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Shared hosting starting at $3.95/mo | Shared hosting starting at $3.95/mo | ||
Unclear how much extra they charge for Dedicated IP | Unclear how much extra they charge for Dedicated IP | ||
Unclear whether they support SNI for multiple domains with SSL certificates | Unclear whether they support SNI for multiple domains with SSL certificates | ||
Affiliate program (for you to to refer friends, clients, etc.) at siteground.com/affiliates | |||
Sponsored Beyond Tellerand Conference (2018 Berlin) | |||
Features / options: | |||
* SSDs on all web hosting plans | |||
* NGINGX, HTTP/2, latest PHP | |||
* Data centers on 3 continents | |||
* built-in CDN | |||
* Security policy: 0day vuln fixes, custom WAF rules | |||
* Automated monitoring and daily backups | |||
* Customer support 24/7: tickets (1st reply 10min), live chat, phone | |||
* 1-Click App Install (WordPress "or any other app with one click") | |||
* 1-Click Staging | |||
* Free Site Migration | |||
* WordPress Autoupdates | |||
* Git integration | |||
* CLI access | |||
Hosting plans described on siteground.com/craft | |||
* euro10/mo. includes Let's Encrypt & Wildcard SSL | |||
* more levels e18, e30, e64/mo. etc. | |||
Revision as of 22:17, 2 January 2019
Below are some notes on various hosting providers. Plans and technology change, so be sure to check details.
(Original document from Darius Dunlap for his own decision process. Just hoping it's helpful to others)
See also web_hosting for great info about hosting types and who uses what.
WPEngine - http://wpengine.com/plans/
$99/mo professional plan allows up to 10 wordpress installs and does SNI, though I’d probably want the extra $5/mo dedicated IP address so that I can have my own certs. (Need to look into that in more detail if I decide to consider this provider.)
http://wpengine.com/support/why-am-i-seeing-a-certificate-error-for-wpengine-com/
Limited other capabilities outside of WP.
Pair
Shared hosting:
http://www.pair.com/services/web_hosting/
VPS starting at $79/mo:
http://www.pair.com/services/vps/
SSL Support seems complicated and maybe the certs are only available through them? (expensive!)
SSL can be purchased and used with Basic, Advanced, Webmaster, Developer, and all High Volume hosting plans for a one-time $20 setup fee and a $10 per month fee. Individuals with QuickServe® dedicated servers can add SSL for a one-time setup fee of $20. QuickServe® dedicated servers are not charged a monthly fee for SSL.
http://www.pair.com/services/e-commerce/pairssl/
http://www.pair.com/support/knowledge_base/e-commerce/using_ssl.html
Dreamhost
http://www.dreamhost.com/servers/compare-our-products/
Shared with dedicated IP = $12.90/mo VPS starts at $18.95/mo (with dedicated IP address.
dedicated IP address is required for SSL Excellent wiki article on Secure hosting, SNI, etc.
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Secure_Hosting
"DreamHost proudly offers free web hosting to non-profit, 501(c)(3) charitable orgs registered in the US.”
http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Non-profit
Empowering Media
Website does not provide a lot of easily accessible detail, but they've been around forever and are well regarded by many folks. It's unclear, for example, if they support SNI.
VPS service, Start at $80/mo:
http://empoweringmedia.com/solutions/hostcube.html
http://hostcube.com/hosting-solutions/managed-vps/
Shared Hosting:
http://empoweringmedia.com/solutions/hostasite.html
http://hostasite.com/small-business-web-hosting/
Fused
Shared hosting starting at $15/mo
Additional Domain: $12/yr
Dedicated IP (for SSL): $24/yr, or Free with “Business” hosting
No useful answers about SSL
SiteGround (siteground.com)
Shared hosting starting at $3.95/mo
Unclear how much extra they charge for Dedicated IP
Unclear whether they support SNI for multiple domains with SSL certificates
Affiliate program (for you to to refer friends, clients, etc.) at siteground.com/affiliates
Sponsored Beyond Tellerand Conference (2018 Berlin)
Features / options:
- SSDs on all web hosting plans
- NGINGX, HTTP/2, latest PHP
- Data centers on 3 continents
- built-in CDN
- Security policy: 0day vuln fixes, custom WAF rules
- Automated monitoring and daily backups
- Customer support 24/7: tickets (1st reply 10min), live chat, phone
- 1-Click App Install (WordPress "or any other app with one click")
- 1-Click Staging
- Free Site Migration
- WordPress Autoupdates
- Git integration
- CLI access
Hosting plans described on siteground.com/craft
- euro10/mo. includes Let's Encrypt & Wildcard SSL
- more levels e18, e30, e64/mo. etc.
Arvixe
http://www.arvixe.com/linux_web_hosting
Shared hosting starting at $4 per month (limited to 6 domains) and $7/mo Dedicated IP address: $2/mo SSL Certificate: $25/year
Also have MS ASP shared servers for $5/mo and $8/mo. Includes MS SQL databases
NameCheap
https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/shared.aspx
Shared hosting starting at $3.98/mo (multi-year pre-pay) Good plans at $77.80/yr and $131.80/yr. (2014-05-08) Business SSD starting at $20/mo. (multi-year pre-pay)
Dedicated IP - $24/year
Support SNI as of 2013
https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/9259/29/sni-technology
https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx/795/69/how-to-install-ssl-certificate
Seem like solid offerings.
Digital Ocean
Plans starting at $5/mo.
https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
Different distros and 1-click installs available
https://www.digitalocean.com/features/one-click-apps/
Comes with dedicated IP (assigned by droplet)
Easy spin-up of servers. Charged by the hour, so you can sling something up for some testing and then snapshot it for later and shut it down, just paying a few pennies for the whole process.
https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
https://www.digitalocean.com/help/getting-started/setting-up-your-server/
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-set-up-a-host-name-with-digitalocean
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/multiple-domains-on-the-same-droplet
Management of servers is much more complex than shared hosting systems. Much like manually managing a linux box.
Linode
$20/mo for a pretty beefy VPS on SSD
Very capable, but this is a bare linux server VPS (with some nice mgmt tools) that you have to manage yourself.
SSL support sounds strong
https://library.linode.com/security/ssl-certificates/subject-alternate-names
https://library.linode.com/securing-your-server
Good DNS configurability, of course:
https://library.linode.com/adding-dns-records#sph_advanced-dns-configurations
https://library.linode.com/hosting-website#sph_configuring-name-based-virtual-hosts
BlueHost
Shared hosting plans starting at $4.95/mo
https://www.bluehost.com/shared
Want to check features:
https://www.bluehost.com/hosting-features
Dedicated IP is $39/year (answer from support chat)
Seem to have good supportfor SSL, etc.