Hi all,

I've been with Hostgator since 2003, over 21 years on an Aluminum reseller plan ($35 a month).

About 2 months ago, my credit card expired and payments stopped. I didn't realize this because i Had an old email address in the system and never received the emails (the pop3 was failing via gmail).

My fault, but when I went to renew it and update payment they deleted my reseller account and all my 20+ domains. to start up again, the plans are are like $100 a month for the a comparable VPS.

Who is recommended now for reseller hosting? I'd like to stay around the same $35 a month or so.

Do I need "reseller account" or is any VPS with cPanel / WHM fine?

The U.S. Department of Commerce is pushing to require the IaaS industry (infrastructure as a service, ex: AWS and other virtual machine hosts) to verify customer identities with bank-grade KYC:

The proposed rule would institute a CIP requirement for U.S. IaaS providers akin to the “know your customer” requirements applicable to banks, introducing a complex compliance protocol that will require resources and lead time.

( That's from the summary at NatLawReview, worth reading )

From the rule text, this would affect:

any product or service offered to a consumer, including complimentary or “trial” offerings, that provides processing, storage, networks, or other fundamental computing resources, and with which the consumer is able to deploy and run software that is not predefined, including operating systems and applications

So basically any host offering virtual machines, dedicated machines, code platform as a service, etc would need to collect and verify identity information.

The information to be required includes name, address, phone number, etc. The rule doesn't prevent companies from using that KYC information for marketing or resale purposes.

The rule, though targeted at non-US customers, would also require US customers to comply:

The proposed rule seems to suggest that providers should assume all potential customers and beneficial owners are non-U.S. persons until the aforementioned identifying information is collected and assessed.

Customers outside US, or customers the provider thinks are suspicious, may require additional documentation (such as driver license scans, etc.)

This would cause regulatory burden for companies offering cloud hosting to comply with, and impact any customers who wants to use US hosting anonymously. With the verification, it would be very difficult to use an anonymous identity with US cloud providers.

The new regulations would be backed by the full force of law, and failure to comply could result in civil & criminal penalties.

My Thoughts

It is unlikely, in my opinion, that invasive KYC verification would actually do much to thwart cyber-crime. Bad actors could just host outside the US, or buy a stolen identity for cheap on the dark web. Meanwhile, the vast majority of good customers are penalized with having to fork over personal information which may just get leaked or intentionally sold. (If you've ever gotten your e-mail or phone number sold to one of those business spam lists, you know it's basically impossible to get off them).

They are requiring bank-grade KYC, but not providing even the bare minimum of bank-grade privacy protections. (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act is not much, but it is at least something.)

Personally, I use a gov't ACP address & pen name due to some past personal safety issues in my life and I don't give out my home address to companies anymore. It is usually a fight with companies that do KYC to get them to accept my public-facing addresses because their systems are often coded to reject PO Boxes and CMRA's. KYC makes it hard to protect myself, so I hate seeing other branches of the gov't pushing for it.

Read & File a Formal Comment

There is less than a week left to file a formal comment with US Department of Commerce with your opinion. You may read the full text of the rule and submit your comment here. Many of the submitted comments so far have been favoring the rule, so if you don't want it to be pushed through, now is the time to participate and submit your opinion.

Please understand you are talking to a very non-technical person who probably does not know a lot of the jargon that is usually common knowledge in a forum like this.

My domain and hosting services were through mydomain.com for years and I never had an issue. Recently it was sold to web.com and I have had nothing but problems. For example right now there is an issue with the SSL for my site and my site is currently inaccessible because of it. Visitors to my site get an error message saying that the connection is not private and my site may be trying to steal their password or credit card info. I am a published author and my website is listed in every copy of my books so this is a nightmare for me.

I have an escalated ticket into web.com support as of yesterday... they replied today and said they anticipate having a fix for it next week, and then closed the ticket as resolved!!

This is on top of the prices going up and me being billed early for renewal.

I really want to switch to another provider, but like I said, since I have pretty limited tech experience I don't know what is involved in that. I think I have everything that's on my site backed up locally but I am not positive that I do. What would be involved in switching to another company for domain and hosting services? Am I out of luck for the money that web.com pulled early to renew those services?

Thanks in advance for any advice you can give me.

Hi, there’s this e-commerce monthly plan on a local website and it’s for 85 dollars. It says that it has a collaboration with a local, trusted company (like PayPal) so that I don’t need to get bank’s virtual poses, it has Wordpress themes in it, and a hosting panel. I would like to set up an e-commerce site but with my veryyy beginner Wordpress knowledge, would this be worth dealing with for a full fledged e-commerce website where I sell my goods? (I can do graphic design, understand verrrry basic html & php, can navigate through the Wordpress interface and know how to use FileZilla.)

Thanks!

Edit: upon checking again it’s for 50 dollars actually and if I buy hosting too separately it’s for 85 in total.

I already paid for the KVM 1 VPS plan in H.o.stinger. However im afraid of screwing it up. How to start deploying my Php website?? Any help is needed and appreciated.. 🥺🙏

when using a webhost, choosing what (version of Linux?) runs your code?

Im trying to transfer my domain away from 123-Reg due to their shocking / none-existent tech support.

I registered the domain 15 years ago and been with them ever since

Their page here has clear instructions on how to do it:
https://www.123-reg.co.uk/support/domains/transferring-a-tld-domain-away-from-123-reg-co-uk/

But when I check my account, it doesnt line up with the instructions. All I have is the ability to switch between 123-Reg accounts or transfer a domain to 123-Reg not away from them

I've posted another support ticket but Im really not expecting a reply anytime soon

I have had a webs.com account for over 10 years. My account got shifted over to a company called “Exacthosting” after webs.com shut down without giving any notice.. “exacthosting” were supposed to send an email with some way to login. I never got that email. I am trying to contact their customer support but they are proactively non-existent/don’t reply. I have had a domain for over 10 years. I have the admin email and all the stuff as showing in ICANN. What’s the method to get my domain back ? It’s main domain registrar is enom. When I put my domain in their search tool it shows exacthosting a reseller of theirs is the party through which the domain is registered. The domain as multi-year registration still. It won’t get expired for many years.

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GoDaddy closed a transaction to sell the assets and business of Heart Internet, including transferring the lease of the data center located in Leeds, United Kingdom on March 28. The buyer of Heart Internet is Your.Online.

GoDaddy acquired Heart Internet via the HEG acquisition in 2017 and it operated independently, specializing in serving reseller hosting providers in the UK.

At its recent Investor Day in March, GoDaddy reiterated its strategic rationalization of the hosting and security businesses with the goal of narrowing our investments to the consolidated GoDaddy software platform.

A group of employees associated with Heart Internet transitioned with the business at close and shortly thereafter. GoDaddy is grateful for their contributions to the GoDaddy business.

GoDaddy and Your.Online will cooperate to ensure a smooth transition for Heart Internet employees, customers and stakeholders.

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Interesting read! Does this affect anyone on this sub? There’s already quite a few negative reviews on Trust Pilot that the service seems to have declined. Hopefully things pick back up they used to be a decent provider.

I'm currently looking to put up a website I've been making and I'm trying to figure out where I can host it with the features I need. I've coded the HTML and CSS on my own, but I want to add things like a signup for an email newsletter and a= contact page where I don't want to deal with the backend code. I also may want to later add things like a shop, or use tools to more easily adjust the design than coding all the CSS myself. Does anyone know where I could look to find these features? Initially I was thinking Wix, but the more I look into it the more it looks like that would be if I didn't code anything myself. I used Hostgator a long time ago for another website, but I'm not sure if they have those other features I want. Any ideas?

Hi,
I'm a React/Next.js Developer, Since, my client has bought WP Deluxe hosting plan from Godaddy.
My Question here is, Since, I wanna create the frontend in Next.js and host it on Vercel (free hosting) and my CMS which is in WP, I want that hosted on the plan that my client has bought. Would It be possible to host the WP CMS and the Frontend (Next.js) Separately?
If yes, please educate me on that!

Ive had my domain registered with 123-Reg for the last 15 years and always been quite happy.

Lately I've had a couple problems going on and have found their support to be pretty crap, not to mention slow.

Has anyone else noticed this? am I better off switching to someone else?

Howdy folks!
I'm in need of help; I need someone who's very good with the backend of a host that's gone rogue (rhymes with ostinger).

Where do you suggest I seek someone to handle some back HPanel issues?

I've already got a post up on Webhosttalk in Systems Manager Requests, nothing there yet.

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Just wondering in 2024 people have any opinions on them. The offering looks good but don’t know. Its pretty niche just r rated stuff. what i want to do. But for $7 looks very good value for starter stuff.

Hello I’m not a developer so my terminology may be off here.

My friends company already has a website, the domain is through hover but the site was built on vistaprint aka wix.

I’m trying to migrate their existing domain to Netlify to show this new website I have built.

I have added all of the DNS settings that were on hover to Netlify. I then changed the name servers on hover to those of Netlify. For a few minutes after I did this, the website loaded as I would expect, loading the new site I built in Netlify. However a few minutes later it now just loads their old site - which is hosted on Vistaprint/ wix but domain bought through hover.

I’ve had a look on their Wix settings and also added the DNS settings that were on wix to Netlify, still nothing. Wix doesn’t let me edit the nameservers.

I’ve tried unpublishing the site on wix and removing the link between wix and hover but then when I reload the website it redirects to an error page hosted by wix. I don’t understand why it’s redirecting to a wix error page when it shouldn’t even be pointing to it after I remove the connection between the two?

I’ve also tried adding the wix DNS settings to Netlify too but no luck.

I’m really stuck now and any help would be appreciated. I’ve since re-published and linked the site back on Wix just so it atleast displays their old website.

I’ve followed the guide to migrate DNS with zero downtime, but what am I missing here? Any help is greatly appreciated.

The only record that shows an X on a DNS checker is the CNAME.

Thanks in advance.

how webhosts run the code that you put on the webhost?

We’re working on revamping our fastest hosting articles and I was wondering how you would measure speed? Or what matters?

It is relevant to measure speed without caching plugins, since some hosting companies would use some caching themself, so they would appear faster than others.

Should we measure wp-admin loading or some non-cached request?

Hi all, I recently took over as a marketing manager of a company whose website is hosted by "unknown" web hosting company. However, I dug a little deeper and discovered the website is hosted by "Unified Layer".

I want to move the website to a better hosting.

Is there actually such a web hosting company, named "Unified Layer"? And how do I contact them?

Thanks so much!!

• Looking for any cheaper options.

ability for different webhosts to run different hosting services?

How many users can be on a travel itinerary website at a time on a 1gb RAM hosting package? The pages will not have any processing such as any math or currency conversions or anything of the sort. Just a few images of 200kb each, and the itinerary.

I am trying to decide on that because the website is a new comer, not many visitors, but with some advertising it will get a few visits a day. But in case if, in the rare case, multiple users get stuck it will be really bad; hence asking.

Any answers will be thankfully welcome. :)

Added later:

The main page of the website I currently have is 1.9mb as shown by Pingdom. I am planning to rebuild it under a new domain name because the current website is my blog.

The site uses Travel Monster wordpress theme.

The load time of the first page is 2830ms on Pingdom.

Other pages are like 49ms.

The site's landing page and about us page use Elementor.

The theme uses it's own tour management plugin.

Each itinerary in the website has around 2 images of approx 200kb each.

Thanks for all the answers so far. Really grateful to all :)

- What is your monthly budget?

As cheap as possible that allows me to use my purchased domain name, and use an email address that also uses this purchased domain name.

- Where are you/your users located?

Greater Vancouver Area, BC, Canada

- What kind of site are you hosting (Wordpress, phpBB, custom software, etc) or what is your use case?

A single, static webpage with mostly text and a few images. If the host doesn’t provide free wysiwyg, I can hand-code the html if it’s cheaper.

- Do you have a monthly traffic volume? Estimates are ok.

Probably 20 unique hits a month for awhile until I can get things rolling.

- If you’re looking at VPSes: Do you have experience administrating linux servers and infrastructure?

Nope.

- Did you read the sidebar/check out the hosts listed there? I've personally vetted these companies and their services are a good fit for 99% of people.

You betcha. I’m open to the US-based hosts on the list if they are the best fit, but should I be looking for a Canadian host?

I’m looking for whatever is cheapest, at least for this first year.

After a year of unemployment in Canada, I’m looking now to start up my own business. I’m into personal debt for my startup-related costs, so I’m looking to find the cheapest place to host the domain that I’ve bought (from godaddy), and be able to use this domain name for sending emails from, as well.

For the website, I only need a single, static, long page that will allow advisors, investors, and customers to learn more about my products, goals, and strategies. It can get complicated and beautiful later.

Does anyone here have advice on cheapest that isn’t also terrible?

I can code the html myself if the webhost doesn’t provide wysiwyg, but html and css are the extent of my talents.

Should I even be looking for a Canadian webhost, or are the US-based hosts from the sidebar best suited?

Thank you.

I am currently using shared hosting from HostGator. Mostly a nightmare.

I need CLI to be updated to at least PHP 8.1, but Hostgator will not go past 7.4.33 for shared.

I currently pay $190 per year with my plan expiring in June.

I am currently using the below resources and would like something comparable or better.

13 Domains
15.5 GB Disk Usage
600 MB MySQL Usage
17 MySQL Databases
6GB Bandwidth
5 Email Accounts
6 FTP accounts (This is not super important, im not sure how many clients actually use this.)

Thank you for any and all recs.

Hi there!

So I've been thinking of switching over to a new web host, preferably one that's focused on performance, because mine is currently lacking, even doing a fresh install of WordPress, the pagespeed score was abysmal, which is hurting my SEO.

I'm currently using PhanesCloud (don't laugh) because I fell for the unlimited storage meme and also because their servers are located in the Netherlands (DMCA), but now that last point is kind of mute, there's a whole slew of problems that switching hosts would fix.

I'm currently paying 12€ per month, for the following config:

-2 vCPU -4 GB memory -200k unique visitors/month -"Unlimited NVMe Storage" -cPanel + CloudLinux

I'm currently using 120gbs of storage.

Any help or tips would be highly appreciated.

Thanks!

Hello, I am very new to web development.

I finished my first web dev project ever, which consists on a professor rating site. This was developed with vanilla html, css, js, and php for backend (database).

I wish to host this website in order for users to actually use it. However I've never hosted anything and don't know what to use.

What the database consists of:

--professor information (prof names and every class they teach)

--a table for comments left by users (the site is a forum, so students can comment on different classes / professors)

Any recommendations on resources to host a simple non-static site with a database?

I have a fairly static website content. I have the content uploaded to nearlyfreespeech.net and have the domain registered through godaddy. What config should I change in godaddy or NFS for the website to actually show up? Currently the website is showing up as godaddy temp landing page.

Hello, this thing happens now for the third or fourth time. I can't access my server over my domain, I've checked multiple times and the IP address in my record matches my server. And if I copy the IP about of the record and open it it works just fine, so it can't be the wrong IP. The last times the problem resolved itself after one or two days but I don't know why it happens or what fixes it. Does somebody know what I cloud do to fix it or what causes it(sorry for the bad English, not my first language)

Edit: was just me being stupid forgetting to deactivate DNS rebind protection for my domain

Because it's up to the crawler/program to respect those directives. Google, Bing and others will happily exclude you from indexing if you instruct them to do so. Please don't mess with robots.txt if you don't know what you're doing - a txt file can't actively block incoming connections to a server.

There are legitimate reasons for programmatic traffic on the Internet. If you want to learn more, here is a quick rundown of how good Internet crawlers behave and how you can identify them:

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/how-to-measure-and-audit-bot-traffic-by-http-request-logs-97068beaca12

Apologies for my english and the SP.

I spent already quite a lot of time in hosting over the years, and still I often don't see the bigger picture.

I am looking into offering hosting for my client, so the client pays me for hosting and I have full control.

[RESELLER HOSTING] Overall there are hosting providers with their own proprietary management panel. But there are also hosting provider offering cPanel / WHM or Plesk, especially for reseller. cPanel and Plesk is quite complicated in my eyes, but I can handle it

[VPS] I also looked into Runcloud, ServerAvatar and those kinds of services that take over management for your own cloud VPS. I feel compared to reseller hosting, I get a few wins, i.e. probably better performance (although not necessarily) and if performance is an issue easy to scale, better overall controll as I manage it with the help of Runcloud / ServerAvatar.

[MANAGED VPS] I know there are also managed VPS where the hosting provider is taking care of the management. I have seen it also with Plesk, so basically for me it's the same as the mentioned reseller hosting above, only less shared

[MANAGED SERVER] Probably too expensive so not what I am looking into. But if it's a managed server it also requires some management panel for me.

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Now, I noticed those kind of management panels don't always allow to give the client access to the panel, right?

So what solutions are there even, when I want that the client should be able to access the hosting panel for their isolated account only.

Is it anyway only Plesk / cPanel that can do that?

At least with Runcloud and ServerAvatar I haven't seen such a feature.

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Hi, I have this question: In a same shared server, will bigger PHP memory_limit value (also max_execution_time) load a WordPress site faster and generally better in performance?

Any insights would be much appreciated. Thank you!