gotka. What a non-technical business owner can actually do with it, without calling support.
17 September 2026
Business Email on Your Own Domain: Why hello@yourcompany Beats a Gmail Address
Why hello@yourcompany beats a free Gmail address, why it's already included with Gotka hosting, and why SPF, DKIM and DMARC now decide if it reaches the inbox.
20 August 2026
How LiteSpeed Actually Makes a Site Faster Than Apache or Nginx Shared Hosting
LiteSpeed's event-driven architecture, built-in LSCache page caching and native HTTP/3 support explain why it beats Apache and Nginx shared hosting on speed.
13 August 2026
Running Multiple Client or Brand Websites on One Hosting Plan
Hosting multiple websites on one plan is possible through addon domains sharing a single resource pool — practical for agencies and multi-brand owners.
15 August 2026
Website Backups: What to Back Up, How Often, and How to Test a Restore
A backup you have never restored is not a backup. What to back up, how often, where to keep a copy, and how to test a restore before the day you actually need it.
29 August 2026
How to Move Your Website to a New Host Without Downtime
Copy first, test on the new server, then switch the DNS. The order that keeps a website and its email running while you change hosting provider — and the part most people get wrong.
29 August 2026
Shared Hosting vs VPS: When a Growing Business Should Move Up
Most business sites never outgrow shared hosting. The signals that say you have, what a VPS actually gives you, and why upgrading rarely fixes a slow website on its own.
27 August 2026
Why Is Your WordPress Site Slow, and What Actually Fixes It?
The four real causes of a slow WordPress site — hosting, plugins, images and heavy themes — explained with a practical, ranked fix-it checklist and a plain-language guide to Core Web Vitals.
24 August 2026
How to Choose the Best Web Hosting in Malaysia for Your Business (2026 Guide)
A practical, no-fluff guide to picking a Malaysian web host in 2026 — what actually affects site speed and uptime, what "unlimited" hosting really means, and a checklist to compare providers before you buy.
23 August 2026
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