Ask HN: Are you still using shared hosting for anything? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Are you still using shared hosting for anything?

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Post by LeonB » Sun, Oct 22, 2017, 6:01 AM UTC

wolco wrote: post #7

It's been a year since I moved the last domain off of hostgator. Reason I used it so long is email/mail server. Since moving to a vps some emails don't come. Usually important ones that used domain verification.

Have you configured DKIM and SPF on your VPS's DNS?

Re: Ask HN: Are you still using shared hosting for anything?

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Post by joshmn » Sun, Oct 22, 2017, 6:04 AM UTC

Anecdotal: Ease of use has always been a major selling point for shared hosting, now more than ever. Not everyone wants to be a sysadmin, and John's Pizza sure as hell doesn't know what a VPS is. They just need a simple WordPress install.

Re: Ask HN: Are you still using shared hosting for anything?

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Post by featherverse » Sun, Oct 22, 2017, 6:08 AM UTC

joshmn wrote: post #12

Anecdotal: Ease of use has always been a major selling point for shared hosting, now more than ever. Not everyone wants to be a sysadmin, and John's Pizza sure as hell doesn't know what a VPS is. They just need a simple WordPress install.

> Ease of use has always been a major selling point

You're right, but that doesn't mean people need shared hosting, it means people need managed hosting.

Shared hosting is a gimmick model designed to make hosting companies rich based on the concept that 99% of websites will be failures.

And it is _nothing more than that_.

Re: Ask HN: Are you still using shared hosting for anything?

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Post by featherverse » Sun, Oct 22, 2017, 6:09 AM UTC

fraXis wrote: post #10

wolco wrote: post #7

It's been a year since I moved the last domain off of hostgator. Reason I used it so long is email/mail server. Since moving to a vps some emails don't come. Usually important ones that used domain verification.

What did you like and not like about Hostgator? I was with Rackspace for years, but Liquid Web bought their cloud site service and I am not too fond of the support I have been getting from Liquid Web and am looking to make a change.

I've had to deal with Hostgator on a number of occasions and I can tell you they don't know how to utilize SSH keys their systems are misconfigured and their support people are clueless.

Also I believe they're now owned by EIG which is a corporation that owns a thousand crappy shared hosting companies and is universally reviled in professional circles.

Re: Ask HN: Are you still using shared hosting for anything?

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Post by xylon » Sun, Oct 22, 2017, 6:10 AM UTC

Most shared hosts are scams that dissable your account if you get any traffic. But Mythic Beasts is great I host 5 websites on them for the cost of a panini. They host my email too, works fine.

Re: Ask HN: Are you still using shared hosting for anything?

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Post by lonk » Sun, Oct 22, 2017, 6:12 AM UTC

VPS,PaaS, Cloud servers are also shared hosting, difference is providing os/container level isolation instead of user account type isolation. So, yes everybody still using "shared" hosting.

Re: Ask HN: Are you still using shared hosting for anything?

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Post by eimg » Sun, Oct 22, 2017, 6:23 AM UTC

I have some small company websites (mostly Wordpress, 100-200 visitors a day with few dozens active email) on a single share host at DreamHost.

The cost is higher than some VPS. But their panel (and managed hosting service) is very nice and I have no apparent problems.

Although I might choose a DigitalOcean VPS to host new websites, I don't have immediate plan to move away existing websites from DreamHost share host.

Re: Ask HN: Are you still using shared hosting for anything?

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Post by janitor61 » Sun, Oct 22, 2017, 6:27 AM UTC

Animats wrote: post #2

I still have about 5 web sites on HostGator shared hosting. They don't get much traffic, and the cost of keeping them running is very low.

I quit using Hostgator after they modified their cPanel to prevent you from installing your own SSL certificates and forcing you to buy their own offerings. Seems pretty underhanded (even GoDaddy lets you manually install a LE cert)

Re: Ask HN: Are you still using shared hosting for anything?

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Post by gbuk2013 » Sun, Oct 22, 2017, 6:31 AM UTC

I’m still using a Funio shared hosting account for a site I am looking after for someone. ~35GB of data and ~11k page views a week. I have a VPS for my own use but in this case it’s very convenient to have a nice Panelbox UI that the onwner can access to make changes himself (he is technical enough to write HTML by hand but not technical enough to manage a server). Price wise it is a bit cheaper than a realiable KVM VPS and the service has been very good for years.

Re: Ask HN: Are you still using shared hosting for anything?

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Post by unixhero » Sun, Oct 22, 2017, 6:40 AM UTC

The real question is, on October 2017 which shared webhost can you recommend???

I am with Inmotionhosting on their business plan and that has been working fine. They support postgres in addition to mysql which is nice. Other than that nothing special, only that it works and they don't hassle me. It's not very cheap though... USD200 per year.

Hosters scrapped:

- Servage.com

- Greengeeks.com