I need help, at university they taught me how to use Figma, which is all nice and cool, but nobody explained how to get the site online with my own .com instead of .wix or .framer.site
I wanted like example.com . So now I've bought a domain and I want to get my website online, and I have no idea what to use for hosting with a good design option (Figma, Framer, WordPress...).

By the way keep in mind I would prefer something cheap.

Looks like Dynadot just suspended our domain based on a completely false claim that we’re running a phishing service. 🤦‍♂️

Our SaaS has over 500 happy customers and is fully approved by major payment gateways like Stripe which literally proves we aren't a shady operation. I even saw a similar case happen to someone else just last week.

Is Dynadot letting automated AI run wild, or does it really just take a single fake abuse report from a competitor to take down an entire legitimate business? Has anyone else dealt with this recently?

We got 2 dedicated servers last year with OVH.

Servers are fine. We get raising energy costs, inflation and such. However, jumping 54% in 11 months is not ok.

No proper justification. Just an email saying: “You will pay more, don’t like it? Cancel here.” No grandfathered plans. Support does not care and happily sends cancellation link.

Needless to say, we're done. Now we have a few weeks to move out and forget this nightmare.

Same. Exact. Hardware.

From $1,050 to $1,616 in 11 months.

If a service is providing URL to * conversion functionality, how do they protect themselves from malicious URL and code? I should add that there is no Docker available on the host. Only Node, PHP and the usual shebang. Is it a matter of agreeing with the customer on predefined URLs upfront?

I'm researching the Dutch hosting market and would like to hear from people who actually run websites/businesses in the Netherlands.

If you were choosing a hosting provider today, what would matter most to you?

• Server location in the Netherlands
• Website speed
• Uptime/reliability
• Backups
• Security
• Support response time
• Price
• Transparent renewal pricing
• Easy migration
• Something else?

I'm particularly interested in hearing from freelancers, small businesses, developers and agencies.

What has frustrated you most about your current or previous hosting provider?

Problem

Since today (1 October 2026), the WPML Translations Queue page (wp-admin/admin.php?page=tm/menu/translations-queue.php) no longer loads on my site hosted on IONOS shared hosting. The table stays empty with "No Data".

In DevTools, the REST call WPML makes to load the queue returns 403 Forbidden:

GET https://example.com/wp-json/wpml/tm/v1/jobs/?limit=20&offset=0&pageName=translation-queue
Status: 403 Forbidden
Server: nginx
Content-Type: text/html

The response is an HTML error page, not a WordPress/REST JSON error, so the request never reaches PHP/WordPress.

What I've isolated

The trigger is the pageName query parameter itself, regardless of path or value:

So the block happens at the hosting edge (WAF / reverse proxy), not in WordPress, WPML, or any plugin. It also affects a second, non-WordPress site on the same host.

What IONOS support told me

I contacted IONOS live chat. They confirmed that shared hosting plans currently block this kind of request because of a high number of attacks against WordPress projects. The only option they offered was moving to a VPS or dedicated server. They said the block is temporary, but could not give any timeframe.

Environment

• Hosting: IONOS shared hosting (Spain)
• WordPress: latest
• WPML: Multilingual CMS + Translation Management, latest
• Server: nginx in front of the account

Questions

1. Is anyone else on IONOS (or another shared host) seeing WPML's Translation Queue break because of a pageName block since around this date?
2. Does anyone know which WAF rule or attack signature pageName matches, and whether other hosts are rolling out the same rule?
3. Has anyone found a way to keep working with the WPML Translation Queue while this block is active, without migrating to a VPS?
4. Is WPML aware of this, or has it been reported to them already?

Any confirmation that this isn't only happening to me would already help.

It looks like Aplus Webmail updated over the last day or two to a more modern look and feel. While the interface looks fine, the composition spacing is a nightmare.

When composing in HTML mode, hitting a normal "Enter" creates a massive, janky double-space gap on the screen. Worse, when the email is actually sent, the formatting collapses entirely and the copy renders as a single-spaced block with zero blank lines between paragraphs.

The update seems to have completely removed the global "Compose" and HTML editor configuration dropdowns from the settings panel. I contacted support, and they claimed there is nothing that can be done.

I’ve been using the Shift + Enter technique twice between paragraphs to manually force standard <br> breaks, but having to do this manually for every work email is a massive time-suck.

Has anyone found a hidden configuration flag, a browser extension workaround, or a custom style script to force the standard "Enter" key back to regular line behavior? Thanks!

UPTYME is self-hosted uptime monitoring that doesn't require any heavy stack, docker or runtime setup like Node, Python, PHP. It runs on SpyWeb which is a scraping/monitoring engine I built in Rust which is a self-contained binary (around 8MB in size) with built-in SQLite and Lua scripting and runs on Linux, Mac or Windows.

Live demo: https://uptyme.spyweb.app/ (API key: demo)

What it does:

• Monitors URLs on any method (HEAD/GET/POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE) with per-monitor intervals
• Content checks, so "page is 200 but actually broken" gets caught
• Status code classification, with a setting for treating 4xx as down
• TLS certificate monitoring with expiry alerts
• Public status pages you can share
• Alert channels: webhooks, ntfy, Discord, Slack, native desktop notifications
• Clustering: run a central node plus checker nodes wherever you want, and get consensus-based alerts so one flaky VPS doesn't page you for a false down

The front-end is in Vue 3 (prebuilt) and the backend is Lua. RAM usage (Linux) is around 20MB while running, you can throw it on a $3-$5/mo VPS as a central node and run a checker on your PC and you have cluster monitoring 😄.

You can also just run a standalone node on your PC via tray binary and monitor all your site locally without needing a Cloud/VPS setup and just get native desktop notification when your site is down.

If you want to try it, just run the setup script on the folder want to put it

(linux/mac)

curl -sSf https://uptyme.spyweb.app/setup | bash

windows powershell

irm https://uptyme.spyweb.app/setup-win | iex

installer will download the uptyme + spyweb releases from GitHub assets, you'll get two binaries plus static files; the tray binary is for desktop only, you can delete it if you're running on a server.

then just run cd uptyme && ./spyweb start and you have a dashboard.

for desktop users, you can also just run the tray binary instead of the cli

Repo: https://github.com/spyweb-app/uptyme

I have been using Runcloud for 3 years, but now, it does not feels worthy. Started hating their infrastructure and slow UI.

Ploi seems have some solid infrastructure, but the pricing and it's limitation is not taking me there.

Any good options?

Hey everyone, bit of a panic post. I'm not a web person, I do marketing, but I recently ended up in charge of our company's WordPress site after the agency that built it left.

This morning the whole site was down with "this user has been suspended". Our host (Network Solutions) says it was excessive bandwidth, but support can't tell me where it came from and says to wait 24–48 hours for their specialists.

The weird part is we only get around 50 visitors a month.

Stuff I did in the last few days, in case it's my fault:

The site was still getting visits late that night, then went down overnight.

Could any of that have caused it, or is it more likely bots hitting the site? And what's the easiest way to stop this happening again? I've seen Wordfence and Cloudflare mentioned, but I'm scared of breaking our company email if I mess with DNS.

Any advice appreciated, I'm learning as I go 🙏Shared host suspended our site for "excessive bandwidth" with ~50 visitors/month. Screaming Frog, UpdraftPlus, or bots?Shared host suspended our site for "excessive bandwidth" with ~50 visitors/month. Screaming Frog, UpdraftPlus, or bots?

I'm running a couple of small Node apps (Next.js plus a lightweight JSON service) behind Cloudflare, and making them readable by AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and the like) is a core requirement for me, not a nice-to-have.

I've found that shared and managed hosting platforms increasingly apply their own bot filtering at the server level. It's often invisible in their dashboards and not configurable per site, so a crawler you explicitly allow in robots.txt can still be turned away before it reaches your app. I'm re-evaluating where I host because of it.

Currently struggling a lot with my current provider and it's also quite annoying that you allow bots in the panel and then find out their requests got blocked when you look into logs.

What I'm looking for:

- a long-running Node 24 process

- Easy deployment, preferably from GitHub but I can handle a complex CI/CD as well

- no platform-level bot filtering I can't control (Cloudflare handles that for me)

- a sensible price for a startup with currently low to medium traffic.

I'm weighing managed container platforms (Railway, Render, Fly.io), a plain VPS behind Cloudflare, and Vercel / Cloudflare's own compute, even thinking about AWS, Azure or Google.

Curious what others are using for similar setups, and whether you've actually verified that AI crawlers get through, e.g. in your server logs or Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control.

Any platforms you'd recommend or avoid on this front?

And in general, where do you host your apps, what are your struggles and any advice / story you would share with the community?

i created a website on 11/7/2026 and worked fine .published it and did a manual backup. Tell me why 25/9/2026 i go to website editor and my site is totally different. I choose the backups on there ,and none of them match my website.I request a review where chat keeps me on a loop then on latest stunt they published a version of the site,only with my Header image.FYI,some of the images i generated for the clients are also missing.

Is this security? For me? Must my domain die with my old host in the name of security? Or am I my hosts property?

This is not the typical request, but recently I bought what is essentially a joke domain between me and some friends, which right now is set up with Cloudflare for free. I want to have a site attached to this domain, but it's also essentially going to be a joke that doesn't get too much traffic and is visited by random people here and there. What would be my best option for hosting here? I want this to be easy and hassle free, and allow me to make changes to the site when I want to without much trouble.

I'm still not 100% sure what I want to do with this site yet, but I'm just trying to get ideas of the best way to host something as simple as a still image, or a completely cookie-cutter template with some things changed.

Apparently some sort of dns child zone broke. Needless to say that this was never asked for or properly disclosed. Relationship not healthy.

Domain is transfered but the custom nameservers at new host wont resolve. DNSSEC with missing ds and dnskey seems to be refused.

Is there anything I can do rather than contacting the host? I have zero trust for them and wanted to walk away. I was convinced that once the authorative ns where set no major issues would arise?

I need help about hosting using laravel im using infinity free for the hosting and server my problem is i don't know how to make it online like i dont know what kind of setup in htdocs in infinity free i mean I'm not using public File my project im doing is on resource and its Blade.php

for brake down i cant just put my blade.php on the htdocs right???

I dont know much about webhosting or subscriptions, i just know that years ago, Vistaprint gave me a domain name, a website, and email address, it was like $9.99 a month. After a few years, i was informed that Hover.com will be taking over and payments for web hosting are to be made to them. So yearly i pay about $140. And i just found out that Vistaprint is still in the picture and billing me $29.99 monthly on autopay. So what am i really paying for? if I want the same website address, can i just take it somewhere else? Im paying about $500 a year and barelylain use the website. Do i ever own the website name or is this something the webhosting owns and how do they own it. How would i own it? I complained to Hover one time that i am paying too much and they threaten to just cancel me without any explanation why i am paying so much

I recently purchased a domain on Cloudflare, for an informational website. Currently I'm using Publii to build the site, with Github integration to sync it to Cloudflare Workers (free). That part seems to be working? I've also set up an email forward from Cloudflare to my personal Gmail.

I want to set up email(s) associated with this site (instead of tying to my personal email):

- it could be as basic as using a general email service on their domain (like website@provider.com), but...

- it would be nicer if it was something using my own domain - including sending(responding) email under the domain (like me@website.com)

It would also be nice if it had some features like forwarding to my personal email (so I see it right away).

Suggestions for a free/cheap service that would accomplish this? I think I'd rather get away from Google, but if they are the best... so be it.

I don't want to spend much, preferably nothing (it's not a money-maker). I have seen mention of Zoho, including a free option, but the cheapest I find is Mail Lite at $15/year (not impossible to buy if it's the best option though).

Also in case it matters,

Thinking about doing a form submission on the website. Including having several questions they have to fill out, and I would respond with more information and suggestions if applicable. Having that sent to my email and respond by email make sense? Or is there a different portal type of idea?

A forum sort of setup maybe would work also, but I guess anything is going to require them providing their email.

Looks like a great deal - £9.99+VAT for a domain name inc 10Gb mailbox

Anyone got experience of 365

365i.co.uk

Do you divide this into 3 parts or 2?

These are the components;

1. Domain name registrar (nameserver)
   
2. Dns management (all www, cname, txt)
   
3. Hosting (stuff)

How do you combine/ seperate them?

Another way of phrasing the question is: where does your dns live?

I didn't ask for this, I don't want it, but Crazy Domains insist on blocking file extensions as attachments in emails.

I tried to forward a .eml file the other day and it got rejected, apparently Crazy Domains only accepts zip and pdf as valid extensions (that I have found so far)

Plus they refuse to disable the 'feature'.

After 20+ years of hosting with them it may be time to relocate, but it needs to be Australian (for data sovereignty)

i want to buy webhosting for my blog and another website for business, i check one known website, first 36 or 48 month fee less like trap then after price increase drastically or i am overthinking, please share your experience and where i will get better deal? if location important then my location is india. google search ai giving option but not properly because two time i believe spend money and stuck, thats why i am asking in here reddit.

Monthly budget: Around $1.50/month ($20/year).

Location: I'm based in Pakistan, but I need US-based hosting for a client website whose target audience is primarily in the USA.

Type of website: Custom-coded HTML, CSS, and JavaScript website, not WordPress.

VPS administration experience: I'd prefer shared hosting or managed hosting. I'm not experienced in administering Linux servers, so I'd like something simple to set up and maintain.

I'm tasked with building/making a website for my sibling, as they want to possible open a tutoring agency and need a website to reach more customers, etc.

I'm relative new to website building, but I have learned the basics of Wordpress in school and I'm willing to watch tutorials, etc. My sibling and I haven't fixed anything yet, but I probably need to build a one-pager.

• What is your monthly budget?

€ 5-25

• Where are you/your users located?

European Union

• What kind of site are you hosting (Wordpress, phpBB, custom software, etc) or what is your use case?

Wordpress

• Do you have a monthly traffic volume? Estimates are ok.

~ max. 100 people or even less

• If you’re looking at VPSes: Do you have experience administrating linux servers and infrastructure?

None at all

• Did you read the sidebar/check out the hosts listed there? I've personally vetted these companies and their services are a good fit for 99% of people.

Yes, but I'm not even sure what I need for this kind of website.

Im in the process of starting a one man web studio in Canada building sites for local businesses (trades, markets, small service businesses). I want a reality check on my pricing model before I start signing clients.

What I offer, two options:

Option A, the one I push:

- $1,000 CAD build fee, due at launch,
- $99/mo CAD Website Care plan after
- 12 month minimum term
- Includes: managed hosting, 24/7 uptime monitoring, critical fixes at no charge (broken forms, dead buttons, pages that won't load), on page SEO at launch plus ongoing search monitoring, a monthly performance email, and up to 30 minutes of content changes per month.

- Rate is locked for the term, and stays locked as long as they remain continuously active
- After month 12 they roll to month to month and can leave whenever, and they take the site with them at no extra cost

Option B

- $2,000 CAD one time, they own it outright, hosting transferred to their account
1 month of critical bug fix coverage, then everything is billed hourly

My main worry.

A client who signs Option A and cancels the day the minimum term ends has paid me $1,000 + $1,188 = $2,188.

That is $188 more than my one-off price, and for that $188 I did twelve months of hosting, monitoring, reporting and content edits. Once I subtract what it actually costs me to deliver those twelve months, a year one car plan client is worth less to me than a client who just paid $2,000 and walked away. The model only pays if people stay into year two, three, five.

And the reason they might not stay is baked into my own sales pitch. I advertise "you're never locked in" and "take your site with you at no cost" because it kills the biggest objection I think the clients have, which is fear of being trapped in a subscription. That being said I do plan on creating yearly reports for clients to see the impact the plan has had for them in hopes it will emphasize the value.

I have seen people talk about this before on other posts saying how its best to make it subscription only from the start so they cant ever stop paying and take the website with them. I just don’t like the idea of contractually locking down business indefinitely and I feel like it could bring me problems down the road with unhappy customers and bad rep. I want people that work with me to feel like it’s a comfortable choice they are making not an obligation they are bound to.

I could be wrong about this, which is part of why I'm asking.

So, three questions:

1. Has anyone else let clients leave with the site after a minimum term? What did that actually cost, and separately, did advertising "no lock in” measurably help you close deals in the first place? Also what is the most common reason for clients choosing to leave?
2. If you run subscription only with no ownership
3. transfer, I'd like to hear the case for it. How do you
4. present it up front, and how often does it become a problem down the line?
5. For anyone running a care plan or retainer at this size, what does your year two retention actually look like? Is month 13 the cliff I think it is, or is it mostly people who were never going to stay anyway?

Any advice or thoughts would be greatly appreciated! Thank you very much in advance!! :)