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Best hosting 2018?

9 points by jaspergilley ↗ HN
I've had a Bluehost account for several years as it's the easiest way to get a WordPress website up and running quickly. However, Bluehost is severely locked down when it comes to running any kind of real web application (e.g., Django.) Does anyone know of a more versatile (and potentially cheaper?) alternative?

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damm
Well you could use Hetzner if you don't mind it being deployed in Europe.

The amazon hasn't stomped out traditional hosting in any sort of way. Internap can be cheap if you don't mind the contracts; beyond that there's just too many to really list.

Hetzner is just really easy to get small or large servers dedicated for a really cheap price... less than 300 pounds for 24TB of SATA and 4TB of SSD and 128gig of ram.

RodgerTheGreat
I've been a user of NearlyFreeSpeech (https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net) for several years, mostly for simple static sites, but in some cases for dynamic content. Totally satisfied with the results.
neilsimp1
Seconded. Perfect for static sites or small-to-medium PHP sites.
zhte415
The options are vast.

I use Digital Ocean because I like the simplicity (though that simplicity seems to be increasing buried on their front page), their tutorials really are very good (and pretty host-agnostic), and everything just works.

Long long ago I used Dreamhost, who always had a sense of humour.

Transitioning from Dreamhost, I moved to Rimuhosting. They had really excellent and very personal technical support, I've never experienced the type of personal technical support before and/or after. Their RAM is very cheap, their disk very expensive.

kull
Digital Ocean, very reliable, affordable and easy to manage. Highly recommended. We are running on DO our B2B startup with a lot of data storage needed, many users and a lot of data processing.
p0d
I run a business in the Hetzner cloud having moved from Hostgator. Their cloud servers start at 3 euros and run on ssds. 6 months in and I’m very happy.
antoineMoPa
I really like Linode. You can run anything you want, it's a tiny VM in the cloud. There is a 5$/month Linode that does the job for any reasonably small project.
iamthelord
Digital ocean

1. Simplicity.

2. Nice detailed setup pages written by DO.

3. Cheap.

sethammons
Like others, I use Digital Ocean. I get a VM that I can do everything I want on. For me, that is running nginx and several Go projects. You get to do things you might not normally get to play with, like setting up monitoring, service start/stop, lb configs, log handling, etc.