Web hosting that doesn't suck?

[SiliconWizard]

Does anyone have any opinion on Godaddy services? I have bought a domain name a while ago through them, but have not set up any web hosting so far.
You can tell me it's complete crap. I just don't know so far. Any advice?

[bd139]

Abysmal. Someone actually wiped "sucks" on the godaddy sign on their office in Slough with dog shit a while ago 

I use gandi.net for domain names usually.

[SiliconWizard]

I use gandi.net for domain names usually.

Alright, thanks. Gandi seems to have better deals as well. I'm having a look.

[welterde]

Yeah email is always a pain.  Even on a dedicated server, as you don't know what the previous owner of that IP may have used it for.   Took me years to get off all the RBLs.  Lot of them also have a 3 strike policy per IP, so sometimes you can't get off at all if the strikes have already been used up by previous customers.

Its just not worth touching email if you can avoid it.

I ran my own server for years.  My inbound was locked to "known mailboxes" only.  So when people sent spam to random@mydomain my mail server rejected them.  Of course the spam was being sent from a bogus address and the host rejected my reject, even though they are not meant to.  The result was around 400Mb of mail queue churning and me being added to at least one black list for "Back scattering".

I am still running my own mail server (and have been for over a decade) and never really ran into that issue.
My mail server rejects unknown mailboxes before accepting them in the first place though (which is the correct way of doing this)  - so don't cause any backscatter..

[andrewmorras]

it would be interesting to read more opinions

[ve7xen]

GitHub Pages is an interesting free option for personal static sites as long as your site fits in 1GB and does less than 100GB of traffic in a typical month. It ticks most of the boxes in the original post, and will build your Jekyll site for you if that's what you're using.

[Red Squirrel]

I will never forgive Godaddy for endorsing elephant poaching, and for being ok with SOPA.  They are on my shit list of companies to never deal with.   

[Trader]

A fun fact... I accessed all the hosting links suggested here (even those with a hidden reference), and all they are very Slow in the US.

If most of your public are from the US you already know what hosting don't to use.

[Sal Ammoniac]

also if you're on AWS and it goes down or fucks up (which it does VERY regularly), unless you pay for their basic support plan, you get McDonalds quality support.

Really? That hasn't been my experience.

Here's the uptime details for my web server on AWS:

[nigelwright7557]

I use Winserve.
Not the best but one of the cheapest.
£7.99 for 5 websites plus databases.

I have tried AWS and Azure but both expensive and not upfront about pricing.
So I just use them for free period then delete websites.

[Red Squirrel]

I've been self hosted for a long time but a bit over a year ago my server got hacked, and when I was setting it up again with fresh OS, it got hacked again while I was in the middle of transferring backups. I was kind of flustered at this point as I had no idea how they were getting into a brand new install so in a pinch I went with a shared host to at least have a landing page and a place for my email, so went with Web Hosting Canada (https://whc.ca/).  I still have not moved everything back to my own server and been with them for a year and so far so good.