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manuelsoy:
I know many hosting companies in which they do a great job, personally I recommend you visit this url where there is a large list of good European hostings and with which you are sure to be very satisfied. At least from there I have removed all the hostings that I have hired in recent years. The website is this https://www.soywebmaster.com/f25/
paulca:
Have you tried your own ISP?  Sometimes they offer fairly basic webhosting, either "FREE*" or for a small fee.  Depending on your ISP they can be fairly reliable.

I am soon in need to web hosting and am mulling over just opening a port and doing it myself again or finding a suitable host, however I will want PHP or Python or... or... and will probably go for a cheap Free Tier or EC2 instance if I don't host at home.
bd139:
I have. They are Zen Internet so you're looking at £4.99 a month for a cPanel jobby.

I have solved this problem now for reference as follows. Decided to bite it off properly and it only took a couple of hours.

1. Deploy a box on DigitalOcean.
2. Point DNS at it with Route53.
3. Secure it properly.
4. Deploy nginx to it and set up lets encrypt.
5. Use rsync to copy the files to the web root.

First three steps are entirely controlled via an ansible playbook driven by a makefile. So basically even if the world catches fire or DO lose the box:

1. make box # deploys the whole thing from scratch or normalizes config.
2. make update # apply all updates
3. make deploy # update web content from local working copy.

Fuck Amazon's EC2 offerings. You run out of CPU credits applying SELinux policy on first update on the t2.micro instances.
paulca:

--- Quote from: bd139 on January 10, 2018, 12:13:18 pm ---Fuck Amazon's EC2 offerings. You run out of CPU credits applying ******* policy on first update on the t2.micro instances.

--- End quote ---

Please don't swear.  Only thing I do with S***** is turn it off.  Hateful annoying thing that gets in the way of every single thing you want to do and is even less intuitive to configure than PAM!

It's only of importance in my view if you are going to let randoms login via shell into your server :)

I know a lot of people use it by default, but first thing I usually do is disable it so I can get some work done.

EDIT:  What are the cheap options for shell access hosting these days, asides Amazunk?

EDIT2:  Actually, to hell with it.  A Raspberry PI will host my website at home.  It's all I need.
bd139:
SELinux should NEVER be turned off. If your nginx process gets compromised, it stops the attack being escalated.

https://stopdisablingselinux.com

Shell hosting with UK hosts:

1. Bytemark
2. Linode
3. DigitalOcean

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