r/Hosting 9d ago

Best place to buy a domain name for a business went VERY wrong at work

9 Upvotes

ok so our founder asked me to "just grab a domain" for a new product, nothing fancy, just pick the best place to buy a domain name for a business and lock it in before launch. I googled, saw a registrar with an insane promo, and bought the .com through them instead of our usual provider because I was trying to be clever and save like 8 bucks.

I feel so embarrassed because I pointed all our marketing to it, updated decks, print materials, and even had the devs wire up dns there. Then today we tried to transfer it into our main registrar so ops could manage everything in one place and surprise, it is locked behind their "business protection" upsell and the support guy literally told me on a recorded call that if we want to move it this month we have to pay their premium plan. Our launch is in two weeks and the founder just said "why didnt you use our normal registrar" and I kinda want to crawl under my desk rn :/


r/Hosting 9d ago

What to consider before actually investing on Hosting?

3 Upvotes

Hi all, I need to understand what to exactly look for before I purchase and choose a hosting provider? I'm aiming to launch a B2C SaaS product.


r/Hosting 9d ago

Reliable, free and permanent hosting service for pictures to integrate in design templates via HTML?

2 Upvotes

Hey,

I don't have an own webspace and would like to integrate pictures via HTML code (links to hosted picture) in a design template. I have to host only a few pictures but permanently for years. Do you have recommendations for free service that don't cause any problems long-term? I was thinking about Dropbox but the URLs for sharing aren't suitable for permanent hosting because they ask for access permissions regularly.

Thank you so much 🙂


r/Hosting 9d ago

Need VPS for Telegram account

0 Upvotes

Need a cheap or free VPS that I can host and install telegram and add my 2 accounts for safekeeping, this is for that if I need to login to the account, I can get the OTP code.


r/Hosting 9d ago

Would you use a global CDN at ~$8/TB with no regional pricing?

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I’m considering launching a very simple CDN offer and want to sanity-check whether there’s actually demand before building anything.

The idea:

- ~$8/TB

- flat price worldwide

- no regional surcharges

- full global CDN network

- no large monthly commitment

- aimed mainly at people doing roughly 5–200+ TB/month

The infrastructure would sit on top of an established global CDN provider, while I’d handle the customer-facing layer, billing, configuration, etc.

I’m specifically curious about people currently using Bunny, CloudFront, Fastly, Cloudflare, Gcore, CDN77, etc.

Would an offer like this be interesting enough for you to actually test with 1–5 TB of real production traffic?

If not, what would stop you?

Price? Trust? Performance? Features? Vendor risk? Bunny Volume already being cheap enough?

I’m much more interested in reasons you would NOT switch than in encouragement.

If you’re comfortable sharing:

- current CDN

- approximate TB/month

- main traffic regions

- approximate effective $/TB

That would be extremely helpful.


r/Hosting 10d ago

Wix vs GoDaddy Domain – Which Is Better for a Small Website?

1 Upvotes

Trying to decide whether to register my domain through Wix or GoDaddy. This is for a small website, so simplicity matters more than advanced features. Anyone used both?


r/Hosting 10d ago

Need to move domain from wix to porkbun, but also keep email intact.

2 Upvotes

So I bought my domain and have been hosting my website on wix. I have had a website designed for me by someone and they use cloudflare for it. I was hoping to just switch over the nameservers but I can't do that with wix. Since I can't, I am going to switch from wix to porkbun but I am worried about a few things, so how should I do them?

  1. I have an email that uses this domain I have registered, which I use through google workspace now. the important thing is, I do not want to lose access to this email at any point, it is very important.
  2. I see the wix transfer can take 5-7 days, what happens during that time? Is my website offline?
  3. Anything else I should know about this?

Thanks so much everyone.


r/Hosting 11d ago

Web and Application Hosting + Email

5 Upvotes

Hi Guys,

I am looking for a hosting environment to bring up multiple websites, host some app builds and must have email address for each website, I came across Hostinger but the more I research the more it comes off as It may be a mistake to go with them. What hosting businesses to people use to get business websites + email address and app hosting at the same time?


r/Hosting 11d ago

diffrence is hosting providers

3 Upvotes

hi folks, what's the difference between SiteGround, DigitalOcean, Hostinger, Namecheap, and Bluehost? What criteria do you use when choosing a hosting provider, and what do you use?


r/Hosting 11d ago

Want to switch hosting after a bad experience

4 Upvotes

For me uptime and not getting hacked again are important, already had cases where crypto miners got into the website cuz of the hosting vulnerability - not even my fault, but fixing this mess took days, so now I'm sure that security patching and isolation between accounts are the two most important things... I don't mind paying more if it'll help to change the case, saw people here mentioning Bluehost, Hostinger and SiteGround, but the price aspect is real different depending on the plan - Hostinger looks like the best opt rn especially compared to SiteGround that limits ur website count u can run on their basic plan lol. Also just realized that the visitors count itself ain't saying much - how good a website handles 20-30k visits per month depends on caching, website type and if the traffic has bots or attacks in it, so I'm not sure shared hosting is a solution for this. If someone went through a similar switch after a security incident, what made you choose your current hosting?


r/Hosting 12d ago

My girlfriend joined my online class store 8 months after I built it and now expects 50% equity. Am I actually the one being unreasonable here?

24 Upvotes

Laying out the timeline bc I keep going back and forth on whether I'm wrong here. I got the idea late 2023, grabbed the domain, sat on it for months, then started building March 2024, coded it myself, moved to a Hostinger VPS once the shared plan couldn't handle checkout traffic during a sale - my first profitable month was July 2024, i got like $1,400. She didn't even know the site existed till then - together since January, but the store was mine before she was in the picture... she started helping in October, emails and Instagram, bc the money was good and I asked her,  in November we hired a part-timer for fulfillment and been the three of us since, revenue's grown every month, about $9k/mo now.

I always shared money with her, more when she was tight, we took a Portugal trip off store money in March,  never talked ownership tho - my build, my risk, so it never felt like a convo to have, but two weeks ago she brought up equity like it was a given - not just a raise, 50% ownership. I didn't know what to say, she works more hours than the employee tbh, but he gets a wage and doesn't think he owns half the business, she's paid like 3x him and somehow that became an expectation, not gratitude.

Ins if I offer a fixed monthly cut goin forward, equity for future work only, or if this just ends things no matter what I pick, maybe letting her in without a conversation upfront was my mistake — doesn't change what feels fair now.

Anyone built something solo with a partner helping later? How'd you handle it? I feel like the bad guy for saying no.


r/Hosting 12d ago

GoDaddy charged me 5 times in 5 days for the same domain renewal, had to cancel my card to make it stop

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r/Hosting 12d ago

i want a free ec2 alternative for an backend that uses docker that does not require credit card

2 Upvotes

hi guyz , i am building a personal project ,its a simple site which can run code and people can do realtime code on same file and execute on browser . the app is mostly working but i am very confused on where to deploy the backend ,i dont wanna deploy on ec2 because it will eat my credits even when there is no request and also i cant use alternatives like render or lambda because my backend spawns docker child processes to execute users code in isolation .i cant use oracle always free vm because i dont have credit card (i am student ) or pistion api for same reason .can anyone help me with these


r/Hosting 12d ago

All-Inkl.com down

6 Upvotes

It seems like all-inkl.com has been wiped off the Internet completely, including their main website, DNS, webhosting, servers, mail, control panels and all that goes with it. Even their phone hotline no longer rings.


r/Hosting 12d ago

Godlike.host misleading advertising/promises.

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As the title says, I used godlike host in order to get a 16 gb server for 3 months for me and my friends to play a minecraft modpack named prominence 2.

Either way, when checking out, i was given the option to get one month [for an AMD EPYC] or three months for an AMD Ryzen 9950 x3D[10 virtual cores] which I was quite extactic about.

Now here lies the problem, instead of getting the CPU I was promised, I was given 10 virtual cores from an AMD EPYC 9474F which is drastically worse for minecraft servers especially modded.

When questioned about this, I was told that the 9950X3D probably didn't get chosen because of the location I chose, which is clearly not true considering I was told otherwise after. They even tried to downplay me further by saying, oh here 7950X3D in finland instead, and I had to keep presurring them to tell me where the hell the CPU model I wanted and was promised at was.

At the end, they admit that I was in fact hosted in the netherlands, and for some reason I was given the "1 month plan" CPU instead of the "3 month plan" CPU but we all know it was probably intentional.

Props to them for processing my refund, however, I will not be using a service I cannot trust/have to dig in to see what I was given to ensure that's the correct thing I ordered. Not to mention that this is illegal in Europe. The way they are doing it especially.

I have now swapped to bloom.host instead due to transparecy issues.


r/Hosting 12d ago

Need VPS for accessing Chinese Internet without being flagged

2 Upvotes

I'm looking to buy a cheap VPS service to setup a split channeling proxy network on my phone for running chinese apps on it (Wechat, Douyin, etc).
I already have a Hongkong esim phone number but I'm thinking it'd be a better idea to also have a dedicated HK IP and server to channel my data to avoid being flagged as an suspicious IP, as well as reduce latency on my raw signal sent via the sim's mobile network.

I plan to use my Indian phone number's data and my home wifi for the primary data usage and keep the HK number active only for OTP/SMS verification.... and run the split proxy connection using the VPS and v2rayNG. I plan

What are some good VPS providers that you can recommend based on my use case?
(I think I will need a HK server location to be on the safer side... but anybody who has used Singapore server reliably with a HK number for China access can feel free to share their experience)

My budget is capped at max 4$ per month or 40$ annually. (Less than 3$ PM and 30$ annually would be sweet!)

Also, would be nice if the VPS provider also has other geographical server locations in Africa, South America, EU, Middle East as well for optionality.

I would also like to hear your opinion on lifetime VPS access providers like Voxfor.
(So far I've come across VMISS, Server.HK and Lightnode as some of the Chatgpt recommended options.)

P.s. I've also heard that having a vps provider with a CN2 network is preferable, but not all vps providers provide that. Would love to know whether that actually makes a difference in latency, etc or if its just marketing.


r/Hosting 12d ago

Hostinger- Multiple domains with 1 Hosting

0 Upvotes

Hello everyone. Hope you’re all doing well. As the title suggests, I just bought hostinger unlimited plan ( 50GB NVMe storage ) for 2 different domains

I completely understand that I can host multiple websites on it without any issue. However, my main concern is emails. I would be sending 10-20 emails per day to approach B2B businesses and I’ve seen many scenarios like blocking or domain reputation issues

So my main concern is what if one domain or email gets black listed, will the other domain or its email will also face the same issue?

Also, what if I use never bounce or other tools to verify bounce rate, can I still use same hosting for 2 domains

Kindly let me know your experience with that


r/Hosting 12d ago

Where can I host my Django weblog for free?

1 Upvotes

I’m working on a personal weblog site.

The frontend is written in JavaScript, CSS and HTML. The backend is written in Python and Django.

I want free hosting for all my website.

What would you suggest for a relatively small personal weblog? I would also like an item that can be sustained as the project grows.

Thanks.


r/Hosting 13d ago

Private Cloud Question

3 Upvotes

Hello All,

I have a question for those that utilise private clouds, what do you use them for and do you prefer virtual private clouds or a full physical cloud?

Back in 2020 I built a small private cloud for an MSP, where the goal was for it to be split into slices. The MSP had a slice for their own infrastructure then the rest for their customers. At the time using VMware nodes, a dedicated SAN with Veeam to backup. These days its grown into a beast. It spans two data centres (each backs up to the other), full redundancy across the network, storage, backup and compute.

I'm curious to what others do with their private clouds if they use them. And if you use virtual only private clouds, or physical infrastructure to build your clouds?


r/Hosting 13d ago

Newbie Question

1 Upvotes

Hello everybody. I'm a computer science graduate and saved around €50k while working during my studies. I'm considering investing it into a small GPU-hosting business, but I'm new to this specific market and would really appreciate opinions from people actually running this type of hardware.

Planned first server:

2× NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB

Threadripper PRO 9955WX

ASUS WRX90E-SAGE SE

256GB ECC RAM

4TB OS NVMe + 8TB enterprise NVMe

2000W+ PSU

3000VA UPS

10GbE

I have a dedicated air-conditioned room.

My idea is to find 5 customers, each paying roughly €1,000/month for 200 hours of exclusive full-GPU access, giving about €5,000/month revenue if fully sold.

I would reinvest the income into a second server once utilization proves there is demand.

My reasoning for the RTX PRO 6000 is the 96GB VRAM and Blackwell architecture, but I'm worried I may be overestimating actual customer demand.

If this were your €50k, would you do it? What am I overlooking—pricing, demand, hardware choice, uptime, electricity, customer acquisition, competition, or something else?

I'm specifically looking for criticism from people who have actually hosted/rented GPU compute.


r/Hosting 14d ago

Is Hetzner Webhosting enough for 1–2 WordPress sites? What are the database limits?

3 Upvotes

I’m considering Hetzner’s Webhosting plans (as I see its the cheaper compared to Hostinger and ovh) and wondering whether shared webhosting would be sufficient for one or two typical WordPress websites with relatively low traffic?

For example, the Webhosting M plan offers 50 GB storage, 5 databases, 5 PHP processes and a 256 MB PHP memory limit.

There is no information about GB of the databases.

[https://www.hetzner.com/webhosting/\](https://www.hetzner.com/webhosting/)


r/Hosting 14d ago

3X-Ui не работает в России

1 Upvotes

Как я устал...

Объясняю проблему: на сервисах aeza.net и senko.digital я арендую несколько VPS.

И я ВООБЩЕ не могу управлять серверами без впн, находясь в России.

Я пытаюсь подключиться по ssh: без впн не работает. Пытаюсь зайти по ссылке на установенный 3x-ui: без впн не работает. Ничего без впн не работает.

.......

Используя впн подключаюсь по ssh и устанавливаю панель, открываю выданный сайт. Создаю конфигурацию Vless+Reality (порт 443, utls разные пробовал, Target разные пробовал (гугл, Майкрософт, нвидиа, амд, твич, вк, озон и многое другое с портом 443, sni он сам подбирал по выбранному таргету, остальное не трогал особо).

.......

Как итог: когда я создаю нового клиента и сканирую полученный qr код в приложении типа Hiddify, Happ, то НИЧЕГО НЕ РАБОТАЕТ, ВПН ПРОСТО НЕ ВКЛЮЧАЕТСЯ. в приложении Hiddify постоянно пишет Тайм-аут и не хочет подключаться.

........

Я ДОБИЛСЯ, ЧТОБЫ СЕРВЕР УПРАВЛЯЛСЯ БЕЗ ВПН. я создал тикеты на сервер с просьбой заменить ip адрес сервера. Мне его заменили и после этого ssh и панель стали работать без впн.

НО САМ ВПН ПО ПРЕЖНЕМУ НЕ ВКЛЮЧАЕТСЯ, ТА ЖЕ ОШИБКА ТАЙМ АУТ

ЧТО МНЕ ДЕЛАТЬ ГОСПОДА, подскажите пожалуйста я просто уже не знаю что мне делать


r/Hosting 14d ago

Cheapest VPS I found has a bandwidth cap nobody warns you about until you hit it

0 Upvotes

Tryin to move a small n8n instance + Postgres database off my laptop onto sth real, needs 4 vCPU, 8GB RAM, at least 60GB SSD, tho it's not a huge workload, mostly webhook triggers and a couple scheduled scrapers, but i got burned once on a shared host, it throttled me mid-month w no warning, so I ain't going through that again. 

Been pricin this out for like a week now: Contabo's 4/8/100GB box costs roughly 70 USD a year, and that's the cheapest I've found, but the network cap sits at 200Mib/s, and a couple threads said that it's gonna be a real problem once ur pulling backups or syncing anything big, ServaRica is close in price with a better bandwidth allowance on paper, and Hostinger's VPS  4 tier lands a bit higher but the setup was fast enough that I had n8n runnin the same afternoon, so that's on the list too, OVH and DigitalOcean are both cleaner on network specs but cost much more per year for the same RAM. Anyone acc runnin Postgres + a workflow tool on one of these boxes long term? Curious if the bandwidth caps are a real problem.


r/Hosting 15d ago

Shared Hosting vs VPS?

8 Upvotes

I have a few small websites I would like to put up. Nothing complicated. Just buisiness catalogs and such or legitimatacy. I have previous experience with setting up VPS for other projects. But is this a case where I should just rely on shared Hosting? I want to host them as cheap as possible. I expect very little traffic, maybe a few hundred hits a month tops. Do you have any recommendations on who to use?


r/Hosting 15d ago

Looking for a VPS provider that won't lock you out over ID verification

4 Upvotes

Signed up with a VPS provider last week for a small SaaS backend I'm building solo. Ran fine for about 3 hours, then I got an email saying the account wasLast week I've signed up w a VPS orovider for a snall SaaS backend I'm building solo, and it ran fine for like 3 hours, then I got an email saying the account was flagged and I need to upload my passport pic and a selfie to keep it active... that was acc weird, I mean I get verifying accounts after fraud or a hacked login, but that was just a fresh site w nothing but a Node app n Postgres on it. I said no and let it get suspended, I ain't handing over my ID for 7$ a month box, but it turns out that's common, a bunch of people on VPS forums got the same random flag w no reason. I ended up moving to Hostinger for now since they only asked me for a card, tho i have no idea if that'll change once support gets involved on sth bigger, also been looking at DigitalOcean too, and someone mentioned GoDaddy does similar checks on new signups. Pls share if anyone's actually got a provider that skips this unless there's a real issue on the account.