Field guides
written from the bench · ref HF-G
Read it once.
Then never think about it again.
Practical answers to the questions every site owner eventually asks — how big a plan, how a live site moves, how data survives a bad Tuesday. Plain words, honest math, no homework required afterwards: the doing is our job.
- HF-G-001Sizing & plans
Choosing a hosting plan for a low-traffic site
Honest sizing math for sites that see hundreds of visits a day — and a plain answer to when the cheapest plan is simply the correct one.
You leave with
Which tier fits your site today, and the two signals that mean it is time to move up.
≈ 4 min read - HF-G-002Migrations
Zero-downtime migration: how we move a live site
The five-step method for moving a live site onto the fleet without visitors noticing — and exactly which parts stay on your plate.
You leave with
The full cutover sequence, the one thing only you can provide, and what “zero downtime” honestly means.
≈ 4 min read - HF-G-003Backups & recovery
Backups that actually restore: retention, replication, and point-in-time recovery
Daily snapshots, retention windows, and point-in-time recovery in plain words — and where Continuous Protection changes the arithmetic.
You leave with
Your worst-case data loss under each strategy, and the one question that exposes any host’s backup theater.
≈ 4 min read - HF-G-004DNS & domains
Managing DNS at Hostfluency
What a nameserver actually does, what pending versus active means, and which record type to reach for — the Cloudflare-managed-zone model explained in plain language.
You leave with
How pointing your domain at us works, what each record type is for, and who on your team can change what.
≈ 5 min read - HF-G-005API & MCP
Using the API & MCP
How the Platform API and the remote MCP server work — key issuance, the scope model in plain terms, real endpoint calls, and connecting an AI assistant instead of logging in.
You leave with
How to get a key, what a scope actually lets it do, two real calls you can run today, and how to point an MCP client at your account.
≈ 5 min read
5 guides on the bench · more are written as clients ask the same question twice
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