hosting a site, any recommends, or outfits to avoid?
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I need a site host with a modest enough cost that i can justify it to Himself (as well as myself). I don't need anything fancy, but i do want some control. Preferably i can stick a docker container on it. I heard GoDaddy is no bueno these days, but i don't know if I'd rely on that statement. Does anyone here have any recent experience with hosting that can share? I already have a domain name, and I'd prefer to keep it with my current provider.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Liquid Six, I can't recommend them too highly. You can stick with your existing domain name registrar or transfer it to them, they're easy either way. They are a Windows shop, so if MS SQL server and ASP.NET are your bag then happy days, but they also support PHP and MySQL. Best of all, they are *highly* technically competent and provide excellent support, something I found conspicuously lacking with my previous hosting provider (which is why I moved, they were a waste of space). Also, they offer a range of packages and their pricing is competitive. I'm not affiliated with them in any way, just a fan. You might have a problem with docker though, you'd have to ask. What do you need it for (just curious)?
Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk
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I need a site host with a modest enough cost that i can justify it to Himself (as well as myself). I don't need anything fancy, but i do want some control. Preferably i can stick a docker container on it. I heard GoDaddy is no bueno these days, but i don't know if I'd rely on that statement. Does anyone here have any recent experience with hosting that can share? I already have a domain name, and I'd prefer to keep it with my current provider.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
I've recently switched to CloudFlare Access for on-prem hosting with their encryption tunnels, behind a zero-trust sign-on. Apart from the domain name ($8 a year) and the time invested to set it up, I don't pay for anything. I have used Azure, AWS and Google Cloud before that, but I honestly can't justify the cost for personal projects. Private hosting, in general, makes no sense to me due to the costs involved and the lackluster control.
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Seems expensive. I ended up going with OVH for $4.19 a month for 2 years. It's a VPS so I can put docker on it and do what I need to. The site is currently a single page with one form and some links. It doesn't need Azure.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I need a site host with a modest enough cost that i can justify it to Himself (as well as myself). I don't need anything fancy, but i do want some control. Preferably i can stick a docker container on it. I heard GoDaddy is no bueno these days, but i don't know if I'd rely on that statement. Does anyone here have any recent experience with hosting that can share? I already have a domain name, and I'd prefer to keep it with my current provider.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I need a site host with a modest enough cost that i can justify it to Himself (as well as myself). I don't need anything fancy, but i do want some control. Preferably i can stick a docker container on it. I heard GoDaddy is no bueno these days, but i don't know if I'd rely on that statement. Does anyone here have any recent experience with hosting that can share? I already have a domain name, and I'd prefer to keep it with my current provider.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Curious, are you getting container management with that or is it just a bare metal Ubuntu VM? Granted, many of us don't need that out of the box, but I've found that starting with a more robust model may be worth it in the long run.
Bare metal debian I believe. It's not a container managed system, but the site is dockerized so we can just deploy docker on the VPS.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Seems expensive. I ended up going with OVH for $4.19 a month for 2 years. It's a VPS so I can put docker on it and do what I need to. The site is currently a single page with one form and some links. It doesn't need Azure.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Is OVH the one with the free egress bandwidth? That's the hidden cost, in a lot of cloud providers. But if what you're doing is very low-scale (dev/test playground type stuff) you can often get by with AWS free-tier, using their micro instances.. and something like Cloudflare (free CDN) for static files, to minimize bandwidth costs.
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I need a site host with a modest enough cost that i can justify it to Himself (as well as myself). I don't need anything fancy, but i do want some control. Preferably i can stick a docker container on it. I heard GoDaddy is no bueno these days, but i don't know if I'd rely on that statement. Does anyone here have any recent experience with hosting that can share? I already have a domain name, and I'd prefer to keep it with my current provider.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
I am using PeoplesHost for my wife's new business site and am finding it very good. Technical support has been excellent so far. Stay away from BlueHost if you are looking to host WordPress. Though recommended by WordPress, the recommendation must have come sometime ago as my recent experiences with this site were a nightmare. Tried to migrate my own WordPress business site using the BlueHost WordPress site migration tool and was told that my WordPress site was not a WordPress site. Go figure... Tech support was quite poor and their management interfaces are a mess. Used WinHost several years back and never a problem with good tech support. A little on the pricey side now given their database size limitations...
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Is OVH the one with the free egress bandwidth? That's the hidden cost, in a lot of cloud providers. But if what you're doing is very low-scale (dev/test playground type stuff) you can often get by with AWS free-tier, using their micro instances.. and something like Cloudflare (free CDN) for static files, to minimize bandwidth costs.
I would, but I don't know if I want the buyin of a cloud. With my VPS I can set it up how I want - put my docker in and I just know it will work, and I can grow my site with them, and it's cheap, and I don't have to worry about them pulling my "free" hosting because I'm taking paypal donations or something. :) I don't know what egress bandwidth is. I'm kinda stupid at all this.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I need a site host with a modest enough cost that i can justify it to Himself (as well as myself). I don't need anything fancy, but i do want some control. Preferably i can stick a docker container on it. I heard GoDaddy is no bueno these days, but i don't know if I'd rely on that statement. Does anyone here have any recent experience with hosting that can share? I already have a domain name, and I'd prefer to keep it with my current provider.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I would, but I don't know if I want the buyin of a cloud. With my VPS I can set it up how I want - put my docker in and I just know it will work, and I can grow my site with them, and it's cheap, and I don't have to worry about them pulling my "free" hosting because I'm taking paypal donations or something. :) I don't know what egress bandwidth is. I'm kinda stupid at all this.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
> I don't know what egress bandwidth is. It's about US$0.10 per gigabyte, most cloud providers. :P (Varies based on datacenter region.) I haven't tried OVH but iirc their model is based more on throttling internet gateway traffic (100 mbps or 250 mbps for their smallest virts) instead of charging for it. It's a nice option, if that fits with your intended use.
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Bare metal debian I believe. It's not a container managed system, but the site is dockerized so we can just deploy docker on the VPS.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
Interesting, I'll have to take a look. I recently set up a proof-of-concept demo on AWS and decided on a bare bones Debian VM. I've set up several Debian VMs, so it made sense. Not to the level of needing Docker at this point. It was a strategic mistake. I should have chosen a LAMP server and then removed the DB. I'm used to the default Debian install and building everything from scratch was painful. It was my own fault for underestimating bare bones, lol. Be curious to hear how it works out for you.
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Interesting, I'll have to take a look. I recently set up a proof-of-concept demo on AWS and decided on a bare bones Debian VM. I've set up several Debian VMs, so it made sense. Not to the level of needing Docker at this point. It was a strategic mistake. I should have chosen a LAMP server and then removed the DB. I'm used to the default Debian install and building everything from scratch was painful. It was my own fault for underestimating bare bones, lol. Be curious to hear how it works out for you.
It should be pretty smooth but I'll find out shortly when I get everything set up.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.