webhosting Web Host Alternatives <Paid vs Self Hosted>

[DarkPalidin]

I'm currently trying to find the best alternative to hosting a website. This is Primarily for Web Development

 

Currently my website is hosted on GoDaddy. I'm trying to find a cheap alternative to host the site, I do web design work also and I need the best flexibility without getting easlly hacked.

 

I had three ideas in mind

 

#1 Move my site from GoDaddy to another host like Hostgator.

#2 Second option is to get a small 2 bay NAS and host the site from there such as a Qnap or a Synology.

#3 Third option get a Raspberry Pi 4 with 1 or 2 GB ram then host the site on there and port forward it though my internet to the web host. (I know how to set this up  but do not know how stable it will be for small business websites like wordpress and joomla. Bad Part with this is that the connection will not be stable if my internet gets shuts off due to power outages.

 

I need a cost effective method that will last a long time and be somewhat secure.

I have had problems in the past by getting my sites hacked with free web domains.

 

I plan on using this for working on websites for other people people as well as my own personal website

 

Any Help in me making this decision I would really appreciate it !!!

 

 

 

Edited December 14, 2019 by DarkPalidin
Needed to refine text to make it more clear

[Enderman]

[DarkPalidin]

6 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Thanks but I need something more like a web development server that I can do custom code like PHP without restrictions.

[mariushm]

Rent a dedicated server or a VPS.

 

I used Leaseweb for a very long time. Dedicated servers are OK, haven't used their VPSes but I'd give the 10 euro one a try (2 cores, 2 GB of ram, 60 GB SSD, 6 TB bandwidth : https://www.leaseweb.com/cloud/virtual-server )

[burrows]

If you already have a domain, I would just suggest renting a Droplet from DigitalOcean and running some kind of hosting solution on your Droplet. They're fairly inexpensive.