Looking for good and cheaper webhosting, suggest please ?
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Hello all,
We were using Hostgator for hosting, but with this recent renewal, the cost goes very high (around $147/year), so we migrated to iPage (aka Netfirms) and we are not happy with them, even after 3 days our site is not up due to tech issues and they have poor tech support.
So we are looking for cheaper and good shared hosting with following :
- Should support Wordpress
- Unlimited email accounts
- Unlimited domains
Question : I think, with shared hosting I cannot create same username for email ids on different domains ? (lets say [email protected] and [email protected]) so I will require to buy Reseller hosting if I need this ?
Thanks for suggestions !
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I haven't looked at this for a while, but, how much is the cost to just purchase the domain name, and point that to an instance in AWS, or Azure, or VLTR etc? May cost more, but i'd look in to it...
Just manage the instance yourself...
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Why would you want your email through a shared hosting provider? It's usually garbage and only IMAP/POP.
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A Small Orange has been good to us.
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$147/year is nothing for email. So stay where you are.
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@jaredbusch said in Looking for good and cheaper webhosting, suggest please ?:
$147/year is nothing for email. So stay where you are.
ASO can be as long as $60/year and their second tier is $120/year. And those are paying monthly. Pay annually for discounts. We have been on a $280/year annual billing for a pretty high tier. But they've been very good.
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@stacksofplates said in Looking for good and cheaper webhosting, suggest please ?:
Why would you want your email through a shared hosting provider? It's usually garbage and only IMAP/POP.
Can't be overstated. Unless you are reselling it to really foolish customers, I can't imagine any value there.
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@jimmy9008 said in Looking for good and cheaper webhosting, suggest please ?:
I haven't looked at this for a while, but, how much is the cost to just purchase the domain name, and point that to an instance in AWS, or Azure, or VLTR etc? May cost more, but i'd look in to it...
Just manage the instance yourself...
If all you need is similar technical capabilities, even a $2.50/mo Vultr instance will do it and at $5/mo you are generally way beyond the hosting companies. But running web and email yourself for lots of different sites can be a pretty big pain.
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@scottalanmiller said in Looking for good and cheaper webhosting, suggest please ?:
@stacksofplates said in Looking for good and cheaper webhosting, suggest please ?:
Why would you want your email through a shared hosting provider? It's usually garbage and only IMAP/POP.
Can't be overstated. Unless you are reselling it to really foolish customers, I can't imagine any value there.
And again for $147 per year is nothing for email. Let alone hosting.
That is barely more than 2 Office 365 Exchange online only plans.
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@jaredbusch said in Looking for good and cheaper webhosting, suggest please ?:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking for good and cheaper webhosting, suggest please ?:
@stacksofplates said in Looking for good and cheaper webhosting, suggest please ?:
Why would you want your email through a shared hosting provider? It's usually garbage and only IMAP/POP.
Can't be overstated. Unless you are reselling it to really foolish customers, I can't imagine any value there.
And again for $147 per year is nothing for email. Let alone hosting.
That is barely more than 2 Office 365 Exchange online only plans.
Except it's worthless email, not enterprise hosted Exchange. It's generally just POP or maybe IMAP if you are super lucky. Generally not even a web interface. Just someone tossing up Postfix and Dovecot and leaving you to your own devices. Literally approaching worthless as businesses can't use it for anything that matters (it's fine for things like your printer forwarding print jobs) because there is no protection on the storage, none on the deliver, no SPAM filtering, no malware protection, no failover, no web access, etc.
You could build your own, unlimited use, just as good on a $2.50/Vultr instance no problem. But no one does because... it's not worth $2.50.
So even one Office 365 email account is worth more, way more, in a business setting than "unlimited email" like this.
Also, while you get unlimited accounts, it shares capacity with your web hosting. So the email accounts can often be capped around 1MB each.
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@scottalanmiller said in Looking for good and cheaper webhosting, suggest please ?:
@jaredbusch said in Looking for good and cheaper webhosting, suggest please ?:
@scottalanmiller said in Looking for good and cheaper webhosting, suggest please ?:
@stacksofplates said in Looking for good and cheaper webhosting, suggest please ?:
Why would you want your email through a shared hosting provider? It's usually garbage and only IMAP/POP.
Can't be overstated. Unless you are reselling it to really foolish customers, I can't imagine any value there.
And again for $147 per year is nothing for email. Let alone hosting.
That is barely more than 2 Office 365 Exchange online only plans.
Except it's worthless email, not enterprise hosted Exchange. It's generally just POP or maybe IMAP if you are super lucky. Generally not even a web interface. Just someone tossing up Postfix and Dovecot and leaving you to your own devices. Literally approaching worthless as businesses can't use it for anything that matters (it's fine for things like your printer forwarding print jobs) because there is no protection on the storage, none on the deliver, no SPAM filtering, no malware protection, no failover, no web access, etc.
You could build your own, unlimited use, just as good on a $2.50/Vultr instance no problem. But no one does because... it's not worth $2.50.
So even one Office 365 email account is worth more, way more, in a business setting than "unlimited email" like this.
Also, while you get unlimited accounts, it shares capacity with your web hosting. So the email accounts can often be capped around 1MB each.
And while all that is true, many people people simply don't care and want cheap ass shit
