Your website shouldn't depend on one server
October 26, 2026 · Video
A four minute tour of Octane, and a plain explanation of High Availability: how GearHost runs one website in more than one place, so a single server failing doesn't take it down.
Take a tour of the new customer portal
October 19, 2026
A new control panel, High Availability across data centers and clouds, more ways to deploy, and simpler plans. What changed and what it means for existing customers.
From the archive
Posts from the classic GearHost site, kept here for reference.
- Free Cloudsite Plan End of Life June 3rd, 2021
- A Message About Intel's Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) Vulnerability February 14th, 2019
- Introducting Let's Encrypt Certs February 16th, 2017
- Bitcoin Payments Welcome August 1st, 2016
- New Free Plan Released April 23, 2015
- Making a Homegrown Blog April 15, 2015