Thanks for the advice.

Moved from Bluehost to Inmotion and it has been a very good experience.

After finally settling on SiteGround for my new quality webhost after fleeing closte.com, I am disappointed to get a warning that my "Inode usage" is at 80% with only 5 websites on a $50/mo plan. This feels like a cynical strategy to force clients into a $100/mo+ plan.

Am I crazy? I've never encountered a "too many inodes" issue in 30 years on the web.

Title. I was willing to pay 8$ a month for a direct ping with a discord webhook when something exploded on my server so I could quickly fix the one service I remotely care about, but I received an email at 4am stating that my plan is getting an "update" and is now 13$ a month (but I can save 1$ a month if I get the annual plan!).

96$ a year to $156 (62.5%, or 50% if you pay $144 a year) is an insane increase when the only things you have to say you improved is a couple of services integrations maybe 4 people worldwide use, and that you "rebuilt your dashboard and apps" and "made an MCP server" (things I'd expect you to do with the money I already pay you).

I'm so fucking tired of every company deciding that their shareholders deserve more so they squeeze the lowest tiers like we're swimming in capital and offering jack shit in return.

Is there a decent replacement for this slop, I literally just need something that pings my frontend/API, can fire a Discord webhook on a failure, and has a decent looking status page? Or is it just cheaper to rent a VPS, point it myself and home cook this thing.

Been trying to clean up my little stack and move a few domains off random old providers. I kinda want one place that can handle domains and basic email and simple hosting without it turning into some giant cloud project.

For context its like 5 small sites, a couple inboxes per domain, nothing huge, but I care about dns reliability and not getting stuck in some nightmare ui. Been looking at the usual big names and idk if i should just split it up or keep it all in one spot. Appreciate any thoughts.

My sites hosted with Namecheap have been experiencing intermittent downtime for the past few weeks, and it's badly impacting my business and projects
I have contacted support but noone can do anything

What are your experiences with Namecheap's reliability lately? Are you considering switching providers if so who are you looking at? I am feeling i should have chosen something else other than Namecheap for all my domains

Over the last year my website got hacked twice, maybe cuz of an outdated plugin, there is nothing unusual in the website, just a regular business page. Can the hosting provider somehow save from hacking?

I'm now on GoDaddy, checkin out Host inger, they seem pretty popular - seen that they're fast and secure, but Idk how to check if this is true.

Who was hacked, did changing the hosting help reducing the risk?

GoDaddy confirmed a commission payout issue on their end, no timeline, owes me ~$1k — anyone else?

We run a small affiliate network for online gaming operators, nothing shady, just standard CPA deals with a dozen or so partners across three continents. We'd been with the same PSP for about 14 months, mid-tier plan, nothing exotic, just batch payouts twice a month to affiliates in the Philippines, Nigeria, and a couple in Eastern Europe.

On March 3rd I opened a support ticket because one payout kept bouncing back with a generic "compliance hold" error. In the ticket, to explain what the transaction actually was, I typed the words "affiliate commission for an iGaming operator." That ticket went in at 13:52. At 14:47, less than an hour later, our entire account got flagged for "enhanced review" and every pending payout, not just the bounced one, got frozen. $42,000 total across 11 recipients.

I called support. The rep read from a script, said the review "could take 5 to 10 business days," and had zero interest in the timing. I asked directly whether the word "iGaming" in my ticket triggered the flag. She said she "couldn't confirm or deny that." Fine, I get it, compliance teams have to be vague. But then two days later I got an email from a different department offering "priority underwriting review" to release the funds faster, for a fee. A percentage of the frozen balance, paid upfront, no guarantee of approval.

So the sequence is: mention the vertical in a ticket, get frozen within the hour, then get offered a paid shortcut to unfreeze money that's already ours. Maybe it's coincidence. Maybe their flagging system genuinely just scans tickets for keywords and it's not connected to the upsell team at all, two separate departments doing their own thing on their own timeline. I don't have internal logs, I only have my own ticket timestamps and the email headers, which I've kept.

What actually cost us was the 11 affiliates who didn't get paid on schedule. Two of them paused sending traffic. One asked to be paid in USDT going forward because, in his words, "banks always do this to us eventually." I'd heard variations of that line before from other partners but never really pressure-tested it until that week.

We ended up moving payouts for that batch through Inxy, mostly because they had mass payout support already built for exactly this kind of multi-country commission run, and because the KYC on our side was already done before we needed it, so there wasn't a fresh onboarding delay stacked on top of a frozen account. It wasn't a dramatic decision, honestly, more that I didn't want to find out what happens the third time a support ticket gets read by whatever system flags accounts.

I posted the timeline in a smaller finance sub first and got the usual split reaction, half the replies saying PSPs freeze high-risk-adjacent accounts constantly and I was reading a pattern into standard risk-scoring noise, the other half saying they'd seen the exact same keyword-then-freeze-then-upsell sequence at their own companies, sometimes with Stripe, sometimes with a regional processor nobody's heard of. One guy said his agency got the same "priority review" pitch after a chargeback spike and just assumed it was a standard retention play, not evidence of anything sinister.

I don't think anyone's watching a dashboard for the word "iGaming" and personally hitting a freeze button. What I do think is that the review and the upsell sit closer together internally than any PSP will admit, and the business ends up paying either way, in delay or in fees. We still keep a fiat rail open for partners who want it, and I've heard fine things about NOWPayments and CoinGate from people running similar affiliate stacks, so it's not like there's one right answer here.

We haven't gone back to that PSP for anything above small test transactions since. Draw your own conclusions on the timing, I've drawn mine, and the affiliate who asked to get paid in USDT hasn't had a single delayed payout since we made the switch.

Hey, many people here say that IONOS is a scam (Including me!), but why do most of you write this here, forgetting to write a Trustpilot review?

Does anyone know how to do webpage retrieval for an site that is shut down?

Three decades of internet service gone, just like that. It was great while it lasted and I am forever thankful to Tripod for cementing childhood core memories.

However, I did not manage to back up my website in time. The website I put my heart and soul into is gone forever.

I have tried archive.org and my website cannot be found there. Not even a page was scrawled. I searched up other old websites of mine, from Blogger and Wordpress - everything was there. I am not sure why the Tripod one isn’t.

Does anyone know how to retrieve a website back?

Ik my question might be stupid, but will my site go offline if i stop payin to hostinge?

I own the domain [mylastname.com]. For decades I've had a "real" email address at yahoo, gmail, or a university and I forwarded email from [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) to my "real" account. No one new my real account and I never needed to update people that my email address was changing. (I adopted this initially with bigfoot in the 90s). A few other members of my family do the same.

Now for the problem - in the last year or so spam filtering has gotten overly aggressive and I can't get my email. What happens is this:

1. email comes in to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) at my webhost.
2. Webhost forwards it to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]), but now it considers it outgoing mail
3. The outgoing spam filter sees a mailing list or something else slightly commercial and blocks it.
4. No one is notified of the block. The sender doesn't even get a bounce message.

I talked to my webhost and the best they could do was migrate me to another web server that used MailChannels instead of SpamExperts, but hat only made it worse. I talked to tech support at MailChannels and they basically said my best bet was to stop using their product. My web host won't opt me out of spam filtering because of fairly obvious reasons.

What are my options? I understand that ignoring a tech system for 15 years leads to some obsolescence, but at this point I've resigned myself to be dragged (kicking and screaming of course) into whatever the newer solution is. I really don't want to go back to thunderbird/whatever has replaced pop3. I don't want to do google hosting since not everyone in my family likes google (my sister uses hotmail. No, I can't explain why). The other thing is that all of us do hybrids - we have some email going to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]), and some email goes directly to the gmail/hotmail/whatever account. Having two email accounts to check is a pain in the neck. Is there some way to combine these two accounts without using forwarding? Any webhosts that won't do content filtering on my mail? Another obvious solution I'm missing?

Hi everyone, I am currently looking at making a website for the first time ever for selling self-published comics, and in the course of looking at web hosts have become aware that for any eCommerce purposes I need to ensure my host is PCI-DSS compliant.

I was talking to support at Zume who told me their two cheapest options (Launch and Ultimate Shared Hosting) are NOT PCI-DSS compliant but that their Managed WordPress services are, and wondered if anyone knew to what degree this is the case for Nixihost, KnownHost, InMotion and Krystal? There doesn't seem to be a general "Is/Is not PCI-DSS compliant" as a standard listing on feature lists for any plans so I'm a little lost as to this. Any help or clarification on this point would be welcome!