Hosting you can defend, explained in plain language.
Written by the engineers who run the infrastructure, for business owners who have to make hosting decisions and then justify them to a client, an insurer or an auditor. No jargon without a definition, no recommendation without a reason.
The three questions everyone eventually gets asked.
Where are the backups, where is the data, and what did the provider actually promise. One guide for each.
"Daily backups": the five questions to ask before you believe it
Where they go, how long they stay, who can delete them, when they were last restored, and what you actually lose in a bad hour. With the retention periods we recommend by business type.
Data residency · RegionsChoosing a hosting region: latency, law and what customers ask for
How to pick between EU, Middle East and US regions, what data residency does and does not mean, where CDNs and backups complicate the answer, and the records to keep.
Contracts · SLAReading a hosting SLA: the ten lines that matter
Uptime is the headline. The measurement method, exclusions, response targets and credit caps are where the promise is really made. A checklist to read any SLA in ten minutes.
In progress.
Guides we are writing now, in the order clients ask for them. Email contact@innovationsgrc.com if you want one prioritised.
Who can log in to your website? A one-hour access audit
Listing every admin, revoking the ones that should not exist, and keeping the list current.
SPF, DKIM and DMARC without the acronyms
Why your invoices land in spam and the four DNS records that fix it.
Answering a customer security questionnaire when you are a small business
Which questions are about hosting, what good answers look like, and what to ask your provider for.
How to move hosts with zero downtime
TTLs, parallel environments and the cut-over sequence we use on every migration.
Rather have someone just handle it, and write it down?
Everything in these guides is what our plans do for you, on a schedule, with a monthly record.