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News, guides, and insights from the SrvBot team.
Do You Even Need a Server for a Sanity Website?
It's the first question people ask about hosting a Sanity site. The honest answer: it depends on your front end — here's the breakdown.
July 18, 2026
Why Your WordPress Site Is Slow — and How to Actually Fix It
Most 'speed up WordPress' advice is a plugin list. The real causes are usually four things — here's how to find which one is yours.
July 17, 2026
The "I'll Just Migrate This Friday" Trap
A WordPress migration looks simple until you're debugging DNS propagation at midnight. Here's what a migration actually involves and how we handle it.
July 14, 2026
Self-Hosting Sanity Studio vs Managed Hosting
Sanity Studio can run on Sanity's cloud, on your own infrastructure, or on a managed host. Here's how to choose.
July 8, 2026
What Happens When a Deploy Fails
A failed deploy shouldn't take your site down. Here's exactly what SrvBot does when a build breaks — and how to recover.
July 1, 2026
Have You Actually Restored a Backup Recently?
Most hosts take backups. Fewer test whether they can actually be restored. We run a nightly canary drill — here's why that distinction matters.
June 24, 2026
Deploying Next.js + Sanity to Production: A Checklist
The gap between 'works on localhost' and 'ready for production' is a specific list. Here it is for a Next.js + Sanity site.
June 17, 2026
WordPress Staging Done Right
Testing changes in production is a gamble. Staging is how you stop gambling — if it’s done right.
June 10, 2026
Automatic Credential Rotation: The Security Work Nobody Markets
Most hosts rotate credentials never. Not because it's technically hard — because nobody asks. Here's why automatic rotation matters and what we actually do.
June 3, 2026
Keeping Sanity Content Fresh: ISR, Webhooks, and Cache
Static is fast but stale; dynamic is fresh but slow. ISR plus Sanity webhooks gets you both — here’s how it fits together.
May 27, 2026
Uptime Isn't a Number: How We Think About Reliability
'99.9% uptime' is easy to print and hard to verify. Here's what actually determines whether your site is up when it matters.
May 20, 2026
The Hosting Checklist Most Sites Never Use
8 questions that cut through review-site noise and tell you what a host will actually be like to live with.
May 13, 2026
Managed vs Unmanaged WordPress: What You're Actually Paying For
'Unmanaged' can mean a great deal or a second job. Here's the line between the two — and what 'managed' should actually include.
May 6, 2026
When to Move Off Shared Hosting
Shared hosting is fine — until it isn't. Five signs you've outgrown it, and what to weigh before you move.
April 29, 2026
Why We Built SrvBot
The honest story behind SrvBot — from agency frustration to a hosting product we actually wanted to use ourselves.
April 22, 2026
The Real Cost of Cheap Hosting
The $3/month plan isn't really $3/month. Here's where the cost actually shows up — and why it's rarely on the invoice.
April 10, 2026
Welcome to SrvBot
We built SrvBot because we think hosting should be invisible. Here's what we're doing and why.
April 3, 2026