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Who to host with (domain names, web space, SSL, DNS)
- coolnow 14y agoI see where you're coming from about a VPS, but for most people, a $15/year VPS would be perfect for their needs. Granted, it only has 128MB-256MB RAM, the 10GB space and 500GB bandwidth per month is fine for a few thousand visitors per day. I used to dabble in this sort of stuff when i was an early teen. Back then i'd be using free hosts such as 110MB (how the mighty have fallen) and free .co.nr domains. I found all talk about web hosting, servers and domains interesting, but eventually stopped messing about with scripts. Fast forward a few years and i have some cash saved up from working part time. I manage to buy a few domains (some personal, some jokes and some for future plans) and some shared hosting with Dreamhost (it was $95 off). Even though i'm only serving some gifs and html, with a bit of Wordpress on another domain, i'm seriously happy about it. Thanks for posting this. Also, your first link to Namecheap is broken.
- kmf 14y agoNamecheap link (the referral one) is broken. Extra a href in there.
- rdl 14y agoCloudflare is the no-brainer for DDoS mitigation on the cheap, too. $0-200/mo vs. someone like Prolexic for ...$150k/mo, or building out your own redundant PoPs (1-3 good engineers, half time engineer to operate, maybe $200-300k in capex, and a baseline opex...but it does give you savings on bandwidth overall, so at scale it makes sense.)