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

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Post by overint »

jmathai wrote: post #24
featherverse wrote: post #8

I wrote an article about this called Shared Hosting is Bad for Business. I pointed out that shared hosting as a business model depends on the failure of it's customers' websites. You can't run 1,000 high traffic websites on a single server, typically, but you can run 1,000 no-traffic websites on a single server. You see this in practice because basically every shared hosting provider will disable your account if your…

Don't many businesses have 'no-traffic' websites?

A typical local business website probably gets a few hundred hits a day, which is pretty much nothing.

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

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Post by Meekro »

featherverse wrote: post #8

I wrote an article about this called Shared Hosting is Bad for Business. I pointed out that shared hosting as a business model depends on the failure of it's customers' websites. You can't run 1,000 high traffic websites on a single server, typically, but you can run 1,000 no-traffic websites on a single server. You see this in practice because basically every shared hosting provider will disable your account if your…

I used to work at DreamHost, and what you're saying is not true (for us). While it's true that the shared hosting business model only works because most people buy the service and don't use it, we did not disable popular websites. I remember some customers actually getting semi-dedicated servers at no extra cost because that's what it took to keep their site online.

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

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Post by konschubert »

overint wrote: post #31
jmathai wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't many businesses have 'no-traffic' websites?

A typical local business website probably gets a few hundred hits a day, which is pretty much nothing.

And it does not mean that the website is a failure.

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

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Post by laci27 »

jraby3 wrote: post #29
laci27 wrote: post #28

Well, I can tell you that hosting WP sites on a shared host is a big pain in the ... . When a client get's hacked, everyone on the same server (or at least same IP) get's 'tested' for WP vuln. and hacked as well. I found 8 WP accounts hacked in a similar way, on a shared server, one after the other, with the server correctly configured. Smaller (local) shared hosting companies are good because they offer quick suppor…

Can you recommend some good local hosts?

Hi, By local I mean local to you:) where you can shake hands with the person who owns the servers.

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

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Post by laci27 »

jraby3 wrote: post #29
laci27 wrote: post #28

Well, I can tell you that hosting WP sites on a shared host is a big pain in the ... . When a client get's hacked, everyone on the same server (or at least same IP) get's 'tested' for WP vuln. and hacked as well. I found 8 WP accounts hacked in a similar way, on a shared server, one after the other, with the server correctly configured. Smaller (local) shared hosting companies are good because they offer quick suppor…

Can you recommend some good local hosts?

Every city has at least one very good webmaster that owns or rents a few servers for reselling, even if just as a side gig from his job at the local ISP, for ex.

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

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Post by gameofcode »

jraby3 wrote: post #29
laci27 wrote: post #28

Well, I can tell you that hosting WP sites on a shared host is a big pain in the ... . When a client get's hacked, everyone on the same server (or at least same IP) get's 'tested' for WP vuln. and hacked as well. I found 8 WP accounts hacked in a similar way, on a shared server, one after the other, with the server correctly configured. Smaller (local) shared hosting companies are good because they offer quick suppor…

Can you recommend some good local hosts?

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