Solid Web Hosting - Recommendation?

[cray86]

I'm looking to get into a yr long contract for a web deal. I need a host, preferably nothing more than $10 a month (if possible).

I've seen a lot of complaints for a lot of companies. Yahoo! offers unlimited bandwidth, then you read their disclaimer and its FAR from it. I will pay for quality, reliability, and the ability to upload large video files (that are not copyrighted).

Thanks for your help in advance...

 

[Kreij]

I have a couple of domains at www.gnxonline.com
Never had any problems with them and they are very reasonable.
Based in London.

 

[Ehstii]

i use www.1and1.com

pretty cheap, and they got deals going on all the time.

 

[ChristianCammr]

I'm looking to get into a yr long contract for a web deal. I need a host, preferably nothing more than $10 a month (if possible).

I've seen a lot of complaints for a lot of companies. Yahoo! offers unlimited bandwidth, then you read their disclaimer and its FAR from it. I will pay for quality, reliability, and the ability to upload large video files (that are not copyrighted).

Thanks for your help in advance...

I am also here for the recommendations

 

[claes]

I'm looking to get into a yr long contract for a web deal. I need a host, preferably nothing more than $10 a month (if possible).

I've seen a lot of complaints for a lot of companies. Yahoo! offers unlimited bandwidth, then you read their disclaimer and its FAR from it. I will pay for quality, reliability, and the ability to upload large video files (that are not copyrighted).

Thanks for your help in advance...

It depends on what you're hosting, what are you looking for?

I am also here for the recommendations

I'd recommend starting another thread with your own needs clarified

 

[leeamtheone]

I've heard good things about www.namecheap.com/
couple of my buddies dabble in off-page SEO, link-building etc., so much so that it's practically their job at this point. From what I could gather after listening to some of their (not so) heated arguments, the trick is in raising the domain's DR/DA, so that the monthly upkeeping costs remain but a background noise...

 

[claes]

I just realized this thread is from 2008

I am also here for the recommendations

What are you hosting?

 

[dragontamer5788]

I've heard good things about www.namecheap.com/
couple of my buddies dabble in off-page SEO, link-building etc., so much so that it's practically their job at this point. From what I could gather after listening to some of their (not so) heated arguments, the trick is in raising the domain's DR/DA, so that the monthly upkeeping costs remain but a background noise...

Web hosting is basically a solved problem today. Choose any shared host with a good reputation, and namecheap is definitely one of those. CPanel may be old, but it gets the job done. IIRC, there's a few other more popular panels today but if CPanel works, no reason for me to switch.

VPS is more "techie" and "elitist" so to speak. You can call yourself Devops if you build a machine from with Linux apt-get commands. But if you're "just" building a PHP webhost, I don't think VPS actually gets you any benefits. Some tools like PostgreSQL, Node.js, Django (etc. etc) really prefer a VPS though.

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Namecheap gets you CPanel, which gives you easy HTTPS certificates (for reasonable fee), FTP upload/download for development, PHP and MySQL and a few other application frameworks. Don't mess with what works, but even then this is way more features than typical people need.

The normie probably wants something even easier than Namecheap. For those people, you should use Neocities, Tumblr, Wordpress.com, Blogger.com, and other such blogging / microblogging webpages instead.

 

[claes]

It really depends on what you're hosting and what kind of traffic you expect but, in my experience, namecheap shared is garbage. Maybe it's gotten better in recent years (I think my last experience was a decade ago), but someone on my shared host was hacked, everyone else was then hacked, support was awful, and I had to clean all of my sites myself before moving them to another host.

Just my $0.2. Hosts mostly have apps like wordpress figured out now, but I'd be wary. Besides -- gridpane is free to start and a vultr/do server only costs $12/m. There are a bunch of afforable options built by experts that are cheap these days (and won't bait and switch you with "$3/m" hosting).

 

[dragontamer5788]

It really depends on what you're hosting and what kind of traffic you expect but, in my experience, namecheap shared is garbage. Maybe it's gotten better in recent years (I think my last experience was a decade ago), but someone on my shared host was hacked, everyone else was then hacked, support was awful, and I had to clean all of my sites myself before moving them to another host.

Could you tell me a little bit more about this process? Maybe muse a sentence or paragraph about what you were hosting and what was hacked exactly? I'm assuming PHPbb or some similar forum in my mind's eye, but its probably better if I just asked for the details rather than assuming.

 

[claes]

Wordpress, but I honestly don’t remember specifics of the hack other than it was a MySQL injection. I had wordfence installed on all of the sites and namecheap confirmed that other tenants were affected. Why do you ask?

 

[dragontamer5788]

Wordpress, but I honestly don’t remember specifics of the hack other than it was a MySQL injection. I had wordfence installed on all of the sites and namecheap confirmed that other tenants were affected. Why do you ask?

Just curiosity. Hopefully knowing more about your case will help me understand cases I come across in the future.

So some kind of SQL injection on a "neighbor" wrecked the shared Namecheap SQL database, and that propagated to your Wordpress instance? That does sound like a pretty bad case.

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My personal use case for Namecheap is a Hugo static-site builder btw. So I wouldn't be affected by such a hack, because I don't use a database. I've thought about how I could leverage PHP + MySQL to help my site, but never bothered yet.

 

[claes]

Yeah, it was kind of unbelievable on namecheap’s part. They’ve probably gotten better but I’ve heard so many horror stories from Wordpress devs on most shared hosting that I’ve since moved on.

I’ve been thinking about moving to static myself for the speed, security, and convenience, but all of my clients (and most everyone) use Wordpress, so I’ve stuck with it. I’ve wanted to try gatsby for smaller sites, but every time I get to recreating the theme I question if the cost savings are worth the time, having to explain to the client etc

 

[dragontamer5788]

I’ve been thinking about moving to static myself for the speed, security, and convenience

Hugo specifically is way more complex than it should be. Security and convenience of updates, sure. At least once you have the system setup.

I can't say I've tried too many other static site builders. I'm happy with Hugo for now, and they do continue to improve. But if you're looking for "simplicity", I'd suggest you skip over Hugo. A big problem IMO is that their documentation is all "reference style", rather than "tutorial style", so its very difficult to get a good mental model of what the Hugo build system even does.

If you "already know what Hugo does", the documentation is fine. But if you don't know? Its just... difficult to explain and discuss.

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I do think that this overall methodology of static-site builders is a good idea. But the current crop of implementations has all kinds of downsides. The gist of "create directory + files -> run program to generate HTML -> upload raw HTML to server" is really good idea though. Hopefully these tools improve over the next few years to a better state.

 

[claes]

Oh I don't mind complex, I've played around with all sorts of CMS and static site generators, but yeah I'm leaning towards ghost if I ever move away from wordpress.

 

[ShiBDiB]

If you got screwed by MySQL injection in 2023 whatever plugin allowed it needs to be taken behind the shed and dealt with. It's wildly easy to counter on the programming side.

 

[claes]

It was around a decade ago but it was another tenant, which is why I'm still dragging them. It's not that hard to isolate users in a multi-tenant, shared hosting environment.