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Genuine question, is shared hosting still the go-to option for many HN readers when setting up a personal site?
by velcrovan 2y ago
Genuine question, is shared hosting still the go-to option for many HN readers when setting up a personal site?
- vouaobrasil 2y agoIt is for me...cheap and it works for basic things.
- marpstar 2y agoTo an extent, yes. In my case, I've done a lot of WordPress consulting over the past 10 years and I'm grandfathered into a very inexpensive shared hosting plan from Site5 that gives me WHM access and the ability to create as many sites as I want. Works fine for static sites. Works fine for anything PHP. PHP versions are kept up to date. But the cost of an additional site is effectively cost-free, so I'm hosting several small sites for small organizations and individuals.
- immibis 2y agoFor me, no way. Not when VPSes scale down to $3.50/month.
- djvdq 2y agoVPS I'm using (1GB RAM/10GB disk) cost me 75 PLN a year, which is something around $19.
- nusl 2y agoThat's quite expensive, though not the typical price you'd pay from someplace like Digitalocean. I imagine this is from a host in your local country? Those tend to be more expensive if you're not in a common datacenter region.