I feel like they’re constantly scamming me. How the fuck is this host so non user friendly?

I’m a musician. Any recommendations for decent and cheap hosting sites?

I think I need to just fucking cancel GoDaddy already 😡

Hi there,

I am based in the UK and am creating a basic word press site with around 8 pages, some pictures, some short 5min videos and possibly may add a word-press booking system and need to take payments later.
Its for a small company I started, its very small, just getting off the ground, so am not expecting millions of visitors, although that would be great.

So am seeking a web host and also need to get the domain.

I was looking at "Bluehost", then I saw here they got bad reviews, same as "fasthost" and "hostiger".

I also may add a second totally separate website later but this probably will not be until Jan / Feb next year.

Which web host would you recommend for this please?

I cannot find anyone else outside of the ones i mentioned above...
Please can you help me decide on one?

Thank so much

Not sure if it's okay to ask this here but if anyone is operating a small hosting business and wants to get out for whatever reason, send me a DM.

Hi, and thanks for reading this. I’m doing my final degree on project, a Library management system in vanilla php and js, i was working on XAMPP (localhost) and using relative routes instead of absolute because I thought it would be easier to port to production.

Well… I bought a VPS and it’s using PLESK. I tried everything, from changing the .htaccess to changing the location… I’m getting always a 302/500 error. You can visit the website: https://diblio.org/vall/

error.php is a custom script, but you can try index.php, login.php and it won’t change…

Please help 😭

TL;DR 

I’m looking to switch hosting companies, but am overwhelmed with all the options presented and the best way to approach the transition. Would love a gut check from experts in the space. 

FEATURES I’M LOOKING FOR

1. Fast hosting that specializes in wordpress sites
   • Strong preference to not have to pay PER site or domain. e.g. unlimited domains 
2. Staging environment for all sites. Ease of pushing from testing to production (currently I maintain separate sub-domains and wordpress installs for every site & staging site)
3. Manage multiple sites that are ours + some that aren’t (clients, family, friends, colleagues)
   • Resell hosting services and white label for sites that aren’t ours
4. Unlimited email or ability to create a lot of aliases (support@, media@, press@, hello@, etc.)
   • Minimize how many paid accounts I need if not hosting email and site at same place
5. Low to medium technical knowledge required to manage hosting
   • Am used to cpanel and fairly comfortable navigating most things like database management, ftp management, editing html/css, php, etc. but I’m not a technical expert
6. Automated backups (ideal but not required. Can do this via dropbox and plugins)
7. CDN
8. SSL

KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM MY RESEARCH

1. Managed VPS seems to be the way to go
2. Cloud vs. VPS people don’t seem to feel too strongly about one vs. the other
3. Separating email and web hosting seems like the smarter path, but not sure how to manage a lot of emails across domains without a huge bill
4. Digital Ocean / Cloudway's seems to check off most boxes for me, except email. I would need to solve email a separate way but could be pricey across 10+ domains and all the emails & aliases for each.
5. Self-hosting on google cloud, AWS, etc. seem like they’ve above my pay grade and require more technical knowledge than I have
6. Siteground seems like it checks off all boxes and very popular amongst DIVI forums, but also a lot of complaints on price increases every year, especially after year 1

THINGS I AM UNCLEAR ABOUT

1. Cpanel vs. alternatives like Cloudway's or siteground’s own set-up. Have read good things about Cloudway's & siteground interfaces and there seems to be a lot of people that HATE cpanel, particularly because of bloat. Not sure how much this matters.
2. Wordpress multisite or not. I believe the answer here is no. For the biggest reason that if one site goes down they all go down (one database) but since many of the sites are ours I am wondering if multisite is smarter for “ours” and separate installs for clients or others
3. Is there really a difference between wordpress, reseller, agency or VPS hosting plans? I see many sites tout these as different offerings but they all feel the same to me and I feel like they all apply to my situation.
   1. It seems like most “reseller” or white-labeled plans are on shared servers. Is this right? I’ve reached out to a few hosting companies that said all these labels are just marketing gimmicks, but they’re all essentially the same plans. 
   2. Does anyone offer white-labeling on a managed VPS?

BACKGROUND

I currently host about 15 websites on a shared hosting plan w/Just Host (powered by Blue Host). Some are ours, some are family, friends, or colleagues sites that know even less than I do about website development. None of the sites today get a lot of traffic (the most trafficked site might be a few thousand visitors a month). However, over the last 2 years we’ve made significant strides to revamp several of the sites to make a concerted effort to drive traffic to them once they launch. A lot of side hustles that never saw the light of day and now will. They’re all currently in a staging environment on sub-domains. They’re all built on wordpress and with the DIVI builder. We also have been asked as part of our consultancy to host some client sites that we’ve been hesitant to do, but are considering once we move hosting. The sites will be as follows:

1. Family blog (journal writing/blogging, photography, travel, etc.)
2. Consulting site (what we offer + client portals)
3. E-commerce store (niche / customized products)
4. Education/training in curriculum in our field (workshops, courses)
5. Ethnography research project
6. A few old business ideas we’ll be selling, leasing or sub-contracting out to manage
7. Client sites we’ll manage (relatively low traffic/niche sites in the non-profit or B2B space)

All the sites have emails attached to them. General email addresses + aliases like support@, media@, hello@, etc. The consulting site emails are managed via Google Workspace. All the other domain emails are handled by Just Host since our plan includes unlimited emails.

Of course this is not provable, because this happened while I was on a support call with Godaddy, and this is just my word, but hear me out:

I called GoDaddy's website because I was currently paying for two Wordpress subscription services. I wanted to make things simple by moving the Wordpress content from one content to the other and cancel the other service.

While I was talking to the customer service rep, she was fine with the idea of moving my content from one service to another, but she said that we would have to upgrade my current Wordpress service. I wasn't sure why, but anyway she put me on hold.

While I was on hold, I browsed around my website, everything seemed to be fine. She came back, and she started talking about how I would need to pay $60 CAD more to upgrade my service till 2029. I told her I wasn't willing to do that, and I would rather just stick with my current `Managed Wordpress Basic` subscription plan, and not move to the Deluxe plan.

At this point, she started pressuring me pretty heavily. She said she's done all this work in the background to set things up. She started talking about how the old plan would have low speeds, low storage, etc. etc. I was still adamant that I would like to stick with my current subscription plan and not pay more. At this point, she says she has to put me on hold again.

10 minutes later she comes back and she says that they wouldn't be able to migrate my current website because it has a critical error on the website, and the website isn't working anymore. I go to the website, and sure enough she's right. Here's the screenshot of my website: https://imgur.com/a/NOo5daU

Only problem is, I had just gone on the website and everything was working as expected. The website was functioning perfectly well. I told the customer service rep as much and told her that I was just on my website and this error happened while I was talking to her. She said she knew nothing about that, but this error has been there when she went on the website.

Of course, people will see this as conjecture, but my theory is they broke my website on purpose to pressure me into upgrading to their new service. Look at my post / comment history. I have no reason to be speaking against GoDaddy in an illegitimate manner. I'm not a competitor, not anything other than a client, but I'm pretty sure GoDaddy just broke my website to pressure me into moving into their new plan and paying more.

If you check out the error I linked above, it's related to a plugin. So I moved the plugin out of my plugins directory using Godaddy's cPanel. Check out what my website is saying now: https://imgur.com/a/lzEYo6Q

They broke it on purpose. I just don't know where to go from here, which is I guess what they wanted in the first place.

I'm looking into starting a reseller web hosting business. I've watched a few videos and read a few articles and it seems that it's a viable business idea that can yeild decent profit. I own a website and know my way around WordPress and cPanel. I also have a few years of experience in SEO. I figured I could learn hosting too.

My Idea is to offer small businesses a complete package where they have a functional website (the typical home/services/about/contact website) without worrying about anything technical. I'd take care of the domain registration, web hosting, and website developement. This would be my unique selling proposition.

1. How hard is it to run a reseller hosting biz? If memory serves, I think I saw a guy saying he spends no more than 2 hours a month to manage 40 clients.
2. What do you have to do as a provider? My understanding is that you'd be managing clients, billing, and support. The tech side of things is mostly managed by the reseller hosting provider, right?
3. How do you find clients?
4. My understanding is that once you setup something WHMCS and have a working website, the billing and client management is pretty simple. Is that true?
5. How to offer support? Do you even need a techy for it in the beginning (as I'm thinking issue would be few and far in between and most can be solved either thought googling or the reseller hosting provider). Do you need to hire someone to answer support tickets?
6. I barely found any tutorials on how to set up a reseller hosting website. Is it hard to do it? Can I make one with a theme like GeneratePress or Kadence or should I buy a custom theme? Do you recommend using someone from Fiverr to set it all up (there's actually a few people offering to do complete WHMCS setup on there).
7. How do you integrate WHMCS (for example) with your WordPress website? How to make match the theme and not have the standard ugly look?
8. How do you decide the max accounts or plans per server? How do you spilt or decide the RAM, CPU and bandwidth for each hosting plan? would WHMCS let you control these resources for each plan? How do ensure that you don't exceed them?
9. Could you share examples of small reseller hosting businesses?

I welcome all advice and recommendations, especially from those how own and run reseller hosting businesses.

I've seen some really solid advice from u/lexmozli on a subreddit somwhere. I also saw pretty good videos from NameHero and Verpex. However, I'm yet to find a complete guide on how to start a reseller hosting company.

I have a very simple requirement, but not super adept at web development.
I would like to populate a database with data from csv files.
I would then like to make a search page whereby a user can simply enter criteria which searches the db and then posts results.
Can anyone recommend something that might fill that need?

Howdy!

Like a fisherman seeking a specific type of fish, I'm seeking specifically where I should be looking to find someone to hire to fix issues with my web host.

I have a bunch of small issues, the host is terrible, their 'support' is garbage on a good day, blah blah blah, whine cry etc.

SO, if you were looking to hire a professional to deal with your (HORRIBLE!) host back end (that does NOT use a traditional CPanel!), where would you look? Subreddit? Website? FB group? Forum?

Hi, im new in this webhosting area and i wanted to ask a question: i am currently making websites with nodejs/nextjs/react etc and also cms-projects with wordpress or typo3. I brought a virtual private server with a plesk license, which organises websites, but i cang find any support or good tutorials to get one nextjs or typo3 project running. Is there any software for my vps server (ubuntu) which has a good documentation and/or is more user-friendly to use?

I came across a post on this sub Reddit and one of the comments talked about immense legal ramifications if you have ass cyber security. So I wondered how much protection do you need if your literally just starting a hosting business, with like one dedicated server and a handful of customers?

Hi all! I'm looking to start a blog with a small e-commerce shop (5 products max). I'm also potentially going to make another website in the future which would have not a lot on it.

Would 5GB space likely be enough or would 100GB be a better option? I plan to grow my blog but who knows how that will go!

Thank you in advance

I have my domain registered and hosted with Heart.

I want to move the hosting to Namecrane.

In Namecrane it tells me the new nameservers as well as a list of DNS settings. In Heart there is also nameservers and a list of DNS values for A records, MX etc.

I have changed the nameservers in Heart to point to the Namecrane nameservers.

Do I also have to update all the Heart DNS values or will the nameserver change point to the DNS settings in Namecrane?

So I heard good things about CloudFare regarding to web hosting / domain name registration, so I searched for one a bought it (10$). But now I want to host a wordpress site using that domain name. However, all the tutorials I'm looking online show different steps using another hosting platform like hostgator.

Do I need to use a different type of host service to manage my wordpress site for me? This was how I did it on HostGator. If so, do I link the registered domain I bought on CloudFare onto my HostGator site? If so how? If not, what did I purchase exactly???

Hi guys, I have a domain's A records @ and www pointing to a basic website. I set the email routing in cpanel to reject mail because we are using email through Zix with an A record pointing to mail.domain.com and mx records pointing to the inbound spam mail servers. There's no cname set for mail.domain.com although I think this may help because we are experiencing a slight delay with some emails.

I'm not sure if its because of zix or our settings, but as far as the setup goes, is this generally the correct way to handle settings?

I have 3 domain names for sale, 

For today, april, 2024 - What is the best way to sell them?

I am the original registrant, registered them 22 and 17 years ago,

I have listed them on sedo, but did not receive any offers,

does godaddy auctions or other platforms work these days?

Maybe someone has experience, what works nowadays?

( I am not a profesional domain seller or domain flipper )

which selling platform to use?

Cheers

This is a personal review from me after being their customer for 4 years.
First, who doesn't know this—overly expensive GoDaddy. Anything they sell is expensive (domains, hosting, SSL.).
Secondly, today I had trouble with my website and tried to change to nameservers. I have full domain protection on for my domain (which, by the way, cost 11.99$). It has given me very, very limited features, only the basic ones like 2FA before making major changes and protection in the case of the domain renewal failure. But the problem is that when you change nameservers and DNS records, GoDaddy is supposed to send you an OTP for one time, like I made the first change, and I got an OTP (after waiting 6 minutes) on my email address. When I tried to do other changes, I got asked for an OTP and got a new one again on my email (after 5 mins). I lost my traffic due to their slow mailing system; each email took from 5 to 10 minutes! and note that this service cost 11.99$ !!! wtf
Thirdly, I would say their support system is completely useless, and the site is full of many bugs. For example, recently I had this issue where they notified that an OTP had been sent to my phone number when they had not. Because of this, I was denied access to my account to update my banc cart info prior to my domain renewal. Support and verification of identity took 7 days; if I didn't have the 11.99$ protection service, I would have lost my domain because that's how long they took. Their OTP system on both SMS and email is super slow.
This is my review on Godaddy, and what I would really not recommend to anyone is the Godaddy.

Hi all. I'm trying to find out how I get my cpanel login information. I don't exactly need it, as up to now every time I log into cpanel, I just click a button in my hosting provider account (nixihost or hostgator) and click a button that says "login to cpanel" or "file manager". This works just fine, but if I just go to domain.com/cpanel, I have no clue what my login information. I guess I don't exactly need it, but I'd honestly just like to know how to get this information.

Hi!

I've run into a problem and kinda need some advice/ thoughts on it.

My sites are currently on easyname but since I got into a problem and it's the weekend and none of them is available (overall the second time I'd have needed them on the weekend), I am considering to switch hosting provider.

So, I've read to separate domain and hosting and also saw the recommendations for KnownHost for hosting and porkbun for domains. So, those two pretty much will be it.

And on the domain side it's easier, because when I transfer it, depending on the type of tld, some renew automatically for that, so it only extends, which is good.

However, on the hosting side the problem is, I can't cancel it before August and it's April. If I know start to transfer everything, I still have a hosting that's paid for but not used.

What are your thoughts on this? I could start with the domain transfers and get them to porkbun. But I'm unsure, if I should wait or do the transfer right away.
On the other hand: The earlier as it can be done, the sooner I can focus on other things again.

Because at some point, yes, it bugs me that they're not available right now. And while I get it, I also don't because it could be something important that's not working right now (and it is, because emails aren't working as they should).

Just give me some of your thoughts, thanks!

TL;DR: My current provider isn't available on the weekend, it's Saturday and I ran into a problem with no help, because it might be on their end. Hosting plan is active 'til August, should I wait or move now? Give me some thoughts and opinions. How would you solve it?

edit: I have two (WordPress) sites/ blogs but also like to have a place to have some demo sites for a portfolio or for staging my blogs and test things out.
Also, I'm based in the EU and both look good: Zume or KnownHost? Would it make sense to keep the sites hosted separately? Or rather together?

Advice needed:

Hello,

I have a domain name listed for sale on the afternic site

( I am not a domain seller or flipper, I have registered this domain 22 years ago,

because I wanted to built a website on it )

Now, I have received an email from afternic,

that I should provide the EPP code (also known as the Authorization code), to make the

selling process easier

I can not do this, my understanding is, the person/company who has the code,

technically owns the domain and can transfer it to another account. I this right?

Someone has experience selling/transfering a domain with afternic?

Please let me know, Cheers Ralf

As the title states. Some functions are working correctly, such as the website itself and updating plugins. However other functions such as customizing the site are not. I suspect it has something to do with the wp-config.php as it does not appear to be interacting with it. Here is what I've tried so far the past few days;

- Reinstalling via linux and wordpress itself

- 755 the entire wordpress directory

- Modifying the apache2 config

- Modifying the wp-config

- Regenerating the .htaccess file

- Verifying no overrides in the wp-settings.config

- Attempting to enable "define('WP_ALLOW_REPAIR', true);" in the wp-config (it does not read it)

- Rebooting the server many times

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, as I am pulling my hair out at this point.

Does anybody actually use LW Server Secure Plus? I'm assuming it's just a money grab. I have not found any details about what they actually do to 'secure your server' better (a managed server should be pretty good on its own!). If you use this, in your experience, do they actually do anything?

I'm using CloudFlare as my registrar and Nixihost as my host. I can't seem to get AutoSSL to work, as you can see:

https://imgur.com/a/1k7UUvB

I've tried the following settings: "Pause Cloudflare on Site", turning SSL/TLS encryption off and "Disable Universal SSL". Still the same error. Any suggestion?

Ive had my domain with 123-Reg the last 15 years but thinking of leaving, their tech support is a joke and Im having to wait forever for replies

Lately I had to open up a new support ticket to remind them to look at the one I posted a couple days earlier.

Id like someone UK based... Im thinking GoDaddy is probably the best bet, but Ive still read really mixed opinions?

Surely their tech support cant be as bad as 123-Reg?

different practices of different webhosts?

I set up a domain on cloudflare and using a server for file hosting that does not have email.

I also have reseller hosting at another location and want to add only a webmail account for the domain at that location. Anyone know how to do that and what records are required to remain in the DNS settings at the reseller hosting location?

Just finished talking to a rep at A2 Hosting, who claims that T-Mobile is blocking traffic to A2 for most of its users, that it's been going on since early April, and that they haven't been able to contact T-Mobile about it. No explanation given.

Transcript of the conversation: https://pastebin.com/Je8ZmCkT

Key snippet:

I totally understand your concern. Unfortunately, our engineers have not yet heard back from T-Mobile regarding this issue. They continue their investigation . We are happy to work with the T-Mobile NOC to resolve it but it is clear T-Mobile is actively blocking the traffic destined to us. Because the traces are never even reported from a transit provider outside the T-Mobile network. The issue must reside inside the T-Mobile network. Even from third parties, their network blocks traces so we have no insight other than, it hits their network and dies.

What really irks me is that A2 won't acknowledge this publicly, so that's the main reason I'm posting this. Any ideas what can be done about this aside from switching hosts?

I've got to share something really tough that happened to me with Domain dot Com . See, things haven't been easy lately. I lost my job, and money's been tight. But I didn't let that stop me. I had this idea for a little business, and I wanted to make it happen, even with just a bit of money in my pocket. I stumbled upon DOMAIN.COM while looking for a domain for my small project. With only $110 left in my bank, every dollar mattered. I figured I could manage to register a domain for a year, which cost $11. But when I tried, they said I needed to chat with support first to get an ID. I chatted with support, got the ID, and set up my account, adding my bank details. But then when I said I only wanted one year, not five, they still charged me $89 for five years. It hit me hard. That money was supposed to go towards important stuff, not for DOMAIN.COM to grab without asking. During the chat, I made it clear I couldn't afford five years. The support person said it was okay and that I could just do one year. But they didn't listen and took more money anyway. So, I wanted to give you all a heads up about DOMAIN.COM. Be careful, because they might not listen to what you say and charge you more than you agreed to. It's not right, especially when you're already struggling. Please be careful of that website.

https://imgur.com/a/3eZODk5

Hello everyone,
We're working on a university project to develop a website using Django. The main content of the website is a survey, and we also want to enable interactive access to a database. This means users can set various filters and see corresponding results.
We've roughly completed the content, but I'm struggling with the next steps. Unfortunately, I'm not very familiar with database integration and hosting, as it wasn't covered in our university curriculum.
Here are the technical details:
The website is being developed using Django in PyCharm Professional. Currently, we're using the default SQLite database and the Django test server. Two people are working on the project, so we're currently uploading the SQLite database to Git to work with the same data (I know, very unprofessional). I'd appreciate tips on optimizing this workflow and creating the future structure virtually, perhaps using Docker?
We've been provided with a web server by the university, running on Linux (Ubuntu) with Apache and PHP, and we also received access to a PostgreSQL database. I already can access the webserver via WinSCP, and a domain for the website has been set up. However, my knowledge kinda ends here.
What would be the next steps to prepare for deployment? Specifically, I need help how I would integrate the PostgreSQL database into the website. On top of that, I'm puzzled about how to deploy the site to the Linux server eventually. Is it advisable to do this now, or should we wait until it's fully completed (which might take another 6-8 months)? Also, if the latter is better, would it be advisible to set up a Docker container now to "simulate" the enviroment we will have later on when going onto the server?

​

In general, I googled a lot, and the options are quite overwhelming when you don't really know much about the subject matter. Should we use Docker for hosting, should we use mod_wsgi?

I feel like it's very tough to find a footing in these topics.
I'm grateful for any tips and helpful resources (videos, tutorials).