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riquisimo

I'm looking to migrate our website domains to services not owned by google/squarespace, and our web host to something cheaper than bluehost.

It's just a simple wordpress website for a card game, Penguinslap.com. We don't really get any traffic at all. Very occasionally we make a sale, and those links redirect to a PayPal site.

Any suggestions?

#webhosting#domainnames#websites
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Alison Meeks

OK so this wasn't me but my heart is pounding like it was. I just found out a colleague had their hosting hacked (all their clients sites) because someone else on the box was hacked.
Now I'm no security expert but I'm damned sure every client's site should be secure and independent from every other account and my over all space should be independent from every other client on the box.

Unimpressed squirrel is not impressed. Photo of squirrel with arms crossed.
#webhosting
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Linux Is Best

This is how you run a Fedi website outside Us Jurisdiction.

mk.absturztau.be = Domain (.be) name is Belgium, while hosted in Switzerland, and the hosting provider is governed under the laws of Switzerland.

mastodon.au = Domain (.au) name is Australia, while hosted in Australia, and the hosting provider is governed under the laws of Australia.

Remember, Dot Com, Net, Org, Info, Us, and Edu is governed by the United States of America. Most word-based domain names, for example, Dot Social, managed by Corporations within the USA.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Misskey #DomainName #Domain #WebHosting

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Douglas

I'm thinking again about ditching #DreamHost for some other #WebHosting provider. The service has been fine (I've been with them for ~15 years) but it's pretty expensive for my use case (relatively low traffic WordPress and static websites but with many gigabytes of photos, and an email server)

I could easily use 500gb of storage. Currently I'm limited to 120gb (I'm on a VPS) and it's stymied me posting more on my blog

I'm not even sure if I need a VPS anymore. Maybe I could go back to shared?

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Philip Kiff

For many years, my business was also a happy customer of PriorityColo colocation services in Toronto. If you need that kind of dedicated or colocated data centre service, you will appreciate their professionalism. They get a strong thumbs up from me.

prioritycolo.com/

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Priority Colo Inc.PriorityColoWe offer cost effective Colocation, Dedicated Servers, and related services utilizing our own highly redundant infrastructure, personnel, and procedures developed over our many years of experience
#BuyCanadian#WebHosting#Colocation
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Philip Kiff

Looking for Canadian VPS or web hosting services?

I began exclusively using servers physically located in Canada since the Patriot Act in 2001. I've tried half a dozen different providers since then. Here are two I recommend:

4GoodHosting based in Vancouver [1]

CanSpace with servers outside of Montreal [2]

Aside from being a customer, I have no business or personal affiliation with either.

[1] 4goodhosting.com/

[2] canspace.ca/

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4goodhosting.com4GoodHosting Even the best designed and built websites are nothing without quality web hosting, and for Canadian web hosting you’re in the best of hands with 4GoodHosting. you have the best in pricing AND reliability right here and that’s as it should be for business owners.
#BuyCanadian#WebHosting#Canada
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Linux Is Best

I removed, OVH from my list of recommended providers.

Why?

OVH previously only resold servers in the United States, with their datacenters and business offices overseas in France. Today, OVH is under direct Us Jurisdiction, even redirecting their traffic to their American site us.ovhcloud.com and their terms of services outline an address in the USA, plus they're hiring for their own datacenter in the USA, and lastly in the footer of the website it now reads, "Copyright ©2025 OVH US LLC"

#Ovh#WebHosting#OvhCloud
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Linux Is Best

I removed, OVH from my list of recommended providers.

Why?

OVH previously only resold servers in the United States, with their datacenters and business offices overseas in France. Today, OVH is under direct Us Jurisdiction, even redirecting their traffic to their American site us.ovhcloud.com and their terms of services outline an address in the USA, plus they're hiring for their own datacenter in the USA, and lastly in the footer of the website it now reads, "Copyright ©2025 OVH US LLC"

#Ovh #WebHosting #OvhCloud #UsJurisdiction

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