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Web hosting that doesn't suck?
Fungus:
--- Quote from: amspire on October 03, 2017, 10:23:44 am ---The Let's Encrypt certificates are totally free, supported by browsers, very secure and you can add extra sub-domains...
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But ... which major ISPs let you use them?
amspire:
--- Quote from: Fungus on October 03, 2017, 11:30:40 am ---
--- Quote from: amspire on October 03, 2017, 10:23:44 am ---The Let's Encrypt certificates are totally free, supported by browsers, very secure and you can add extra sub-domains...
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But ... which major ISPs let you use them?
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Here are some that do support Lets Encrypt. Plenty more support it that are not listed - more companies are adding support every month:
https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/web-hosting-who-support-lets-encrypt/6920
Since most Cpanel based hosting companies support manual SSL certificate installation, you can run scripts on your host to generate the certificates and then manually install them. So if you are prepared to do about 10 minutes work every 3 months, any host that allows self installation of SSL certificates can use Let's Encrypt certificates.
amspire:
For the information of anyone interested, it is no longer necessary to have a dedicated fixed IP address for a SSL certificate for a domain.
For a commercial site, a fixed IP would be recommended, but most browsers now support the SNI protocol that allows for SSL certificates on shared hosts all using a common fixed IP address. If you need support on Internet Explorer 6 or Android 2.xx or iPhone 2 , then SNI will not work so you will need that dedicated fixed IP address for your site.
Also with Let's Encrypt, it is easiest generating the certificates on the host that matches the certificate, but it is not essential.
I have a Ubuntu VM I run at home to generate certificates for 3 different domains, and then install them manually on the destination hosted sites. To get the new certificates verified, I do need to add some temporary files in an obscure path on each host's website for a few minutes to prove I control the website.
Simon:
with hosting it comes down to you get what you pay for, I have a £500 per year re-seller account with heart internet, they are not perfect but have been reliable (i use them for email constantly so notice and outage immediately) I in turn host a few low traffic websites myself and give hosting to a few charities i know. Your welcome to a patch although I am no expert on hosting you seem to be pretty demanding for your 10 dollars a month. For goodness sake stay away from anyone offering sub £10 per month, I was hosted on someone calling himself iclickster and who then started calling himself iwebbster and basically he has an account just like mine, offers dirt cheap hosting, crap support if any and uses the same supplier as i do. At one point my totally unlimited account for £0.99 per month ground to a halt, even my £1.99/month account with him ground to a halt, pages never loaded and emails ground to a halt, at that point i had to opt for paying £50 a month and getting a real service and it cost me nearly £100 to have heart internet be gracious enough to move all of my accounts off his reseller account and onto mine, obviously he made giving me the codes to authorise this very hard work.
IanMacdonald:
I can recommend Siteground
Have been a reseller for years, and had only two or three complaints in that whole time. Our own site is hosted with them. Uses a fair bit of bandwidth for our software downloads. (28GB in September) Typically under a second to open in spite of the obligatory monster graphic on the frontpage. This is running a really fast file based CMS mind you, Wordpress does take a fraction longer.
Servers in various places including London.
Automatic Lets Encrypt setup provided that all domains listed in the cpanel point to the Siteground account. Automated setup of most of the common CMS, and auto security updates on wp/joomla which is really a big security help.
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