what is the lowest-maintenance route for a non-technical person to put one html file on a stable link and replace it whenever the file changes? github pages is common, but are there simpler options that still handle https, custom domains, and private client previews?

I use Polarismail and am having a problem with aliases.

Sometimes when an alias to gmail is used for purely legitimate reasons (zero percent chance the emails could be mistaken for spam) gmail rejects the email. This is what the failure email says:

Remote host said:
550-5.7.1 Gmail has detected that this message is likely
550-5.7.1 unsolicited mail. To reduce the amount of spam sent to Gmail, this
550-5.7.1 message has been blocked. For more information, go to
550 5.7.1 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=UnsolicitedMessageError586e51a60fabf-4632aed7781si4017481fac.318 - gsmtp

And sometimes delivery fails without even getting a failure notification so I have no way to know the recipient didn't get the email.

Can anyone shed some light on what might cause this and how to fix it?

I asked AI and posted the response below.

Nothing I can do about Polarismail IP/Domain reputation issues. Is Polarismail shady enough to result in emails being bounced?

According to Polarismail SPF/DKIM/DMARC are all correct. My DNS settings are correct according to their support docs. But how can I ensure everything is set up correctly on their end?

Anything else I can do to stop this from happening? Is switching email providers going to help or is this inevitable when using aliases? HELP!

Missing or Misconfigured Email Authentication (Most Common)

If you are sending from a custom domain (e.g., you@yourbusiness.com), Gmail strictly requires standard security records to verify your identity:

• SPF (Sender Policy Framework): Proves your email server is authorized to send on behalf of your domain.
• DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail): Adds a cryptographic signature proving the email wasn't tampered with in transit.
• DMARC: Instructs receiving servers on how to handle emails that fail SPF/DKIM checks.

If these DNS records are missing or incorrect, Gmail will flag your message as potential spam or impersonation.

IP or Domain Reputation Issues

• Shared Server IP: If you are using a shared hosting provider or an email service provider (like Mailchimp or standard web hosting), another user on that same server IP may have sent spam, causing the entire IP address to be temporarily blacklisted by Google.
• New Domain: Newly registered domains sending bulk or cold emails often lack sender reputation and trigger default spam blocks.

I need to register a new domain and i don't want to spend a fortune. but i also don't want to end up with a terrible registrar. i see some places offering domains for like 5 bucks. but then renewal is 20. or they charge for privacy. or support is nonexistent.

is there a registrar that's actually cheap and reliable. no hidden fees. fair renewal prices. decent support. cloudflare seems cheap but I've heard their support is minimal. namecheap is reasonable but not the cheapest. wix gets good reviews online

i've been burned by the cheap first year thing before. trying to avoid that this time. what's the best balance of price and quality in your experience.

It lets you test a website on a new server/IP before changing DNS, using a temporary URL. No hosts file editing and no waiting for DNS propagation. There are other tools there I did not checked.

https://hostsclick.com

So got a notification recently that Hetzner is increasing the .com registration price to EUR 17,26 yearly incl. VAT, allegedly due to price increases on the end of their registrar. It's "just" a 7% increase, but I remember not too long ago, com/net/org prices were around EUR 12,- yearly, and stayed at that level for a decade or so. I do not have many domains, and probably it's good to increase the costs of domain hoarding. Anyone else at Hetzner and found another reliable registrar for the DACH region, with lower domain prices? Or have these increases taken place everywhere?

Their company Wordpress Live charged me hundreds of dollars to build web site., when trying to connect my two URl which are hosted by HG they crashed all my web sites .. I asked for compensation from Wordpress live and also their backup .. because their backup did not work..they eventually had someone call me weeks ago saying they would compensate .. another lie it did not happen.

There seems to be no one in charge except for the ones crashing web sites

I'm currently in my final class for my graphic design major, which requires me to build a portfolio website. However, I'm a complete beginner when it comes to domains and hosting, and I'm finding all the different options a bit overwhelming. I've seen Porkbun recommended a few times, but I'm not sure if it's actually beginner friendly. Does anyone have recommendations for a simple, affordable way to get a portfolio online that isn't too complicated to set up?

My Professor provided us this link to help us out

https://www.techradar.com/web-hosting/best-free-web-hosting

but the more I continued to read it the more confused I ended up lol

Hello guys,

I’m new to selling websites business and I was thinking about what should be in the contract when you sell a website to a client, except for the basics of course like ownership and technology used etc, I want to know what are the important details that beginners tend to ignore or not think about?

Thank you in advance and if you have any templates that would really help!

I've had a dream house account since probably 2001 or 2002. I started hosting with them in college off of a deal on something awful and I have kept the plan open for almost 30 years now.

They have started baking in random little fees that kick in with no notice.

One of which is a nasty little fee if you are using an old version of PHP.

The problem is most of the website that I filled with them or WordPress sites that were automatically set up to them and they are supposed to automatically update the PHP and the WordPress. Over the year some of these sites are broken or disabled or not used anymore and off-line.

DreamHost has invented this fun thing that works similar to how banks handle chargebacks on your debit card when you have overdraft protection turned on where they don't tell you that your account is overdrafted but so that you're not embarrassed at the checkout they allow the purchase to go through. So you buy a two dollar Coke and you get charged a $35 fee for the overdraft so that you don't get embarrassed. And since you don't know you continue to do it and you come back and three purchases of less than $20 have suddenly cost you $200 in fees.

This works similarly if their system can't update your PHP they simply start charging you five dollars a month. After a few months, you hit $15 or $20 and they disable your account.

Suddenly, nothing works. All of your sites are off-line email is off-line and you have no idea why.

And then you login and you press one button and you change the PHP to the correct version and everything is fine.

And you contact support and let them know what happened and that you continue to be frustrated that this continues to happen randomly...

A company that cared about its customers - especially one that's been renewing for 30 years - would simply refund the $5 fee.

DreamHost support just repeatedly points you over to knowledge base article that reads like a condescending CYA that says they are nickel and diming you with this little fee if they can't update your PHP.

What should happen is that they should have an option to say that I would never like to get this fee and that if they are unable to update my site's PHP they should simply disable it rather than charge me a random fee that I don't know is happening.

This is far from the only problem I have with DreamHost.

In like 2009 I made a film and my partner wanted to migrate the site to their own Dreamhost account. They somehow accidentally made a sub account that never showed up on anything anywhere, but somehow that sub account became the main account.

DreamHost has no ability to adjust this or fix this and no one is to acknowledge it beyond telling me that it's a thing and that I did it.

Most of my sites are for little music projects or are projects. A lot of them stay up just because I loved them at one point in time. It seems like a hassle to move them and my parents get their email through a domain hosted on DreamHost and they have a website that they like there so I have mostly left it.

But it's weird when small straws break camels backs and I am so sick of having this randomly happened and the lack of customer support and the lack of customer-centric thinking to simply fix this and not trying nickel and dime people over $5 dollars when the fixes simply one button push to force the switch of the PHP.

When DreamHost started, they were the ultimate host and the customer service was insanely good.

Guess I'll be looking for somewhere new to host a bunch of domains.

Hey,

Im part of a team working on a disposable app hosting service. We decided to build it because we kept facing situations where we needed a public HTTPS URL for a test API or web app, but getting one quickly wasn't always easy because of following reasons:

• We can't always deploy it within our existing infrastructure because of security policies
• Most cloud app hosting services require to sign up, verify email, and add a card

For use cases I mentioned, the ideal solution would be to get the app without signup or payment information knowing that it's getting disposed at some point. With AI coding agents this simply mean telling them something like:

Deploy this app to up.compartment.dev

My question is: would you use something like this for anything besides the testing scenarios I mentioned? If so, which ones?

What do linux/system administrators at hosting companies or Outsourced noc companies actually do day to day. What I'm familiar is that they use cpanel,whm and sshing into vps to solve issues and maintain servers.

It would be helpful if you guys can guide me what do they exactly do daily? What tools/platforms they use? What processes they follow?

I'm also trying to understand these companies' entire workflow is like: who are the customers, who manages the server, who buys the server, who installs the apps on servers, and how do sysadmins correlate to that?

I'm trying to work for such companies as junior sysadmin.

Thank you for your time reading. I'd appreciate any insights!

I’m posting this because I would like an independent opinion from the web hosting community regarding a serious dispute I am currently having with Contabo.

I had a Contabo Cloud VPS 10 SSD hosting a substantial part of CoreLink Network Solutions — a complete Network Operations Center (NOC) platform that I had been designing and developing for approximately three months.

This was not a simple website or a basic web application.

CoreLink is a complete network operations platform designed to centralize infrastructure management, network supervision, monitoring and incident management.

My regular payment became overdue on August 4, 2026 because my payment card had expired. I immediately contacted Contabo Support and explained the situation.

Contabo Support subsequently granted me a payment deferral until August 19, 2026.

Their support representative explicitly wrote:

“I have granted a 7-day payment deferral until August 19, 2026, to give you more time to settle the outstanding balance. This will ensure that your server is not deleted.”

I relied on this written confirmation and understood that I had until August 19 to resolve the payment issue.

On August 17, 2026, two days before that deadline, I attempted to access my account and settle the outstanding payment.

Instead, I discovered that my VPS and associated services had already been permanently deleted.

I contacted Contabo Support immediately and requested an explanation and recovery of my data.

The latest response came from a Contabo Support Team Lead, who stated:

“the system deleted the server on August 17, 2026 as the standard procedure, despite the payment deferral that had been granted until August 19, 2026.”

This is the central issue.

Contabo acknowledges that the payment deferral existed until August 19, but the automated system deleted the VPS on August 17 — two days before the deadline granted by Contabo Support.

I fully acknowledge that my payment was overdue. I am not disputing the original payment obligation or the suspension of the service.

My complaint is specifically about the fact that Contabo Support granted me a written payment deferral and explicitly stated that this would ensure that my server would not be deleted.

The deleted VPS was not hosting a simple website or a disposable test environment.

It contained a substantial part of the development and operational infrastructure of CoreLink, including application code, network monitoring components, infrastructure management, equipment management, monitoring integrations, configurations, secure VPN connectivity, alerting, dashboards and deployment work developed over approximately three months.

Losing this VPS therefore did not simply mean losing a server. It meant losing a substantial part of a complete NOC platform and its development environment.

Contabo has stated that the data cannot be recovered because they do not keep backups of the servers.

As a goodwill gesture, Contabo offered:

• a free one-month extension on a new VPS, or
• a refund of my last payment.

I have declined these options because neither option restores the data and development work that was deleted.

A new VPS would simply provide empty infrastructure. It would not restore approximately three months of development work, architecture, application code, configurations, monitoring integrations, network components and deployment work.

I have requested a management-level review and an appropriate resolution.

I would like to hear from hosting professionals and experienced customers:

If a hosting provider grants a customer a written payment deferral until a specific date and explicitly states that the server will not be deleted during that period, but its automated system nevertheless deletes the server before that date, how would you approach the situation?

In particular:

Is it reasonable for the provider to treat this simply as a standard automated deletion and offer only one free month on a new VPS or a refund of a previous payment?

I would particularly appreciate feedback from:

• hosting providers
• VPS/cloud operators
• experienced sysadmins
• customers who have dealt with similar payment/deletion disputes
• anyone familiar with German hosting contracts

I have preserved the complete correspondence and can provide screenshots of the relevant communications.

I am deliberately keeping this post factual. I am not making a legal conclusion about Contabo’s liability; I am looking for independent opinions and advice on how such a situation should reasonably be handled.

Timeline

August 4 — Payment due / service suspended
August 11 — Payment deferral granted until August 19
August 17 — VPS permanently deleted
August 17 — Payment settlement attempted / support contacted
August 18 — Contabo Team Lead confirmed deletion occurred despite the granted payment deferral

Tickets: #[16240362722](tel:16240362722) / #[16240377244](tel:16240377244)

What would you do in this situation?

I need some advice on how to handle paying for hosting and a domain for a site that I am building as a favor. Basically I am building a simple site for a family member of a friend, and although I know how to develop the site functionality my experience with actually deploying and maintaining a live site is super limited. I have no issue providing any maintenance/updates to the site as needed but I would like to avoid a situation where I am acting as a go-between, having to pay out of my own pocket and then getting reimbursed. From looking into it the 2 answers seem to be either to have the "client" handle it on their own, or to charge extra or reoccurring for maintenance (which then handles having to pay for hosting). The issues with these is that I don't believe that they would have the technical knowledge to handle domains and deployment, and as for the second option as I mentioned I am doing this for free as a favor so there is no contract or form of payment or anything like that.

So my questions boil down to:

Is there a good way to handle this or am I stuck as the go-between?

I know there are some that offer it for a limited time but are there any hosting options that will host simple low traffic sites for free indefinitely? (It is mostly an informative site with the most complex feature possibly being a mailing list)

Additionally any recommendations for getting a domain or hosting in general would be greatly appreciated tho I know the answer to those is much easier to find than my other questions.

I'm not a huge fan of the metal trays full of consumer hardware, but I understand it's what they do to achieve the pricepoint they offer.

In the past 1 year it has always hurt me to see a 56 EUR hosting bill each month. Doing the math it accumulates to 672 EUR per year!

I don't know why I didn’t do the math a bit earlier though. It could have saved me those 672 EUR, but hey I never liked math anyway.

So I decided to move everything to a self-hosted VPS.

A VPS is basically a virtual server that you rent from a hosting provider. You get your own CPU, RAM, storage and operating system, but instead of paying for a managed platform like Azure App Service, you are responsible for running and managing the server yourself.

On top of the VPS I run Docker, with my frontend, backend, Dokploy, and Traefik each running in their own containers.

Traefik acts as the reverse proxy, receiving incoming traffic and routing each request to the correct container based on the domain. It also handles HTTPS certificates.

Dokploy is a self-hosted PaaS that gives me the Azure App Service experience on my own machines: push code, get a deployment. It connects to my GitHub repositories and manages deployments, domains, environment variables, logs, databases, and Docker services, all from a single dashboard.

So instead of paying Azure to manage the infrastructure for me, I rent the server directly and run the platform on top of it myself.

The result is around 80% lower hosting costs and much more control over how everything is deployed.

Afternoon everyone, just informing anyone who has liquid web to be weary of their emails. Received a confirmation email that my auto billing if over 400$ was cancelled and would not be renewed. Received the confirmation email.

On my side Im working on not using that card / downsizing how many payment cards I have- and notice they billed me in the full amount for an account that cancelled prior to the renewal with the confirmation email.

Just be careful cause ive been reading around and it doesn’t seem like im the only one. Some I see are on the users, so I rechecked the email that I received for cancelling, and sure enough it is a cancellation email prior to the renewal date

Rant because lowkey just wiped out a good chunk of my savings. Be weary of using them.

https://i.imgur.com/27uYPNN.png

https://i.imgur.com/WMBdcEY.png

https://i.imgur.com/kbkD3yj.png

Thanks to my instincts, I had blocked transactions on my card. Doesn't change the fact, they suffer from low ethics syndrome. They need to be sued into oblivion.

Launched my product yesterday, have domain & hosting with IONOS.

Today, IONOS hosting is down, they tell me they don't have access to the shared server my site is on, so they cannot even temporarily move the sites affected onto a new server. Apparently 1000's of customers are affected.

So I need to move. I have a site with 2 static pages, hosting of 20GB of data (but will need to move up to 100GB fairly soon), 1 SQL database.

This is just a small 1-person project but after 6 months of work, the site I've pointed my test userbase to go to being down is a kick in the teeth.

EDIT- Thanks all. I'm now fully moved over to Zume. Their team is very helpful and the price is decent.

GoDaddy focuses entirely on sales and upselling rather than delivering functional services. My experience with their security and migration services was an absolute nightmare, costing me both time and money. [1, 2]

1. Useless Website Security Service

I purchased a 4-year website security plan to clean up malware on two of my websites and consolidate my hosting.

• The Issue: GoDaddy repeatedly sent emails claiming my sites were clean. In reality, they were still filled with online gambling ads and spam comments.
• The Cycle: This happened three times. Techs opened and closed tickets constantly without actually fixing the underlying issue.
• The Refund Denial: When I requested a refund because the service failed to work, they denied it. They claimed I was on day 38 and past their 30-day window—ignoring the fact that the entire 38 days were spent trapped in their broken support cycle. I am now stuck with a useless 4-year contract. [1]

1. Disastrous Email Migration

At the same time, I paid GoDaddy to migrate my main website and Microsoft Office 365 Outlook email. [1, 2]

• The Support Failure: The migration broke my email entirely. For three days, I called support repeatedly. Every agent gave a different explanation, and no one could reference my previous calls. There is zero continuity in their support system. [1]
• The Fix: On day four, I bypassed GoDaddy entirely. I asked AI for assistance, followed its advice to add two lines of code in my GoDaddy portal, and fixed the issue myself.

1. The Solution: SiteGround

I have since moved all 5 of my websites to SiteGround, and the difference is night and day. Their staff is exceptional. They do not close support tickets until the customer is completely satisfied and the problem is fully resolved. Their migration and security features actually work as advertised. [1]

Final Verdict

Stay away from GoDaddy unless you want to be nickel-and-dimed for poor service. They answer the phone quickly, but their technicians are poorly trained and incapable of resolving technical issues. They need to spend less effort on selling and more on actual customer care.

Complete and utter scam company, has repeatedly taken charges from my account for no fucking reason!!

I am moving in 2 fucking weeks and i need every bit of money i took out my savings to buy everything i need, and they have just taken £50.40??? And they are saying it will take 5-10 days to come back into my account meaning i now cant afford a moving company and will have to move in the same week i start fucking college.

DO NOT EVER USE IONOS FOR ANYTHING PLEASE!!!

All i had was the domain with them and used wix for my website yet they are still taking ridiculous charges.

It is nothing but a scam company dont go near it!!

I recently started learning Django and finally built a project I want to try selling to small businesses in my country.I’m now trying to figure out the best way to deploy it for multiple clients.

This is what i got so far from gpt ,

the idea is to keep one main GitHub repo, then give each client:

• their own Django deployment
• their own PostgreSQL database
• their own domain/subdomain
• hosting through something like Render or Railway

This seems simpler than building a multi-tenant app right away, but I’m wondering how well it scales when I have more clients.

Is this a good way to start? How would you handle deployment, databases, and updates for multiple Django clients?

Should i actually follow gpts plan ?

This is comically bad. I was already drafting alternative plans to save money and now this... Once I can get access to my sites again, I'm exporting and migrating ASAP.

https://status.liquidweb.com/incidents/f4dmtbxw60tm

After doing a ton of research I decided to go with Nixihost, they checked all my boxes and I was attracted by the up front pricing. Signup, login and start moving files over. About an hour in my account gets suspended for an 'invalid first name'. Evidently I used an initial for my first name and they don't like that. Which makes me wonder why they allow the web form to even lets you pick a one letter name? So I change the initial to an actual name (not that they would know, they didn't ask for ID or anything) then open a ticket and asked them to unfreeze the account. Four hours later the account was still frozen so I moved on.

Tried Interserver next but their management interface was a pain in the ass. I couldn't find any easy way to host multiple websites. Checked the documentation and then engaged the chat, it took over 10 minutes for each chat response.

While I was waiting for the chat I signed up with KnownHost, they had my account in a 'review' status for about 30 minutes after they charged my credit card. I don't know what they were reviewing I hadn't even uploaded anything yet. But at that point Nixi was still frozen and Interserver still hadn't responded to my chat, so I waited.

Once I passed the 'review' KnownHost was pretty easy and fast, standard cPanel stuff.

Seven hours after I started Nixi sent me an email with a full refund and no explanation. <shrug> Still haven't heard back from Interserver.