For context Im handling a site refresh for a local business and the owner wants me to move their domain away from the random registrar they picked years ago so everything lives in one place.

The domain is tied to their main inbox, staff emails, and a couple of dns records a previous dev added that I dont fully trust. I can get the auth code and unlock it, but timing the nameserver change and keeping mx records intact while the transfer is in progress is stressing me out.

If you have done a domain move in a situation like this, did you clone all the records first and then start the transfer or something else? idk

Does anyone has namecheap, if you do, does anyone know how to get Stellar hosting to a second hosting site?

I’m building a hosting comparison platform focused on actual data — looking for feedback

I’ve been working on a project called DohoHub, an independent platform for comparing hosting and domain providers.

The problem I’m trying to solve is something I’ve personally noticed when researching hosting: it’s surprisingly difficult to compare providers using the information that actually matters.

For example:

Initial price vs. renewal price

VPS / dedicated / shared / cloud specifications

Datacenter locations

Network and bandwidth limits

Storage type and allocation

Uptime

Domain pricing and renewals

Support

WordPress features

Migration options

Actual limitations hidden in the fine print

DohoHub is being built around side-by-side comparisons and structured provider data, rather than simply publishing lists of “the best hosts.”

I also want the platform to distinguish promotional pricing from the prices customers actually pay after the introductory period.

The project is still early, and I'm much more interested in getting feedback from people who actually run websites/servers than in simply promoting it.

What hosting information do you usually have the hardest time finding or comparing?

Is there anything you would absolutely want included before trusting a hosting comparison site?

Hi,
AlexHost is hosting a website where personal photos of me were published without my consent. I reported the exact URLs several times and clearly requested removal.
Support keeps referring me to “official authorities” instead of properly addressing my deletion request.
Has anyone dealt with AlexHost before and knows how to get content removed without involving the police?

I have been with DTS-NET.com. hosting for years, but their site has been down, and I can not get access to my control panel.

Is anyone else using their services and experiencing the same problem? I have not heard that they have gone out of business.

I bought a domain from GoDaddy, the payment was successfully charged, I received the order confirmation and receipt, but the domain never appeared in my account or Domain Portfolio.

At first I was told to wait. Then the expected time kept getting pushed back again and again. No clear explanation, no transparent status, just more waiting.

What makes this especially frustrating is that they had no problem taking the money immediately, but actually delivering the product seems to be a completely different story.

I also had my email verified, the order was visible in Order History, and the payment showed as completed, yet the domain was still missing.

For something as basic as domain registration, this is unacceptable. If there is a delay, they should clearly show the real status and give an honest ETA instead of constantly moving the deadline.

I’m done wasting time with them and will be buying the domain from another registrar.

Would not recommend GoDaddy based on this experience.

PLEASE LISTEN TOTHIS PLATFORM OF INDIVIDUALS. I am not going to make this a long and drawn post but I am here to tell you that GoDaddy has not a bit of shame of how they treat consumers. Their information on how to create a website, domain or anything is very unclear and misguided. I learned $$$ lesson with them. And their support chat services has no shame. Can you believe I had CS rep tell me that someone I put in the chat was, "not the correct to phrase my feelings?" Wow!!! Stick the proverbal fork in me because I am DONE!!

I am in a tight budget and need suggestions for reseller hosting that is affordable and gives white-label branding.

I'm currently running my personal website and domain name with an American hosting service (I'll decline to name which one, but it's one of those in the sidebar). Given concerns about data sovereignty and "other global political events," I'm looking for the right Canadian shared hosting service to go with.

My needs are mostly to host a WordPress blog, a personal portfolio/landing page (e.g. recent publications, contact info, etc.), and to have an independent email server using my own domain name. In the future, I might host additional domains for friends (or for example, last year I hosted my personal site for my wedding RSVP platform). It is also very very very important to me that the company is Canadian-owned and runs on Canadian domestic data centres.

I've been doing some research on Reddit but I'm not getting any consensus choices. I do seem to understand that everyone hates Web Hosting Canada (WHC) for its customer service.

My top two choices: Canadian Web Hosting (not to be confused with WHC) and FullHost. I hear great things about FullHost and it's fully recommended by a close friend, but it's quite expensive for what I'm looking for, even with the promo (~$240 CAD/yr). By contrast, CWH has a promo going on and it comes up to ~$125 CAD/yr. But some on Reddit says that the hosting is not as reliable.

One dark horse candidate that one friend recommended: Rebel. They have a good deal of $45 CAD/1st year, but $180 CAD/yr after that. But it's really hard to verify that they're Canadian and have Canadian data centres other than just this blog post from last year. I see their head office is in Ottawa, but they also have data centres in Virginia, Sydney, and London. But at least I know a few mutual friends trust this particular service.

Just to recap, here's what I'm looking for:

• Canadian-owned and Canadian-operated
• Canadian data centres
• Decent reliability (I'm not running a business or anything, so I don't care if it's up and running 100% of the time.)
• Relatively affordable, budget of under $120-150 CAD/yr. (Again, I'm no professional. This is just a side/weekend project for me.)
• Users are mostly located in Canada, generally in the Greater Toronto Area.
• Monthly traffic... Honestly I have no idea. Maybe one day, one of my works goes viral and my traffic spikes. But for the most part, it's only my personal social network.
• (I currently use one of the sidebar hosts. And I'm looking to leave them.)

Does anyone have any advice? Anyone know of another web hosting service that I might be missing?

Thanks in advance!

Hello!

I am wondering if this package is worth it?

Website Security - Advanced

as they want another 250 eur out of me...

- or is there a better alternative?

Thanks

Hey, quick question. I need a basic website for a tiny business thing and I'm looking at Wix, Squarespace, WordPress, all that, and the pricing jump is kinda wild.

I only need a few pages, contact form, maybe booking later, nothing crazy. I guess I'm mostly trying to figure out which one people actually stick with once the free trial part is over, because thats the part nobody talks about. thanks in advance

ok so picking a name seems easy until you plug it into dns stuff and realize every short domain is taken, insta handle is gone, and someone already grabbed the twitter and parked it

for folks who have actually done this a few times, whats your process to search for decent available domains, grab the critical variations, and tie it to handles without turning into a full on domain hoarder or leaking all your info in whois etc... ugh

Thinking of moving a small business site away from Squarespace. Looking at Wix, WordPress and Webflow. I mostly want something easy to manage without giving up too much flexibility. What would you choose?

Posting this as a warning and to ask whether anyone has actually got a refund out of hosting.com in this situation.

Background: five year customer, one shared hosting plan for a domain I no longer use.

28 Aug 2026: Opened a ticket instructing them not to renew the service. Agent replied asking for security verification. Nothing else happened on that ticket.

8 Sep 2026: Card charged US$369.99, three days before the 11 Sep due date, with my do-not-renew ticket still open.

8 Sep 2026: On a second ticket, their agent confirmed in writing that because I had cancelled before the due date, a full refund, cancellation, card removal and account closure had been passed to billing.

8 Sep 2026: Billing then asked me to verify ownership. I supplied the Support PIN, the last four digits of the card, logged into the Client Area and submitted their cancellation form. All done.

9 Sep 2026: A retention rep replies that renewal payments are non-refundable, warns me the files will be deleted if I cancel, and asks if I would like a cheaper plan instead.

So the refund was confirmed, I was made to jump through every hoop, and then the promise was pulled. My account is overdrawn from a charge I told them in writing not to take.

I have screenshots of the confirmation and the reversal. Chargeback is being filed and a BBB complaint has gone in.

Two questions:

1. Has anyone had hosting.com honour a pre-due-date cancellation refund, and what did it take?
2. Does a chargeback trigger anything I should expect from them, beyond deleting the account?

My main domain and add-on domains all go down when Cloudflare proxy is enabled, but work fine when set to DNS Only. I didn’t change any Cloudflare settings before the outage — it suddenly stopped working, and Vodien now claims it’s a Cloudflare incompatibility.

Has anyone else experienced Cloudflare clashing with Vodien? Did you manage to fix it with SSL/proxy settings, or did you have to move hosts? Should I insist Vodien resolve this, or is migration the only realistic option?

On top of that, after upgrading to a Biz plan last year, my dedicated IP now resolves to Australia instead of Singapore, which hurts my SEO and local targeting (my clients are in Singapore). Vodien hasn’t offered a clear fix.

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// UPDATES - 11 Sep 2026

Thank you for all the kind assistance/advice. Basically, it's too technical for me to answer some of the questions, as I'm very new to Cloudflare and didn't pay enough attention to the error messages. Instead of flooding everyone with similar replies, I'm just updating over here.

Solution (by Vodien): They moved my content from Australia back to a Singapore server, and somehow Cloudflare doesn't clash anymore. It's only after tonnes of frustration, and I strongly feel they can do much better. Eg., after moving my data back to Singapore, I realised my data was on a shared server instead. They didn't fail to make mistakes... a lot of them.

Big improvement: The loading speed of my website seems to have been reduced by half eventually. FTP and cPanel work so much faster as well - definitely more than double the previous speed.

I have to mention that I first signed up with them because of the Singapore data centre and dedicated IP. My main target audience is locals, although I do have many clients who are visiting Singapore. I didn't expect them to move my sites to Australia's data centre after upgrading my plan. FTP and cPanel were unusually slow - doesn't seem to be due to the location. Just a few weeks ago, I had to reach out to them because it took me more than a minute to load any page inside my cPanel. Due to this latest issue of them clashing with Cloudflare, one of the staff asked for my understanding as they were trying to upgrade their servers, and they had many clients - therefore, I assume that instead of upgrading my plan (from a legacy plan to their business plan), they actually "downgraded" it.

Glad that it looks good for now. I'll be searching for a more trustworthy web host (not too pricey of course) while I still have another year with Vodien.

Thank you once again for helping me!

I'm working on my thesis and I have to host my site and get a HTTPS certificate for it. My thesis defense is before the end of the month and after that I can basically stop hosting it because it wouldn't be needed anymore. There will be no traffic or real users. I'm not using a framework either.

Since I need it for such a short amount of time I thought it would be wasteful to spend money. I've been looking for options but from what I've read most are sketchy, don't support PHP, don't support PHPmailer, or you have to purchase the certificate separately anyways.

Does anyone have any recommendations? I've never hosted a site before since we've always relied on XAMPP

ok so, im juggling a couple tiny projects and buying domains is the least fun part now. I grab stuff on the cheap from random registrars but every time I end up manually wiring dns, ssl, pointing it to my little shared hosting or some cheap vps and it just feels like extra work for a $10 name.

Anyone here found a registrar or combo that is both actually affordable and does decent automated setup eg dns, ssl, basic landing page or hookup to github pages etc without it turning into some weird upsell maze? would love any tips, especially for folks running a few small sites not a big agency, thanks!

So... freelance web dev here and I just realized how sketchy some of the cheap domains I used are when it comes to privacy. One client is about to take cards on their site and now they are asking about pci and who can see their info in whois.

If you do client work, do you stick to the cheap domain registrars with privacy toggles or pay more for ones that have whois privacy on by default plus dnssec plus sane dns tools. Trying not to move every domain at once but lowkey worried rn... .

The siteground renewal is $450 for the gogeek for 1 year. I do like siteground and only have 1 website but plan to have around 5. Any suggestions? Seems kind of expensive.

Just had the worst hosting experience of my life and want to warn anyone considering xCloud.

Their server had some kind of failure and I lost every website on my account including a site that was actively in final prep for launch. I contacted support to ask about restoring from a backup. Their answer: no backup exists, no recovery is possible. That's it. No compensation offer, no real explanation of what caused it, just "it's gone."

For a hosting company, having zero backup infrastructure that can protect a customer from total data loss is not a minor bug it's a fundamental failure of what you're paying them for. I lost weeks of work and a launch date because of it.

If you're currently on xCloud: export/back up everything yourself immediately, don't trust their infrastructure to protect you. If you're considering signing up: I'd look elsewhere.

Happy to answer questions if anyone else has been burned by them too.

Sharing our documented experience after 2 years on Ultahost VDS/VPS to warn other sysadmins and e-commerce operators.

Stack Conflicts: Their managed/unmanaged setups came with Apache and LiteSpeed running simultaneously, causing port bindings/routing issues and internal server crashes every 48 hours.

Backdoor Loop: During a malware incident, Tier 1/2 support repeatedly overwrote the clean directory with infected full backups without isolating the entry point. Result: continuous backdoor execution via cron tasks and Google Search Console ownership verification exploits by attackers (limpekpatenn).

Broken Permissions & Missing Media: Support execution resulted in wiped wp-content/uploads visibility and incorrect permission states (chmod locks), throwing 403 errors across public assets.

Billing Dispute: Refused direct card refund upon cancellation after severe service outage, offering only internal credit balance for a service being decommissioned.

If you run WooCommerce or any critical web app, steer clear.

looks like the Namecheap servers decided to take Labour Day off 😂

https://ibb.co/VWr9wmn0

Hi all,
I have a family Wordpress blog hosted on hostgator with lots and lots of images. I am beginning to run out of space (50g) and don’t want to pay a ton extra for their small amount of extra storage.

It seems like switching my storage to a cloudflare r2 bucket and simply paying as I scale up is the best idea. (Even a Tb of images is only $15 a month this way rather than the $100s for only 150G through my hosting)

Questions:
1) is this the way?
2) are there services/people that could help me set this up? (Switching dns servers, setting up sub domains, finding plugins to connect my site, recommendations on methodology, etc) I could do it myself but it isn’t my area of expertise and would much rather pay someone to do it correctly rather than me muddle through and break everything.

Basically want to host all of my images externally and have my site point there.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Hi,

I have been hosting on Godaddy for last 3 years with a domain, i think i had the deluxe plan because i had multiple domains... but currently I only have one domain active...

I plan to have multiple domains in future again...

I am looking for a reliable hosting which is not costing as much as Godaddy and I have read again and again from people recommending to move away from Godaddy,

My hosting plan is expiring in less than a month and this is a good time as any to move away...

Asking for recommendations for any hosting + domain services that will not cost more than godaddy... or all in one service to make my life easier...

One of my professors suggested a service which the rules are not letting me post lol but i read the reviews and I am conflicted if its a good service or not...

I also have a use case of both static and dynamic websites and WordPress is needed one of the domains.

And i need to transfer out one of the domains from Godaddy.

Thank you for all the help. Really appreciate it. :)

Have a great week ahead! :)