People suggested .com and i'm trying it vs all the hosting plan i've used before and the free plan makes you have to pay to launch? I'm confused here. Not like the typical vps / shared hosting cpanel setup or WPEngine

I need this for a simple website for a windows app i've built. thats going to be free for all.

I'll be shopping around for web hosting in the near future. The website will show what services my business offers and will need to have a way for potential customers to contact me. I know many of the hosting companies offer email accounts and should I choose to use an email account tied to my domain, I'd want to be able to check emails on my iPhone. Who has the best email app for mobile?

Hi, I made a website for a client about a year and a half ago. We moved their old hosting to a new host, but kept their email/domain with the old host. Today I was checking something on their old host/domain registrar and saw that hosting was still being charged to their account.

When we switched over the hosting, I think the responsibility to cancel their old hosting plan got mixed up and I assumed they were going to do so.

So now they maintained their old hosting plan while also paying for a new one for their new website.

What should I tell them and how do i fix this?

I'm looking for opinions about what LightSail instance would be acceptable for a low-traffic LimeSurvey deployment (less than 1000 visits per day). I'd install DirectAdmin to provide a simple way to manage the single account that would be on the LightSail Instance.

Is 4 GB Memory, 2 vCPUs offering suitable for this deployment?

I'm looking to start a web hosting company, but I don't have much experience or money. I come from a website creation background. First, I'd like to know if it's worthwhile nowadays, and what I need to learn to get started.

I recently put up a VPS on Digital Ocean to run a Python API. It's running nginx which is directing the traffic for my site to a docker compose set of containers, namely an nginx container pointing to a python container. The server's only been up about a month, but I'm seeing a lot of bot traffic, trying to poke at common vulnerabilities (various Wordpress vulnerabilities, attempts to find .env files that are readable, etc). It's nothing insane, and all the attempts fail, since it's just exploratory and I don't have those common vulnerabilities on my setup, but I also don't know how to protect against it.

The main issue right now is it's making my logs useless, so I don't know when a bug is actually occurring. I know one thing I can/will be doing is splitting up my logs to be more readable, but what can I do/what can I learn to help minimize these exploratory requests? My first thought is block the IP addresses, but I know that will have little effect. Right now I'm passing every request (any URI that gets requested) that comes in to my python server, and I can limit that to help reduce, but then I have to be careful on that front as well (right now I'm just running an API, but I have other servers that run frontends). I'm more a backend and would love advice on how to proceed/learn some stuff for this side of server management.

I’ve been building small websites for businesses and I’m trying to figure out the most practical hosting setup.

Some people recommend VPS setups while others suggest serverless platforms or managed hosting.

For small business websites with moderate traffic, what setup has worked best for you?

Coming to this subreddit to vent my frustration at Brixly.uk's hosting services and their shoddy support team who just don't give a single F about their customers or the service they provide.

Been a reseller customer using Brixly's services now for just over 2 years, always paid upfront for the hosting each year and the service throughout has been abysmal. We use Direct Admin for our hosting and over the past week or two since they had their major data centre outage the performance of my clients sites is now non existant causing us major problems.

I've opened a ticket to raise about the major performance issues we are getting on the reseller server we have been put onto to then get a response saying 'They cannot see any issues with the server', my response to them was to look further into it, after submitting multiple screenshots of client sites getting 503 service unavailable errors and being completely inaccessible they finally changed the status of the ticket to a P2 and now have their internal technical team supposidely looking further into the issue. (which are no help either)

It's now been a day since i've had a response and still no further forward, client sites are down, performance is non existant and I have now just lost 2 clients due to them complaining about performance, we are now trying to drastically migrate clients sites and services over to our package at Krystal but due to Direct Admin being slow and the sites barely even loading this is being a big struggle for us and taking much longer than it should.

Before anyone mentions about using another host, we are in the middle of migrating over to Krystal which I honestly can't praise their services and support more, they have been amazing and the performance difference after we migrate the site is night and day.

Considering using Brixly? Then don't, they are owned by Enix Ltd who do not give a single toss about any of their customers, they buy out good companies and then completely trash them. Had similar experience as well when we used Eco Web Hosting but they also trashed that hosting business as well.

I have learned nextjs and mern stack. Now I want to build real life business solutions for people. And I want to know from people from Bangladesh as I don't know how people make solutions for small businesses without buying high cost hosting, dbms like mongodb, authentication providers.

But got some issues:

• how do I use authentiaction cause paying nextauth, superbase or firebase will increase the cost dramitically? How real projects handle this stuff?
• how do you setup database cause it will increase the cost also if use mongodb atlas?
• what to know about vps and load-balancing? Idk about these stuff

I have just purchased a domain on cloudflare and am looking to build a website primarily for marketing that includes pictures and videos and has business contact information with links to social media sites.

Since cloudflare is for deploying/hosting already made websites, I decided to look on GitHub for nice website templates. I found Astrowind but realized I may be in over my head when it comes to actually creating the site.

So I am posting this in hopes that someone who is skilled & familiar with Astrowind can help me build and deploy the site (not for free ofc) or direct me to a service that can. Thank You!

Hi Everyone. Just confirming, customers are complaining to me about emails not being sent through, checked a blacklist and realised that my IP is on a blacklist - which is odd, because not much mail at all Under 20 are being sent from my server.

And then I realised that I can't unban it - they have to do so - and then it listed a whole range of their IP addresses (their ip address range) which means, does this mean it may not even be my Ip address that's caused the issue?

What to do? - I left a review about liquid web previously

It's a common theme about how horrible the company has become. Seems to be the Americans are the ones that are really good at their job but for the most part their support from developing countries are really frustrating to deal with.

Is this an issue that I can fix or is it a server related issue?

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I’m looking for a new reseller hosting solution. I have about 35 sites that I’m looking to consolidate. I’d like to, ideally, to have WHM/Cpanel, since I’m used to it, but it’s not a dealbreaker.

I really like the SSL/TLS Wizard integrated, so I can just do my hosting and SSL in pne place.

Known host and Nixie don’t offer this.

I need about 120 GB of space.

Any recommendations are appreciated.

I keep having the problem where I max out FTP connections, and then the only way I can resolve the problem is to talk to support. I've tried waiting hours, but the connections never time out. Is this normal? It seems bizarre to me to not have any FTP connection timeout, but maybe I'm missing something?

I’ve noticed some people strongly recommend separating email and web hosting instead of keeping everything on the same provider.

For example hosting the site on a VPS but using a separate service for email.

Is this mainly for reliability reasons or just easier management?

Curious what most people here prefer and why.

I updated a .css file on NixiHost about 30 hours ago and it still hasn’t updated when visiting the live website. I’ve tried clearing cookies, using different browsers/devices, and private mode and it still hasn’t updated.

Is there a way to force it to do so? I’ve double checked on NixiHost that the latest version of the file is there, but it hasn’t updated visually on the live site and when I inspect element it isn’t updated there either.

We recently added SMS alerts for uptime incidents and critical notifications for some of our clients.

The actual implementation took almost no time, but the messaging side has been way more complicated than we expected.

Between registration requirements, approval delays, and occasional delivery issues, it’s been harder to operate reliably than email or push alerts.

For people running hosting or infrastructure services how are you handling SMS alerts today?

Are you running them through your main provider or separating messaging into its own service?

I have 1 Wordpress website, 200.000 page views a month. Currently on WPX Woocommerce Superstore plan

While most of the plan is fine or even overkill, I'm exceeding CPU usage/minutes. I have 3 CPU cores, no issue with peak load, but over 24 hours the sustained load starts to become an issue. Already blocked bots, turned off cpu intensive analytics plugin. 1 big 'issue' is that we've spend hours and hours trying to get their CDN to work, but I also have a mobile app and that synchronization keeps breaking with CDN on, so that is a solution that I can't use. (lets say bandwidth use now is max 1TB a month, I'm not sure how much impact that has on CPU).

They offer 2 higher plans, but 1 is double the price to go from 3 to 4 cores, which barely gives me any room to grow. The agency plan with 6 codes is too costly. Both include a bunch of other upgrades that I have no need for. I would pay double to just double my CPU minutes, but they don't offer that solution.

So, I think it's time to consider a VPS with dedicated CPU, or managed dedicated server. Netcup root server packages or Hetzner cloud dedicated general purpose packages seem most interesting for my usage (managed server is only in Germany, and most of my audience is US).

Am I thinking in the right direction or are there other/better options to consider? Things I'm overlooking? With 0 knowledge of servers, and little experience with database migration, is switching to those packages and lack of the same level of support moving forward going to be problematic?

I've hosted sites for a while on Cloud-ways, I'm not super techy (so couldn't manage my own stuff on Digital Ocean droplets or whatever), but always find Cloud-ways a good middle ground.

I've come across xCloud and their Managed service - as far as I can see, it looks like basically the same as Cloud-ways but a fair bit cheaper. Am I missing something?

To be clear, I'm talking specifically about xCloud's Managed option, not the one to connect your own VPS (that would be too techy for me I think).

Just sharing a win - for years we've struggled hosting larger WordPress/WooCommerce sites with lots of plugins, page builders etc.

We tried so many of the 'mainstream' hosts that provide VPS (SiteGround, WPMUDev etc) and they were all painfully slow - some managed to be slower than their shared hosting solutions - not sure how.

Eventually we decided to build our own from an unmanaged VPS and create out own setup.

With a lot of AI help and lots of trial and error along the way, we've ended up with a solid setup specifically tuned for WordPress and WooCommerce workloads.

It's been around a year now and we’ve now moved all of our larger sites across. They’re running much faster than before and most times costing our clients less.

We definitely had a few bumps along the way with some of the more complex setups taking time to get right and we also had to spend quite a bit of effort improving things like backups and security.

But now looking back I can safely say we’ve now got a solid system in place and feel prepared for 'most' scenarios.

And we’ve also got it integrated it into our client system so when someone orders hosting, most of the server setup is automated, while still giving clients access to the parts they actually need.

Anyway, I just thought it might be useful to other web designers who struggle with speed for larger sites and don't want to have to be careful with using plugins, themes and page builders etc.