Best hosting 2018?

Posted by jaspergilley on Monday December 03, 2018 @07:57PM
from the self-post dept.

I've had a Bluehost account for several years as it's the easiest way to get a WordPress website up and running quickly. However, Bluehost is severely locked down when it comes to running any kind of real web application (e.g., Django.) Does anyone know of a more versatile (and potentially cheaper?) alternative?

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Re:Best hosting 2018? by zhte415 on Monday December 03, 2018 @10:30PM (#18595907)

The options are vast.

I use Digital Ocean because I like the simplicity (though that simplicity seems to be increasing buried on their front page), their tutorials really are very good (and pretty host-agnostic), and everything just works.

Long long ago I used Dreamhost, who always had a sense of humour.

Transitioning from Dreamhost, I moved to Rimuhosting. They had really excellent and very personal technical support, I've never experienced the type of personal technical support before and/or after. Their RAM is very cheap, their disk very expensive.

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Re:Best hosting 2018? by antoineMoPa on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @11:21PM (#18605663)

I really like Linode. You can run anything you want, it's a tiny VM in the cloud. There is a 5$/month Linode that does the job for any reasonably small project.

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Re:Best hosting 2018? by damm on Monday December 03, 2018 @08:05PM (#18594874)

Well you could use Hetzner if you don't mind it being deployed in Europe.

The amazon hasn't stomped out traditional hosting in any sort of way. Internap can be cheap if you don't mind the contracts; beyond that there's just too many to really list.

Hetzner is just really easy to get small or large servers dedicated for a really cheap price... less than 300 pounds for 24TB of SATA and 4TB of SSD and 128gig of ram.

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Re:Best hosting 2018? by RodgerTheGreat on Monday December 03, 2018 @08:37PM (#18595089)

I've been a user of NearlyFreeSpeech (https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net) for several years, mostly for simple static sites, but in some cases for dynamic content. Totally satisfied with the results.

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Re:Best hosting 2018? by neilsimp1 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @08:05AM (#18599035)

Seconded. Perfect for static sites or small-to-medium PHP sites.

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Re:Best hosting 2018? by kull on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @01:25AM (#18596850)

Digital Ocean, very reliable, affordable and easy to manage. Highly recommended. We are running on DO our B2B startup with a lot of data storage needed, many users and a lot of data processing.

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Re:Best hosting 2018? by sethammons on Thursday December 06, 2018 @01:58PM (#18620945)

Like others, I use Digital Ocean. I get a VM that I can do everything I want on. For me, that is running nginx and several Go projects. You get to do things you might not normally get to play with, like setting up monitoring, service start/stop, lb configs, log handling, etc.

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Re:Best hosting 2018? by NinjaX on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @11:33AM (#18600928)

Go through this guide if you want to host Flask Python.

https://www.reddit.com/r/flask/comments/2321oc/easiest_and_f...

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Re:Best hosting 2018? by brad0 on Monday December 03, 2018 @07:59PM (#18594848)

AWS Lightsail is a good alternative.

https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/

You can see how to deploy WordPress here: https://youtu.be/upZOhKhefAs

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Re:Best hosting 2018? by nik736 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @06:50AM (#18598557)

Don't put any high load on Lightsail or it will throttle hard.

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Re:Best hosting 2018? by p0d on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @03:13PM (#18603217)

I run a business in the Hetzner cloud having moved from Hostgator. Their cloud servers start at 3 euros and run on ssds. 6 months in and I’m very happy.

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Re:Best hosting 2018? by iamthelord on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @05:44PM (#18613476)

Digital ocean

1. Simplicity.

2. Nice detailed setup pages written by DO.

3. Cheap.

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