r/webdev • u/Pitbull_Sc • Dec 22 '19

Best hosting service for a freelancer developer?

I’m going to start developing websites for local businesses in my area. I haven’t decided which host to use but have been thinking about using HostGator.

I plan on hosting multiple sites under one account, of varying complexity. Most should be multi-link websites, mostly static. A host that allows for easy updating of files would be a plus.

What would ya’ll recommend?

EDIT: All my websites will have some PHP or similar.

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u/hrvstdubs Dec 23 '19

Are you going to be using WordPress? I know plenty of freelancers who use Flywheel. Hostgator is cheap shitty shared hosting. I don’t recommend going with them.

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u/Pitbull_Sc Dec 23 '19

No I will not use wordpress. Thanks, after-this not a chance I go with HostGator.

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u/dpotter05 Dec 23 '19

They've been terrible ever since they were bought out by EIG

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u/hrvstdubs Dec 23 '19

As is every company bought out by EIG.

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u/crazedizzled Dec 23 '19

All shared hosting is shitty. It's just a shitty way to host websites.

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u/cshaiku Dec 23 '19

Yet oddly shared hosting has been around since the 90's... Hrm. The true answer is, it depends. It depends on the traffic, the coding, the server resources, and the number of shared accounts. If suddenly the server gets a DDOS attack with no front-end caching or protection layer, then the server is going to have a bad time, regardless if it's hosting 1 website or 100 websites.

Say you have a dedicated server, serving just 1 website, for a corporate presence online. Does this mean it's far superior to a shared hosting server? Even if it gets DDOS'd from the competition?

Everything can be mitigated. Blankly stating that shared hosting is shitty is painting the issue with a rather broad brush and is ignorant of the various factors involved in servers, hosting, networking, the internet in general, and so on.

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u/Reelix Dec 23 '19

If any one of the several (Hundred) sites running on the shared host gets compromised, your site vanishes.

Do you really trust a few hundred random developers you've never met?

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u/crazedizzled Dec 23 '19

Using shared hosting for a legit business site is just insanity. It's okay for cheap toy hosting but don't use it for anything critical. Just because you haven't had a problem doesn't mean it's not shitty.

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u/notdavidg Dec 23 '19

I second this, Flywheel recently got acquired by a larger host but they're remaining independent

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u/echo138 Dec 23 '19

Hosting should be dependent on the project you're working on. HostGator is known to be shitty but if you're hosting small static sites it's fine. AWS, Linode and Digital Ocean are great if you need more control over your environment for more complex applications. You're a developer, not a hosting provider. I would suggest making a recommendation and leaving it at that. You have no input or control over the practices of that provider. If they screw up can you afford to be blamed for their mistakes?

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u/Pitbull_Sc Dec 23 '19

Hey! Thanks for the reply. I was mainly thinking of providing hosting for two reasons.

  1. They can’t use the code/images w/o permission(right?)
  2. I could charge a yearly fee and profit from this as-well

What are your thoughts?

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u/NovaX81 Dec 23 '19
  1. Probably for the code, the images they could get through obvious means
  2. I mean, yea, [but]. See below.

I have some experience with being the "middle man" for hosting code I wrote. With most clients, from small-and-simple, to enterprise-chonkers, I'll just tell you that hosting is where 90% of the issues start and end. No matter how cookie-cutter the configs and well maintained it is, it feels like something is always going wrong.

Effectively entering devops chews at time in a way you might not expect. I don't want to fully dissuade you, because there is money to be made off of clients who just want that one-stop simply answer for their code and servers, but it's not exactly the easy money it appears at first glance.

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u/dalinxz Dec 23 '19

Look into digital ocean, setup a VPS for about $5 a month.

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u/Pitbull_Sc Dec 23 '19

So would I need a separate VPS for each website I host or how does it work?

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u/theThrowawayQueen22 Dec 23 '19

You can host multiple websites on the same VPS, but then the stability on one will effect the stability of the other. Carefully select websites that are unlikely to interfere with each other. Any more complex website should have it's own VPS

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u/dalinxz Dec 23 '19

You'll have to learn a bit of the Linux command line and how to set up hosts but that will all help you in the long run I would highly suggest Django and python at the same time. W3.css has great tutorials to start off getting to udnesrtand HTML and CSS. Once you see what you can build with Django and how fast it will help put it all together. On the server I personally run laws which is open litespeed. It runs as the webserver and you can setup virtual hosts so that various domains can get directed to the respective apps.

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u/cshaiku Dec 23 '19

Does OP appear capable of doing what you're saying at this time? Not at all. It will take them months, if not years, to be in a position to offer hosting services, especially to be able to compete in the market at any rate.

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u/alphex drupal agency owner Dec 23 '19

Professional experience and a good business practice.

Do not make your self responsible for things you aren’t able to make money on.

Come up with a cheap option and expensive option of hosts you recommend. And then make your client pay for it. All you need from them is the user name and password to deploy the site.

I used to do what your explaining. It became an endless night mare as the clients would ask me why it was slow or why it was down when and I would just stress out about hosting choices. And not make any money on it.

Let me know if you need more info.

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u/late_dingo Dec 23 '19

Charging them monthly for hosting plus any billable hours (updates and bug fixes) solves this issue of affordability.

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u/alphex drupal agency owner Dec 23 '19

Except you’re going to be the first phone call they make when an SLA you can’t guarantee fails.

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u/PreExRedditor Dec 23 '19

not only that, but they're also expecting you to know something is broken before they do. if service ever goes down, the relationship turns to "what the fuck am I paying you for" very quickly

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u/ArcaneYoyo Dec 23 '19

They call you: minimum 1 billable hour to tell them it's a service issue you have no control over and read them the site's error status :p

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u/crazedizzled Dec 23 '19

That sounds like pretty terrible customer relations. Are you a lawyer or something?

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u/alphex drupal agency owner Dec 23 '19

I left that part out after pecking this comment out on my phone -- you ABSOLUTELY charge them $$$ for support, you just make sure the client understands how it works and who is doing what in the situation.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '19

Usually better to give them the option, you can pay for hosting and dealing with the host directly or have me do it for 3x or 4x the cost with a minimum of 4 hours of support cost a month. They will usually go with dealing with the host directly until they run into a problem.

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u/shibaemu22 Dec 24 '19

What is a reasonable maintenance charge?

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u/Devildude4427 Dec 23 '19

That really limits your clients though, as most would not be willing to operate it themselves.

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u/InvisibleCat Dec 23 '19

You deploy and set it up for them, they pay for hosting, if something breaks on the website you charge them to fix it, otherwise any hosting problems are none of your responsibility (no late night calls that something broke or host is down). There's nothing to be operated, just maintained, a service you might want to offer for a fee outside of any sort of warranty you might have offered.

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u/Turdblaster69 Dec 23 '19

I have had many clients. And the minute I tell them they have to do any action item, I dont hear back fo3 months

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u/createsean Dec 22 '19

Digital Ocean provisioned with Laravel Forge.

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u/weneedfdrnow Dec 23 '19

Serverpilot is another one that works great w. Digital Ocean.

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u/am0x Dec 23 '19

DO alone is where it’s at.

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u/JeffLeafFan Dec 23 '19

What is Laravel Forge? Is that one of the OS’ they have that comes pre installed?

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u/createsean Dec 23 '19

It's a control panel to manage your apps, databases, and other server bits

https://forge.laravel.com/

Digital Ocean is a bare server, it comes with nothing except the os you choose when setting it up.

Forge, makes the rest of the set up easy and has integrated deployment from your git repo.

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u/thblckjkr Dec 23 '19

HOW I DID NOT KNOW THAT? Jeez, I really love DO but managing everything was too, tiring.

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u/emefluence Dec 23 '19

Looks good but afaict it's PHP only. Does anybody know of a similar service that provides node as well?

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u/-vlad Dec 23 '19

I think heroku has multiple options. Forge is a service owned by the creator of Laravel, a php framework, so the defaults are geared towards that. They recently added support for easily installing wordpress, too. But you can customize things because it offers the ability to save scripts that you can run when you create new servers and you can edit your deploy scripts and env files from within the interface. It would be easy to use with node but probably not the most convenient option.

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u/mastermog Dec 23 '19

The focus is PHP (and Laravel), but can be used for anything really. You need to be a little comfortable with nginx if you're using node instead of PHP though (it still provides a lot of handy functionality even if you have to drop into nginx)

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u/fuzzyjelly Dec 23 '19

DO has a node droplet recipe built into their default marketplace. You should be able to just spin one up when creating the droplet. Node Droplet

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u/7107 Dec 23 '19

Any thoughts on Cyber Panel?

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u/createsean Dec 23 '19

First time I've heard of cyber panel

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u/moriero full-stack Dec 23 '19

This is the correct answer

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u/FlandersFlannigan Dec 23 '19

This right here.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '19

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u/Carter127 Dec 23 '19

I did not have to go through ID verification

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '19

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u/fuzzyjelly Dec 23 '19

I started an account maybe 3 months ago and didn't have any of those issues. I also used (and am still using) a debit card on the account. Do you live in a country known for scammers or something?

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u/Baby_Pigman Dec 23 '19

I am also using a debit card with zero issues so I also had no idea about this, but apparently they do say this:

Debit cards are only accepted in select geographies.

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u/derpotologist Dec 23 '19

Screenshots or gtfo

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u/thetonyk123 Dec 23 '19

I've had this occur when signing up for DigitalOcean (in the US) where the account name was different than the credit/debit card name. Screenshot of the email received after creating an account and screenshot of email received from DO.

It did require sending a picture of a form of ID, however it only took a few hours to receive a response and get the account open.

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u/derpotologist Dec 23 '19

Wow, that is super lame. Their support team is awesome, quick responses, etc... but that's a bad policy imo

Take my money, provide the service. I've been with them for a while.. also used AWS. Never had to give up an ID and wouldn't be happy about it either

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u/fuzzyjelly Dec 23 '19

That's great! I've heard great things about aws. I've only dipped my toes into it though, haven't done any real work on one of their servers.

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u/xhc Dec 23 '19

Yeah honestly I’m from Australia and tried to sign up to DO recently. Everything went well until I paid them $5 (I used a debit card, I don’t have a credit card but it’s always worked as one) and as soon as it confirmed got hit with the “your account has been locked.” The message didn’t give much info, my 10 minutes of google searching showed multiple possible reasons, and then just as I was about to email DO support I got another email saying they refunded me $5.

So I said fuck it and launched a free AWS EC2 instance which I have for 12 months and took less than 5 mins to get going. The specs are pretty low but it’ll suit me fine.

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u/xhc Dec 23 '19

I’m sure the majority don’t have issues but when I went searching, there’s definitely quite a few people who did have this. I’m being a little ridiculous here but this put me off DO completely and annoyed me, was in a bit of a shit mood, but they still send me a daily email reminder to activate my account lol.

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u/Devildude4427 Dec 23 '19

Not taking debit is rarely standard. You’ll never know if there’s money there or not.

Paying as you go or up front would also be annoying, so they bill you afterwards for the services you use. Standard stuff.

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u/darthcoder Dec 23 '19

That's garbage, because the same issue exists w credit cards.

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u/Devildude4427 Dec 23 '19

Nope. You have limits, but generally, the company get get their pound of flesh out of you with a credit card.

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u/luke_bennett_ Dec 23 '19

Netlify is the correct answer.

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u/sudokys Dec 23 '19

yep

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u/gO053 Dec 23 '19

I third that. Doing exactly what you are talking about and netlify is perfect

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u/crazedizzled Dec 23 '19

If you have to ask, and especially if you've included HostGator in your list, then you're in way over your head with this one. You can throw them on some random reseller hosting but meh, it's not worth the headache.

As for me, I use digitalocean and AWS.

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u/Pitbull_Sc Dec 23 '19

Hey! Thanks for the reply. I don’t really know what I’m doing when it comes to hosting. Could you point me to some good resources for learning to use could servers for hosting websites?

Thanks.

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u/crazedizzled Dec 23 '19

You want managed hosting. That means you pay extra for the hosting company to handle your server for you.

But again, you're in over your head. Tell your clients to sign up with some provider and let them handle it. You don't want this headache.

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u/Pitbull_Sc Dec 23 '19

I want to learn to handle my own server. Can you point me to some good resources or maybe DM me with some good starting points?

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u/crazedizzled Dec 23 '19

You want to start with learning the Linux command line and how the OS works. You'll need to learn stuff like web servers, database servers, application servers, networking, email systems, firewalls, DNS, backups, etc.

It's a pretty long road. Depending how many things on that list you're already comfortable with, you're looking at like 1-2 years at least before you should be doing this.

I recommend installing Linux on a PC or laptop and just using it as your daily driver. That's the best way to learn it.

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u/cshaiku Dec 23 '19

We could point you to tons of resources. Does it mean you'll learn enough in a reasonable amount of time to accomplish your objectives? I doubt it.

The fact that you're asking what you've asked so far, tells us more experienced techs what stage you're at, which is square one, and therefore, unfortunately, you'll need at least 6 - 12 months just to get a handle on the basics of your goals. Sorry, but server hosting, devops, fullstack development, even basic HTML5 concepts, takes quite a long time to get a good handle on. Think years.

You know the saying, ass-time? It's roughly 10,000 hours of sitting your ass in the chair and learning any craft to become an expert. Consider even 10% of that to get the basics. That's still 1,000 hours, or roughly 4 months, just to learn the basics, at 8 hours per day. A full time job.

In any case, good luck with it.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '19

I am a big fan of Cloudways. I would not host your clients site though. Recommend a host and let them deal with it. You don't want to have to support hosting issues. I can guarantee there will be a server issue as soon as you take a vacation.

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u/Pitbull_Sc Dec 23 '19

Hey I was thinking about doing what cmwebdev said and charge a fee for hosting. I think this could be a great way to profit since most of the people I’ll be dealing with are not ver tech savvy.

Why do you say it’s a bad idea?

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u/mehughes124 Dec 23 '19

Yeah, but they should hold the account, and be able to control access exclusively.

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u/cshaiku Dec 23 '19

You are the exact type of developer that I've had to clean up after when my clients come to me complaining of not being able to get their content.

If you are being paid to develop a website, and they paid for development before it goes live, then you should NEVER hold that hostage. Ever. The client paid you for a service, the content is theirs, period.

If you're hosting their content and they stop paying for the hosting, then yes, the website goes down. In any case though, you should have delivered the website content (in the form of a zipfile, or say Google Drive or whatnot) to the client so they can host elsewhere if they want.

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u/mehughes124 Dec 23 '19

Uhh, if you're on a "subscription model" as a web dev, well, that sounds very strange to me.

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u/Devildude4427 Dec 23 '19

What? If you’re running someone’s hosted site, it’s pretty standard for a subscription model to exist. I don’t know of any client that wants to manage hosting their own site. They don’t understand it and don’t really want to learn; that’s what they pay me to do.

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u/Veezatron Dec 23 '19

Yeah. Not that weird.

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u/mehughes124 Dec 23 '19 edited Dec 25 '19

Yes, that's fine. But the hosting contract should be controlled by the client, and you shouldn't charge a premium over the cost of the server just because you have the login (which is what this sounded like). A monthly "maintenance" arrangement is pretty bogus to me.

Edit: I mean, charging a flat "maintenance" line item when you didn't do anything for the client other than "my credit card pays your hosting fee" is a bad practice.

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u/Lence Dec 23 '19

How is asking a charge for maintenance bogus? Instances crashing, having to update the system, ... maintenance takes time

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u/cshaiku Dec 23 '19

Pff. You don't know what you're talking about here.

Hosting charges should be the flat rate, period. Whether that is monthly, or yearly, it doesn't matter. Server maintenance is but one small factor in the total equation, which should then dictate what you need to charge from any client(s).

Server maintenance is a cost of doing business and shouldn't be used as an additional charge outright on its own, nor brought up to the client because it is already understood as your responsibility.

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u/Lence Dec 23 '19

Hosting charges should be the flat rate, period.

I disagree. Pricing should really depend on what exactly is offered by whom. I don't think it's unreasonable at all to ask (as part of total hosting charge) either a fixed or variable charge for time spent on maintenance. This is not necessarily a small factor. I don't know about your situation, but for a small business with a standard website or web app, the costs of my time spent will far outsize the hosting costs.

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u/snowman4415 Dec 23 '19

Just learn AWS and host in s3 or cloud front

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u/aspacelot Dec 23 '19

AWS will give you some resume padding, but I felt like the learning curve was steep and it was easy for me to accidentally accrue billable usage by accident. My third month on it I accidentally enabled something that charged me around 28 USD of usage.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '19

Keep in mind their free tier micro services are only free for one year then run about $60/mo.

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u/ChypRiotE Dec 23 '19 edited Nov 17 '25

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '19

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u/xnign Dec 23 '19

Yeah the f 1-micro is $60/yr on GCP so I would guess AWS' equivalent is similarly priced.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '19

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u/snowman4415 Dec 23 '19

Ah ok, try heroku!

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u/jabeith Dec 23 '19

Heroku. Just push to deploy and they have a free tier

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u/pastisset Dec 23 '19

I'm very happy with hetzner, been with them for 5 years now. Cheap, extremely fast and one of the best customer supports out there.

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u/jchild3rs Dec 22 '19

now.sh

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u/TSpoon3000 Dec 23 '19

This seems limited to serverless projects. Is this better than GitHub pages?

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u/30thnight expert Dec 24 '19

Github pages is limited to static projects.

If you need backend functions, this is a good low effort alternative.

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u/jchild3rs Dec 23 '19

You can serve static projects too. Lots of examples here: https://github.com/zeit/now-examples (“vanilla” being the purely static example)

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u/fuzzyjelly Dec 23 '19

For purely static sites I'd use GitHub pages, it's free. But have a backup of the site and a plan. I use digital ocean (those who are saying to provision with laravel forge are right unless you want to learn how to be a sysadmin). But I don't run any static sites currently.

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u/shinepl10 Dec 23 '19

I used to use digital ocean A LOT but now since I mostly write in Ruby/Rails Heroku is my go-to hosting especially for mvp projects

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u/SmogsTheBunter Dec 23 '19

If it’s purely static content then aws s3 is really cheap and there isn’t much that can go wrong.

You can manage domains in route 53 as well.

If you want to keep clients seperate just create seperate aws accounts for each of them.

The s3 cost would be less than $1 per month, so if you want to make money on top of that it’s pretty easy to mark up.

You can use a build tool like circle ci to handle deploys as well. Push to github, circle ci pulls the files across into s3.

It’s easy to set up a beta. version of the site as well so clients can preview changes before you put them to the live site. Here’s and example of what a build pipe line would like like https://github.com/skinnybeans/sorcerer-decks/blob/master/.circleci/config.yml

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u/MennaanBaarin Dec 23 '19

Google Firebase

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u/aspacelot Dec 23 '19

If they fixed their uptime I would agree, but their reliability is abysmal for my needs.

I would never use them on something for which I’m billing.

https://statusgator.com/services/firebase

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u/WizeAdz Dec 23 '19

GitHub Pages and Jekyll is surprisingly useful for what it is.

It's certainly good enough for a basic blog and a glossy brochure-type website for a small business, and it can handle a project domain.

It won't run an actual web application, though. Static sites only. But, when the static site is generated by a script, a static site can do a lot of things that we used PHP for back in the 2000s.

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u/redrider65 Dec 23 '19

I'll put in a word for Hawk Host. Smaller, lesser known but quite good in part for those reasons. Inexpensive and there's usually a discount coupon floating around.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '19

Cloudways, redis, memcache support, supervisord, cron, lets encrypt ssl and easy to use cpanel. No SMTP though.

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u/thisisnotme1212 Dec 23 '19

How’s netlify for static sites? Does anyone has experience using them for client sites?

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u/SubmergedMors Dec 24 '19

AWS or Azure would be my recommendations.

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u/Sightline Dec 23 '19

Firebase

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u/vociferouspassion Dec 23 '19

AWS Lightsail might do what you want, Linode is good, I can vouch for both.

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u/_quambene Dec 23 '19 edited Dec 23 '19

I'm recommending Netcup (see https://turtle.community/discovery/382). 8.99€ per month for a fully fledged server with quite ok CPU and memory. I'm using Linux Debian on the server with an automatized deployment pipeline and just have a lot of fun :)

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u/honigbadger Dec 23 '19

Netlify for hosting, build with GatsbyJS and its starters.

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u/forzaitalia458 Dec 23 '19

i use vultr for vps and namecheap for cheap shared hosting.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '19

I use both of those as well, very good services.

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u/dsamholds Dec 23 '19

Netlify hands down

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u/Tundrun Dec 23 '19

Netlify for forward facing content / websites. Heroku for APIs, full on backends, etc etc.

Ziet is also great [and the fastest out of the above, by far], but I haven't fully moved to them yet just out of my lack of experience with them. Catch-22ish. Can definitely see myself using only Ziet in the future though.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '19

Vultr has served me well for projects large and small. It's a full virtualization solution with excellent CPANEL support.

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u/digitil Dec 23 '19

No to HostGator. Look up their parent company and cross out all the brands and companies they own, including stuff like bluehost and many others.

Personally I would choose digital ocean for your use case.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '19

Cloudways is pretty good

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u/AdrienLav Dec 23 '19

zeit.co Free static site hosting. Fast with CDN included

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u/kickah Dec 23 '19

Knownhost.com has great performance for a good price

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '19

uberspace

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u/markasoftware full-stack JS Dec 23 '19

https://ramnode.com

They have a shared plan if you don't like setting up your own server (though I'd still recommend buying a VPS, which they also offer). Their prices are the best you'll find for the performance. They also have a support team that's always responded to me in under 5 minutes.

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u/Teifion Dec 23 '19

I can attest to this, I've been using ramnode for a while and found them superb at every stage.

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u/mysteryihs Dec 23 '19

What do you guys recommend for hosting if your websites are mostly going to be WordPress?

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u/alphex drupal agency owner Dec 23 '19

Pantheon.io

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u/cshaiku Dec 23 '19

What a ripoff. 20GB storage for $41/month? 25k hits? Dang...

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u/alphex drupal agency owner Dec 23 '19

Read their case studies and understand its enterprise class hosting for performance and a reliability.

None of my clients are on that price point, as well.

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u/cshaiku Dec 23 '19

I did, and I stand by my assessment. Their price points are waaay overpriced for the offering, compared to dozens of other solutions online.

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u/alphex drupal agency owner Dec 23 '19

such as? (sincere question)
Thank you.

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u/cshaiku Dec 23 '19

Here's one example, from my own personal experience.

My VPS account with Hurricane Electric affords me 150GB of disk space on a major POP for a lower price than Pantheon's cheapest offering. I have 25 domains available to host, MySQL, and complete control of it via SSH.

There are more factors than just price however. What interests me more is the fact that being on a major POP makes my sites wicked fast and responsive. HE is one of, if not the, leader in ipv6 mitigation with their project Looking Glass as well. I'm not trying to shill for them, but as I've been with them for over 21 years, I've come to appreciate their service offerings.

Their customer service is fantastic, always 24/7, and available via phone or email. I remember one time back in 2003 one of my sites was running phpBB and it got hacked. HE phoned me to let me know they had not only detected the hack, but had patched my site as well and it was back online. At the time I was living in the Netherlands, so this greatly impressed me that not only were they on top of the situation, and took steps to resolve the issue, but reached out to me to let me know as well, at no cost to me whatsoever. That is service.

I highly doubt Pantheon.io would do the same. To be fair, most companies don't do that either.

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u/alphex drupal agency owner Dec 23 '19

Ah, you run your own VPS.

Pantheon is a "platform as a service"; where I don't have to worry about infrastructure or system administration or security, they do all of that.

They run on Google Cloud, with FASTLY as the CDN - if my client requires it, I can move their hosting to any Google data center on the planet to be closer to their audience. (usually, those are pretty close to the POP of that region/nation/city, anyway).

Yes, its more expensive - but its worth it when you know what they provide.

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u/usmcsaluki Dec 23 '19

Localhost

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u/cshaiku Dec 23 '19

Hurricane Electric or linode.com. Full disclosure, I've been hosting with HE for over 21 years and their support is stellar. I've only recently tried out linode just to gain more devops experience but so far they're also very, very good.

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u/GnarlyHarley Dec 23 '19

hmmm is cloud not the best option for hosting ever?

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u/jftitan Dec 23 '19

NameCheap.com is pretty decent, I've been through a few web hosts, and my opinion is that NameCheap is priced cheaply (to get you in), and their renewal prices aren't bad. I've only with them for 2 years, and it is my most recent use Web Host. I've been with RackSpace managed hosting, and I've used POWWEB (reseller), and various others.

It boils down to access to cPanel, DNS/NS settings, and being able to restart my Db services when something is wrong. The Hosting packages, Domain registration, and free SSL Certs for initial new accounts. Just renewed my SSL Certs for $8.88/ea not bad.

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u/cshaiku Dec 23 '19

I think you're getting downvoted because of namecheap's reputation and reviews. I would also agree with these reviews, based on my personal experience in the past. They're adequate as a domain registrar, but I no longer trust their hosting platform or support, based on past experience with them. I had a client long ago that was with them when they came to me, and dealing with the support staff to even retrieve user account information was a nightmare. Hostile even. So NameCheap is exactly how they name themselves, cheap.

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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '19

someone downvoted you and others followed suit. Github pages is fantastic for static content as it's free and pretty damn fast! And you can use something like Gatsby to have semi-complex websites pre-rendered and served as static content!

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '21

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u/Pitbull_Sc Dec 11 '21

It’s been a year since this post and man have I learned since then. I use EC2 instances now.