Website Hosts for Personal Use - Which Are the Best?

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Pokemonquistador2

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Just cancelled my current webhost for charging me up the arse . Hoping to find something cheaper with cheap domain name and SSL Certificate. Any recommendations?
 
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Namecheap is dirt-cheap around holidays and reasonably fast for us traffic, from Europe their response times go downhill but it's still usable. SSL certificates are free for a year if you have the domain with them prices through their partner comodo are also cheap as fuck.
Ionos has great speeds from Europe and is fully compliant if you need that, though you don't need that for something personal.
 
SSL is free if you use LetsEncrypt but you probably need a vps.
Github pages is free if you have a static website.
Vultr for VPSs unless you want to use Null's 1776
 
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I like the sentiment shilling 1776, but probably not the best idea here. I question it actually being "cheaper", given it's... Specialization. Plus I could have sworn that a few MATIs back, Null said he might have to stop 1776. I think the reason was the downtime affecting the farms was creating enough issues upstream that he couldn't guarantee service for himself much less anyone else.

OP, details on what you're at right now? What are you paying, and what kind of hosting do you need? WordPress, Shared, VPS? Are you smart enough to run let's encrypt to get a free ssl certificate?
 
njal.la if "owning" the domain isent important to you, and you get better anonymity protection
 
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SSL is free if you use LetsEncrypt but you probably need a vps.
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Namecheap is dirt-cheap around holidays and reasonably fast for us traffic, from Europe their response times go downhill but it's still usable. SSL certificates are free for a year if you have the domain with them prices through their partner comodo are also cheap as fuck.
Ionos has great speeds from Europe and is fully compliant if you need that, though you don't need that for something personal.
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Namecheap does not support Let's Encrypt. You can rig it, but it is annoying and not simple. They sell certs instead, and, even after many years of cajoling, cannot be moved to add LE support. The speed of their cheap plans are only so-so. Not great, but decent enough to not drive you mad. Unlike say a2hosting with their limit of 1mbps filesystem speeds on even their business accounts.

In the past I've had good luck with Stablehost for cheap hosting. Their inclusion of Litespeed servers on even the cheapest plans made for very fast caching on site frontend.
 
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Best host for a personal site? Depending on how much traffic; Self hosting.
If the ISP doesn't allow self hosting? Self hosting on Tor or I2P. (ISP cannot detect/prove that the user is self hosting.)

...In B4 Mencius Moldbug shows up in this thread to push his paypig dark web software. "Oy vey! Gimme ten dollahs, goy!"
 
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You're going to get a lot of different answers for this and some of them might not work for you. So we'll need more information. Is it just a bunch of static HTML, or does it use an app doing server-side rendering? How much traffic are you expecting? How are your technical skills? Does your site have anything that might get you kicked off for promoting wrongthink? What types of payment methods do you prefer? Domains are cheap as long as you aren't picky about the top-level domain. SSL certs are free from Let's Encrypt but they have 90-day expirations so you need a way to automate the renewal and deployment.
 
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Thanks for the help. I just want to post a few images of of my paintings -basically have something to point to when friends and interested people say they want to see more of my work. I want something with a little class (otherwise I could just post the entire mess at DeviantArt.) Don't think I need an online store of any kind since I'm mostly a hobby painter. I miss the days when things used to be simple. You'd buy webspace, get an FTP program, and upload your shit without any trouble. Now you need Apache Protocol Support, and you need to pay for SSL Encryption/a domain name, if you're allergic to programming. I don't feel like going through all of the trouble and expense for something not full-time business-related.
 
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