[Hidden-tech] Current hosting and registrar recommendations

[Daniel Lieberman]

I heartily second Jeff’s recommendation of Dreamhost+Hover.

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On December 10, 2020 at 9:20:36 PM, Jeff Hobbs via Hidden-discuss (
hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net) wrote:

>
> 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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