WEB HOSTING COMPANY TO RECOMMEND!

[hahahehehohocxt]

Nope. I came across it. Still figuring out which to use. Any recommendations?

 

[GPGT.org]

what are you using it for and whats your budget?

Do you have experience with managing Linux server?

 

[hahahehehohocxt]

For blogshop purpose. Still looking around for comparison. No experience. Still new and learning..

 

[BusteR]

I need a new container for my small ecommerce biz on php mysql. Low to moderate traffic n 3-4 email account.

Shld i migrate to a new cpanel shared because my current shared is bad or shld i buy a vps? I am a sysadmin n can setup websever fr scratch. But I hate the idea of mail server setup n the need to care for it when i go vps option.

What are my options? I v much want SSH access even on shared plans.

 

[Lineager]

Never buy Singapore Web Product!
They are worthless, might as well spend some xtra on USA+Privacy Contents

 

[Lineager]

Further they dont offer DDOS protection.
Singapore can go sleep.

 

[GPGT.org]

I need a new container for my small ecommerce biz on php mysql. Low to moderate traffic n 3-4 email account.

Shld i migrate to a new cpanel shared because my current shared is bad or shld i buy a vps? I am a sysadmin n can setup websever fr scratch. But I hate the idea of mail server setup n the need to care for it when i go vps option.

What are my options? I v much want SSH access even on shared plans.

I recommend Digital Ocean or Linode, they offer unmanaged VPS in Asia and cost like only $5 to $10 per month with abundant ssd storage, generous bandwidth and 1Gbit port speed. SSH access is a default on the VPS plans.

As for email, if your ecommerce script supports external SMTP setting, you can use mailgun (free 100,000 sends) or Amazon SES kind of service else you would have to setup default postfix to send your signup emails from internally. Receiving incoming wise, either you pay for gmail (custom domain) or mxroute for cheap.

I do not like to setup email service on my servers as I like 3rd parties to handle them which saves me the headache from configurations. You can split up incoming and outcoming emails by using different 3rd party services without doing any configurations.

 

[GPGT.org]

For blogshop purpose. Still looking around for comparison. No experience. Still new and learning..

I think its better for you to start with xiaobazzar or shopify type of blogshop providers so you can concentrate on setting up your core business and forget about administering server.

 

[luei74]

bookmarked....

 

[darkiemen]

bookmarked

 

[luei74]

anyone using Wix premium plan right now? Still thinking whether to upgraded into the yearly plan at $176.76, like a bit at the high side...

 

[weap0nx]

I recommend Digital Ocean or Linode, they offer unmanaged VPS in Asia and cost like only $5 to $10 per month with abundant ssd storage, generous bandwidth and 1Gbit port speed. SSH access is a default on the VPS plans.

As for email, if your ecommerce script supports external SMTP setting, you can use mailgun (free 100,000 sends) or Amazon SES kind of service else you would have to setup default postfix to send your signup emails from internally. Receiving incoming wise, either you pay for gmail (custom domain) or mxroute for cheap.

I do not like to setup email service on my servers as I like 3rd parties to handle them which saves me the headache from configurations. You can split up incoming and outcoming emails by using different 3rd party services without doing any configurations.

Yes I too have been using Digital Ocean both on their west coast and Singapore locations without a hitch. To be fair, Oneasiahost has also been solid but I've been using almost exclusively DO recently.

If one doesn't have the skills to manage your server, you could consider PaaS like ServerPilot and Cloudways which in turn run on top of known cloud providers like Amazon or Digital Ocean. That way you could get the best of both worlds. You'll be paying for detailed logs, real time analytics and of course one click management of your software whereby the stack will be tuned for your configuration. I'd say that's quite worth it!

 

[GPGT.org]

Yes I too have been using Digital Ocean both on their west coast and Singapore locations without a hitch. To be fair, Oneasiahost has also been solid but I've been using almost exclusively DO recently.

DO is good for hosting websites that doesn't require scalability because they do not offer true cloud hosting but they are cheap enough for developmental and hobbyist purposes... for critical and ecommerce applications, I would look elsewhere because they do not offer redundancy and fail-over setups (you have to do it yourselves with 3rd party scripts setup).

If one doesn't have the skills to manage your server, you could consider PaaS like ServerPilot and Cloudways which in turn run on top of known cloud providers like Amazon or Digital Ocean. That way you could get the best of both worlds. You'll be paying for detailed logs, real time analytics and of course one click management of your software whereby the stack will be tuned for your configuration. I'd say that's quite worth it!

ServerPilot (don't work on OpenVZ) and you are bound on using only Ubuntu. Same thing they are not suitable for websites that require security and critical applications like ecommerce and they don't offer 24/7 support. Good thing is they offer no frill free plan for unlimited websites.

Cloudways is expensive (on top of DO pricing) and doesn't allow tweaking and no SSH root access.

As you mentioned, these 2 are good options for users who do not need to meddle with server config and they can save time when setting up multiple servers/websites. Depending on what type of website a person is hosting, each has it uses and pros/cons

 

[localITguy]

Is this your website? anyone can come up with that kind of hosting company nowadays and the price isn't exactly cheap for shared hosting... in fact it is way over priced.

not to mentioned their support timing:

Monday-Friday: 9am to 6pm
Saturday-Sunday: 10am to 6pm

a proper web hosting company should be available 24/7 and no local phone number to contact.

I should say stay away.

well. everyone has to start somewhere. if support is top notch. no need 24/7. but always on standby if anything.


vastspace post tio remove? just saw awhile ago.

sorry for the bump

 

[GPGT.org]

well. everyone has to start somewhere. if support is top notch. no need 24/7. but always on standby if anything.

coming from a localITguy your statement is contradicting... anyway my point is if your site is generating sole income or hosting some critical applications then 24/7 support is definitely a must because you can't afford long downtime. If it is just a hobbyist website or nothing important then it doesn't matter where you host.

I can tell you even for a 24/7 support web hosting company, an average ticket response time is 45 minutes (my best time encountered is 3 mins) so I bet those without real time support will take half or even a day to response.

 

[Odac25thka]

I used Hostgator for a long time... and I recommended to everyone. Recently they locked my server, saying that I use too much resources - when I obviously did not, and I can't get it back.

I used Bluehost, the basic optimized wordpress plan, and it's still super slow. Their Cpanel logs me out every step of the way. It's constantly down. I highly don't recommend it.

I'm using Vodien now. so far so good. Good luck finding a web host that suits you.

 

[sgstocktalk]

I used Hostgator for a long time... and I recommended to everyone. Recently they locked my server, saying that I use too much resources - when I obviously did not, and I can't get it back.

I used Bluehost, the basic optimized wordpress plan, and it's still super slow. Their Cpanel logs me out every step of the way. It's constantly down. I highly don't recommend it.

I'm using Vodien now. so far so good. Good luck finding a web host that suits you.

Any update on this? Have they ask you to upgrade and upgrade again?

I am a unhappy with vodien, have been ask to upgrade twice in a month

Avoid it

 

[natnai]

So I just shifted some stuff over from AWS EC to DigitalOcean last night, and wow. Less than a minute to a fully-functional LAMP stack, impressed. Installed Node/NPM, Bower and Gulp in less than 5 minutes using Creationix NVM. Really good stuff, even easier than AWS. Highly recommended. Also anyone using shared hosting, just ditch that overpriced **** now. Forget about Bluehost, Hostgator and all these other hosts. Just go with a solid PaaS provider. It's cheap, fast, and scalable.

Edit: DO also gives you full root access since it's a VPS. Which is really nice. I had to deal with GoDaddy recently and the memory_limit was 64m; then I tried to provide my own php.ini which didn't work even though my phpinfo() showed 512m. In a DO VPS you can easily deploy by creating a bare remote git repo and just using git remote add MyProdRepo user@prod-domain.com:~/docroot then git push MyProdRepo branch. Then you make another repo in your web root and use a simple shell script to do a git pull into it from your bare repo outside the web root.

 

[davidktw]

So I just shifted some stuff over from AWS EC to DigitalOcean last night, and wow. Less than a minute to a fully-functional LAMP stack, impressed. Installed Node/NPM, Bower and Gulp in less than 5 minutes using Creationix NVM. Really good stuff, even easier than AWS. Highly recommended. Also anyone using shared hosting, just ditch that overpriced **** now. Forget about Bluehost, Hostgator and all these other hosts. Just go with a solid PaaS provider. It's cheap, fast, and scalable.

Edit: DO also gives you full root access since it's a VPS. Which is really nice. I had to deal with GoDaddy recently and the memory_limit was 64m; then I tried to provide my own php.ini which didn't work even though my phpinfo() showed 512m. In a DO VPS you can easily deploy by creating a bare remote git repo and just using git remote add MyProdRepo user@prod-domain.com:~/docroot then git push MyProdRepo branch. Then you make another repo in your web root and use a simple shell script to do a git pull into it from your bare repo outside the web root.

I don't think you are doing justice to AWS comparing to DO when all you need is just a VPS. AWS is more than a VPS. Try setting up redundancies across the global, use of MQ for highly scalable and SOA design, autoscaling capabilities and you will see how AWS holds on its own.

Definitely if you are looking for low cost from a VPS perspective, AWS will have a higher starting cost, but when your perspective is from a corporate wide infrastructure in terms of mobility, scalability, redundancies and management, that's where AWS comes in offering that advantage. That's why it's a cloud offering. I'm afraid there are just too much abuse of the "cloud" terminology when most of the small scale offerings are just an enhanced VPS service.

 

[natnai]

I don't think you are doing justice to AWS comparing to DO when all you need is just a VPS. AWS is more than a VPS. Try setting up redundancies across the global, use of MQ for highly scalable and SOA design, autoscaling capabilities and you will see how AWS holds on its own.

Definitely if you are looking for low cost from a VPS perspective, AWS will have a higher starting cost, but when your perspective is from a corporate wide infrastructure in terms of mobility, scalability, redundancies and management, that's where AWS comes in offering that advantage. That's why it's a cloud offering. I'm afraid there are just too much abuse of the "cloud" terminology when most of the small scale offerings are just an enhanced VPS service.

For sure, AWS is a lot more than a VPS. It has so many other platforms/services/infrastructure you could use to build a true enterprise application; but for development, it's really a lot easier to get up and running with DO imo. Different things for different purposes. If I were going to run a huge application I would definitely pick AWS over DO because of how sophisticated AWS load balancing is, among other things like their VPC and stuff. VPC just seems really confusing to someone who doesn't have much networking/sysadmin background though.