In the coming weeks the host I use is shutting down, I need to find a new site to handle my book.

Any know of any good, reliable sites. Looking for clean ux with lots all the normal bells and whistles.

This may not be right place to ask but maybe I get lucky

I have a Word Press website for my business and am not happy with my current host. I am NOT wordpress savvy and regret having it built by them in Word Press. My current site went down for a couple of days recently and the host (its this guy in Nebraska who owns a hosting company and helped build the site) didn't even catch the site was down. I only caught it because a place I advertised at contacted me to tell me. Since then I have been using free Uptime Robot monitoring and in the last 30 days see it has been down 6 times "6 incidents, 24m, 37s down" It appears to happens in 4 minute episodes. My first question is

1. Is that normal for a site to be down that frequently?

2. If I switch to a host like Site Ground will I have to be tech savvy because I am not. I saw on the Site Grounds site I have to add code to even get automatic updates, I don't even know how to do that! Don't tell me I can figure it out either I am NOT a tech person at all so need to be sure my site will be okay if I switch from this guy to another host.

Also who uses Site Ground and would you recommend switching? And what other hosts might be good as well? Help!

I have maybe 10 domains bought with GoDaddy. My hosting with GoDaddy is expiring and I want to move away. I’ve already purchased a hosting plan from InMotion.
My few live sites are mostly for my learning and one just to validate an LLC for now.

1. Should I leave my domain name registration with GoDaddy (Incognito, or whatever it’s called? There is a cost to transfer these away so I’d prefer to avoid that unless time is added to the registration.
2. I want to park some of these domains for now (no website).
3. I think I understand I should host my DNS with Cloudflare or similar. Is this the best choice; or should I leave InMotion as the default?
4. I see some posts that my domain registration, DNS, and should each have a separate provider. Do I really want this hassle for low traffic/learning websites?

I don't like that you have to schedule a call back time for a day later, but I heard that it's all US based and knowledgeable. I need to get away from Hostgator's rip off rates and crappy foreign support!

Everything about their service is good except the up-time of their shared hosting, and the AI responses from their support that go around in circles constantly wanting more information.

I initially complained that all my sites hosted on their shared server were going down multiple times a day, which was reported by my users and noticed by myself. I made a ticket to see if they could look into it, because my resource usage was steadily zero and there were no warnings or reports in the dashboard. They responded that they had looked into it and there was nothing going on that they could see, and no downtime was reported by their system.

The solution provided by them was to check my internet connection. Frustrated, I used multiple well regarded uptime monitoring services, each confirming that it was going down at the same time I'm experiencing it myself. I forwarded this evidence including timestamps, to which they told me they looked again and saw nothing. I reverse looked up their server IP to find other customer websites and added one to the uptime checking services, which showed theirs consistently going down at the same time as mine.

Here is the last 24 hours showing the uptime of my site (below) and the other customer's site (top).

After providing traceroutes from the uptime service showing timeouts from multiple IPs for both my site and another customer's, and providing as much evidence as I could, they still say they can't find anything and that uptime checking services are unreliable and can't be trusted, again (the AI showing here) telling me to check my Internet connection.

Tracing route to 
66.29.148.78
 hop no  -  node ip - ms 1 → 216.245.222.253(2 ms) 2 → 66.29.148.78(15139 ms) Request timed out 3 → 208.115.252.17(0 ms) 4 → 66.29.148.78(15001 ms) Request timed out 5 → 206.53.202.114(1 ms) 6 → 206.148.25.23(25 ms) 7 → 206.148.25.21(25 ms) 8 → 223.165.7.101(22 ms) 9 → 157.238.227.204(24 ms) 10 → 129.250.3.85(33 ms) 11 → 129.250.3.131(34 ms) 12 → 128.241.13.99(742 ms) 13 → 66.29.148.78(14999 ms) Request timed outTracing route to 66.29.148.78 hop no  -  node ip - ms 1 → 216.245.222.253(2 ms) 2 → 66.29.148.78(15139 ms) Request timed out 3 → 208.115.252.17(0 ms) 4 → 66.29.148.78(15001 ms) Request timed out 5 → 206.53.202.114(1 ms) 6 → 206.148.25.23(25 ms) 7 → 206.148.25.21(25 ms) 8 → 223.165.7.101(22 ms) 9 → 157.238.227.204(24 ms) 10 → 129.250.3.85(33 ms) 11 → 129.250.3.131(34 ms) 12 → 128.241.13.99(742 ms) 13 → 66.29.148.78(14999 ms) Request timed out

Ultimately, I can't recommend them due to the poor support and up-time.

Finally getting my own domain. My needs are fairly simple 2 or 3 websites (personal branding, new consulting business, family reunion) I'd be ok combining the first 2 if needed. I know everyone hates Host-ger so I'm looking for an alternative but it needs to be REALLY low maintenance & newb user friendly- for the aunties! Most important to me is reliable email, and ease of design/updates/plug-ins (invoice creation, appointments, place for family to upload forms etc.). I know enough to get my domain separately so my plan current plan was Porkbun, Zoho (or proton since it comes with vpn) and.... ?? Obviously security and certificates are important but I don't want to be bothered with maintaining or installing them.

I'm not opposed to eventually learning the ins & outs but right now I don't have the bandwidth. I also keep reading to not sign up for multi-year deals, but at <$100 for 2 years - If I'm unhappy after a year, can't I just leave?

I can't figure out if I'm overthinking or not taking enough into consideration.

TIA!

What is your monthly budget? 10-15?

Where are you/your users located? US, mostly east coast

What kind of site are you hosting (Wordpress, phpBB, custom software, etc) or what is your use case? wordpress seems like the most straightforward, but I'm not married to it.

Do you have a monthly traffic volume? Estimates are ok. Very low, <300. and that's probably mostly due to family reunion stuff for a few months.

We just recently purchased a Managed WordPress Business hosting plan. My initial plan is connect directly the domain to knownhost. But will it be good to also connect the domain first with Cloudflare (free) then connect the nameservers to Knownhost. Will it improve site loading speed and enhance security? Anyone who experience and have insights about this setup are welcome. TIA

*Not sure if this is the right subreddit, but I need some advice.

I bought a .co domain thinking I could transfer it to WordPress.com for free, but I misread, and it turns out I need a paid plan. Since I still wanted to use my .co domain, I tried iframing my WordPress.com site, but that’s causing issues:

• The .co site works, but there are no proper URL paths (.co doesn’t show /about, /blog, etc.).
• I think this is also causing SEO issues—I verified my site in Google Search Console, but I don’t really know if it’s being indexed properly.

I really want to use my .co domain, so now I’m considering switching to WordPress.org (self-hosted) or Blogger to avoid paying for WordPress.com’s custom domain plan.

My main concerns:

1. Is WordPress.org too hard to use for beginners? I heard it’s more technical, and I’m new to this.
2. How easy is it to move my blog from WordPress.com to WordPress.org? Will my posts and format transfer smoothly?
3. Would Blogger be a good alternative? I’m worried I won’t be able to make it look like my WordPress.com site.

If it helps, this is just a personal blog for fun, so I don’t want to spend too much time setting things up or dealing with complex stuff.

Would love to hear what’s the best option for using my .co domain for free lol im still in highschool, with no job anymore, so im really trying to avoid anything costly

ALSO POSTED THIS IN r/Wordpress just FYI...

Long story short, I have found myself needing a creative outlet. Several have inspired me to turn to blogging and I want to take the plunge (I think maybe I'm finally ready) but I don't know the first thing about it other than I remember when WordPress was like THE place to blog (maybe it still is??) and that there are about a gazillion blogging platforms out there. That, and blogs are a dime a dozen LOL

It's my understanding that where I choose to begin will largely depend upon what I intend to do with said blog. It's, as of right now, meant to be a documentation of my struggle with a specific problem. A problem that I know a lot of people have but I'm not seeing any truly helpful help out there for it. It's meant to be a journal for me but a public journal type thing that people can read and relate to. I'm not setting out to help other people solve this problem, just help me work through my issue and to help people not feel so alone. I can't even solve it for myself and I've spent my whole life thus far trying to solve it to no avail. I don't know if this any of this makes any sense whatsoever, but there you have it. Who knows? Maybe along the way it will help me and/or others to solve the problem.

It would be nice to, at some point, maybe earn money from doing this. But I haven't the foggiest idea what that looks like, how it works, what kind of tax crap would be foisted upon me if I did that, maybe it would depend on whether or not it was considered a business (and what even counts to Uncle Sam as a business? Probably depends on the state more than federal? No freakin clue.), and who knows what it could look like a year, five years, ten years from now. Maybe (not that I'm hoping for it or anything) it will take off and I'll wind up wildly successful, writing books, having my own brand, etc. I am not the entrepreneurial type whatsoever. Not even a little bit. Even hosting yard sales is a stretch for me. But...you just never know. Lots of people didn't set out to wind up where they did but hey, that's life, right? I'm just trying to cover my bases, think ahead to what-ifs, etc.

So anyway, in no particular order, I have some questions.

1- Should I start with a super simple blog site and maybe down the road switch over to something more meaty? If so, what would you suggest to start with? If not, what else would you suggest?

2- I do like being able to have options but I don't want to be overwhelmed by options either. When online diaries/journals were "the thing" (circa 2004-2010 for me lol) there were some layouts to choose from and you could switch colors around. Technologically ambitious people would customize them further, add their own art and/or music, etc. I don't know how much I'm really willing to do in this regard, especially as I've got a very full plate and really just want to have an outlet more than anything else, but I don't want boring either.

3- Should I maybe take some courses (either online or community college perhaps?) on things pertaining or even potentially pertaining to this? Computers and such, marketing, business, etc. I am an old bat when it comes to this kind of thing. I much prefer physical things. Paper and pen. Hard copy books, movies, photos, etc. I have a very difficult time with things I cannot touch. (Seriously, trying to sort emails and digital pictures and such is pure torture for me.) I wonder if having someone sit there and hold my hand going through it would help me better navigate rather than trying to figure it out on my own, but if there's a way to go about it where even the most geriatric old granny can do it, I'm all ears.

I think, for now, that's it. I know this was a really long post and I thank anyone who took the time to read it all, even if you don't have any advice to offer.

Hi, I have only one hosting account at the moment. Two days ago I received an email from a company called "Exact Hosting" telling me that they've "just completed migrating" my account and all associated products and to please update all my info with them. I did not initiate any migration and my own hosting provider has checked my account — nothing has changed.

So I wondered if Exact Hosting is legit and how this communication could happen. An actual scam? Glitch in the matrix? Ignore and move on? TIA.

I'm tired of Godaddy's antics -- early renewals, reissuing certificates early for partial amounts of time, and the having to wade through 50 screens to buy a domain.

Who are the no-frills, modern registrars that also sell SSL certificate these days (in the U.S.)? I don't need hosting, e-mail, or marketing.

Cloudflare?

I just bought a domain name from pork bun. And downloaded Wordpress. And I’m stuck.

How do I install and start creating the website? I researched and people are talking about a database and stuff. What? What hosting to use since I already have a domain name now?

I looked at YouTube videos and everyone is showing host.in.ger but here on Reddit no one seems to like that.

I am trying to build my first website, writing blog posts and building a personal brand website.

Thank you in advance.

Hello everyone,

I'm encountering a recurring issue with my Raspberry Pi setup and would appreciate any guidance.

Setup Details:

• Hardware: Raspberry Pi
• Control Panel: HestiaCP
• Web Server: Nginx
• PHP Version: 8.2 (PHP-FPM)
• CMS: WordPress
• Local Domain: pi.local

Issue Description:

After setting up HestiaCP and installing WordPress on the pi.local domain, everything functions correctly until I reboot the Raspberry Pi. Post-reboot, accessing pi.local in the browser results in a "502 Bad Gateway" error from Nginx.

To temporarily resolve this, I delete the pi.local domain within HestiaCP, recreate it, and reinstall WordPress. This restores functionality until the next reboot.

Observations:

• The PHP-FPM service (php8.2-fpm.service) is active and running post-reboot.
• Assigning a static IP to the Raspberry Pi and mapping pi.local to this IP in the /etc/hosts file on my computer has been done to ensure consistent name resolution.

Request for Assistance:

I'm seeking advice on:

• Potential causes for this persistent "502 Bad Gateway" error after each reboot.
• Additional troubleshooting steps or configurations I might have overlooked.
• Insights into ensuring that the setup remains stable across reboots without the need to recreate domains and reinstall WordPress.

Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance!

When prompted for the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) during HestiaCP installation, I used hestia.mydomain.com

Additionally, I'm curious to know which server control panels you use for local installations of web applications like WordPress. I've been using HestiaCP, but I'm interested in exploring other options that might offer better stability or features for my setup. Any recommendations or experiences would be greatly appreciated.

I am needing some help with a situation I’m currently in. We have a domain name and website currently and we need to move this since it’s currently with GoDaddy. Here is what I need help with:

1. I need to move this to a new host
2. I need a professional email related to this domain
3. I also need to create a new domain on the same host
4. I need a separate professional email for the new domain mentioned in 3.

What is the best place for me to do this? I was looking at Ionos or SiteGround but not sure if this is possible with either of those.

What is your monthly budget? $5

Where are you/your users located? USA

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

Do you have a monthly traffic volume? Estimates are ok. ~1000

If you’re looking at VPSes: Do you have experience administrating linux servers and infrastructure? No

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 Yes

Thanks!

I run a small website with 50k to 90k monthly visitors from the USA. I also have two additional sites, each with around 5k monthly visits.

My previous hosting provider was "Hos tin ger". Unfortunately, I mistakenly purchased their two-year plan and ended up stuck with their pathetic hosting services. Now, I’m looking to switch. Is Bluehost a good option? Also, what’s your opinion on GoDaddy?

Tech savvy but not enough to figure out how to use the domain that I purchased through Porkbun for a Pixpa website. Anyone that is familiar with this?

I have a woocommerce site that i keeps tinker to increase the pagespeed score and website load speed. I actually tried using the Knownhost shared hosting account. Im just working if i should get the managed wordpress hosting package or stay with aws lightsail, install ubuntu instance, add lightsail server and redis to it. Im not a hosting guy, i rather develop a website than take care of a server. Right now we are below 50 in mobile and 60 in desktop pagespeed score.

All of them is a small local companies. I will be an administrator for them. Which to choose? I would like to have at least 25gb actually im looking for something between 25 to 100 gb. Good to have some admin services like cpanel or something similar for each client if they wanna go somewhere else some day. I'm interested with unlimited bandwidth free ssl and mail services with no limit. I was thinking about some kind of reseller services but shared hosting can be OK TOO

Hi again, I am the one who has a hosting company kidnapped by our sysadmin hahahaha

I have found out that for example Siteground offers support to reseller customers through the customer panel. But by writing to the chat customers will realize that they are talking to Siteground.

Do you know any hosting company that does the same but in “white label” mode? That the end customer does not know that the support that attends him is from another hosting company? Thanks.

TL;DR: help me correct TXT entry for SPF in DNS records so that Gmail won't reject email I send.

New to this sub, and already I've learned a lot by browsing and searching, but I haven't found the answer to this specific scenario:

I hired someone to build me a website. I didn't know they would use Wix, but they did.

Years before, I had hosted a Wordpress blog with iPage, and at some point I bought a new domain (for what would become my new site) from iPage.

So the website is working fine. Note, email is still connected to iPage via the domain. (I can log into iPage and use the Roundcube mail client, but I have it mapped to my Apple Mail client so I usually mail from there). Here's the issue: Gmail is rejecting mail I send from my domain email account, indicating that something is wrong with my SPF and/or DKIM settings.

I can't update the DNS records in iPage's control UI, because it says the nameservers are pointing elsewhere (Wix). True. So I go to Wix to update DNS Records, and I am just not able to get it right.

Google's instructions are for Google Workspace, which I do not use. So I would like some pointers on how to construct the TXT entry for SPF (I have one, it's just not set right). Kind thanks.

What's the actual difference?

Hi all. I have to create a personal website as a project for my information systems class. I have to sign up for a web hosting platform and I’m hoping for some input since I’ve never done anything like this before. My professor said he would use and prefer webtaculo.us but is 100$ but that seems like overkill. I asked and he said something like greengeek.com ‘s basic plan would get the job done. I just need the one site and domain, to display a couple tabs for an about me, photos, a blog, etc. with a couple features like displaying a pdf resume, a phot gallery, and an ai chat bot. I have to use Wordpress software/app and can’t use any of those website builders like squarespace. As of now I’m just gonna go through with greengeek, but I’m wondering if there’s a better alternative, or if going as far as like infinity free or cpanelfree would work too

I hope I don't get stoned for saying this, but this is where I'm right now:

I'm with GoDaddy managed woocommerce plan It has:

• GoDaddy payment gateway (which does not charge setup or monthly fees)
• As of today, I can see my earliest daily backup from 1 Nov 2024 (that's almost 3 months!)
• Most importantly, it has 1 click staging setup that gives me front end and admin side access.

All of this sounds awesome but their technical support is super, and I mean super duper bad.

I'm looking for a new host. I've looked at the most obvious candidates like site ground (way, way too expensive), Kinsta, nexcess etc. But none of them seem to have the awesome interface for creating and navigating staging sites (except for siteground).

Anyone willing to share their experience with this aspect and which host they are with and their experience?

I run a small business and I'm the sole employee but I'd still rather use a professional email address as opposed to my personal address. My plan was to use either Google or Microsoft for a business email account. The cost for Google is $84/year and for Microsoft $72/year. In other words, it's not overly expensive.

Having said that, I just noticed that my domain registrar offers email forwarding for free for up to 20 email addresses. 

What are the pros and cons to having my registrar forward messages instead of having a dedicated email account? Certainly I would save money, but I can't help but fear that there are hidden dangers relating to privacy or messages being sent to spam boxes.

I have a few domains which receive emails regularly. I forward mails to gmail to keep everything in one place.

I’ve run this on a VPS for years with mail server, imap etc. It has SMTP enabled to allow gmail to ‘send as’, RBL etc. But - disaster - my host (Bytemark) is closing the vps services and I need to rebuild everything elsewhere and I can’t be bothered.

I want to be able to forward *@domain1 *@domain2 *@domain3 to gmail account A

Then the same for another domain to another gmail account B

I also want to be able to reply as the incoming domain (not necessarily the actual email address). don’t need web hosting or command line etc

Struggling to find a provider that fits this, any recommendations?

Hi, I am looking to create my own personal website and I was wondering what the best host would be for me.

I am a music producer and composer, and I'm looking to make a website for others to easily see how to contact me, what I do, stuff like that. I don't really understand how it all works, anything helps!

What is your monthly budget? >10 euro a month, cheaper is better

Where are you/your users located? Europe

What kind of site are you hosting (Wordpress, phpBB, custom software, etc) or what is your use case? I don't know or understand, I am just starting to learn today

Do you have a monthly traffic volume? Estimates are ok. Very low, most likely less than 100 visits a month

https://webhosting.today/2025/01/29/world-host-group-acquires-a2-hosting/

Hello!! I'm in morocco and I'm struggling to find a cheap and affordable hosting solution for my app (It's laravel + sqlite but I'm thinking of converting to Postgres or MySQL later)

I've did a lot of research but the prices vary WILDLY and I'm not very versed in devops at the moment (if you have any resources that teach Devops I'd love that too)

The app has many users, and one database (for now).

I found a hosting solution called genious but I don't know wether to go with them or not, they have a linus shared hosting plan called foolish that seems about right.

• What is your monthly budget?: 50-70$ per year
• Where are you/your users located? Morocco and France
• What kind of site are you hosting : Laravel application with Database that stores text, images and document
• Do you have a monthly traffic volume? not yet, I'm just starting
• If you’re looking at VPSes: Do you have experience administrating linux servers and infrastructure? I'm extremely new at hosting
• Did you read the sidebar/check out the hosts listed there? Yes, but they're all US or UK based and my currency is 1/10 of a dollar/euro lol

I opened another thread yesterday about whether you can manage a hosting without a sysadmin. But I think it deserves a better explanation. Basically we are a company that offers education and hosting. The education part is great, but the hosting part is lousy. There is a lot of criticism, we have only one sysadmin, he always says that everything is perfect and that it is the customer's fault. The truth is that he is the one who has configured the whole server and has access to everything regarding the hosting. In a way we are kidnapped by him. That's why I would like to know if there is a way to get free. To establish a line from today and start offering hosting service without needing a sysadmin, maybe a reseller service and above all that the support is provided by the parent company. Which resellers do this besides Siteground? Is it a bad idea? Are there risks? Will I still need a sysadmin in any case?

My current job is to support a webhosting platform written completely in-house.

In general it’s excellent and does what it needs to do. However, it’s over 20 years old and the creaks are starting to show and it’s becoming harder to maintain.

Our main issues are that it’s written in Perl, and finding good engineers with Perl experience is getting harder (not impossible, harder); and that it all runs on baremetal rather than containers so the general technology is considered old-hat so we are hampered as people want to work on the new cool technologies.

So the decision has been made to eventually kill it in a couple of years after all the apps we host move onto Kubernetes or whatever else becomes fashionable…

But there will always be a need for hosting good old fashioned brochureware, so does anyone know of a decent, commercially available, piece of software we can use for a smaller, but still scalable web hosting platform?