Who is your personal web host?

Christian Taylor · Feb 24, 2017

Who is your personal web host and why?

I have an Amazon EC2 instance running CentOS with cPanel. I've been very happy with it! For my clients who obviously don't want to set up their own VPS, I recommend Namecheap shared hosting, which they have been happy with.

What web host do you use and why?

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 24, 2017

As I know, in the past Amazon Cloud was offered even for FREE per 1st year...

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 24, 2017

And to launch such instance in their cloud - at least medium skills are needed...
It is definitely not for all.

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 24, 2017

ParkingCrew uses Amazon... and they are frequently under DDoS... when the parked domains are down.
So Amazon is not something special in terms of quality/reliability.

frank-germany · Feb 24, 2017

for a small site with cpanel : hostgator
best support in history

for fast cloud if you know what to do with debian: google cloud

Christian Taylor · Feb 24, 2017

Jurgen Wolf said:
$40 per 1st year?
Or $40 yearly always?

Wait, that's the 1st year. Forgot about the free tier. Assuming it may go up to ~$48 per month next year.

Domains - Wanted · Feb 24, 2017

Jurgen Wolf said:
$40 per 1st year?
Or $40 yearly always?

I think he's quoting his monthly fee

Christian Taylor · Feb 25, 2017

Domains - Wanted said:
I think he's quoting his monthly fee

Yes, per month

Christian Taylor · Feb 25, 2017

Jurgen Wolf said:
As I know, in the past Amazon Cloud was offered even for FREE per 1st year...

You can get a totally free 1GB VPS for a year, and if you want more they just apply the credit for the value of the free VPS (which I think is around $8 per month).

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 25, 2017

https://www.geekstorage.com/vps-hosting
Click the button "Build your own bundle..." and you can get 1GB VPS with 2IPs for $10/mo.
+ you can apply promocodes to lower it.

Domains - Wanted · Feb 25, 2017

Christian Taylor said:
You can get a totally free 1GB VPS for a year, and if you want more they just apply the credit for the value of the free VPS (which I think is around $8 per month).

Link please

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 25, 2017

And overall - via Google you can find VPS even for $2 monthly...

Christian Taylor · Feb 25, 2017

Jurgen Wolf said:
And overall - via Google you can find VPS even for $2 monthly...

With what specs and reliability? That's what I wanna know..

Christian Taylor · Feb 25, 2017

Domains - Wanted said:
Link please

https://aws.amazon.com/s/dm/optimization/server-side-test/free-tier/free_np/

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 25, 2017

256M VPS for $2/mo.
Absolutely enough to run own scripts and basic websites...

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 25, 2017

If more resources are needed - 512M VPS for $5/mo.

Cdomains · Feb 25, 2017

Switched from GD shared hosting, that I had for years to HostGator because they had a deal going on.

I switched because GD had gotten really slow and I thought HG would be better because I used them for some of my client's sites a few years ago and they were good.

I am not happy though because HG is much slower than GD.

Probably too many sites hosted on my server.

Both the old GD hosting and the new HG hosting are/were shared.

Christian Taylor · Feb 25, 2017

Jurgen Wolf said:
256M VPS for $2/mo.
Absolutely enough to run own scripts and basic websites...

I'd love to compare that against my 4GB VPS out of curiosity. I wonder how it would run my WordPress site.

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 25, 2017

WordPress CMS is traditionally slow and resources hungry...
But 4GB is unnecessary even for WP.

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 25, 2017

Try textpattern.com

Christian Taylor · Feb 25, 2017

Jurgen Wolf said:
WordPress CMS is traditionally slow and resources hungry...
But 4GB is unnecessary even for WP.

I found that 4GB was perfect for me. Any lower RAM had sluggish performance. I run about 8 WordPress sites on it.

Christian Taylor · Feb 25, 2017

Jurgen Wolf said:
Try textpattern.com

Bro.. one does not just "jump ship" from WordPress. I'm heavily into the platform and have spent a lot of money on themes and plugins, plus I'm very satisfied with it. I know it's a bit bloated and not the most efficient, but it's also highly supported.

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 25, 2017

4 / 8 = 512M per site in your case.

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 25, 2017

Tons of themes and plugins exist for Textpattern... and it is a few times faster than WP.

Christian Taylor · Feb 25, 2017

Jurgen Wolf said:
Tons of themes and plugins exist for Textpattern... and it is a few times faster than WP.

I'll certainly check it out, but I don't think I'll be switching to it as my primary CMS any time soon

Jurgen Wolf · Feb 25, 2017

I used WP... and I don't like it in all aspects.
Just CMS for blondes... in short.

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