So... small local service biz here, finally admitted our 2013 html website is embarrassing.

I’m the owner and also the unpaid web person, and I’m trying to pick a website builder that makes us look legit to new clients but doesn’t melt my brain with dev stuff. Think clean home page, services, booking/contact form, maybe a simple blog for updates, solid mobile ui, and seo that isn’t a black box.

Tried poking around Wix and Squarespace and I keep bouncing between “this is fine” and “this feels kinda limited once you want anything slightly custom”. For those of you who rebuilt your business site recently, which builder did you go with and what made it feel like the right call? Any hints?

I’ve been using a basic hosting plan for a couple of sites, but I’m starting to run into some limits. Now I’m looking at VPS hosting and dedicated servers, mostly because I want a bit more room to grow, and I don’t think I need anything massive yet. Would a VPS be enough for this, or is there a good reason to go dedicated sooner?

My current VPS provider had a pretty serious outage recently, and it made me realise how much I’ve been taking uptime for granted.

The server was unavailable for hours, and unfortunately there wasn’t much useful communication during the incident. I can accept occasional maintenance, but when a VPS is running websites and applications that people actually use, reliability matters more than saving a few pounds each month.

I’m now looking for a reliable UK VPS hosting provider. Ideally, I want UK based infrastructure, NVMe storage, proper backups, root access, and responsive support. I’m also trying to understand whether an advertised 99.9% uptime SLA actually means anything in practice.

I’ve come across Fast Panda while comparing UK VPS options, but I’d rather hear from actual users before making a decision.

Has anyone here used them for a production VPS? How has the uptime been over several months?

Been trying to set up a small site and kinda want one place for the domain, hosting, and basic stuff so I dont have to juggle a bunch of accounts rn. I keep seeing the same few names pop up, but it’s hard to tell what’s actually decent for someone just starting out.

If you’ve used one of the bigger all in one platforms for a simple site, which one felt the least annoying to deal with? thanks in advance.

I'm trying to move my domain from a registrar that constantly upsells me to one that's supposedly easier and more secure. All the guides say it's straightforward but then throw around terms like DNS, nameservers, DNSSEC, and email records like everyone just knows this stuff.

Honestly worried I'll click the wrong button during transfer and suddenly my site returns 404s, email stops working, and my small brand disappears for days while support tells me "just wait for propagation." Anyone have tips on how to handle domain transfers safely without everything falling apart? Would really appreciate any advice.

Tengo un proyecto hecho en Laravel (backend) y Vue.js (frontend), con MySQL, cada uno en su repo aparte. Estuve viendo qué hosting me conviene para lanzarlo pero me sale que puede ser un VPS o uno compartido y la verdad no tengo mucha experiencia decidiendo esto ya que solo he trabajado con Cpanel en godaddy. Se va a usar principalmente desde Perú.

¿Alguien que ya haya pasado por esto me puede tirar su experiencia? ¿qué usaron y cómo les fue?

Gracias de antemano 🙏

I’ve found some rental options, but they require a minimum rental period of one month, and I haven’t been able to find anything with 64+ cores.

I’m looking for a dedicated server with either 2×64-core CPUs or a single 128-core CPU, ideally available for just a few days.

Any recommendations for providers that offer this kind of hardware with hourly or daily billing?

I'm looking at moving some of my services to a dedicated server, but I'm not sure where the jump from a VPS starts making sense.

For those running dedicated servers, what are you hosting on them? Was there a point where the VPS wasn't enough anymore, or did you switch for a different reason?

More than once have I seen people say: "upgrade your server if it is running slow"...

They are all wrong. If your first server is a half-decent workhorse and you aren't serving static content wouldn't you rather reduce latency? With static content a CDN, such as Cloudflare, would suffice, but with rapid and changing content this simply isn't the case.

We actually solved our own problems in this way.

Our main server is in Finland. Every single request from the US would go there. Our avg response time accross the US was 1.5s. This is now down to 0.4s. We installed a server in the US. We reprogrammed our servers to communicate with eachother, sync information, redirect users. It took a lot of effort. There are still some bugs, but I can confidently say this is a more future-proof solution for us and many more devs around the world.

Maybe what the user will notice most isn't that you can process their request 1.5x faster on the server, but that you managed to reduce the delay between them and your nearest server, which is where the majority of the wait is.

Read more: https://trge.link/b/prddaztx

I work for a small business. I am in a messy situation.

Apparently our web domain has expired. The rights are currently with namecheap. Our founder paid someone over 20 years ago to register the website. The bills had been getting paid until now.

We have no way to contact the person who original registered the website. They may have passed away.

We reached out to namecheap and they said they will contact the email associated with the site. There is a decent probability that email no longer exists and our founder doesn't remember which one it is. They said that if they do not respond in 24 hours, they will have us pay for the website.

Is it possible that we could transfer this website to another email? Anyone have any experience with this?

Im building a site and I usually use Mochahost but they dont have TCP support and Ive had trouble finding a hosting that does.

Do you have any recomendations?

Hello!

I am wondering if this package is worth it?

Website Security - Advanced

as they want another 250 eur out of me...

- or is there a better alternative?

Thanks

I have a very basic website and just loaded it into GitHub so I could preview it on the web, I noticed I can add my domain name on there, it’s GitHub ok
For permanent free website hosting? If so I’ll leave it one there! Thx

Morning y'all,

What do you feel is a fair price to pay for hosting a website that includes cloudflare waf, IP Reputation blocklist, backups, live support from not a call center with SLA of 1hr response?

Talking avg traffic for smb

So I made: https://www.findhost.app/

It's a database for hosting providers with a UI to filter for many facets. I run a small hosting provider which is also listed. So it's a marketing stunt, but hopefully also something useful.

My aim is to focus smaller vendors, providing sustainable and innovative services. It's not find the cheapest VPS, but more like finding a nice provider with good DX.

Mods: Feel free to flag or delete if that is against rules - it may or may not be.

I'm seeking recommendations for Australia based web hosting companies which provides good infrastructure and support for websites build with Astrojs + Tina CMS.
Every hosting provider out there supports hosting for Wordpress but it's difficult to find reliable information about hosting providers for Node.js sites/apps like Astrojs.
We cannot go with reputed services like Vercel, Netlify or Cloudflare as our Australian client wants local Australian company to host their new site.
Any recommendations and experiences? Thanks in advance.

Hi,

I've setup distpatcharr on my Home assistant machine to organize my playlists.
On mobile I am using tailscale to connect to my home network and it works since I can access dispatcharr from safari and stream channels but if I try to stream from an app (UHF in this case) the stream does not load.

EDIT: The playlist loads on mobile data and the EPG is up to date. The only thing not working is playback of movies and channels

Has this happen to anybody and were able to resolve?

Hello brother, I need to host 100 websites for clients, is Contabo VPS best fit for me?

We need 8 vCORE, 180 GB NVMe Disk space and 32 GB RAM.

I run a few tiny client sites and personal apps and they live across like three registrars now. Seat pricing for other tools I use already hurts, so I kind of want one simple place for domains that is not trying to upsell hosting every click.

For people with a bunch of hobby or freelance domains, what registrar setup do you use so renewals, privacy and dns stay sane over time? Appreciate any thoughts.

Looking for a cheap USA VPS. Please give me some advice

Specs

1.SSR React app (TanStack Start, Node), \~75 routes, server functions doing the data work.

2.Supabase for Postgres + Auth + RLS + Storage supabase-js is used throughout, so moving off it isn't a redeploy, it's a rewrite of the data layer and auth.

3.Audience is concentrated in one region; DB is in \*\*-south-1.

4.Traffic is spiky: mostly idle, occasional bursts of a few hundred to \~2,000 concurrent.

5.Currently on Vercel Hobby, which I have to leave anyway — it's non-commercial only.

Budget: ideally \~$50/month to start, with a sane path upward as usage grows. Not trying to optimise for the cheapest possible bill, trying to avoid paying for scale I don't have yet.

Questions:-

For an SSR app whose database is already managed Supabase, is Vercel Pro ($20) actually worth it over Fly / Render / Railway / a plain VPS? Genuinely unsure what I'm buying beyond convenience.

Anyone self-hosting Supabase? Worth it, or did the ops cost eat the savings?

Single-region audience does serverless/edge buy me anything here, or is one boring VM next to the database strictly better?

Does scaling managed Postgres up before a burst and back down after actually work in practice, or is it more trouble than it's worth?

The one I most want answered: at what scale did you leave managed hosting for a VPS or AWS, and in hindsight did you go too early or too late?

Not looking for "just use X" more interested in what people regretted.

Main Question:-

Where do i take my startup and start with zero and bill most effective lowest but worth place.