Hello people,

Lately I have heard a lot of good stuff about Leaseweb. Also it seems to be cheaper than Hetzner.

I have been using Hetzner for years but with all the price hike, I was wondering if its worth moving to Lease Web.

Anybody using Leaseweb and got a feedback?

Note: I'm using it to host client's websites and resell hosting services through Plesk.

Im planning on buying a webdomain soon to run a few projects and i just want to make sure i am able to do it i am planning on buying with ventraip since i can verify with my medicare card. just want a second opionion

So i was working on my website and deleted a random port that wasnt in use, instantly all my websites weren't being displayed on the domains anymore?
i restored another random port (not the same as the one i deleted) and my websites came back im just wondering. How does this even make sense? that shouldnt work right?

because if you use AI to edit your homepage, site.eu will ban your IP and you absolutely can't use your hosting you paid for.

terrible experience.

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for recommendations for a reliable VPS or affordable dedicated server hosted in the EU.

Requirements:

• Budget: €30–60/month (flexible)
• CPU: 4–8 vCPU
• RAM: 16–32 GB
• Storage: 500 GB–1 TB NVMe SSD
• Location: EU data center
• Hosting: Unmanaged

Workload: Laravel/PHP application with MySQL 8, a large database (200–300 GB), regular XML imports, and indexed searches. Good disk I/O performance is important.

Experience: 10+ years with PHP/Laravel and Linux server administration.

I've been considering Hetzner, OVHcloud, and Netcup, but I'm interested in other providers too.

Would you recommend a VPS or a budget dedicated server for this workload? Any suggestions based on personal experience?

Thanks!

Hi all,

I’m building a managed WordPress hosting platform and I’m looking for beta testers (completely free hosting for testers during this testing).

The idea is to take the parts people like best from the big hosts and put them in one place:

• A clean dashboard in the style of Kinsta.
• Git with immutable live code, like Pantheon. You push code to staging and promote it to live.
• Fast page loads, like Rocket. The goal is a low time to first byte, with caching at the edge and servers on up to date Google Cloud machines (not Oracle like Kinsta).
• DDEV support is included, so you can pull a site down to work locally and deploy from your machine or use ssh or sftp.
• CDNs, Object caching, backups and more are included.
• Patchstack at server level
• Google Analytics, Search console and Clickhouse Analytics built in along with exportable reporting
• Accessibility report with recommendations on fixing to abide by WCAG compliance testing
• Cloudflare enterprise coming soon but currently supports most of cloudflare business level features.
• 20+ datacenters

What I’m asking for

• Run a small site on it for about a month. It’s free.
• Try to break it on purpose. Odd plugins, big imports, bad deploys, restores, anything you’d normally avoid doing on a real host. Pen test it even if you want.
• Tell me what’s confusing, slow, or broken. Your feedback shapes what gets built next.

NOTE: this is a beta. Please don’t put a site on it that has to stay up. I’d rather you use a side project, a staging copy, or a test site.

If you’re interested, let me know! I’ll pick a few individuals and get you set up.

Thanks! To be clear this is not a promotion for my hosting company (I havent named it in the post) and am looking for serious testers.

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Dear moderators: I am not sure why you blocked my first post but I have tried to message 3 times and no one has answered. I have AWS and Google Cloud funding and am pending funding from Cloudflare.

Hi all.

Looking for tips of best VPS providers to run a PHP website. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Monthly budget: less than $70
US or EU located
5M monthly pageviews

I’m looking for technical advice from people experienced with VPS hosting and networking.
I’m based in Pakistan and looking to set up a Windows VPS with a dedicated, static US residential IPv4 address purchased from a separate provider.
The main purpose is to run PayPal, which isn’t available in Pakistan. I want a stable US residential IP rather than a typical datacenter IP.
My requirements:
Windows VPS with RDP access (preferably Windows 10/11 or Windows Server)
Dedicated, static US residential IPv4 address
IP purchased independently from the VPS provider
Ability to assign or route the external IP to the VPS
Reliable connection and reasonable latency
Ideally, everything within a $50/month budget
Additional information:
Monthly budget: Maximum $50 USD
Location: I’m based in Pakistan; I need a US IP
Hosting purpose: Running PayPal
Operating system: Windows
Linux experience: No experience administering Linux servers or infrastructure
I’ve noticed that most VPS providers only allow IP addresses allocated by their own network. I’m specifically looking for a provider that allows me to bring an IP purchased elsewhere and assign or route it to my VPS.
I’m open to different networking approaches, including VPN tunnels, WireGuard, or other solutions, as long as the final setup is reliable and the IP is genuinely residential.
Questions:
Are there VPS providers that support externally purchased residential IPs?
Is it possible to attach a single residential IPv4 address directly to a VPS?
Would a VPN tunnel be the more practical approach?
Can this realistically be done within $50/month?
Has anyone successfully configured something similar?
I’d appreciate recommendations from people who have actually built this setup, particularly providers that are beginner-friendly and don’t require extensive Linux networking knowledge.
Thanks!

I am not an expert on the technical side of website hosting or developing, so please excuse me if I say something wrong or weird.

I own an online shop with around 4,000 items, that will gain around 1,000 more around next year (estimated). I am currently using hstinger as it was the suggested one by the person I watched on youtube on how to build a website (lame, I know) but because of the size needed I ended up having to purchase the almost most expensive package on their hosting server that gives me around 500 websites. this feels dumb because I only need one website and I assume it's a big waste of money. the server also runs slowly and straight up crashes during high(? around 100 people) traffic days such as black friday. so I am very unhappy and would love to find a better one

I've seen the suggested list but just don't know if these servers can hold. my current server is using almost 200 GB. looking for one that is trusted where I can buy one server (preferably) and has a stable connection, and just overall better.

• What is your monthly budget? preferably up to 50$, can be flexible if worth it, I'm unsure of hosting prices.
• Where are you/your users located? Middle east
• What kind of site are you hosting (Wordpress, phpBB, custom software, etc) or what is your use case? Wordpress
• Do you have a monthly traffic volume? Estimates are ok. around 100-200 unique shoppers
• If you’re looking at VPSes: Do you have experience administrating linux servers and infrastructure? No, not looking for
• Did you read the sidebar/check out the hosts listed there? I've personally vetted these companies and their services are a good fit for 99% of people. Yes and don't mind buying them! just need a better understanding if they're the right fit.

Thank you everyone for reading.

Starting the process to move our 100-site plan away from Nexcess. They used to be great, but everything has gone downhill over the last year. Some thoughts for those considering Nexcess:

- We used to pay $638/month for our plan. This recently increased to $849/month with no added benefits

- Nexcess bought the Kadence plugins. It sounds good, but they don't give you the premium versions, only the free stuff. The plugins are trash - buggy, slow, and unreliable. Stick with Wordfence for security and something else for general WP site management. I pity anyone who tries to use these interfaces.

- Nexcess was the last of all web hosts I am aware of to patch the most recent PHP vulnerabilities. Took over a day with little to no communication. Clients asked when this would be fixed and were left in the dark.

- The support experience is all India-based. Half the time, support does more harm than good on the site.

- The "CDN" they include doesn't work well - typically causes HTTPS errors.

- They supposedly monitor your site for visual changes after updating a plugin. I've had updates break several sites and never got a notification.

- The automatic theme and plugin updates don't run.

- Their managed hosting runs a Linux kernel that stops receiving security updates on January 1. They have no plan to upgrade servers. Confirmed this with support this week.

Long story short, stay far away from Nexcess. We were originally drawn in by their site speeds. The speeds are still great, but the experience is so bad I wouldn't recommend them to anyone.

I want to connect multiple servers for my clients, most of which host WooCommerce sites. I’m looking for a control panel that allows me to manage multiple WordPress servers.

I’m looking for an affordable option that doesn’t charge an additional fee for each server i connect.

OpsShield's incident notice says an attacker used compromised credentials to push fake cPGuard updates (5.88.12 to 5.88.19) at 02:06 UTC on Nov 2. The update ran as root. OpsShield estimates about 2,950 servers executed it, and the script collected /etc/shadow and the root MySQL config. It also took root's shell history and SSH files. Help Net Security adds that about 7,900 billing-portal accounts (names, emails, bcrypt hashes) were copied too.

To see whether a server installed an affected version, OpsShield gives this check:

grep 'Successfully updated' /opt/cpguard/logs/install_log

A match only proves the update was installed, not what was sent out. OpsShield's advice for those servers: update to 5.88.26 or later and reset root and other local passwords from a trusted environment. Then rotate database and cloud keys, and replace the SSH keys under /root/.ssh. It says a full rebuild is not routine, but that is provisional.

Question for people who run hosting servers: do you let security agents auto-update as root on their own schedule, or stage updates first? And how would you have noticed a 70-minute window like this one?

Sources: OpsShield notice (Nov 3), Help Net Security and SecurityWeek (Nov 4).

I'm getting ready to launch a website and comparing different hosting providers. What features should I pay attention to besides price? I'd like something reliable with good uptime, decent speed, and support that actually responds when there's a problem. What has worked well for you?

I've been with Hosting.com since March of 2021. It's been about 5 years and it's time to move on. They've increased my price 3 times this year! Starting on March 24, 2026 my price for their "Kickstart Reseller" had a name change to "Reseller 25" and a price increase to $39.60. Now as of October 25, 2026 that price increased to $48.60 - This will be my last month with them. I'm ready to back up my stuff and move. Can anyone recommend good hosting? Seems like a lot of people are leaving because they are price gouging.

End of an era: We are officially 100% cPanel free, and it feels fantastic.

Today, I finally pulled the plug on the very last cPanel server in our infrastructure. After years of dealing with WebPros’ monopoly, endless licensing increases, zero innovation, and squeezing every last cent out of hosts, .. we are officially DONE.

The amount of stress, grief, and money those parasites burned through was insane. Migrating our fleet off their legacy trap took work, but it was easily the best operational move I’ve made for my company. Lower overhead, better performance, and not a single dime going back to WebPros.

If you're still on the fence about ditching them: do it. Tear out the root, take back control, and leave WebPros in the dust.

Fuck WebPros and the horse they rode in on.

In case anyone is looking...They come up a bit and sounds good. Till ya read and see they make claims then use different definitions

Claim is everything is unlimited...in reality

https://serverbyt.com/terms.php

Section 4 Modifications

Prices for our products are subject to change without notice.

We reserve the right at any time to modify or discontinue the Service (or any part or content thereof) without notice at any time.

We shall not be liable to you or to any third-party for any modification, price change, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.

Section 5 Products or Services

“Our Cloud hosting is unlimited but limited to size of 1GB per SQL Database and 10GB per mailbox.”

Their "unlimited SSD storage" refers to website file storage (HTML, images, CMS files, etc.), not object storage or file backup like S3, Backblaze, or Dropbox. Their own Terms of Service explicitly state:

"This space is strictly intended for website-related content only which is live. The use of our servers for storing personal files, backups, archives, or large amounts of non-web-related data is strictly prohibited."

I have a written a web app which i want to deploy, it should be accessible using HTTPS. Web app is dockerized into 4 containers : backend , frontend , postgres and redis container.

Site is accessible using http when i tried deploying using aws ec2 . But becuause backend only accept only https connection frontend can not talk to backend. As https is currently not supported.

I dont want to purchase a domain . i want to test it over https and check if my implementation work correclty on https and also be able to show case my project as a live demo.( i have tested everything locally it works as expected)

how can i get my web app working utilizing https using ec2 ?

Hey, we need urgent support from dynadot because a fraud copy of our site is running on their server. Anyone got experience for getting in touch quick? Thanks!

¡Hola a todos!

Estoy desarrollando y poniendo a prueba FutBrokers, un proyecto que busca llevar una experiencia diferente al mundo del fútbol.

En este momento estoy enfocado en mejorar la plataforma y me gustaría pedirles un favor, que se tomen unos minutos para navegar por ella, explorar sus funcionalidades y decirme sinceramente qué opinan.

Me interesa especialmente conocer:

• ¿Qué les parece la idea y su funcionamiento?
• ¿La navegación les resulta intuitiva?
• ¿Qué aspectos creen que deberían mejorarse?
• ¿Qué funcionalidades nuevas les gustaría encontrar?
• ¿Hay algo que les genere dudas o que no les convenza?

No busco solamente comentarios positivos. Al contrario, las críticas constructivas, las sugerencias y hasta los comentarios negativos me ayudarán muchísimo a identificar qué debo corregir y cómo llevar este proyecto a otro nivel.

Es un proyecto en el que estoy trabajando y cualquier opinión será bienvenida.

¡Muchas gracias por dedicarle unos minutos!

Anyone else get a "More protection at renewal: what's changing on your hosting plan" email which announces a huge price change taking place in about two weeks? Only way to keep current pricing is by signing a 1 year contract?