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Our 25-part WordPress tutorial series is now complete and available in both English and Norwegian. It takes you through building a WordPress website from the first planning decisions through installation, design, performance, security, and the work that keeps it running after launch. We wanted one place where a beginner could understand the pieces and build

We’ve used Proxmox VE for years, and it’s fair to say we’re rather fond of it. It’s a complete open-source platform for managing server virtualization, and its enterprise-grade features give us the flexibility we rely on for day-to-day operations. Its granularity allows us to drill down right into any issue when one arises. On 3

STWmail, our modern email service for your own domain, is now included with web hosting, WordPress hosting and every domain you hold with us. If you have one of those products, the mail service is already sitting in your account and you can activate a mailbox whenever you want one. For existing ServeTheWorld customers If

This is the third article in our series on Norway as a hosting location. Part 1 looked at Norway’s infrastructure fundamentals such as hydropower and grid stability, while Part 2 discussed international connectivity. Together, these factors explain much of Norway’s rising importance as a hosting location, especially as traditional European hubs face pressure on power,

We’ve been hard at work improving how you can manage DNS at ServeTheWorld. Your DNS records now have their own dedicated space, separate from your services. This means you can mix and match your hosting, VPS, and email exactly the way you want. If you ever decide to change your hosting plan or move a

Part 3. Provisioning, upgrades and support

We’ve launched a new VPS family called VD1, sitting alongside our existing GP3 General Purpose VPS on the third-generation VPS platform. Both run Linux on modern AMD hardware in our Oslo data centre. The difference is in how CPU is allocated. On VD1, each vCPU you order gets its own physical CPU core, reserved for

Introduction Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is expected to be released on April 23, 2026. We plan to provide templates from day one on third-generation GP3 VPS and VD1 VDS. We will announce availability in the user control panel once Ubuntu 26.04 LTS templates are available on the ordering pages. This means you will be able to: Templates for dedicated servers and older generation VPS will follow later,

ServeTheWorld has been managing domain, hosting, and email services since 1999, and our experienced team has built up a huge wealth of practical knowledge invaluable to our customers. Until now, much of it has remained inside support conversations and internal notes. The ServeTheWorld Tutorial Channel changes that. We’re publishing structured tutorial series, written by our own team,

Seasonal greetings and Q1 2026 highlights