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Hello all,

Prices are no longer sustainable for me with Cpanel and I'm looking for alternatives. The most important feature that I'm looking for is native linux isolation rather than external add-on or dependency. I found a few options but I would also love to hear suggestions. Thanks.

I wanted to host my simple website. Usually any host will do but I decided to search it up on reddit to find some honest opinions. But I then went through a rabbit hole. I discovered r/webhosting and I found their FAQ where they listed 5 hosting providers. I was overjoyed. I was happy I found some good providers. But then I clicked on one of them and it turned out that they had a special referral for reddit users. I clicked on some others. 4/5 of the providers turned out to be referral links. Now that does not mean that those providers are bad. It just means that the opinions of those mods can't be trusted anymore because they gain something from you using those providers. So I have 0 options left. I usually go to Reddit to find honest opinions of people working in the industry but if that can't be trusted then there's no place left to go to. I'm tired of people advertising EVERYWHERE. So I know this question gets asked a lot here and I'm sorry to be the thousandth person to ask but... What is a good provider that is actually legit? I have no problem paying a little bit more if it means I pay for transparency and good service. Thanks to all answers in advance!

I feel like comparing hosting providers gets complicated pretty quickly once you move past basic VPS plans.

Server specs and monthly price are easy enough to compare, but then there’s bandwidth, network locations, hardware availability, support, provisioning time, cloud options, CDN, and how painful it would be to scale later.

For people managing production workloads, what do you usually check first?

Do you prefer providers that offer most of the infrastructure stack in one place, or is it better to use separate companies for servers, cloud and CDN?

Hey people!

Curious what everyone here is using. Are you going with Vercel, Supabase, Render, AWS, your own VPS or something else?

Has managing the infrastructure been a headache at all for people who are non technical and just want to build or has it been pretty straightforward?

How much are you paying for your setup, and do you think it's worth the cost?