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- johnny_wobble0
i've used 1&1 for a long time, no complaints, near zero downtime that i've experienced.
- $42 a year, ok this might work
anyone else?
http://order.1and1.c…Miguex - i've had the opposite experience with 1&1... luck of the draw it guess-bjladams
- I'm ok with 1and1. support is hit or miss but other than that they are goodfourth
- i've been with them for around a decade. their control panel changes a lot and they tacked on a $15 php 4 support charge without ever letting me know,scarabin
- which i unwittingly paid for years, but my site has never gone down.scarabin
- $42 a year, ok this might work
- ohhhhhsnap0
I'm leaving Dreamhost this weekend, any Hosting + Doman spot that's super reliable you'd recommend your fellow colleague, hands down?
MT is my top choice but there must be something else as good for a little less bones.
- colin_s0
i've been using webfaction after losing faith in dreamhost. seems to be fine.
- ArmandoEstrada-1
Left DH for MT, love it.....
- rosem-1
- ohhhhhsnap0
Lost faith in DH too (Fatcow failed me in 2002, good to hear they've gotten better... so it sounds). MT may be my best bet.
DH is playing around with my data,... "that's that shit i don't like."
Thanks for your input!
- JamesBoynton0
I have used Xilo a few times, and always been happy with the uptime and service, not badly priced too.
- OctopiStimuli0
Any better ones worth checking out 4 years on?
I as thinking of using Amazon Web Services, for domain names, hosting, Wordpress hosting etc...
Looking for good monthly reseller package that I can profit on.
- ********0
Media Temple or Liquid Web
- sausages0
I've been moving smaller static and WP client sites to AWS lately. Pretty good once you wrap your head around the various services
- Is the cost minimal, thinking of doing this with portfolio type sites with blogs?OctopiStimuli
- ArmandoEstrada0
Cloudways. You can spin up a Digital Ocean, google, amazon, Vurltr, etc server.
- imbecile0
ditched media temple last year after over a decade.
looking at...
bluehost
siteground
hostgatorprobably siteground.
any opinions or experience with any of the three?
- I've had pretty good experiences with Siteground lately. Bluehost went on my B-list a few years ago, but they've been ok lately.nocomply
- Haven't work with Hostgator much lately but would recommend others over them.nocomply
- hostgator is garbage.. used them for years..it wasnt dedicated hosting per site so if one got hacked all sites got trashed..maybe its different now********
- ✓ aws
✓ liquid web******** - my company uses aws, looking for recs for site for a friend. not much traffic. i was thinking siteground and also thought hostgator was trashimbecile
- I have bluehost pretty good, can't beat the pricing, I had them for about 7 years now.utopian
- went with bluehost cloud hostingimbecile
- I went to Siteground and regret it. Their support was superb, then it became a joke. The worst I've experienced.formed
- Bluehost was too slow, I paid for a year but bailed in a monthYakuZoku
- nylon0
Im sure you will hate me BUT I use GoDaddy.
I am not a developer but I genuinely think their customer service is second to none...
Any problem i have EVER had, I call them and they help me.
OK so its only buying domains and hosting WP sites but they have helped me so, so much
- PonyBoy0
Hoping someone here may have some guidance.
I'm looking into to moving our various websites to AWS (from a MediaTemple Grid Pro setup).
We have 15+ sites we manage on MT... ideally we'd like something similar to the MT Grid management system. We have add-ons like G Suite for more than half the sites we have up (Can you backup & transfer all emails / contacts from an existing G Suite setup? We're talking a few years worth of emails for a few users across about 5-10 websites). We also have a few of the sites setup w/SSL certificates simply so we can accept a random payments utilizing woocommerce (or the like... we've build a few product pages for vendors / partners to pay various fees).
All of our sites are built on Wordpress. We prefer to install WP and manage many plugins manually (via FTP). We also do a lot of 'raw HTML' type pages that simply sit in folders on the server and are placed / inserted in a WP page (so FTP / folder access / editing is very important).
I'm wandering around AWS's various cloud options and it's a bit overwhelming... I've attempted a few conversations w/their sales staff but they're useless as they're not familiar from where I'm coming from (our existing setup)... some of you are. Help!
- I've no real useful input other than to enquire as to whether you'd consider Google's offering - I'd like to think they'd have a focus on G SuiteNairn
- ..also, my experience with AWS mirrors yours in that it's a wall of WTF? It' snot exactly self-explanatory to mere mortals like us!Nairn
- Why not an MT VPS?ETM
- Nairn0
Actually, sorry - ignore my suggestion in the note there. I'd skimmed a load of comments on a post the other day and gained the impression that Google Cloud was pretty good. Skimming again, I see that support is an on-going complaint.
First few comment trees here might be worth a skim: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite…
- PonyBoy1
Anyone else move to AWS over the last year? I'm curious to hear any new feedback on them (good or bad).
- We primarily use AWS Lightsail at work. It was definitely a learning curve for us because we were (mt) before that, but it's great.dbloc
- The Control Panel is way more intuitive on (mt). Too bad their hosting is horrible now.dbloc
- With AWS prepare to use the terminal more.dbloc
- Nice... Lightsail is where I'm angling. Are you happy w/website load time etc? My MT sites are sloooow these days.PonyBoy
- yep...we ran like hell from mtdbloc
- I think Google Cloud is very similar to AWS as well... we decided on AWS and it's great so fardbloc
- my client uses AWS, Im in that shit daily dbloc is right about that learning curvemoldero
- PonyBoy2
dbloc (or anyone else that may have done this)... about how long did your DNS take to propagate when moving to AWS (and did you have any issues w/the transfer in general?)
It's been nearly 48 hours... still have a dead website (and an ansty client)
What's weird is the site is showing itself on my iphone correctly (the new website)... BUT I have to verify I trust the site first in order to view it. On my desktop / laptop / tablet I just get an 'ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT' response from the server.
Any guidance would be appreciated... thanks in advance. <3
- might be cache. What's the url to see if it loads here?ESKEMA
- Are you using Cloudflare?oey_oey
- shouldn't take that long.. check it on a web proxy?
https://hidester.com…dbloc - does it have SSL?dbloc
- no ssl yet
it's a lightsail instance... I've created my static IP, DNS zone and A record and redirected my registrar to the 4 custom addresses provided...PonyBoy - ... when I created the DNS zone. Again - I see the site now on my iphone... but it's dead everywhere else.PonyBoy
- out of fear of what some of the lurkers who dislike me might do to my client (lots of forms on the site) I don't feel confident sharing the url here :/PonyBoy
- ^good call, yeah clear your DNS cachemoldero
- you can use this https://dnschecker.o…moldero
- try a server restart too just for shits & gigglesdbloc
- It could be a number of things. obviously the IP works just fine, right? Is this a static website, wordpress, ?dbloc
- I'm almost there... the old site had an SSL cert. I went ahead and installed a free 'Let's Encrypt' cert. and it seems to have done the trick...PonyBoy
- ... I wouldn't have thought to look at that as the issue w/out dbloc asking... so thank you!!PonyBoy
- You're welcome. Let's Encrypt is great that's what we use for all our clients.dbloc
- you can set it to auto-renewdbloc
- yep... I have the auto-renew on
btw... if anyone needs good AWS lightsail tutorials: https://metablogue.c…PonyBoy - Did you (can you?) fritz with TTL settings?Nairn
- PonyBoy0
Another question... I swear I just about have everything working for lightsail... but I'm stuck w/what should be the simplest thing. However, you'd of have to be familiar w/yet another service of AWS... specifically their 'SES' email service.
First, I've requested and received confirmation my account has been moved out of the Amazon SES sandbox.
I'm trying to verify an email that is not of the same domain name associated w/my dns zone. Is this possible? (Example: my verified domain name is 'bobscars.com' but I want to be able to receive emails at .)
I've verified the domain and I'm even able to RECEIVE an email asking me to click a link and verify said email... when I do I keep getting this 'ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR'.
Without this service I can't receive forms or send email confirmations that users have signed up for newsletters etc.
I've got a message out in the AWS forums and have even attempted to find a specialist in their 'paid for' help... but nobody is biting. :/
- *but I want to be able to receive emails at 'steve @ stevescars.com'PonyBoy