[TriLUG] I'm looking for a good shared hosting web host

[Jos Purvis via TriLUG]

For hosting where I want root and my own VM, Hetzner has been excellent for me: they now have data center locations in the US as well as Germany and Finland. I can honestly say the latency to Europe has been unnoticeable, though: I used two of their smallest cloud hosts for teaching a class this past term and had no issues with latency.

For service hosting where I just want to click-enable a service and have them worry about keeping the thing up to date and configured (e.g., my wife's author website), I've been using A2 Hosting for years now and been very happy with their service. They have a full admin panel that offers single-click installs and management of things like Wordpress, but I've also got SSH into the individual host (as a user) for moving files around or configuring stuff under the hood. I did use Pair in the past for hosting and was really happy with their service (I still use and highly recommend them for DNS!), but I found A2 was both slightly less expensive and slightly faster.

On Mon, Jul 3, 2023, at 07:44, Steve Litt via TriLUG wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> For many years Troubleshooters.Com has been hosted by the spectacular
> Futurequest in Orlando Florida. Sadly, because of hurricanes, the
> pandemic, inflation, and insanely skyrocketing rents in Orlando,
> they're going out of business within a few days, so I need a new web
> host.
>
> What I absolutely need:
>
> * Reliability
> * ssh access
> * At least 500 MB of space
> * Somewhere around 5 GB transfer per month
> * A reasonably effective way to get tech support
> * Ability to have Javascript in my web pages
> * A way to quickly redirect my whole site, such as .htaccess.
> 	I need this ability because I need to shut down before every
> 	hurricane. To see an example of what I'd redirect to, see
> 	http://troubleshooters.com/troubleshooters_during_ian.htm
>
> What I'd also really like:
>
> * A non-distopian Terms of Service
> * Ability to run server side scripts (Perl etc)
> * Ability to serve https
> * Ability to serve multiple domain names with one contract
> * Good mailing list software that doesn't throttle too much
>
> I prioritize the preceding over price. Price is a secondary concern.
>
> I used Bluehost in the past, but found them not good enough, so I'm
> hoping for somebody better than Bluehost.
>
> If anyone knows of any good web hosts, please let me know.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt 
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> http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm
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