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What is a VPS?
A virtual private server is a slice of dedicated hardware with root access.
4 min readUpdated 21 August 2026Read the guide
Website guides
Planning, costing, building and maintaining a business website in the UK — what to expect, what to budget and what actually brings in enquiries.
Domain guides
Choosing, registering, transferring and protecting domain names — including .co.uk rules, DNS and nameservers explained in plain English.
Transfers
How to transfer a domain to a new registrar
A step-by-step domain transfer walkthrough for .co.uk and gTLDs, including what to check before you start and how to avoid email downtime.
beginner · 6 min
Choosing a domain
How to choose a domain name for a UK business
A practical framework for picking a domain you will still be happy with in ten years, including UK-specific rules and trademark checks.
beginner · 7 min
Hosting guides
How hosting works, what shared hosting actually gives you, and how to tell when a business website has outgrown it.
Hosting basics
How website hosting works
A plain-English walkthrough of DNS, servers, SSL and caching, so you can tell which part of your setup is causing a problem.
beginner · 7 min
Performance
How to improve website page speed
Hosting, images, caching and fonts account for most slow UK business websites. Here is how to find the real bottleneck before spending money.
intermediate · 8 min
VPS and server guides
Virtual private servers explained: how they compare to shared and dedicated hosting, and how to size, secure and back one up.
basics
What is a VPS?
How Steady sells VPS capacity once a provider adapter is live.
beginner · 4 min
VPS basics
What is VPS hosting?
VPS hosting gives you guaranteed CPU, RAM and storage inside a virtualised server, with root access. Here is when that matters and when shared hosting is still the better call.
beginner · 8 min
SEO guides
Local, technical and content SEO for UK businesses — the work that actually moves visibility, written by the team that does it.
Local SEO
Local SEO for small businesses: the complete guide
A practical guide to local SEO for UK small businesses: Google Business Profile, service and area pages, reviews and how to measure whether any of it is working.
beginner · 12 min
Programmatic SEO
Service area SEO: how to cover more towns without thin pages
Service × location pages work when each one earns its place. Here is the model we use to decide which combinations to publish and which to leave unbuilt.
advanced · 9 min
Security guides
SSL, backups, access control and recovery — the practical protections a small business website actually needs.