Web hosting that doesn't suck? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 02, 2017, 08:28:42 am
content: Not completely OT as this is going to end up with an electronics related web site on it, but does anyone know of any cheap static web hosting that doesn't suck and meets the following criteria?1. Competent.2. Doesn't require running a VM or infrastructure.3. Isn't Amazon/AWS4. Preferably hosted in Europe.5. Non ridiculous upload process. SFTP/git push = good. FTP/web interface = poo.6. Cheapish.7. Static web only (I'm pre-generating the entire site).8. No silly site designers like wix.9. Reliable.10. Can shift a good TiB a month.I've narrowed it down to webfaction.com so far.

author: tszaboo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 02, 2017, 08:52:05 am
content: 11. Doesn't increase the price of the hosting after first year to 10 times as before.

author: Jeroen3
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 02, 2017, 08:53:07 am
content: Quote from: bd139 on October 02, 2017, 08:28:42 amYou want a dedicated rack? Those two kind of cancel each other out then.

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 02, 2017, 08:54:17 am
content: I spent the entire week arguing with a few hundred Linux VMs on AWS. I don't want to take the job home... also if you're on AWS and it goes down or fucks up (which it does VERY regularly), unless you pay for their basic support plan, you get McDonalds quality support. Also the free tier VMs can't even get past updates on CentOS without running out of CPU credits. The whole thing is a turd for low volume, single users. And not using S3 because to get root domain, you need to use Route53 which adds more cost and S3 is a PITA generally.I'm looking at $10/mo with webfaction so far so colo hosting is out at $20/month. Just looking for literally static web hosting that doesn't suck. I've got email covered already. Don't want hardware. Don't want to run scripts. Just want to publish content.I've got a couple of projects on the go, one of them taking the piss out of audiofools.NANDBlog: that too!

author: gnif
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 02, 2017, 09:02:21 am
content: I can provide hosting on one of my dedi's in AU if you're interested. It will be a VPS but on a Xen hypervisor and lightning fast. I can host in the EU but it will cost additional as I do not have a large client base in that region at the moment that warrants housing more then a couple of servers.I do not lease out cPanel/Plesk, etc hosting, these are Debian based VPS servers with full SSH access for the web account. Any configuration/tools are available (ie, git) on request as each client is isolated on their own VPS.

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 02, 2017, 09:07:38 am
content: Don't want lightsail. Still running hardware. It's also like DigitalOcean but the performance is shit.Note: I'm an AWS certified solution architect. I know how far away to stay from AWS

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 02, 2017, 09:10:23 am
content: Quote from: gnif on October 02, 2017, 09:02:21 amThanks for the offer - will pass. I'm after something canned, self service if possible. I'd like to avoid even shell access if I could. I want 1990s style hosting here as the intelligence is being kept locally.

author: grumpydoc
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 02, 2017, 09:41:56 am
content: I use a 1&1 VPS - think it is their lowest offering at £12/moYou don't have to have cPanel or anything like that as long as you are happy to manage via SSH and you get a fully functional Centos setup (there are some other options for OS as well, think Debian might be one).There is a control panel thing which you can use to reboot the VM (if anything having something like this favours a VPS over dedicated hardware).The only thing I haven't been able to do is set up a VPN endpoint on this server because the hypervisor kernel isn't set up for it.I have found dedicated servers (usually Intel Atom based) for not much more money but haven't quite had enough need to switch (apart from the VPN think but I just set that up on the end of the home VDSL line and it meets my needs at present)If you look around you should be able to find a deal on a dedicated Atom or Celeron box for less than £25/mo

author: gnif
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 02, 2017, 12:34:44 pm
content: Quote from: bd139 on October 02, 2017, 09:10:23 amI think you misunderstand, or I did not explain myself properly. I can offer several options.1) Fully managed, you just throw your web files onto the server, we do everything else.2) Semi-managed, we setup the server as you need it, monitor and manage it, along side you with root access.3) No management, we deploy a bare bones server you fully manage, full root access.

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 02, 2017, 12:44:14 pm
content: I fully understand. Unless you're a large commercial provider I'm likely to get a better outcome going with the herd so to speak.I've looked at the options presented (thanks all), popped them on a spreadsheet and gone with webfaction in the end.Currently setting everything up. Have site online, DNS moved over and rsync+ssh sync between a local directory at the site root already.

author: Fungus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 03, 2017, 09:49:25 am
content: Quote from: bd139 on October 02, 2017, 08:28:42 amPickone.

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 03, 2017, 09:57:47 am
content: I think people forget the old web hoster model which is still valid, you know before the rise of the VPS.It's called PaaS now

author: amspire
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 03, 2017, 10:23:44 am
content: For modern websites, you need a SSL certificate. The decision is what kind you want and whether you want to pay for the certificate or use the free Let's Encrypt certificates.If you only need a certificate for the domain.name andwww.domain.name, certificates can be very cheap from companies like Namecheap.If you need a wildcard certificate or fully validated EV certificates, you can be looking at paying a fair amount per year. If you are purchasing commercial SSL certificates, then you only need to find hosting companies that allow you to self-install the certificates and hopefully most good hosting companies now offer this. You should not have to pay a fee to install certificates.The Let's Encrypt certificates are totally free, supported by browsers, very secure and you can add extra sub-domains (like mail.domain.name, downloads.domain.name, etc) but they have to be regenerated every three months and it is the lowest level of SSL certificate validadation - you only have to prove you control the website for validation. The three months is intentional - if your site is compromised, then at least the maximum time fake certificates can last is 3 months even if you do not try and revoke the certificates.Many hosting companies offer integrated Let's Encrypt support. It appears Webfaction probably doesn't have Cpanel Let's Encrypt-type support yet, but they do offer an API that is able to install certificates, so it is possible to auto-renew the certificates with scripting.https://community.webfaction.com/questions/19988/using-letsencryptRichard

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 03, 2017, 10:56:04 am
content: Good points.I've got a task list item to set up letsencrypt already actually. I've done it numerous times on AWS EC2 instances but not with webfaction (yet). Should be relatively easy.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 03, 2017, 11:22:19 am
content: I just want to validate gnif's offer.He manages the entire EEVblog website and forum server and backup system, and would without a doubt offer the most personal service possible.Worth at least getting an EU quote from him.The problem with the big hosts is the less than personal service when things go wrong or you need something done.

author: Fungus
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 03, 2017, 11:30:40 am
content: Quote from: amspire on October 03, 2017, 10:23:44 amBut ... which major ISPs let you use them?

author: amspire
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 03, 2017, 11:40:22 am
content: Quote from: Fungus on October 03, 2017, 11:30:40 amHere are some that do support Lets Encrypt. Plenty more support it that are not listed - more companies are adding support every month:https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/web-hosting-who-support-lets-encrypt/6920Since most Cpanel based hosting companies support manual SSL certificate installation, you can run scripts on your host to generate the certificates and then manually install them. So if you are prepared to do about 10 minutes work every 3 months, any host that allows self installation of SSL certificates can use Let's Encrypt certificates.

author: amspire
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 03, 2017, 12:11:20 pm
content: For the information of anyone interested, it is no longer necessary to have a dedicated fixed IP address for a SSL certificate for a domain.For a commercial site, a fixed IP would be recommended, but most browsers now support the SNI protocol that allows for SSL certificates on shared hosts all using a common fixed IP address. If you need support on Internet Explorer 6 or Android 2.xx or iPhone 2 , then SNI will not work so you will need that dedicated fixed IP address for your site.Also with Let's Encrypt, it is easiest generating the certificates on the host that matches the certificate, but it is not essential.I have a Ubuntu VM I run at home to generate certificates for 3 different domains, and then install them manually on the destination hosted sites. To get the new certificates verified, I do need to add some temporary files in an obscure path on each host's website for a few minutes to prove I control the website.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 03, 2017, 08:50:44 pm
content: with hosting it comes down to you get what you pay for, I have a £500 per year re-seller account with heart internet, they are not perfect but have been reliable (i use them for email constantly so notice and outage immediately) I in turn host a few low traffic websites myself and give hosting to a few charities i know. Your welcome to a patch although I am no expert on hosting you seem to be pretty demanding for your 10 dollars a month. For goodness sake stay away from anyone offering sub £10 per month, I was hosted on someone calling himself iclickster and who then started calling himself iwebbster and basically he has an account just like mine, offers dirt cheap hosting, crap support if any and uses the same supplier as i do. At one point my totally unlimited account for £0.99 per month ground to a halt, even my £1.99/month account with him ground to a halt, pages never loaded and emails ground to a halt, at that point i had to opt for paying £50 a month and getting a real service and it cost me nearly £100 to have heart internet be gracious enough to move all of my accounts off his reseller account and onto mine, obviously he made giving me the codes to authorise this very hard work.

author: IanMacdonald
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 03, 2017, 10:25:12 pm
content: I can recommendSitegroundHave been a reseller for years, and had only two or three complaints in that whole time.Our own siteis hosted with them. Uses a fair bit of bandwidth for our software downloads. (28GB in September) Typically under a second to open in spite of the obligatory monster graphic on the frontpage. This is running a really fast file based CMS mind you, Wordpress does take a fraction longer.Servers in various places including London.Automatic Lets Encrypt setup provided that all domains listed in the cpanel point to the Siteground account. Automated setup of most of the common CMS, and auto security updates on wp/joomla which is really a big security help.

author: amspire
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2017, 01:04:25 am
content: Quote from: IanMacdonald on October 03, 2017, 10:25:12 pmI suspect they are excellent. I was with Site5 for many years (before they were sold) and had exceptional support, and I gather that many of the best Site5 people went to Siteground. At Site5, most tickets were responded within 1 hour and the replies were from very technically competent people. I imaging Siteground is similar.The main reason I didn't move to Siteground was I wanted a reseller package and their credit system just didn't work for me.The problem I had was that I sometime need to make a temporary site for say one week and then shut it down. At Siteground, if you set up a site for one year or one day on a reseller package, you use up a full credit (about $42). So if I set up a site for one week, for low traffic use, it will cost something like $42 for that one credit, whereas with other reseller packages, I can more or less do it for free.In the cases the Siteground prices work for you, I think it would be a really great choice.

author: Corporate666
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 04, 2017, 04:16:17 am
content: Quote from: IanMacdonald on October 03, 2017, 10:25:12 pmI am going through this right now (looking for a new host) and SiteGround pissed me off a bit. I was trying to decide between AWS/VPS/LightSail and SiteGround. They don't offer a free trial on their site, but they have a 30-day money back guarantee - but to get that, you have to pay for a year of hosting up front, then apply for a refund if you don't like. If you do their month by month plan, it's pre-pay and they charge $25 setup, so if you don't like it - you lose the setup fee plus first month.I partially went through the signup process, then they emailed me asking why I didn't finish. I asked about a one month trial, they said they don't do that. So I signed up for AWS.. then they emailed me again a few days later offering a 30-day free trial.I f*cking hate that sales bullshit. If you do a free trial, just offer that up front! It especially pissed me off that I told the damn salesman I would like a trial to check it out and he told me they don't do trials... 2 days before I got the email from him offering a free trial.I am surprised to hear about people dissing AWS in this thread - but I don't really know whose good and who isn't. AWS rates highly for throughput, latency and uptime (LightSail is just a stripped down ECS instance)... I know a lot of high-end enterprise stuff running on EC2. Can AWS really be bad?I'm wondering if I should do that 30-day SiteGround trial after all... still annoyed by their sales bullshit though.

author: cdev
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2017, 04:21:47 am
content: Its a totally viable approach now to host sites on a raspberry Pi 3, and back it up to a real hard drive at regular intervals. The newer Pis combined with a decent USB disk have the power to serve up a fairly complex, low to medium traffic site. Its a lot more power than what people used to use.

author: Naguissa
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2017, 05:03:15 am
content: I'm using a dedicated box with 2 or 4 gigs of ram and unlimited bandwith on online.net (France) and costs less than 11€/month vat included. For better servers and support I use hetzner.de (Germany).But you have to install, configure and maintain them.Enviado desde mi Jolla mediante Tapatalk

author: sleemanj
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2017, 06:39:56 am
content: Regards ssl. Letsencrypt works fine, I use it on my ec2 hosted sites*More recently cPanel also automatically issue free (legit, not self-signed) ssl certificates for sites on cPanel servers since they became a signer, like lets encrypt they are short-expiry certs, but the cPanel setup auto renews them. Name based SSL of course, but I think that enough browsers support this decade old technology now.* Contrary to opinion on page 1, I have plenty of sites run just fine on lowly micro or even nano ec2 instances, IF you take the time to set them up of course, nightly snapshots, home on an ebs also housing the mysql and cron spool, appropriate apache, php and mysql config for instance size, fail2ban rules to kick useless seo leech bots and basic dos protection, practice doing an instance swap (and/or be prepared to go to load balancing setup) if it hits the fan and you need to step it up... of course for a one-off site a turn-key solution is better, but when i have sites unsuited to shared hosting, ec2 is my go-to.

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2017, 07:32:51 am
content: I could host this on AWS with S3 + CloudFront + Route53 but I spent most of my day arguing with that so I don't want to take the job home

author: lundmar
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2017, 09:18:22 am
content: I'm happy withhttps://www.midphase.comServers have ssh access etc..

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2017, 10:06:42 am
content: Like I said earlier, I opted for webfaction.com. Quickly reviewing them, they seem reasonably set up with managed hosting that seems to work. However after doing some experiments their setup is clunky as hell so I'm taking the "no quibble refund".I did an AWS cost projection to run S3 + Route53 + Cloudfront and it came out at a whopping $1.66/month. Even with 10x traffic it's cheaper so I'll go down that route as much as I hate taking work home

author: Brumby
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 04, 2017, 11:21:00 pm
content: Sometimes it's better with the devil you know than the devil you don't.

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 05, 2017, 06:32:01 am
content: Problem is I know a lot of devils.It’s all working now on AWS. Just trying to sort out deployments with aws-cli now.

author: manuelsoy
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: January 10, 2018, 11:26:01 am
content: I know many hosting companies in which they do a great job, personally I recommend you visit this url where there is a large list of good European hostings and with which you are sure to be very satisfied. At least from there I have removed all the hostings that I have hired in recent years. The website is thishttps://www.soywebmaster.com/f25/

author: paulca
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 10, 2018, 11:40:47 am
content: Have you tried your own ISP? Sometimes they offer fairly basic webhosting, either "FREE*" or for a small fee. Depending on your ISP they can be fairly reliable.I am soon in need to web hosting and am mulling over just opening a port and doing it myself again or finding a suitable host, however I will want PHP or Python or... or... and will probably go for a cheap Free Tier or EC2 instance if I don't host at home.

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 10, 2018, 12:13:18 pm
content: I have. They are Zen Internet so you're looking at £4.99 a month for a cPanel jobby.I have solved this problem now for reference as follows. Decided to bite it off properly and it only took a couple of hours.1. Deploy a box on DigitalOcean.2. Point DNS at it with Route53.3. Secure it properly.4. Deploy nginx to it and set up lets encrypt.5. Use rsync to copy the files to the web root.First three steps are entirely controlled via an ansible playbook driven by a makefile. So basically even if the world catches fire or DO lose the box:1. make box # deploys the whole thing from scratch or normalizes config.2. make update # apply all updates3. make deploy # update web content from local working copy.Fuck Amazon's EC2 offerings. You run out of CPU credits applying SELinux policy on first update on the t2.micro instances.

author: paulca
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 10, 2018, 02:22:51 pm
content: Quote from: bd139 on January 10, 2018, 12:13:18 pmPlease don't swear. Only thing I do with S***** is turn it off. Hateful annoying thing that gets in the way of every single thing you want to do and is even less intuitive to configure than PAM!It's only of importance in my view if you are going to let randoms login via shell into your serverI know a lot of people use it by default, but first thing I usually do is disable it so I can get some work done.EDIT: What are the cheap options for shell access hosting these days, asides Amazunk?EDIT2: Actually, to hell with it. A Raspberry PI will host my website at home. It's all I need.

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 10, 2018, 02:43:53 pm
content: SELinux should NEVER be turned off. If your nginx process gets compromised, it stops the attack being escalated.https://stopdisablingselinux.comShell hosting with UK hosts:1. Bytemark2. Linode3. DigitalOcean

author: hamdi.tn
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: January 10, 2018, 02:53:40 pm
content: i use OVH webhosting service for 4 years now. no problem what so ever. it's based mainly in France. from where am from(Tunisia) i pay the equivalent of 30€ / year for a simple web site hosting.

author: paulca
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 10, 2018, 02:59:57 pm
content: Quote from: bd139 on January 10, 2018, 02:43:53 pmLOL.SELinux is like giving a sculptor a pair of motorbike gloves so he doesn't cut himself. He can't sculpt either but hey ho. Also like Norton Internet Security. Of course it's secure because nobody can use the fecking internet while it's enabled.

author: iainwhite
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: January 10, 2018, 03:00:44 pm
content: Quote from: bd139 on January 10, 2018, 02:43:53 pmWhen I built my Centos7 server (internal LAN use only) I looked at selinux as a learning opportunity - I just looked at some tutorials and then worked my way thru it.I kept a file with my configs as I made them so I had a log of changes that I could refer to, and use again if necessary.I say give selinux a try!

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: January 10, 2018, 03:08:34 pm
content: Indeed. Plus once you've ansible'd it, meh, who cares.Quote from: paulca on January 10, 2018, 02:59:57 pmProblem is that hospital incinerators are full of limbs that sculptors accidentally chopped off.Norton isn't a fair comparison to SELinux. Norton is the broken glass butt plug of security software.

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 05, 2020, 08:10:10 am
content: Bit of necroposting there.In the end I used Fastmail's web hosting service. That does LetsEncrypt as well and was free with my email. Job done!

author: Red Squirrel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 05, 2020, 08:23:27 am
content: Quote from: paulca on January 10, 2018, 02:59:57 pmHaha so true. The thing I hate about SELinux is that it just breaks things without telling you why. You will spend hours figuring out why a service won't start, or why you're getting access denied despite checking your Apache config a million times or why you can't write to a samba share etc... The logs will tell you that it failed, but not WHY. Why is it accessed denied? I set all the right permissions and it still does not work, why? Then the light bulb turns on "OHHH SE LINUX!" Turn it off, bang, everything works. The idea behind it might be great, but if I wanted that level of security I would just remove the CPU out of the socket and replace it with the plastic holder the motherboard came with.I've managed to keep my long red hair intact by disabling that as one of the first steps when setting up a new server.

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 05, 2020, 08:29:59 am
content: I found it, and all the problems with yum/dnf recently, can be resolved by using Debian instead

author: NivagSwerdna
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 05, 2020, 08:33:21 am
content: I know it's already been mentioned but.... for the one commercial site I run.... it sits on Digital Ocean and just works. Took me less than a day to set up and does the Let's Encrypt magic using Traefik with very little config. I hardly ever touch it and it's been running continuously for ever.

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 05, 2020, 08:39:25 am
content: I've got a node on DO as well. Very good service. Apart from outbound email which is always shit on a VPS.

author: NivagSwerdna
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 05, 2020, 08:42:19 am
content: Quote from: bd139 on May 05, 2020, 08:39:25 amIndeed. For email I run iredmail locally on a VM on my own hardware (was HP Microserver now Fujitsu something or other). Just have to fight the spamhaus blacklists every so often when they stop trusting plusnet.

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 05, 2020, 08:44:42 am
content: I did the same (postfix on the end of an ADSL line) until 2011 and gave up. Just couldn't keep up with delivery problems. The thing that killed me was a couple of people I talked to regularly were Yahoo mail stallwarts and Yahoo decided that it just didn't want me to relay to them with no appeal recourse. That was the end of it for me so I jumped onto one of the corporate islands who manage it for me.I'm surprise you get anything out of plusnet

author: NivagSwerdna
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 05, 2020, 08:59:43 am
content: Quote from: bd139 on May 05, 2020, 08:44:42 amWorks fine and I interact with Yahoo all the time. Does take love and attention though and SPF and DKIM etc... If I was going to outsource anything it would be mail but it works for me; the only downside is my server doesn't like receiving from badly configured peers... so it's a problem getting emails from the email infrastructure at equipnet! (see Auction... RF Crusty thread)

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 06, 2020, 07:52:17 am
content: Quote from: cdev on May 06, 2020, 12:28:32 amYes 100% correctly. Had DKIM + SPF + DMARC set up. The issue is that the DO netblocks are shared with pretty cancerous customers on the average day from owned shitboxes to spammers. So the entire block's reputation is low. Also when you get an IPv4 address for your box it may have had 10 other terrible customers already. This means your outbound address regularly appears on RBLs which means running through their appeals. This causes delivery problems. Also for new DO customers they actually block outbound SMTP now for at least 60 days after sign up.Sure serve a web app off a VPS but forget email.

author: Red Squirrel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2020, 07:02:03 am
content: Yeah email is always a pain. Even on a dedicated server, as you don't know what the previous owner of that IP may have used it for. Took me years to get off all the RBLs. Lot of them also have a 3 strike policy per IP, so sometimes you can't get off at all if the strikes have already been used up by previous customers.

author: paulca
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2020, 10:52:00 am
content: Quote from: Red Squirrel on May 07, 2020, 07:02:03 amIts just not worth touching email if you can avoid it.I ran my own server for years. My inbound was locked to "known mailboxes" only. So when people sent spam to random@mydomain my mail server rejected them. Of course the spam was being sent from a bogus address and the host rejected my reject, even though they are not meant to. The result was around 400Mb of mail queue churning and me being added to at least one black list for "Back scattering".So I moved the domain to Google. There are other options, but google seems to have the best antispam at the cost of some privacy.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2020, 02:08:31 pm
content: Does anyone have any opinion on Godaddy services? I have bought a domain name a while ago through them, but have not set up any web hosting so far.You can tell me it's complete crap. I just don't know so far. Any advice?

author: bd139
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2020, 02:11:28 pm
content: Abysmal. Someone actually wiped "sucks" on the godaddy sign on their office in Slough with dog shit a while agoI use gandi.net for domain names usually.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 11, 2020, 02:53:42 pm
content: Quote from: bd139 on May 11, 2020, 02:11:28 pmAlright, thanks. Gandi seems to have better deals as well. I'm having a look.

author: welterde
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: May 14, 2020, 09:50:23 pm
content: Quote from: paulca on May 11, 2020, 10:52:00 amI am still running my own mail server (and have been for over a decade) and never really ran into that issue.My mail server rejects unknown mailboxes before accepting them in the first place though (which is the correct way of doing this) - so don't cause any backscatter..

author: andrewmorras
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: October 14, 2021, 08:35:50 pm
content: it would be interesting to read more opinions

author: ve7xen
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2021, 01:00:44 am
content: GitHub Pages is an interesting free option for personal static sites as long as your site fits in 1GB and does less than 100GB of traffic in a typical month. It ticks most of the boxes in the original post, and will build your Jekyll site for you if that's what you're using.

author: Red Squirrel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2021, 09:14:02 am
content: I will never forgive Godaddy for endorsing elephant poaching, and for being ok with SOPA. They are on my shit list of companies to never deal with.

author: Trader
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2021, 05:58:16 pm
content: A fun fact... I accessed all the hosting links suggested here (even those with a hidden reference), and all they are very Slow in the US.If most of your public are from the US you already know what hosting don't to use.

author: Sal Ammoniac
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2021, 07:49:00 pm
content: Quote from: bd139 on October 02, 2017, 08:54:17 amReally? That hasn't been my experience.Here's the uptime details for my web server on AWS:

author: nigelwright7557
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: October 15, 2021, 07:54:00 pm
content: I use Winserve.Not the best but one of the cheapest.£7.99 for 5 websites plus databases.I have tried AWS and Azure but both expensive and not upfront about pricing.So I just use them for free period then delete websites.

author: Red Squirrel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 22, 2023, 07:25:19 pm
content: I've been self hosted for a long time but a bit over a year ago my server got hacked, and when I was setting it up again with fresh OS, it got hacked again while I was in the middle of transferring backups. I was kind of flustered at this point as I had no idea how they were getting into a brand new install so in a pinch I went with a shared host to at least have a landing page and a place for my email, so went with Web Hosting Canada (https://whc.ca/). I still have not moved everything back to my own server and been with them for a year and so far so good.