Suggestions for cheap reliable web hosting service for multiple static websites. Technologies are WordPress or other technologies such as PHP/ASP/HTML.
Thanks in advance.
Suggestions for Cheap Reliable Web Hosting Service
YB on 02/06/2022 - 23:36
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Thank you for sharing
Thanks for sharing. Is their control panel cpanel or some custom job?
I'm guessing it's not cpanel as the licensing costs are quite expensive.
What is frustrating to use about it?
Custom control panel for your services. Everything is tied to "contracts" and you have to setup a "domain contract" then tie it to a "hosting contract" and it's quite slow and clunky throughout. But like I said, once it is setup, works fine. Just not as clear cut and straight forward account management as say GoDaddy.
cPanel is a hosting control panel and still available. Talking about account management.
IONOS have an unlimited websites, storage and database offer for 12 months at USD 0.5/month. Also includes free domain for 1st year if you want it.
It's a good deal but you can't technically host unlimited websites there there's other resource limits that can restrict the number of sites running.
Their control panel is quite frustrating to use
Yeah it's a bit of a hassle. But not the worst.
integration with Cloudflare is flaky needing repeated tries to setup, but can't beat that price and once it's up and running, pretty solid.
Haven't had any issues myself I'd be curious to know more?
Adding IONOS SSL to a Cloudflare domain doesn't work.
However, Cloudflare SSL doesn't seem to work with IONOS NS either.
So you're stuck without it after days of adding and re-adding to test.
Also getting DNS updated from a Cloudflare domain to IONOS NS has been very painful process and takes days to recognise. Sometimes failing to do so completely.
Only way I have managed to make it work is adding the hosting ip address bypass.
Contacted support several times, never got an answer. Only once got assigned a "personal helper" whom never replied anyway following chase-ups.
Thanks I've worked with one or two clients that had IONOS for their web hosting and I can't remember having any issues with Cloudflare.
I've used these guys in LA for a few years and had no issue: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3432209/#Comment_3…
They specify only DE/USA/SG- LIFETIMES. Would that work here in Australia? would you recommend that for a small business startup with a simple website?
If you have NBN and a static IP, you can host from home…
Yeah not something anyone should be recommending.
I didn't recommend it. I just said it could be done.
Depends on your ISP's SLA… 4G fall back.
I've did it for 15 years. Block of IP's. pfsense firewall. Perms set up properly. dnsec…
Seriously if someone is asking here instead of a Whirlpool, then the likelihood of them having a mission critical or high traffic site is pretty low.
I share a CoLo box here in Perth and cPanel licences are just rude.Seriously if someone is asking here instead of a Whirlpool, then the likelihood of them having a mission critical or high traffic site is pretty low.
The likelihood of someone asking such a question on here instead of Whirlpool or somewhere else means they're most likely going to have minimal knowledge on how to do this correctly and safely.
And when you can get cheap and free solutions that are better than hosting it from home why would you waste your time.
@Kyle-K: Fair call on knowledge, but everyone knows someone…
Because it is basically free once set up and you have full control…
I'm going to hit pause on this tete a tete, and let you win.
Cheers.Fair call on knowledge, but everyone knows someone.
And feel for that poor person that knows this guy and gets roped into helping them with this.
Because it is basically free once set up and you have full control.
It's a lot easier than it used to be and you could probably easily do it on a raspberry pie but the maintenance on going and what the use are probably doesn't know will probably hit them further down the track.
I'm going to hit pause on this tete a tete, and let you win.
It's the Internet mate no one ever really wins and we're already dead inside.
VentraIP dropped their low priced hosting quite some time ago.
That might be the case depending on one's definition of "low priced" but, reliability and the ability to get support if needed are also important things to consider.
Nobody aims to get ripped off, but you generally get what you pay for. What if the host suddenly goes out of business? There goes your website, sure you can set it up elsewhere but that takes time and money and if you are a business and your website is down, well….
I am with them after they closed up their Zuver, sadly, due to "unsustainable pricing" my costs have doubled for hosting.
Seems that is why they closed Zuver. But, support is great, CPanel and more.
Actually cPanel pricing model changes are what led to them closing Zuver. Makes it pretty unfeasible to run budget services at those costs since the changes. Without cutting corners.
Those cPanel ongoing annual price increases plus other industry licensing is why VentraIP pricing is also going to continue to go up.
Unfortunately the quality is not keeping up these days though with support times increasing to about two hours average.
Suggestions for cheap reliable web hosting service for multiple static websites. Technologies are WordPress or other technologies such as PHP/ASP/HTML.
For static website hosting I mostly use Netlify or Cloudflair Pages for free, WordPress are use a cheap nasty hosting package and a static deploy plug-in the traffic never really hits the host it goes via Netlify or Cloudflair Pages.
Seeing as we're on Ozbargain here…. you can't get cheaper than free so Oracle Cloud.
They offer completely free VPSes (so need to set up yourself) - both AMD instances at 1GB RAM, 50mbps NIC throughput and ARM instances up to 4vCPU, 24GB RAM, > gigabit NICs.
Front them with Cloudflare to leverage their global peering for any international visitors and you've an awesome setup for nothing more than an hours work.
IONOS have an unlimited websites, storage and database offer for 12 months at USD 0.5/month. Also includes free domain for 1st year if you want it.
https://www.ionos.com/hosting/web-hosting
Their control panel is quite frustrating to use and integration with Cloudflare is flaky needing repeated tries to setup, but can't beat that price and once it's up and running, pretty solid.