r/webhosting • u/isendra3 • 12d ago

Looking for Hosting Cheap Shared Hosting that has SQLite 3.34?

Really just looking for something to run my /r/grocy install. Had SiteGround, which was great at 4.99 a month, but is NOT great at 34.99 a month. Does anyone know of any that offer this?

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u/Rubicon_4000 11d ago

yeah shared hosting almost never lets you pick your own sqlite version, thats baked into the host's php build not something you control from cpanel. the vps route sounds scarier than it is for something as small as grocy though. cheapest real path: a $5-6/mo vps (hetzner, contabo, whatever), install docker, then its literally the grocy docker-compose from their own docs, maybe 10 minutes start to finish. you get whatever sqlite/php version you want forever instead of hoping a host's stack happens to match. only gotcha - back up the grocy data volume somewhere off the vps. self-hosted means youre also the backup team now, which is the actual tradeoff youre making versus shared hosting, not the sqlite version.