There seems to be a lot of options when it comes to companies to host with. Anyone have a favorite they’d rec to someone or companies to avoid?

Or, alternatively, anyone have recommendations for things to host? Things you’re glad your self-hosting or glad you aren’t self-hosting?

  • poVoq
    2•3 years ago

    Self-hosting from home is very much possible with many ISPs and a dynDNS service (1984.is is nice and free and also has good prices for international domain names).

    As for VPS hosting: I used ovh and netcup (tip: around easter they always do massive discounts) in the past and both are ok, but you get what you pay for… VPS hardware over-provisioning and fine-print hidden traffic throttling etc.

      • poVoq
        1•3 years ago

        I think so, yes. But their 1984.is site can also be switched to english (press the flag twice).

          • poVoq
            1•3 years ago

            The dynDNS is free. You mean getting a DNS name with them? Their hosting offers are not especially good and more geared towards the Islandic Icelandic market.

              • poVoq
                1•3 years ago

                Sorry, misspelling based on non-English name of the country.

                They make a strong commitment about privacy on their website, but Iceland isn’t part of the EU, so GDPR doesn’t apply. In how far the Icelandic privacy laws are good I can’t say, but in general the government there is quite progressive and likely does care about privacy.