I'm curious what others are paying and what sort of service they get at their web host? Mine uses cPanel & I have email, as well. My site is only a few pages.
Netorigin seems to be really increasing their fees compared with previous years.
Ta
What's a Reasonable Fee for Web Hosting?
Geekomatic on 02/02/2019 - 20:20
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I remember when godaddy and hosgator were popular, but I've always used Icdsoft, $8 per month, very stable. Support is ridiculously fast when you need it.
I use Zuver - Australian web host (they've had deals posted here on OzBargain a few times before) and they've been great. Has cPanel, email and all that.
Support is professional, helpful and prompt to reply back.
I am using the $4 deal for a year hosting 😂 but normally it's about $4 a month or something like that.
Zuver is owned by VentraIP too.
Good people.
Zuver relaunched several weeks ago and if you want a new plan for cPanel that costs $4 a month you sacrifice a lot. Otherwise they have Wordpress hosting packages from $15.83 a month.
I'm with Zuver as well, can't complain.
I had a look at the new plans today, they got expensive, very expensive for a shared cPanel hosting: https://zuver.net.au/web-hosting/
Anyone know— my site is for my business, but I don't use it for more than a "web presence"— no selling online at all, just a way for people to know I'm around.
Must I go for a "business" account? They're all expensive & seem to denote a much larger entity than I am.
If you just want a static website, you're familiar with markdown and/or don't mind doing a bit of research, then consider a free GitHub Page with Jekyll. https://pages.github.com/
Most of that is involved enough that I'd not have time to deal with it AND work. My son is a software engineer and has offered to show me how to host my own server, but there comes a point where you have to decide how thin you want to spread yourself.
I do appreciate your input— but it's a bit beyond me atm.
Ta
Get your son to host it on Azure or AWS which both offer free hosting for basic sites.
My son is a software engineer and has offered to show me how to host my own server, but there comes a point where you have to decide how thin you want to spread yourself.
Hopefully not at home. It also sounds like way too much overkill for your requirements. However you could get a cheap VPS if you are willing to put in the time to learn how to manage your server. But I don't see a need for this specially given the reasons you have outlined in this reply to the above post.
What's your website built-in?
Wordpress. I was in a program at one time that required it, or I might have tried other things. Netorigin used to be fairly inexpensive, it's just recently that they've increased so I thought I'd look around.
I'll respond to everything later, including some stuff on your other posts.
However. I want to address this
Netorigin used to be fairly inexpensive, it's just recently that they've increased so I thought I'd look around.
I'm not aware of any pricing creases over there for at least a year or two I've got a funny feeling that you were on a heavily discounted first invoice which could mean you are receiving a promotional price for up to 3 years and that's just expired.
Otherwise Net Origin is considered one of the more reputable providers offering good service and a good hosting product in the Australian market hosted in Perth Western Australia.
Must I go for a "business" account? They're all expensive & seem to denote a much larger entity than I am.
In general the market in Australia used to break plan types up into two types "Economy" and "Business" really when were talking about cPanel hosting the only difference were the important things you've got more CPU/RAM allocations on business plans then what you got on economy plan.
Now some hosts are still using that model others however moved on.
My biggest question's are, I know you use WordPress and know you use it for business while it's a relatively small wp site I'm guessing you do want some kind of reliability? and a reputable Australian provider? and I'm guessing you also use the same server for email? is email considered a critical business system?
@Geekomatic … whr did u end up in this search … m in same situation nd looking for hosting to build a wordpress site. It wont be very static and i will have to update.
Zuver and VentraIP seems good options but they are expensive.
Just setup your own file server.
I use Azure, around $300 a month or there about.
Primarily I use
For DB/Storage
And then I use Azure DevOps to mange the work, repos, etc.
Starting to use a few of the Cognitive Services for facial recognition, etc.
I could use a VM/VPS/Cpanel for probably around $50 for just the compute power I need, but it'd just kill productivity and the devs would waste a lot more time.
If you have a static site, you can host it for free on Azure