Looking for alternative Hosting ideas.

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Peterae

Looking for alternative Hosting ideas. « on: 2026-08-15, 16:38:19 »

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Soon we will be renewing our hosting package, we are currently EUKhost, i would like to see if anyone has ideas where we could move to, we have just under 20GB data attachments.
We currently pay around £150 a year for hosting and Certificate.

It would also be great to upgrade the forum software at the same time.

So looking for options, also the UK and EU are restricting free speech to also needs to be taken into account, freedom of speech within reason etc.

Verpies	Re: Looking for alternative Hosting ideas. « Reply #1 on: 2026-08-16, 06:03:26 »
Group: Administrator Hero Member Posts: 4865	A shared hosting (not a VPS server, which would be better) costs this much per year here: `25GB £26 50GB £52 100GB £103 200GB £206` These are promotional prices till the end of the month (without VAT).

Magluvin	Re: Looking for alternative Hosting ideas. « Reply #2 on: 2026-08-16, 18:48:08 »
Group: Mad Scientist Hero Member Posts: 1247	would it be cheaper and maybe better to host here in the US? mags

webby1	Re: Looking for alternative Hosting ideas. « Reply #3 on: 2026-08-17, 09:52:05 »
Newbie Posts: 38	I use namecheap for mine. https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/shared/?purchase_type=paid&period=p2y

JimBoot	Re: Looking for alternative Hosting ideas. « Reply #4 on: 2026-08-19, 03:10:33 »
Group: Tinkerer Hero Member Posts: 1956	I use digital ocean for my AI servers. More exe than what your looking at $240/y. Can I suggest fronting it with the free CF version. You'll have bot control, caching, ddos protection for free.

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Re: Looking for alternative Hosting ideas. « Reply #5 on: 2026-08-19, 09:46:56 »

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Quote from: JimBoot on 2026-08-19, 03:10:33

I use digital ocean for my AI servers. More exe than what your looking at $240/y. Can I suggest fronting it with the free CF version. You'll have bot control, caching, ddos protection for free.

What NV storage limit ?
What RAM limit ?
What inode limit ?
What CPU limit ?
What speed limit?
What bandwidth limit?
What I/O limit ?
What Entry Processes limit ?
What NPROC limit ?
What backup frequency ?
What database engines and PHP interpreters are provided ?
How many cron jobs are allowed ?
Is sendmail allowed ?
Is SSH access allowed ?

How much is it?

Looking for alternative Hosting ideas.

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e2matrix	Re: Looking for alternative Hosting ideas. « Reply #6 on: 2026-08-27, 15:48:31 »
Sr. Member Posts: 394	I've used spaceship.com which is likely the lowest price and has extremely good AI help for setup. I would also highly recommend cloudflare.com as it is huge, always improving and also has some of the best prices around.

Peterae

Re: Looking for alternative Hosting ideas. « Reply #7 on: 2026-08-28, 11:53:20 »

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Cheers guys

I'm looking and Mulling things over. Still not sure yet.

I've had some pretty bad things happen in the past, our original hosting company was in US and they went bust, couldn't get hold of anyone, they disappeared over night, couldn't log in to domain name or hosting, luckily they sold their customers to another company and eventually managed to transfer out.
I then split the domain and hosting to different US companies, then some strange things started happening, i think it was hostgator, i couldnt reach the website from the UK, having done a trace route i was being blocked from accessing the website to even managed it, Hostgator couldnt resolve the problem as the website was working but just not for me or parts of Europe, so ended up moving to UK hosting, luckily the UK hosting company was able to transfer everything as i still could not reach the website.

I dont see a problem with shared hosting, that is what we've always had.