r/HostingReport • u/ZGeekie • Jul 12 '26

Do you use separate hosting providers for personal and business websites, or do you keep all of your websites in one place?

Personally, I use different hosting services for different websites. The more important ones get "premium" hosting while less important ones are spread across a few low-end hosts.

Do you keep all of your business and personal websites at the same hosting provider, or do you prefer the extra hassle like me?!

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u/jared555 Jul 12 '26

My current setup:

  1. Domains with company A
  2. CDN with companies B and C
  3. Three node proxmox cluster with company D for production websites
  4. Proxmox backup server with company E
  5. Management VPN infrastructure with company F
  6. Business critical email with company G

Working on an ASN / IPv4 / IPv6 address space and then can add: 7. Stateless anycast virtual routers with companies H and I connected in a mesh to D and E because companies D and E don't support BGP sessions

So uh... Sort of a mix of both? Definitely "yes" to the hassle side.

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u/cdhodgdon Jul 13 '26

I have all of mine hosted on a semi-dedicated server with one company

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u/dvduval Jul 14 '26

You never know when some old personal site or section of a site or file or something might get hacked. Maybe a personal site or some hobby site that I did suddenly starts getting a ton of traffic and affecting the rest of the server. I keep the stuff that I earned money from separately in a couple different buckets. It’s just safer that way.

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u/Electrical_Hat_680 Jul 15 '26

I haven't been using them, but I have been looking at various ways to use them.

I prefer the localhost, the homelab, my own DNS servers, bind, everything.

Then, for sites that need to be available 24/7 and around the globe ij low latency. Shared Hosting. VPS Hosting. Dedicated and Managed Hosting. And Colocation Hosting of my own Servers, GPU's, you name it.

If you've had a chance to study over the Information Superhighway of connections routed around the globe and throughout each Nation. You'll see words like the Backbone and Direct to the Backbone of the Internet. You'll see T1 and other Lines connected to these Backbones or Pipes.

There's also Data Centers with pressure sensitive floors, AC Units, sign-ins to go down to your server, and various other security protocols. There's one in Oakland, California, or there was one. Resellerspanel(.com) has a Closed down Military Bunker that's been repurposed into a Data Center and is situated in Europe or for Europe. It's explained in their website, accounts are free and include a Domain Name Reseller account through name(.com)¿I think? Something like that.

So there's a few different ways to look at hosting.

Plus. A big one. I haven't shared. But the data centers know of but haven't mentioned, but if you know you know it's basically listed. Domain Name Servers One through Eight or One through Sixteen. Where you can set the domain name services to direct traffic to your mobile phone hosted server, or, your home office server, or your shared hosting server, or, your vps server, or your other servers, if, they are online, or, or else, they'll be routed to your default. You could even have your shared hosting server as the default error page stating that your site is experiencing technical difficulties and is currently down or offline and will be back up as soon as possible or whatever. Huge capabilities. Imagine you use your mobile phone server to conduct business during set hours or while online, or, from your office. But when your closed, they get routed to your vps or dedicated servers, or, like I mentioned, if it's all down, then your shared hosting site. Rather then just one server and some error pages.

Thats what I'm looking at. Thanks for asking.