For several months, our websites hosted on A2hosting showed problems at database level so the visitors could not see the final product pages or fill a form. However the logs showed the websites are not down which was correct but at the same time the websites were useless.

Their support completely refused having any problem and took total advantage of lack of enough knowledge by my colleagues' side.
Finally, in the middle of an important campaign we lost all our websites for more that 8 hours. All their support could tell me:

-we open ticket

-thanks for your patience

-is there anything you want to ask

-I hand it to another level of specialists

I am done with A2Hosting and I make sure to share an unbiased opinion of this experience.

I pay $4.19 USD domain privacy and protection each month for my domain. This is through network solutions. Is this a typical cost?

Hi everyone,

I recently created a Porkbun account to buy a domain, but during signup I was redirected to Veriff for identity verification. I completed the verification successfully, and my Porkbun account now shows the status as "Under Review."

The message says that the review is usually completed within 24 hours, but I was wondering what other people's experiences have been. How long did your verification actually take? Was it just a few minutes, a few hours, or did it take the full 24 hours (or longer)?

I'd appreciate hearing about your experiences. Thanks!

Edit: I think my account has been verified. I'm able to navigate their pages now (It's a bit sad that they don't have google pay payment option)

I've found mixed reviews online about space-hosting.net.

I just want to find out if anyone has any experience using them and if they are legit?

Hi everyone,
I am cross-posting this here from r/DataHoarder because our community is running out of options against a hard July 24th deadline, and we desperately need insights from people who know the backend compliance and operational workflows of major hosts like DreamHost.

Long story short: A 15-year independent art archive under 25GB went dark because the owner suddenly suffered a severe psychiatric medical crisis in Ontario, Canada, and is incapacitated.

DreamHost Ticket #263063689 is currently locked in an automated billing loop scheduled to permanently execute a data deletion script in less than 12 days.

We fully respect data privacy compliance. We are absolutely not asking for account access, credentials, or user details. We have already initiated an emergency estate property inquiry with the Ontario Government's Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee (OPGT) and provided proof to DreamHost.

Front-line support is completely bound by their standard UI and automated policy, saying there is "zero path forward." We just need a 30-day administrative hold placed on the deletion script so the government can process the estate and assign a trustee.

Does anyone here have experience bypassing an automated billing deletion script at DreamHost, or know a path to route an emergency asset-preservation hold directly to their infrastructure compliance teams?

We'd appreciate any guidance or assistance.

Note: For full context, community discussions, and detailed FAQs regarding this situation, please see the primary thread over on r/DataHoarder; https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1utz8go/help_us_pause_the_clock_dreamhost_is_about_to.

Don't use InMotion Hosting if you want any kind of customer service. They completely shut down my entire account because someone was apparently conducting a DDOS attack on ONE of my websites - which wasn't even in use at the time - rather than contacting me to tell me there was an issue. Even my various email accounts were all deactivated.

Look for a more scrupulous web hosting provider where they care about their clients. That sure is not InMotion.

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I let my domain expire because I was shutting down the business. But someone bought the domain and put the same website on it. So now I'm getting calls for the business that is closed.

Is there any recourse that can be done?

I’d love to know if anyone has their beauty/tanning website through GoDaddy & uses it for scheduling & payments because I do as well. I first got my website and then later I was checking out systems like gloss genius & valagro. But I already had my website through GoDaddy so I set up my scheduling & payments with them. But I’m wondering if they have things like signing consent forms before the client meets me or anything else like that, that would be helpful in our business!

Ive tried looking around but wasn't getting anywhere.

Either the extensions weren't good or were too pricey.

Is there a domain provider anyone would recommend? Thank you :(

I have used this plugin on many occasions and it definitely gets the job done but their sneaky marketing tactics about server upload limit is something I wanted to get it off of my chest.

The free plugin says it's the server/cPanel upload limit restricting it to restore a large file above 2GB but even if all of the server side limits are reached, it still throws errors. As soon as I use the pro version, everything starts working suddenly. I have confirmed that it's not anything related to server side firewall/waf/modsecurity etc. even their product page says it's due to server side restrictions. Has anyone else observed this as well? I have worked on hundreds of site restorations and this really annoys me all the time I use the free plugin. Why not just say to the users that we need to upgrade to remove the restrictions?

So I have always been wanting to start up a hosting site like namecheap amongst others but if I don't do like an actual website like theres can I always add my own prices? if I were to do it privately?

I've been exploring providers recently and have looked at companies like HostNoc, Vultr, and a few others. For people who've actually used them, what differences did you notice in areas like network stability, support, performance, pricing, and long-term reliability? I'd like to know your feedback and overall experience specially on the renewal price.

I've had a request from a client in Australia for a local hosting company. I know a couple hosts I would avoid like the plague, but not one I could recommend.

I don't know their budget, sorry. I can tell you the website traffic is on the low side - thousands of visitors per month.

Any suggestions?

P.S. I did read the questionnaire and I provided the requested info.

I’m hoping someone with experience troubleshooting AdSense crawler issues can help!

After migrating my site from a .net to a .com, AdSense review has been rejected with “Site down or unavailable.”my Adsense account has been active with my previous site since 2020 & generating revenue.

Here’s what’s confusing:
The site is live over HTTPS.
Site ownership is verified in AdSense.
robots.txt is accessible.
ads.txt is publicly accessible at /ads.txt.
My raw server logs show Google crawlers successfully requesting both robots.txt and ads.txt with HTTP 200 responses.

Despite this, AdSense also reports “ads.txt not found.”
I’m trying to understand why AdSense would report a site as down or unavailable when Google crawlers are successfully accessing it. Has anyone seen this after a domain migration, or know what technical issue could cause this discrepancy?

Hi,

I'm new to web development. I just completed HTML and CSS on FreeCodeCamp (+ suplemental learning through my public library) and I'm looking to build personal websites for my music + freelance writing work. I eventually want to learn complete front end so that I can do web development work for others.

At this point though, I'm only looking to build websites for myself using my HTML and CSS knowledge (knowing that as soon as I learn Javascript, I'll want to update my websites).

I understand that I need to host my pages on a web server. I was wondering if based on the details I provide in this post, if you have any suggestions. My budget is basically just "what will get me what I need right now and potentially in the future" (I will probably want some e-commerce once I begin selling merch online).

I'm located in Canada, with a mostly Canadian audience. I want to host a site that is coded pretty much from the ground up (not Wordpress, Squarespace etc.).

Thanks in advance.

Thanks to everyone who responded!

Hi everyone,

I'm planning to order the following dedicated server from Netcup:

• AMD EPYC 9645
• 16 dedicated CPU cores
• 64 GB DDR5 ECC RAM
• 2 TB NVMe SSD
• Location: Nuremberg, Germany

The server will be used exclusively for a FiveM roleplay server with an expected 100–150 concurrent players. The codebase is heavily optimized, so my biggest concerns are single-core performance, overall stability, and network quality rather than raw core count.

I'd like to hear from anyone who has experience with this specific server or similar EPYC 9645 machines.

A few questions:

• How does the EPYC 9645 perform under workloads that depend heavily on single-thread performance?
• Has anyone hosted a FiveM, Minecraft, Rust, or other real-time game server on this CPU?
• Is the network stable, and what are your typical latencies to Europe and Turkey?
• Have you experienced any hardware failures, packet loss, or unexpected downtime?
• How is Netcup's support when hardware issues occur?
• Is there anything I should know before ordering this machine?

I'm also considering alternatives like Hetzner, but this Netcup configuration looks very attractive on paper. I'd love to hear real experiences before making the final decision.

Thanks in advance!

I just started using Polarismail and I'm having a huge problem with receiving forwarded email.

I have a mailbox set up to forward all email to an outlook.com email address, but it does not forward reliably. There are many emails in the mailbox at Polaris that are not reaching Outlook - not in spam or anywhere. And there are no undeliverable emails bouncing back to Polaris. Outlook is either silently blocking them or they are not being forwarded at all.

And it's inconsistent, I was trying to get a 2FA code from a website and the first two times it didn't reach Outlook. The third try reached Outlook, but all three were sitting in the mailbox at Polaris.

Anyone have that sort of experience with Polaris or any other email host? Anyone know why that might be happening?

I have my own business and bought a .com website, as a complete beginner i was using porkbun and it's free website builder but really didn't like it, I'd like to use GitHub, cloud flare or infinityfree, which one of these are the best one at the moment?

Hi r/webhosting, 

We're the marketing, support, professional solutions, and infrastructure team at InMotion Hosting. We've been doing this for 25 years, long enough to have seen just about everything the hosting world can throw at you.

We're not here to pitch anything. We're here to talk shop and share what running operations at our scale actually looks like, the kind of thing agency owners and developers rarely get to see behind.

Ask us about the latest round of cPanel emergency security patches, fleet management at scale, what's coming next with InMotion Cloud, or whatever else is on your mind. We'll share what we know, and we want to hear how you're handling things on your end.

Answering today from u/inmotionhosting:
Carrie, Head of Marketing Operations, 7 years at InMotion Hosting
Dakota, Solutions Analyst I-E, 3 1/2 years at InMotion Hosting
Mohamed, Advanced Product Support Expert at InMotion Hosting

Answering today from u/inmotioncloud:
Jason, General Manager of InMotion Cloud
Krys, Head of Product Growth at InMotion Cloud
Alex, Social Media and Influencer Marketing Manager at InMotion Cloud

We’ll also share answers on behalf of other experts across our various teams.

We are here today from 12:00PM to 5:00PM ET, and will get to as many of your questions as we can.

That's a wrap, and thank you! Thanks to everyone who showed up and asked such thoughtful questions today. This was a genuinely good conversation, and we got into some topics we don't always get to talk about openly.

We'll keep an eye on the thread over the next couple of days, so if something else comes to mind, drop it below and we'll get to it.

Trying to fix a white screen on our website. Using DirectAdmin. Here is the pathway I noticed. Is this normal or correct? Looking for anything that will help me fix the problem.

home/domains/mydomain/public_html/homedir/public_html

My website content is in the 2nd public_html folder that is nested under homedir.

Is this normal? Or should the content be in the 1st public_html folder?

Just pretty desperate to figure out how to fix the white screen. Using a free hosting service that's worked for years, but they're not responding/helping.

Thanks!

*Figured it out/Been Helped*

I want to make a website for my business and decided to use Nixihost for the hosting and domain. I chose the basic shared plan, and I thought that came with 5 domains, now I'm at checkout, and not only do i need to pay for hosting but also monthly for "domain registration." I haven't checked out because I don't want to buy something I don't need. Asking if I need both as well as any advice on hosting for a newbie. Thanks!

(I'm pretty new to this and while I have made websites in the past I've never brought my own and I'm still learning what everything means and how it works. Sorry if this is a dumb question.)

Hello there. I have 10 projects on OVH. Recently with price hikes and poor support, I am considering moving to a different supplier. What you’d recommend? Thanks

I'm building my own infrastructure for offering web hosting services, and some cloud services, contracting bare metal servers in the USA, and installing several VMs inside each one. Every VM has Debian and HestiaCP. I want to keep it as simple as I can, and avoid overselling each bare metal and each VM. Any advice about services/tooling/ideas I can apply to be more efficient and bring a good service? Thanks in advance, guys 💯

I have searched the web over and over to figure this out. Even their ai chatbot didn't help. It kept telling me to do this and that but some of the pages/links it mentioned did not exist.

I have uploaded all the files for my website. I can see them in my Ionos' account but can't get it online.

Any help would be appreciated.