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Re: Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?

#31

Anyone here used WPEngine for Wordpress hosting? https://wpengine.com

We do. We've had a great experience moving our front-facing website to it after self-hosting on Digital Ocean. Not a single issue to date (that wasn't self-inflicted), and less time spent dealing with infrastructure.

Re: Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?

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It depends on your needs really. DO is fine for low budget projects. Just below them I would suggest Vultr. If you don't care about API's and that sort of thing, then Ramnode is even cheaper, but I've had issues with the user interface. There are a bunch of aggregator sites that compare vps providers. Here are two of them. [1] [2] [3] Disclaimer: These sites can be a bit spammy. Use NoScript / uBlock. Also, you reall…

Ramnode also has at times outright hostile customer support and a blatant disregard for customer privacy. Strongly advise against them.

They are for sure the bottom of the barrel. I threw that one in there because they have dirt cheap options.

Re: Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?

#34

It depends on your needs really. DO is fine for low budget projects. Just below them I would suggest Vultr. If you don't care about API's and that sort of thing, then Ramnode is even cheaper, but I've had issues with the user interface. There are a bunch of aggregator sites that compare vps providers. Here are two of them. [1] [2] [3] Disclaimer: These sites can be a bit spammy. Use NoScript / uBlock. Also, you reall…

Also https://www.serverhunter.com

Re: Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?

#36
I haven’t seen any plugs yet for AWS Lighthouse. It’s in a dedicated UI, so it’s not as overwhelming as AWS. You don’t need Ground Control satellite services to run a website.

Lighthouse starts at $5/Mo and comes with great docs and lots of templates. It’s pretty comparable to a Digital Ocean droplet.

Re: Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?

#37
Is it for a website or webapp?

If it is just a website, I highly recommend Netlify. It does static site hosting for dirt cheap.

If you need a webapp, I would agree with many other posters and say DO. They are the biggest of the "small" cloud providers, DO, Vultr, Linode. They have a wide range of options if you ever need to expand. I can't speak on their customer support because I have never had to use them.

Re: Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?

#38

I haven’t seen any plugs yet for AWS Lighthouse. It’s in a dedicated UI, so it’s not as overwhelming as AWS. You don’t need Ground Control satellite services to run a website. Lighthouse starts at $5/Mo and comes with great docs and lots of templates. It’s pretty comparable to a Digital Ocean droplet.

I think you meant Lightsail not Lighthouse correct?

Re: Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?

#39
I have used these in production:

0. https://www.bytemark.co.uk/prices/#cloud-prices

1. https://www.pair.com/solutions/shared/ (FreeBSD-based)

2. https://www.linode.com/pricing

3. https://aws.amazon.com/free (Free Tier is awesome, for a little while)

Others I would evaluate:

4. https://www.digitalocean.com

5. https://www.orangewebsite.com (Iceland-based)

6. https://www.bahnhof.net (Sweden-based)

7. https://tranquillity.se (Sweden-based, green-powered and straightforward billing)

8. https://advania.com (Sweden-, Iceland-, Norway- and Finland-based)

Re: Ask HN: What are good hosting providers?

#40

I am using Vultr. They have very cheap VPS options and they have many different OS images i.e. I am running a CentOS and a OpenBSD instances.

The cheapest VPS on Vultr doesn't provided IPv6. Does it mean people from IPv4 wont be able to access website hosted on that VPS? Is there a way around this issue?

I honestly don't know I am not a network guy. I am using IPv4 it seems on my site.
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