What hosting provider do you use (or recommend)?

[pythonmegapixel]

I'm idly interested in moving from hosting my site on github pages to a proper hosting provider that will let me have dynamically generated content, a custom domain etc. so I thought I'd create a thread here about web hosting providers.

 

Note: I am not looking for WYSIWYG web-page builders (e.g. weebly, wix, squarespace) but rather a provider of hosting for my own hand-written site.

 

I'd appreciate both advice on what to look for, and any specific recommendations you may have.

Thanks!

[zeusthemoose]

I'm planning on using wix or squarespace when I finally get around to making one.

[colonel_mortis]

I use OVH for my personal stuff, because for a low end VPS (still plenty good enough for most applications) it's very cheap. The AWS EC2 free tier and digital ocean are also good options (with AWS it does get more expensive as you go up, but they do also have a lot of functionality in terms of things like managed databases).

[wall03]

bluehost, localhost

[pythonmegapixel]

2 minutes ago, zeusthemoose said:

I'm planning on using wix or squarespace when I finally get around to making one.

Should have made clear. I don't want to use a website builder - I hate the things, so I'll be doing it by hand. (That's not to say you shouldn't use one, some people really love them, but it's not really what I'm looking for)

 

2 minutes ago, colonel_mortis said:

I use OVH for my personal stuff, because for a low end VPS (still plenty good enough for most applications) it's very cheap. The AWS EC2 free tier and digital ocean are also good options (with AWS it does get more expensive as you go up, but they do also have a lot of functionality in terms of things like managed databases).

Thanks very much, I hadn't heard of OVH but I'll look at them.

[TehDwonz]

10 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

I'm idly interested in moving from hosting my site on github pages to a proper hosting provider that will let me have dynamically generated content, a custom domain etc. so I thought I'd create a thread here about web hosting providers.

 

Note: I am not looking for WYSIWYG web-page builders (e.g. weebly, wix, squarespace) but rather a provider of hosting for my own hand-written site.

 

I'd appreciate both advice on what to look for, and any specific recommendations you may have.

Thanks!

I've used IONOS (formerly 1&1) for years. 

[zeusthemoose]

3 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

I hate the things, so I'll be doing it by hand.

I wish I could do that instead of having to use a website builder. Unfortunately though, I am no where near good enough with css, html, or javascript to make a good website.

[pythonmegapixel]

2 minutes ago, zeusthemoose said:

I wish I could do that instead of having to use a website builder. Unfortunately though, I am no where near good enough with css, html, or javascript to make a good website.

I highly recommend you work your way through the tutorials on https://www.w3schools.com/ . They'll give you a good enough grounding that you can have confidence in building your website.

If you're using pure HTML+CSS+JS then you can even host it for free at Github which doesn't take too long to set up.

[zeusthemoose]

Just now, pythonmegapixel said:

 

I'll definitely look into that, thanks for sharing!

[PorkishPig]

18 minutes ago, pythonmegapixel said:

Thanks very much, I hadn't heard of OVH but I'll look at them.

OVH also distributes budget-oriented dedicated machines available under SoYouStart in case you need a little more power down the line.

[pythonmegapixel]

Thanks for all your recommendations, I'll look into them

Anyone else have any recommendations?