Re: Anyone Using HostGator, Bluehost, or some other cheap shared hosting provider?

2023-04-08 Thread David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss
As I said, the TERM “reseller” is a holdover from the 90’s, and people tend to react the same way you did. It simply means you get access to the “Web Host Manager” that lets you create multiple cPanel accounts. What you do with them is entirely up to you. The biggest advantage to having a “res

Re: Anyone Using HostGator, Bluehost, or some other cheap shared hosting provider?

2023-04-07 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Hi Daniel, I assume you are running on a 1 vCPU with 1GB of RAM? I tried that on DigitalOcean and the server would crash as soon as I ran a simple PHP script. I had to give it more memory to get it to work. What is the secret? Also what do you do for mail? On 2023-04-06 22:16, Daniel Stas

Re: Anyone Using HostGator, Bluehost, or some other cheap shared hosting provider?

2023-04-07 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Hi David, Thank you so much for your feedback. It is a jungle out there. After posting this email I realized I absolutely need SSH so I can use Visual Studio Code to edit remotely. Visual Studio Code (VSC) opens another can of worms for me because I do not understand permissions and users t

Re: Anyone Using HostGator, Bluehost, or some other cheap shared hosting provider?

2023-04-06 Thread Daniel Stasinski via PLUG-discuss
I've been using vultr.com for many years now. $5 a month for a virtual server on which I did a full LAMP installation, etc. *Daniel P. Stasinski* dan...@genericinbox.com ✞ *Jesus Is King *✞ On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 9:08 PM David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

Re: Anyone Using HostGator, Bluehost, or some other cheap shared hosting provider?

2023-04-06 Thread David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss
I don’t know how helpful this is, but … the best time to buy hosting is Black Friday. For points (1) and (3), this might help. First, if I’m understanding (3) correctly, I think you want to be looking at a “Reseller” type of account. By itself, cPanel is for ONE account/domain. They have a t

Re: Anyone Using HostGator, Bluehost, or some other cheap shared hosting provider?

2023-04-03 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
On 2023-04-03 13:57, Shaun Anderson wrote: My wife and I host a wordpress site on Bluehost and it's been a dumpster fire. Once the season is over in the spring we're going to rehost somewhere else but my opinion on BH has definitely soured. I can't speak for general hosting, but the hosted Wordp

Re: Anyone Using HostGator, Bluehost, or some other cheap shared hosting provider?

2023-04-03 Thread Shaun Anderson via PLUG-discuss
My wife and I host a wordpress site on Bluehost and it's been a dumpster fire. Once the season is over in the spring we're going to rehost somewhere else but my opinion on BH has definitely soured. I can't speak for general hosting, but the hosted Wordpress has been awful. It was "hacked" (Crappy

Anyone Using HostGator, Bluehost, or some other cheap shared hosting provider?

2023-04-03 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
I am looking at cheap shared hosting providers. I found two so far... Bluehost and HostGator. I used Hostgator in the past and it was good and then really bad, and it has been a while. I eventually moved on. I have not used Bluehost and the reviews are mixed. I have three requirements: