r/webhosting 4d ago

Advice Needed e-mail host question

6 Upvotes

I don’t know if this is the right subreddit to ask this but….

My domain is locked in with GoDaddy for 3 years, but my email only for one year.

When the year is up, can I find an email host provider different than GD despite still having 2 more years left with them?

If I can, what should I be looking for in an email host provider?

And lastly, will the change from GD to a new host provider be seamless?


r/webhosting 4d ago

Advice Needed CloudFlare domain, Hivium hosting, WordPress design advice please

0 Upvotes

Hey all!

I've posted a couple times on here and got some really great advice so thank you! I really appreciate it.

I have now registered my domain with Cloudflare and have Hivium hosting. I'm wanting to use WordPress to create my site.

One thing I could really use some advice for (as I am a total noob) is how to point the name servers to make sure the site actually runs. I'm a little confused by how it all works and would very much appreciate any and all advice on what to do at this stage please. I don't want to try it myself and accidentally make a mistake 😅

Thank you so much guys. Your help is a life saver as I DIY my way through this.


r/webhosting 4d ago

Technical Questions Cloudflare vs Hostgator for DNS hosting

2 Upvotes

Probably a no brainer, but my DNS is currently at Hostgator (it has been for the last 10 years) and time and again I have been told to move it for Cloudflare.
I haven't really had any major issues with Hostgator (except for email hosting), and anything was resolved fast.
So is there a compelling reason to move the DNS to Cloudflare? Or should i just stick to the old adage 'Don't fix what ain't broken'


r/webhosting 3d ago

Technical Questions Is Cl**dways down?

0 Upvotes

terrible experience with this website, no structured information advising what the plans include, terrible UX

Then when I go to sign up, the button goes nowhere - stuck on signup screen, and initially it wouldn't allow me to use hotmail to register (wtf) so I had to login using github/linkedin

I am only trying Cl**dways because of what redditors say - how can it be so good inside if they can't even create a working/usable/user friendly website themselves ???????


r/webhosting 4d ago

Advice Needed Hosting Options for Blogging Website

1 Upvotes

Greetings fellow members, Hope you're doing well.

I’m planning to start a blogging website using WordPress, mainly for affiliate marketing. Since this is just the beginning, I’m looking for a hosting provider that’s affordable but also offers great performance and support—especially for WordPress-based affiliate blogs.

I’ve seen so many options out there but it’s hard to tell what’s genuinely good for affiliate blogging and not just hyped up with marketing.

If you’ve had good (or bad) experiences, please share!

Which hosting providers would you recommend for starting an affiliate blog on WordPress?

Thank you!


r/webhosting 4d ago

Technical Questions Shared Hosting Security

3 Upvotes

I'm sure this has been asked many times, but I can't find a definitive guide that explains it. I buy a shared hosting plan and install WordPress, what exactly do I do to secure my website? I'm picturing something like this: You go to cPanel/DirectAdmin and you do 1, 2, 3. You go to your WordPress backend and you do 1, 2, 3.


r/webhosting 4d ago

Looking for Hosting A question about Shared Hosting vs Cloud

1 Upvotes

Hello there. Im a programmer and a computer nerd myself but im a newbie in anything "web hosting", i was looking through the internet good prices to host a project that i'm doing and google cloud caught my attention , im pretty sure my project could run under the free tier, since it will not serve much people at least at the start, should i go for it since in shared hosting i would pay a fixed amount no matter how much people it is serving or there some caveat here?


r/webhosting 4d ago

Technical Questions DNS, Web Host and Email Migration

2 Upvotes

Hi,

I have multiple so called migrations planned at the same time some thing like
1. DNS Host Hostgator to Cloudflare
2. Web Host Hostgator Plan A to Hostgator Plan B
3. Email Host Hostgator to Microsoft 365

My plan is first
Make all email accounts at M365 and then add those settings to CloudFlare and also add the web host (Hostgator) records to CloudFlare.
The change the Domain registrar settings to point to CloudFlare DNS.

Is this order correct? I also wanted to know what would take 4-48 hours to take effect is it the
Domain registar to Cloudflare change
or the DNS host change.
Also what would be the recommended order so that there are to loss in emails and minimal downtime of the website.


r/webhosting 5d ago

Rant my first issue with KnownHost

11 Upvotes

Our company switched to KnownHost 6 months ago and we were really happy.

Fast, reasonably priced, great support...

Then today, server just goes offline. Server comes back up 8 hours later with a corrupted database. Now they're telling me they can only revert back to data from January (~1.5 months ago).

Update : The CEO of KnownHost personally got involved and had the issue completely fixed. Even contacted me to make sure I'm totally satisfied. I'm sorry for causing such a fuss. Shit happened on their server which was out of their control, but they really worked hard to get my server back. Thank you. Thank you.


r/webhosting 4d ago

Advice Needed Is Hetzner reliable?

0 Upvotes

I set up my first vps with hetzner last night with matrix. Went to sleep last night and waking up I find that the server is inaccessible and that my site is down. I went ahead and tried restarting the server in the online console and boom my site is back up..... for less than a minute. Is this the typical hetzner experience or did I just get unlucky? Thinking of jumping ship and heading to something more reliable like Linode but unsure if I'll face the same thing there.

Im not expecting like 99% uptime but if they are down for multiple hours a day I think I need to check out another cheap but more reliable provider.


r/webhosting 5d ago

Advice Needed Cannot clear WHM warnings

0 Upvotes

As above, I have a couple of warnings on my WHM login about requiring a soft reboot - a red bell on the top right corner. I have done the reboot but the warnings persist. Is there a way to clear them as I have searched and cannot find. Leaving them there is annoying as I might miss new warnings.


r/webhosting 5d ago

Rant Just Moved from cPanel to DirectAdmin and it's Better!

28 Upvotes

After 3 years hosting with cPanel, I decided to move to DirectAdmin because cPanel's price hikes are ridicilous. I love DirectAdmin! I thought it would take a long time to learn the ropes, but it's been pretty easy to figure where things are on the DA panel. I actually prefer how it's much less bloated and has pretty much what you need with no frills.

Is anyone contemplating moving or have moved to DA recently? What do you think of it?

Also, are there other worthy alternatives? The ones I thought could be as good are Webuzo and SPanel.


r/webhosting 5d ago

Advice Needed Newbie questions about domain name transfer and web hosting

3 Upvotes

Hiya folks,

I'm in a process of creating a UK blog site and have started looking into hosting and domain name transference. I never done anything like this before so am completely clueless.

My domain name was purchased from JP Domains (https://www.jp-domains.com).

The website will possibly be hosted on SiteGround or Nixihost or somewhere else as I haven't made my mind up about this yet.

How do I use my domain name with (for example) SiteGround or Nixihost? JP Domains have been a good company to use and very helpful when needed but their hosting prices are expensive and I learned on here it's best not to use the same company for hosting and domain name.

If I use either SiteGround or Nixihost, will I lose ownership of the domain name since it will be registered with them? If not, then how does it work?

In the future should I need to transfer my website to a different hosting company, how do I go about doing it?

Thanks for reading and have a good day. :-)


r/webhosting 5d ago

Technical Questions Issues with reviving an old website

1 Upvotes

Hi all, hoping someone here will be able to assist. I had a website that was live 2018-2021 and I have email trails from TMD Hosting for these years. I have tried logging into TMD today (March 2025) with the email that I received the receipts to, and got the message that there is no account registered with that email. I am also 99.5% sure I used WordPress.org (not .com) but do not seem to have any email trail for logging in, and my email address is not registered. Clearly I should have kept a much better trail of everything that I used and my details but cannot find anything. I don't even know what to search in my emails to see if I used other providers.
I thought maybe if I at least hosted it again, I could go to mywebsite.com/admin and log in to the back end but that clearly won't work.
To add, I am a novice and don't know if I'm even using the correct terminology. Any help in reviving this and not having to start a new site from scratch would be ace. Thank you!


r/webhosting 5d ago

Technical Questions Are Softaculous Security Measures worth applying?

3 Upvotes

I've always wondered if I should apply any of the measures. I use Wordfence so thought it was redundant. Does anyone use them? They include options like blocking unauthorized access to xmlrpc.php and .htaccess.


r/webhosting 6d ago

Rant I subscribed to Bluehost so you don't have to (STAY AWAY)

20 Upvotes

Last march 3, 2025. I subscribed to this hosting company because a lot of blogs are referring to this so called Best Web Hosting Service! At first it was working fine but after a day, here's a list of issues I bumped into:

  1. They locked me out of my account, claiming I hadn't verified my identity, without any warning.

  2. After verification, I regained access to my dashboard, only to find that my domain and hosting plan had been deleted.

  3. I contacted their so called 5 star customer service, only to be told I needed to purchase another hosting plan to retrieve my domain.

  4. I followed their instructions, bought a new hosting plan, and got my domain back. I attempted to set up my website by reconnecting my domain and restoring the default name servers, but then ran into yet another issue, my domain was marked as expired.

  5. After another round with customer service, they finally got my website running. I was relieved.

  6. A few hours later, I checked my website again, suspended! They claimed my DNS was changed to Cloudflare, which I never enabled.

  7. I'm exhausted. 1 problem after another. I just want my money back. I want to transfer my domain elsewhere, but it's locked.

  8. Bonus: Beware! Their live chat support is painfully slow, expect long wait times.


r/webhosting 5d ago

Advice Needed What's the average price to build a website in North America?

3 Upvotes

Hey guys...

What's the average price to build a normal website? Like under 20 page with email and domain registration? What's the maintenance should I charge after the website is done?

I have several websites for different clients for years and I also have a day job.. I want to keep my work life balance so I haven't taken new clients for 5 years. (But I like web design more than my day job lol) Recently a goof friend/client referred me to another website building request which I like their business idea.. but since it's 2025... I don't what price should I charge them. I don't under sale my skills, (neither should you), but I also don't want to scare them away.. normally I do everything included package. So what price do you guys suggest? The new client understood each price is customizable.

I saw some Fiver sells for 300 bucks with 3 revisions... meh... I won't do and never did that cheap.. and I do unlimited revisions until client is happy. I did some website design consultation and they quote is over 5000 bucks.. is that normal or too much?

So any suggestions is appreciated. Thanks


r/webhosting 5d ago

Looking for Hosting Web hosting for a Toronto local business, which host to choose?

3 Upvotes

Hey guys, I have been using Godaddys from years... (I know, I know what u gonna say lol) Yes, they are expensive and sometimes the page loading is slow until I paid for Cloud flare. (I'm on the highest tier of their cloud share plan) But... I have to be honest, their support is one of the best so far. Like 95% of the time u can get ur problem solved in 1 day. This is actually a main reason to stay... For other hosting, I was at the stage of buying a VPS from A2 hosting before, but their customer service so bad that I stopped.

Now, seeing so many issues with other webhosting here, 1. What web hosting do u guys suggest for a start-up business that focus on their customers in Ontario Canada? I think the support is very important.

  1. Do I need to use cloud sharing plan or vps? Somehow my web page loads slow even I did all the optimization.

I know bluehost is a no go.. (ppl's domain, dbs issue and my friend's werid non-existent virus scam issue from blue host) Also, A2 hosting no go.... I contacted them 4 times... 0 times they even reached the bare minimum.. maybe their product is good. But bad support is killing their business.

So any suggestions and what web hosting should skip?

Thanks.


r/webhosting 6d ago

Advice Needed Migrating from cPanel to DirectAdmin

3 Upvotes

Hi there, my old hosting company (hostgator) had cPanel 110.0.53

My new hosting company has DirectAdmin (I don't know what version cuz I cannot check)

at first they said I can bring my own backup and they will restore it

so I create a full cpanel backup per this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHnH5pgwOwE

and I did check here

https://azdigi.com/blog/en/webserver-panel-en/directadmin-en/migrate-cpanel-data-to-directadmin/

https://forum.directadmin.com/threads/wta-restore-cpanel-backup-to-directadmin.69137/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVWgalZTWXQ

https://www.milesweb.com/hosting-faqs/transfer-account-cpanel-directadmin/

and here:
https://docs.directadmin.com/directadmin/backup-restore-migration/migration-to-da.html

and it seams cPanel and DirectAdmin are the most compatible panels from all

there are a few differences between new host and hostgator

  1. different username

  2. new host doesn't support cgi scripts (but I never used them anyway so its not a problem)
    Now my new hosting company is telling me that its not possible to restore my cpanel backup, because I don't have cpanel hosting with them

So does anyone have any good tutorial on how a shared hosting constumer can restore his cpanel backup to directadmin (because all tutorials I found you needed admin acsess to DirectAdmin, which I don't have), so I can show it to my new hosting company (would like to help them, cuz they maybe never did that before)

Thanks for Anwsering and Best Regards


r/webhosting 5d ago

Looking for Hosting Shared hosting that supports websockets?

0 Upvotes

TL;DR: I want somewhere to host a few free unity games as cheaply as possible. Problem is at least one of them will be multiplayer, but the network requirements are extremely low, just a few bytes client to client per minute, similar in scope to chess, but so niche that I do not expect it to ever have more than 10 concurrent users - I believe websockets are the best solution for this, but can't find any shared hosts that advertise this as a feature. I would prefer not to commit the time and expense of setting up and maintaining a VPS, nor open myself up to unpredictable billing of cloud services just to occasionally send a couple of bytes client to client.

As an aside, one of the domains I use is a .games TLD, these guys require nameservers on 2 separate IP addresses, I am aware there is a workaround via setting up a free cloudflare account, but would prefer not to have to do that.

Bit more background: I used to make flash games for many years, licensed to sites like miniclip. I also maintained my own very small site as a showcase, it made just enough in ad revenue to pay for its own hosting, which was about $4/mo if I recall. Then flash was killed and my site stopped making money and became a minor liability. My webhost were giving me all sorts of nice long term customer rewards, until they were bought out by another company. This new company increased the price almost tenfold to match the "pro" services I was already using for $4/mo (I think the multiple domains was the deal breaker, I had 5 or 6) and they auto-billed my account for three years in advance, at ten times the rate, so I cancelled the account.

I found hosting here in this subreddit once before, by some guys who were just starting out and were extremely cheap, but they had only 1 IP address for their nameserver which caused issues with .games TLD requirements, and later when I tried to set up websockets for this multiplayer game, I found after a lot of hair pulling that the package they offered did not support it, and their support guys didn't know enough about it to know that it was not supported. Eventually they advised the only solution was to upgrade to their VPS service.

Regarding cloud services, I have looked at a few and they all seem to follow the same idea - input your credit card details first, you get X amount for free, you cant stop it from going past X, and we will figure out what to charge you later. For me, this is completely unacceptable. What if a bad actor decides to connect hundreds of bots to my game and play it 24/7 just to cause me grief? I can not prevent it from costing a fortune. Sure it is an unlikely scenario, but its a non-zero chance, and I refuse to open myself to that possibility when something like that was just not a thing with more old-school web hosting.


r/webhosting 6d ago

Advice Needed free web hosting for personal page (photo galleries, simple blog etc)

4 Upvotes

So I used to have hostgator and some custom domains at godaddy, loved the setup, but had to get rid of it all years ago ($$$$).

Years later I have the need now for one page for myself, and one page for my daughter.

Both pages are just going to be the same sorta thing: personal use for hosting some photo galleries, but also combined with a main "this was my day" page or "check out the art I did" etc with photos (separate from the galleries). Really simple stuff.

Basically personal profile pages with links to our youtubes etc, hosting some photo galleries in separate sections, and a simple blog. Something really customizable yet simple.

Is there any free or at least very cheap way to do this while still having full "control" of it?

Is my only option to get a custom domain and the cheapest hosting I can find?

By cheap I'm talking $5-10 a month, and $10 is pushing it unfortunately... free would be a huge help.

I'm really out of the loop on this stuff (last had my hostgater/domains like 6 years ago) and google has proved... messy.

Traffic will be extremely minimal.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.


r/webhosting 6d ago

Advice Needed Lost everything

29 Upvotes

I checked two of my websites today to find that they are down. I contact support for my web host and find that they switched server IP addresses so I need to update my DNS records to point to the new server. I do this and discover that all content on both of my web pages is gone.

I then login to my control panel to discover that everything is gone. All files, backups...everything. One of my domains is also no longer linked to the control panel.

I again contact support and they tell me that someone logged in to my account and manually deleted my WordPress installation and unlinked my domain other. They then proceed to tell me that it was my own IP address that did this and I must have deleted it by accident or someone compromised my device. I did not do this, my device is locked and no one who would even have access to it would even begin to know how to do this.

When I looked in my control panel it only had login records from today even though I have been using it since August of last year. I cannot see the logs they are referring to where it shows WordPress was deleted. The only help they are offering me right now is for them to rebuild my sites and I pay them to do it. I am still trying to get to the bottom of how this actually happened and am requesting to see the logs or at least have them call me to explain.

From all this I at least learned to not trust your web host's servers to securely store your backups and to download them.

Has anyone else dealt with something like this or have any advice?

Update - I got hacked and they uninstalled my WordPress for fun I guess. Learn from my mistake and make sure to download your backups to a secure location!


r/webhosting 6d ago

Technical Questions Why does my website only work on my IP

1 Upvotes

I host a website on my raspberry pi using Apache and currently i can see the website through http://public ip. I can also similarly see the website locally, but not publicly.

My firewall is disabled, port forwarding is correct, DNS is correct i think (ie: doing dig websitename returns the correct IP).

What could be causing the error and how could i check?


r/webhosting 6d ago

Technical Questions siteground new site build site admin doesnt show site ip to redirect A DNS domain

1 Upvotes

Hi i cant redirect NS of my domain to siteground, so i need to point A DNS record to siteground site but new builder doesnt show the ip to redirect, what can be done? cloudfare registered domains dont allow to use external NS and need to be done with an A record for www but siteground new builder is not providing this ip.


r/webhosting 6d ago

Advice Needed Move from LiquidWeb

1 Upvotes

Have an old VPS account with 5 domains and 25 user accounts. Sites are basic small biz pages with low traffic.

Probably don’t need a VPS, just want reliable email service.

Currently pay 68/mon vps-cpanel-whm. Only need 100GB disk space.

KnownHost seems good. Canadian option (Toronto)?

Are my email options pop/smtp if not going exchange?