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amspire:

--- Quote from: IanMacdonald on October 03, 2017, 10:25:12 pm ---I can recommend Siteground

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I suspect they are excellent. I was with Site5 for many years (before they were sold) and had exceptional support, and I gather that many of the best Site5 people went to Siteground. At Site5, most tickets were responded within 1 hour and the replies were from very technically competent people. I imaging Siteground is similar.

The main reason I didn't move to Siteground was I wanted a reseller package and their credit system just didn't work for me.

The problem I had  was that I sometime need to make a temporary site for say one week and then shut it down. At Siteground, if you set up a site for one year or one day on a reseller package, you use up a full credit (about $42). So if I set up a site for one week, for low traffic use, it will cost something like $42 for that one credit, whereas with other reseller packages, I can more or less do it for free.

In the cases the Siteground prices work for you, I think it would be a really great choice.
Corporate666:

--- Quote from: IanMacdonald on October 03, 2017, 10:25:12 pm ---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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I am going through this right now (looking for a new host) and SiteGround pissed me off a bit.  I was trying to decide between AWS/VPS/LightSail and SiteGround.  They don't offer a free trial on their site, but they have a 30-day money back guarantee - but to get that, you have to pay for a year of hosting up front, then apply for a refund if you don't like.  If you do their month by month plan, it's pre-pay and they charge $25 setup, so if you don't like it - you lose the setup fee plus first month.

I partially went through the signup process, then they emailed me asking why I didn't finish.  I asked about a one month trial, they said they don't do that.  So I signed up for AWS.. then they emailed me again a few days later offering a 30-day free trial.

I f*cking hate that sales bullshit.  If you do a free trial, just offer that up front!  It especially pissed me off that I told the damn salesman I would like a trial to check it out and he told me they don't do trials... 2 days before I got the email from him offering a free trial.



I am surprised to hear about people dissing AWS in this thread - but I don't really know whose good and who isn't.  AWS rates highly for throughput, latency and uptime (LightSail is just a stripped down ECS instance)... I know a lot of high-end enterprise stuff running on EC2.  Can AWS really be bad?

I'm wondering if I should do that 30-day SiteGround trial after all... still annoyed by their sales bullshit though.
cdev:
Its a totally viable approach now to host sites on a raspberry Pi 3, and back it up to a real hard drive at regular intervals. The newer Pis combined with a decent USB disk have the power to serve up a fairly complex, low to medium traffic site.  Its a lot more power than what people used to use.
Naguissa:
I'm using a dedicated box with 2 or 4 gigs of ram and unlimited bandwith on online.net (France) and costs less than 11€/month vat included. For better servers and support I use hetzner.de (Germany).

But you have to install, configure and maintain them.

Enviado desde mi Jolla mediante Tapatalk

sleemanj:
Regards ssl.  Letsencrypt works fine, I use it on my ec2 hosted sites*

More recently cPanel also automatically issue free (legit, not self-signed) ssl certificates for sites on cPanel servers since they became a signer, like lets encrypt they are short-expiry certs, but the cPanel setup auto renews them.  Name based SSL of course, but I think that enough browsers support this decade old technology now.

* Contrary to opinion on page 1, I have plenty of sites run just fine on lowly micro or even nano ec2 instances, IF you take the time  to set them up of course,  nightly snapshots, home on an ebs also housing the mysql and cron spool, appropriate apache, php and mysql config for instance size,  fail2ban rules to kick useless seo leech bots and basic dos protection, practice doing an instance swap (and/or be prepared to go to load balancing setup) if it hits the fan and you need to step it up... of course for a one-off site a turn-key solution is better, but when i have sites unsuited to shared hosting, ec2 is my go-to.
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