[Hidden-tech] Current hosting and registrar recommendations

[Mark D. Hamill]

I used to host with Hostgator but I noticed after they were bought by
Endurance International I had all sorts of issues and the tech support
became poor. That's when I moved to Siteground. Perhaps things have
changed, but Endurance International seems to be about buying and
consolidating web hosts so I avoid them.

On Siteground I've recently noticed I've hit some poorly documented
resource limitations like CPU seconds per month using their shared hosting.
It's worrisome because until recently hosting there has been a pleasure.

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 8:18 AM Shel Horowitz <shel at principledprofit.com>
wrote:

> Like you, I have always kept my registration and my hosting at separate
> companies. I register with GoDaddy, and host with HostGator. It just always
> felt safer to have that split, and now you've given me a reason for my
> intuition, one that makes perfect sense. I had one site with Siteground for
> a year, on the strong recommendation of the web designer who set it up. I
> saw no real difference in the performance, but when they tripled the price
> after the first year was up, I left in disgust.
>
> I have been pretty happy with HostGator.  Their tech support is excellent
> and their uptime seems no worse than anyone else's. I think I've been with
> them about 10 years, after using several other hosts for a few years each.
>
> My needs are simpler than yours, Mark, so I have no need of fancy features.
>
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> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020, 7:41 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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