FWIW I also tried NearlyFreeSpeech, which is the top comment in the same thread I linked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29253277 https://news.ycombinato

FWIW I also tried NearlyFreeSpeech, which is the top comment in the same thread I linked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29253277 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29253277 I think it is good, and will solve people's static hosting problem. It's a server that you don't have to manage. It has a nice fast custom web interface. Except I didn't realize it was FreeBSD. That probably doesn't matter for most, but I'm used to Linux, so I like Dreamhost better. Also I feel like they are using some kind of slower NFS disk, whereas Dreamhost feels like a bare metal disk mostly. ----- I was trying to find another thread here, where someone remarked that "shared hosting" got a bad reputation in the early days due to janky control panels and bad/aggressive marketing. Also a lot of the companies seem to have gotten acquired in the early 2000's, i.e. they changed hands a lot. But again I've been using Dreamhost since 2009 and it's been great. No complaints except the typical thing everyone does of raising the domain name pricing after a year (the advertised price is the "first year discount"). They have not raised the hosting fees. (You might save $3 per year using a domain name purchased elsewhere, but that doesn't seem worth the hassle to me.) So I thought there were many other shared hosting companies, but maybe not? Maybe they all got caught up in acquisitions and then the service declined? (That's exactly what's going to happen with the free cloud services you're all using now BTW, so that's why I stick with something older and proven.) I have used 1and1 in the early 2000's, but I remember it being very janky and weird, and Dreamhost is a lot better technically. They seem to have more competent system administration. ---- FWIW here is a thread with some competitors: https://lobste.rs/s/jkutwc/recommendations_for_shared_hosting_with https://lobste.rs/s/jkutwc/recommendations_for_shared_hostin... Honestly I wonder if Dreamhost is more unique now than it used to be? I thought of it as "commodity shared hosting" -- i.e. a Linux OS and a web server. But I think that actually being able to manage that competently is a dying art :-/ Other threads I bookmarked while looking for shared hosting that supports FastCGI (dynamic sites, not static, and not PHP!): bluehost: https://www.bluehost.com/help/article/fastcgi-for-php https://www.bluehost.com/help/article/fastcgi-for-php hostgator: https://www.hostgator.com/help/article/does-hostgator-support-fastcgi https://www.hostgator.com/help/article/does-hostgator-suppor... I'd be interested to know if those companies are comparable to dreamhost!