Ask HN: Who is your domain registrar and hosting provider?

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I hosted my VPSs on Scaleway but moved away from them after a lot of trouble and shady stuff.

Now, I exclusively host my infrastructures on:

- OVH

- PulseHeberg.

Gandi.net for both (nothing complicated on the hosting Side)
xeliux.com for registration, hosting at digitalocean.com
At the moment? Namecheap and Liquidweb, though I'm trying to find a better alternative for the latter at some point.
Mostly Namecheap for domains, digitalocean for virtual servers, and cloudflare for DNS/Caching
Namecheap for domains, Weebly for hosting.
Namecheap, and as an aspiring web dev most of my stuff is on Heroku for the time being.

Beyond that I an old blogger account still out there.

I would highly recommend NameSilo.com. I have used a number of domain registrars over the years including NameCheap, Register.com even GoDaddy before they went public and eliminated all their discounts for anything other then new registrations and have found no one better or lower cost than NameSilo. Their UI/interface is well designed and easy to use, they have the lowest cost for both new registrations and renewals (including free privacy) and the very few times I had some questions you can actually call them and have a human answer and provide good service/support (unlike NameCheap who provides no live support). Off all the registrations I have used I have consistently found the best combinations of value, great website and service/support with NameSilo. And I have no affiliation or any other relationship with them other than having been a very satisfied customer of theirs for a number of years.
Google for domains. Github pages for hosting (static content, shopify in about 3mo).
Domains - Google (though I’m not tied to it)

DNS - DigitalOcean

Hosting - DigitalOcean

I have a Docker swarm cluster that I deploy all my stuff to, combined with traefik I have it setup to use DO’s API for automatic LE wildcard certs. Fairly happy with this setup, though I may switch domain provider when my domains expire and move to something like namecheap.

I love DigitalOcean but I've never registered a domain using Google but would like to try it out. What do you like about it?
Vultr for hosting, Cloudflare for DNS/CDN
Also Netlify for static sites
I really appreciate https://zomro.net/ for its ssd hosting solutions on web. Before I have tested 3 hosting providers but was not satisfied. I left my last hosting company because they repeatedly made a mess of billing and servers went down a lot.
Namecheap for domains.

For hosting, it's a mix of Vultr, GCP, RamNode, ServerHub.

It's hard to beat DigitalOcean for hosting.
I have domains at Godaddy, NameCheap, Mitsu, Dynadot, HexoNet & some more. Hosting is on Blogger, Tumblr & GitLab.