[hosting] Hosting Recommendations

[nathan]

We currently have 17 websites hosted with TSOHOST, they used to be brilliant.... they are now not.

 

I'm starting to do some research into alternatives and wondered what everyone else used.

 

I'm after;

 

- a single hosting package that will allow me to host multiple websites

- SSD storage

- It will be hosting either wordpress or Joomla (unfortunately) websites

[Sibrows]

We've moved most of our websites and apps to Digital Ocean. You can scale the droplet size.

 

If your after an all-in-one control panel then we've been using Plesk, the free option is limited to three websites but thats encouraged us to not have too many websites running on one droplet.

[nathan]

We've moved most of our websites and apps to Digital Ocean. You can scale the droplet size.

 

If your after an all-in-one control panel then we've been using Plesk, the free option is limited to three websites but thats encouraged us to not have too many websites running on one droplet.

 

i haven't thought about DO actually. always been impressed with there speed.

[Sibrows]

We've got a secondary and two primary websites running on their cheapest droplet with Plesk managing the websites.

 

We've added some block storage to it we're using Plesk to run daily backups of the sites (we're using Wordpress) then the droplet is snapshotted once a week and retained for four weeks all for less than £10 pcm.

[localzuk]

I generally put them on Azure these days.

[Edu-IT]

https://krystal.uk/

[dhicks]

I'm starting to do some research into alternatives and wondered what everyone else used.

 

I use OVH for assorted hosting purposes. Depending on how much traffic you're expecting over the whole set of sites you want to host, one of their standard small instances (about £3.80 a month) might well be enough, possibly with a disk space upgrade. I have various services run behind an Nginx reverse-proxy, which I actually found suprisingly easy to set up.

[AndreaRamirez]

I can recommend only one host that I like the most and it is Cloudways. I have been using it's Magento hosting service for my ecommerce store from last 2 years and I have found the pleasant hosting experience. They provide managed hosting service of 5 top cloud hosting provider available in the industry namely AWS, DigitalOcean, GCE, Linode and Vultr.

[RobD]

Another for Krystal, here's a referal for a £10 off too: 4070f032

[Forasizo]

UnlimitedWebHosting are quite good - or EZPZ Hosting, I was with them for many years before I moved to my own kit.

[Jobos]

Does DNS hosting come as standard with web hosting or is it a chargeable add-on?

[Edu-IT]

Usually it's free, with Krystal it is.

[Jobos]

Usually it's free, with Krystal it is.

 

Thanks for the update.

[HPlum78]

Yeah azure for this...

[vizubeat]

Always had good results with Invisional Hosting - ran by a guy that used to work in schools IT, good value hosting, I've got a 'shared' hosting and multi-site package for some personal stuff

[Steve21]

Out of curiosity, those of you using things like Krystal/OVH etc for Wordpress, are you doing it on their "wordpress offerings" or just a VPS with your own installs?

 

Just wondering in terms of specification, as things like Krystal wordpress offerings are all on very limited resources (1cpu/1gb), but obviously offer all the lite caching etc options, compared to a higher spec VPS in the first place

 

Steve

[v1images]

With OVH I had migrated from a VPS on my own configuration/setup and worked no problem off the bat on an OVH Dedicated package.

[kxv2020]

Did you choose the Onxy package or something else?

[Steve21]

Did you choose the Onxy package or something else?

 

We went with the Onyx package in the end and very happy with it so far (Was going to go with the cheaper one, but the school wanted the higher resources etc as apparently they've had issues in the past with cheaper hosts so would prefer higher spec for when it gets the hits on open evenings etc)

 

Steve

[kxv2020]

We went with the Onyx package in the end and very happy with it so far (Was going to go with the cheaper one, but the school wanted the higher resources etc as apparently they've had issues in the past with cheaper hosts so would prefer higher spec for when it gets the hits on open evenings etc)

 

Steve

Thanks - I’m guessing you went for the pro? The bit that concerns me is 50k visitor number per month - do you ever find you reach that ?

[Norphy]

I use SGIS Hosting. I think the Pro package ticks most of your boxes

 

https://sgis.co.uk/hosting/full-hosting-features.php

[Steve21]

Thanks - I’m guessing you went for the pro? The bit that concerns me is 50k visitor number per month - do you ever find you reach that ?

 

Yes to both of those, however we asked about the limit previously, and they said it's not a hard cap more a recommendation, so it's not like it blocks it etc. I think it's more a if you say you need 10k and use 1million they might complain But not had any issues so far (obviously in the first year still so guess time will tell)

 

67,857 - visitors this month (is this months counter to give you an example, bearing in mind it's on unique IPs etc not repeat visitors)

 

Steve

[malware]

When I'm not self-hosting I have used Krystal, decent company and UK based.

 

If you go the VPS route, I have used Vultr for a year or two and has been great.

Edited May 29, 2021 by malware

[gomalley]

Just to add to this thread for anyone who finds the topic - I want to scream at TSOHost who migrated us to their new server on Saturday and both school sites I host with them have been down in one form or another since (into day 3 now).

 

Looking at Krystal from comments above the free migration they offer seems good, as well as not the huge costs that TSO now want to charge me!

[NokiX]

Just to add to this thread for anyone who finds the topic - I want to scream at TSOHost who migrated us to their new server on Saturday and both school sites I host with them have been down in one form or another since (into day 3 now).

 

Looking at Krystal from comments above the free migration they offer seems good, as well as not the huge costs that TSO now want to charge me!

 

Was that an optional move or a scheduled "upgrade" they had to do? In terms of Krystal, make sure that if your school is a registered charity that you provide your charity number as Krystal provide a free Amethyst package for registered UK charities or a 50% discount on other hosting products.