[Hidden-tech] Current hosting and registrar recommendations

[Jeff Hobbs]

I love Dreamhost. I’ve been hosting a number of projects there for years,
and I’ve never had any major problems. It is still a “PHP and MySQL” shop
in many ways, but they also offer many modern amenities as well.

I use hover as a domain registrar, however. Mainly because hover is very
good at it.

~Jeff

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 8:52 PM Mark D. Hamill via Hidden-discuss <
hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:

> It seems every few years we swap hosting recommendations. Based on a
> conversation a few years ago on this list, I chose Siteground and have been
> reasonably happy with it, at least until recently.
>
> Of course a good host depends on your needs. Shared hosting has worked
> pretty well for me for my modest needs but I have used virtual private
> servers in the past. In general, hosts seem to have upped their game with
> shared hosting and I rarely encounter performance issues that I saw in the
> past.
>
> One of the big trends, which is affecting hosts like GoDaddy and
> Siteground, is they are becoming virtual web hosts. GoDaddy is moving to
> Amazon's cloud and Siteground to Google's. So presumably these hosts are
> saving a lot of money because they aren't maintaining their own server
> rooms. It's generally complicated to set up hosting in the cloud, so they
> seem to add value by putting up pretty interfaces. Siteground had impressed
> me with its all solid state infrastructure, but presumably all the major
> cloud vendors are now solid state and since Siteground is virtual now (or
> moving that way), it's not that big of a deal.
>
> So looking at informed recommendations for shared and VPS web hosts in
> particular. I'm a little prejudiced against virtual hosts, but I'm guessing
> it's a trend that will only continue and at some point virtually all web
> hosts will be virtual. I prefer hosts that build in value. Siteground, for
> example, includes free Let's Encrypt certificates and their maintenance
> built in. This seems to be becoming more standardized but curiously last I
> checked GoDaddy doesn't do this.
>
> I attended a podcamp in Boston last year. A representative from Dreamhost
> talked about how they fought off legal efforts by the Trump administration
> to make them monitor their servers proactively. I don't think they are a
> virtual hosting company. Anyone have experiences with Dreamhost?
>
> I do have one recommendation when it comes to registrars. I keep my
> registrar separate from my hosting so I can quickly divorce hosts when
> needed. I see registrars as commodities. I've been happy with namesilo.com.
> They seem to be the cheapest out there and they throw in extras, like
> privacy protection, for free. Most of my clients use GoDaddy and I think
> their registrar services are obscenely priced. But I'm sure registrars are
> going through changes too. It might be good to trade notes on registrars
> too.
>
> Thanks and I'm sure our discussion will be useful to many.
>
> Mark
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