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Ask HN: Where to host for a fully managed OS?
I’m looking for a web host. I don’t want to have to deal with OS updates, log rotation, web server / Lets Encrypt setup, etc.
You typically get all of this on a Shared web server plan.
But I need more resources and typically dedicated servers from web hosting company’s are unmanaged.
Does anyone have a recommendations?
- desindol 4y agoSome clients have managed servers at hetzner never heard anything bad. Edit: Ah… yes the downvote for answering the question. I hope you get stuck in traffic for the next week.
- tiffanyh 4y agoThanks for the suggestion. Yes, the following looks interesting. https://www.hetzner.com/managed-server https://www.hetzner.com/managed-server Off topic: I too lately have been getting random quick downvotes for no apparent reason. It’s very odd. I just upvoted you :)
- tiffanyh 4y agoDo you know of any US based web hosts? It appears Hetzner managed hosting is only in Europe.
- solardev 4y agoTLDR there are a lot more options these days than just "managed vs unmanaged" hosting. What exactly are you trying to run/host? If it's a webpage/web app, you might not even need a traditional managed LAMP/LEMP stack... there are next-gen hosts like Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, Gatsby, or slightly-less-next-gen hosts like AWS Amplify, Github Pages, Google App Engine, etc. I would call these "serverless web hosts", where you can basically git push your repo and all the hosting and scaling are taken care of for you, transparently, and you never have to worry about any of the LEMP stack anymore. Have you considered that instead? Or if it's Wordpress or Drupal you're running, Pantheon is (IMO) miles above the rest. WPEngine and Kinsta are competitors. Otherwise, for general managed hosting, yeah, Hetzner is one that I've heard good things about. I've also used and liked RoseHosting. Cloudways is "managed automation" in that they abstract a lot of the management into a nice control panel, and it works pretty well as long as you don't have to deviate from their templates. GridPane and RunCloud can do similar things on your own VMs.
- tiffanyh 4y agoHomegrown laravel (PHP) web app that connects to database. Do you know of any US based web hosts? It appears Hetzner managed hosting is only in Europe.
- solardev 4y agoRose is US based. I might also look at Cloudways (can deploy in US data centers) and Google App Engine (supports php)
- tiffanyh 4y agoIt doesn't appear that Rose, Cloudways nor Google App Engine offer a managed MySQL/Postgres database. They offer managed PHP hosting, but not managed database. Anyone else?
- solardev 4y agoUnless there is a strict requirement to co-host your PHP with your database, I'd consider using a separate managed Postgres service. Those are even better than fully-managed hosting because they abstract the database scaling and backups, etc. and manage it all for you and give you just the DB you can access. Examples: https://www.digitalocean.com/products/managed-databases-postgresql https://www.digitalocean.com/products/managed-databases-post... https://www.elephantsql.com/ https://www.elephantsql.com/ https://www.heroku.com/postgres https://www.heroku.com/postgres https://www.linode.com/products/postgresql/ https://www.linode.com/products/postgresql/ https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/features https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/features
- tiffanyh 4y agoAre you suggesting using 2 different web hosting companies? If so, latency must be brutal for a web app.
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