PlatformNearly every shared hosting plan on the market offers MySQL or MariaDB and nothing else. The result is circular: frameworks default to MySQL because that is what shared hosting has, and shared hosting offers MySQL because that is what frameworks default to. If your stack wants Postgres, you are usually pushed straight to a VPS.
Sometimes that push is correct. Often it is not.
When you genuinely need PostgreSQL
Your framework’s ecosystem assumes it. Django and Rails both run on MySQL, but the
September 18, 2026 · 4 min read PricingThe invoice arrives twelve months after you signed up and it is two to four times what you paid. Nothing went wrong and nobody broke a rule: you bought a promotional first term, and the renewal is the real price. It was on the page, in grey, under the price you actually read.
This is how the industry works, and you are not going to change it. You can learn to read it in thirty seconds.
The five questions
1. 1What is the renewal price, in numbers?Not "renews at the regular rate" — the number
September 18, 2026 · 3 min read MigrationcPanel has been the default hosting panel for twenty years, so most people moving away from it are not comparing features — they are worried about the day after the move. This is what actually changes.
The mental model is different, and that is the point
cPanel gives you one account with everything in it: files, databases, mail, cron, all sharing the account’s limits. Enhance gives you a container per website. Your five sites are five isolated environments with their own CPU, RAM and I/O ceil
September 18, 2026 · 4 min read