@dafyre Thanks, testing now to see if it works (as expected).

@irj we have seeweb in italy. Never tried them but they are renowed as a good trusted company here.

Jokes aside, Mailcow works very well and the author's support is awesome; this one I use and recommend.
I would say that Mailcheap's web site has lots of information, but that's me. I don't use it as I host my own email (besides using Office 365/G Suite/others depending on the client). I just seemed to me that it checked all @thwr needs while being recommended by people I trust.
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@bigbear said in WordPress Hosting:

Are you still doing hostadillo @scottalanmiller ?

Yup, sure are!

@syko24 free... and useless:

Limitations of the free license:

The free license is limited to five locks per day which means the free edition defends your system against five unique attacks per day. [...] The free license does not contain reporting (like the PRO edition does).

Also, no official support for Windows Server 2016.

https://cyberarms.net/download-pricing/installation-configuration.aspx

@FATeknollogee said in VPS/hosting: Vultr-like speeds + easy-cPanel management:

@scottalanmiller said in VPS/hosting: Vultr-like speeds + easy-cPanel management:

CloudWays ? They literally let you choose Vultr as the host and I'm actually testing them right now.

How is the testing coming along?

Looks really nice. Not sure that it meets our needs well, though. It covers the pieces that we can handle easily but doesn't address the annoying pieces. Looks like a good product though.

crazy awesome performance

That's KVM for you 😉

https://mangolassi.it/topic/12560/digital-ocean-gets-load-balancers

They are going to integrate LetsEncrypt, too.

1U and 2U commonly have "single server" prices. Once in a while you can get 3U and 4U prices but after 2U you normally go for a fractional rack. 3U+ servers aren't often useful for hosting. Not many are made and those that are typically aren't very dense.

Not a bad idea, the price is good and would make it easy to have a hosted ticket system. I like it.

Working now, must have been a blip.

@Ambarishrh
First of all, I welcome you to Cloudways.com.
I'm Mustaasam, the WordPress Community Manager at Cloudways.

I've tested your site on Tools Pingdom, the first hit was about 2.6 seconds and in 5th attempt it was loaded in just 1.07s.

0_1471867518408_upload-f9d7b63b-daf0-43ae-bad2-34c9a6a9a456

Here is the URL:
https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/bNYY17/https://www.ambarishrh.com/

Finally decided what to use. Going to have my dad setup Flickr albums for his project.

ServerBear from KimSufi.... http://serverbear.com/benchmark/2016/03/20/6pfi28tqnMEb3OZA

That's running on the Hypervisor OS, not in a VM.

@dafyre said:

So to get the Google Store, you have to root it and upload the Google Apps?

Correct.

@dafyre said:

Should I do it here or start a new thread?

New thread.

@scottalanmiller said:

Now, saying that you can do that all separate, someone like @ntg....

coughshamelessplugcough

Yes, mine started now, but they still have the works going on.
Droplet action events are temporarily disabled in our LON1 region.

https://status.digitalocean.com/#

If you're looking for something similarly spec'd you could just buy and beef up a Thinkserver TS440. They are pretty inexpensive, have 8 bays for drives, Xeon E3-1225 v3 proc, ECC memory, redundant power supply (only comes with on slot populated), and start off under $500.

http://www.amazon.com/ThinkServer-70AQ0009UX-E3-1225-Desktop-Computer/dp/B00ILH15DA/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1432915118&sr=8-2-fkmr2&keywords=ibm+thinkserver+xeon+ts440