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You need to update your DNS MX record to point at the Hostgator server that your email resides.

https://www.godaddy.com/help/add-an-mx-record-19234

You can check out your MX record with tools like this: https://mxtoolbox.com

You need a DNS service, you can't just forward the domain to the IP and expect it to work properly. That is what a DNS server/service does. Resolve names to IP numbers.

You can use Google DNS service: https://cloud.google.com/dns/docs/

Or any DNS service you want.

One free: https://freedns.afraid.org/

Or CloudFlare, also free.

Then create an A record to your external IP address.

Digitalocean for 5usd/month and you install the VPS with the pre made OpenVPN template, should work.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-an-openvpn-server-on-ubuntu-14-04

Digital Ocean

I only swing by this subreddit every so often, but I find it very strange that DO is almost never mentioned, while it's by far the most loved in all the others I frequent.

I'm running several servers at Digital Ocean and I'm very happy with them. Their support is friendly and responsive and the have a lot of good tutorials and pre-made images.

If you use my referral link you'll get 10$ in credits, which will last you 2 months on the smallest instance (5$/month):

• 512MB Ram
• 1 CPU
• 20GB harddrive space
• 1000GB transfer

https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=4d68250d694f

If you seriously consider gandi.net as a registrar, be sure to carefully read their General Service Conditions.

In particular, read the part that forbids various legal activity that most other registrars would allow, such as "activity or Content of racist, xenophobic, or negative character".

Hi!

I had to use their support twice in about a 4 month period, once due to an outage in one of their datacenters (was fixed in like 1 hour) and once because one of my droplets was unresponsive. In both cases I had a response in under 15 minutes through their ticketing system that was personal and understanding. Much, much better then I was used to.

In regards to hosting / experience required, their images include one with a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) that you can deploy straight away, or WordPress. I dare say even my mom would be able to get a website running over it.

Now the main reason I use DO and keep using them all the freaking time is this:

• You pay per hour. If you want to experiment with something you easily do this at the "cost" of a few cents, then remove the server again when you're done. It's delicious.

• The first month (or 5$) is free if you signup using a referal link (like mine) (not sure if it works without a ref link). All you need is an email address and a password and you can experiment away.

• Their knowledge database is f'ing massive. Seriously. Even people (including myself in the past) who use other VPS providers come to DigitalOcean for tutorials and how-to's.

Basically there is zero risk in trying. I would definitely try first before switching. It's free for the first 5$ worth of testing so you can see if you like it. I'll be happy to help you out if you have any questions. :) goodluck!

It's certainly a good idea to set up SSL for them, there's almost no downside aside from the initial set up. You can use Let's Encrypt to get free SSL certificates.

You'll need to configure them each manually unless you're using a control panel that has a section to set it up for you.

If you are using the smallest droplet you may need to make sure that swap is setup or the kernel will shut down services (like the web server) when memory is fully.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-space-on-ubuntu-16-04

This is only if you need it. As the article points out, swap on SSD can cause problems in the long run. I've never had issues with it personally.

First of all, congratulations on your growing website! You shouldn't complicate things until you actually need to. I'm not sure what you use to run your blog, but I'm going to assume it's WordPress. For the amount of readers you stated, shared hosting is more than enough provided that you are not using tons of plugins and resources in the background. From my own experience, IPB has always been optimized well so you will not run into any issues with hosting them on a shared hosting service too.

You are probably not going to need anything like a VPS or dedicated server unless your whole setup requires a lot of resources to run. As for SSD hosting, it's a type of service where your data is hosted on a specific type of storage. This should give you a good idea on what it is on the context of web hosting.

If you know how to setup a basic CMS (ghost, WordPress, et cetera) I would go for a vps and set it up there, contabo have some very good prices (11€ for 400gb ssd, 6 cores, 16GB ram and 300/300 shared connection type of good) that would be more than enough for your use, they have cheaper options too that would be good to start and later upgrade to a bigger one if necessary.

If you don't know how to setup a CMS (Content Management System) I can recommend webflow (a bit expensive for your use case) the official WordPress hosting plans, or if you want to get your hands dirty Silex can be good for you, or any other hosting provider offering a free website builder, I think dynadot has one (but you will need to buy/transfer the domain to them I think, but if I ware you I would get my domain as far away from godady as possible)

You should probably contact the potential host first. A lot of it will depend on how all the parts work together - for example, will you need to use something like system to do the LaTeX document creation? Many hosts will block this for security reasons. Also, how much CPU/RAM will these processes take up?

You can always look into colocation, which is basically renting space inside the hosts data center for your own equipment - in which case they provide power, network, cooling, etc and you can do whatever you like on the hardware.

Honestly, if you don't want to waste time building/managing a site and web server, consider just signing up for Wordpress.com so all of the web server management is offloaded and you can focus on traveling and blogging.

The problem is going to be keeping these on 'standby' because the provider will still incur charges to store your data even if it's not in use.

You could always look at getting a VPS from one of the many providers, install the game servers yourself and simply keep them off, or firewall blocked until you need them. That may be your cheapest route but will require some technical know-how on using / configuring a server.

Could perhaps even use https://linuxgsm.com/ or similar.

If you search for reviews, most of them are affiliates i.e. get paid to write reviews. There are a few good host that are around. I have been using Digital Ocean and also TD Web Services - what I like with both of them is the clarity of service and pricing.

Digital Ocean is unmanaged - VM's ONLY. Whereas TD Web Services will give you everything from a Shared Hosting right to a Private Cloud. So you can scale with them.

There are other companies, they advertise one price and at the time of checkout, you are shown a completely different price. I DO NOT like companies who are not transparent with their pricing.

To Conclude, for me a good alternative to GoDaddy and other has been TD Web Services.

> Our company policy, combined with experience, technical professionalism and time-tested arrangements with data centers guarantee that all data on our servers is fully protected from intervention by authorities

• going by this, the actual server locations are probably a closely guarded secret, hidden by proxies for anyone (like law enforcement agencies?) trying to trace the servers actual location, much like https://thepiratebay.org

You should buy a single domain(this is called root domain). blog.mydomain.com is referred as subdomain (for eg if you start a blog using blogspot/blogger you will get your address as blog.blogspot.com). mydomain.com/blog is nothing but a subfolder. for eg if you create a page named blog then it will be mydomain.com/blog. if still confused, Moz gives a well detailed information regarding this. you can read this article from Moz.com

Give a try on Digital Ocean! They offer VPS with SSD in all plans. I'm quite happy with their services.

A server with 16GB of ram costs $160/mo with them, but you can pay hourly at $0.23 rate. :)

If you use my referal link (https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=0052dd3737af) you earn a $10 credit to test their service.

No referal link: https://www.digitalocean.com

> 50gb

Cheapest,

https://www.ramnode.com/vps.php

• RAM: 128MB
• VSWAP 64 MB
  
• CPU: 1 Core
  
• IPv4: 1
• IPv6: /64
• Disk Space: 80 GB
• Bandwidth: 500 GB /month
• Cost: 15 / yr
• Data Centers in: NYC / ATL / SEA / LA / NL

Now,

Besides disk, you need to consider data transfer. Here it's 500GB per month.

If you're going to need more, you might need a bigger plan or a different company.

 

DigitalOcean

• RAM: 8GB
• CPU: 4 Core
• Disk space: 80GB
• Bandwidth: 5TB per month
• Cost: $80 / month

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/

Hmm. So (using your method) I would have an:

A record for mydomain.com with value 1.2.3.4, and a

CNAME for vps.mydomain.com, and sub.mydomain.com, with value mydomain.com.

I found a few reference to this thread: http://serverfault.com/questions/18000/dns-subdomains-that-require-both-an-mx-record-and-a-cname

But as my MX is a different host, I don't think that limitation is applicable.

Stumped for now..

Or get a free one from Let's Encrypt like most sane people would these days. All paid certificates I've had in the past were for domain.com AND the www subdomain: www.domain.com.

The following page indicates that Ionos provides free certificates:

https://www.ionos.com/help/websites-stores/set-up-wordpress-at-11-ionos/enabling-an-ssl-certificate-for-your-managed-wordpress-website/

Did you try them out?

Depends what you mean by "best", are you looking for low price, high performance, generous ToS... or just plain and simple privacy and some anonymity?

Me personally, I use 99Stack Cloud as they accept not just Bitcoin but also Monero, and most important, the only personal information required was a email address and country.

Generally speaking tho, no matter where you go, make sure you check out terms of service as security testing and practice may cause some trouble.

If talking about second reason (price) then GoDaddy single domain hosting price is the lowest compared to Hostgator.

I found GoDaddy Economy Web Hosting package is available at only $1 per month for first year purchase at http://www.retailmenot.com and http://www.cheapsslcouponcode.com

If talking about features then :

GoDaddy comes with 100 GB storage, unlimited bandwidth, 100 email addresses and free domain with annual plan whereas Hostgator comes with unlimited disk space & bandwidth as well as shared SSL Certificate.

SSD VPS is quite faster as compared to the usual VPS with HDDs. Having a HDD vps is like using a 10 years old computer while you can get the power of SSD for the same price, sometimes cheaper. With SSD VPS, cPanel installation takes only 20 minutes, while with normal HDDs, it may take more than an hour.

For information on VPS Cloud please check this page - https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-cloud.xml

or contact the support team at OVH.

Actually, it's still not good! Many of the bad reviews on Yelp, etc. are because 1and1 has been known to try and bill people after they cancel.

There are much better deals out there - try looking at some shared web hosting deals on lowendbox.com - those cost less than $1/mo for a starter shared cPanel account (not a VPS).

And if you're doing it for learning, you can just try something like a free https://pages.github.com/ site.

github pages would be perfect for you when it comes to static html, github have a simple tutorial for how to get started with that here.

However it wont work for a forum, I am guessing this forum is PHP based?

Even if it's own box, I like using a VM.

The reason being that you can take snapshots, creating images is easier, and if it fails, moving it to a new box is simply a matter of installing the hypervisor, moving the files and starting the VM.

Now, how to do it?

There are tons of guides online. Here's one, https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-on-ubuntu-14-04

Cheers

If you can convince him to not use WordPress, then you could probably get away with something under $10 a month.

It sounds like static HTML sites might be good enough here. Something like Get-Simple CMS would also work. There's really no reason to use WordPress, it just adds bloat, slows stuff down, and is often a security nightmare.

> if i get 50GB reseller, then i resell SSD within that 50GB? so for example i can sell 10x5GB=50GB ? > or every customer get 50GB?

if i get 50GB reseller, then i resell SSD within that 50GB? so for example i can sell 10x5GB=50GB ? or every customer get 50GB?

That WHMCS 15.95$/month? https://www.whmcs.com/pricing/ more then server :D

Thank you.

I ended up going with reseller, specifically digital ocean as they had a whmcs plugin.

It turns out virtualizor has one as well so this was very helpful! http://www.virtualizor.com/wiki/WHMCS_Module_to_create_Reseller_Accounts

You want to become a reseller? Or own your own infrastructure and sell VPS from it.

If you want to become a reseller then there is a lot of companies, Softlayer, SingleHop, VPS.net etc.

If you want to own your own "Cloud" WHMCS and Cloud Reselling is quite complex. You can use SolousVM or there is Virtualizor (http://www.virtualizor.com/) - but these are mostly for VPS NOT Cloud.

Cloud goes beyond VPS/VM. There are a lot of things you can do in Cloud, for instance develop a cluster, have various compute node using a single storage. etc. So, when there are multiple compute node sharing the same storage, you will be able to move your VM's without any hassle - else you need to copy the whole image across.

You can create a network for load balancing etc.

Then come IP management etc. If you are looking for all these features then you are looking at Apache CloudStack or OpenStack. Unfortunately I am not sure if they are integrated with WHMCS.

Let me know if you need further clarification.

linode.com or digitalocean.com they both have the infrastructure and api's for scaling up and down and needed. I use linode for my own hosting and several clients. I've also heard good things about digitalocean.com. Sign up and evaluate both and then allow your sysadmin to chose.

Thanks for your reply. You mean this right? Would I need anything else for my other requirements, e.g. my audio files?

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Would I save a lot by opting for AWS or Google Cloud instead?

Hi man! Brazilian here. :)

I'm quite happy with Digital Ocean - they have VMs starting in $5 dollars. For my personal projects I have 2 small machines (so, 10 dollars/mo). Basically they run some websites, around 1k visits/day. The stack I use is nginx + php (fastcgi) + mariadb - for wordpress hosting and nginx + uwsgi + python (flask) + redis - for my python based projects. If you sign-up, use this link with my referal - https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=0052dd3737af

I also recommend you to add Cloudflare to your stack, their free plan is awesome for small volume sites and can deacrease a lot the load in the backend. https://www.cloudflare.com/

Ok, in that case nevermind. You can't install Vanrish on a shared hosting unless you get your hoster to do it for you. W3 Super Cache is indeed a viable solution in that case. And maybe think about using https://www.cloudflare.com as a caching layer and you might stand a chance.

Here's a tutorial for installing Wordpress on a droplet: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-wordpress-with-lamp-on-ubuntu-18-04

Do you really need cPanel? It seems like overkill for a single website.

Some tips:

On most file managers (not Windows though, because it's basic), you can type sftp://server.ip in the location bar to connect to your server and move files around. It's like FTP but not horribly insecure. There are programs such as WinSCP for connecting from Windows.

For SSL, don't bother moving your certificate. Once Apache is setup, use CertBot to automatically install a new certificate that will auto-renew. This page gives you the exact commands you can type to make that happen. DigitalOcean also has tutorials for it.

The Linux terminal isn't difficult, just different. I used to hate it, but now I find myself opening a terminal on my desktop instead of using a GUI file manager or text editor. It's faster and more efficient.

This company started with solving your exact problem (static site on git repo, just need hosting) but it's super bloated now. It should still be useful in your case, though: https://www.netlify.com/products/build/

If you can swing it, static JAMStack stuff like https://www.netlify.com/ is great these days. I’ve not done it myself but apparently some people still do stuff like use Wordpress and have it compile down to a static site. But there’s plenty of other options like ghost and gatsby. Works great for hand-coded stuff too.

I'd say if it's new then definitely start out with shared. A lot of people over estimate how difficult it can be to start an online community and get a lot of traffic to it. I wouldn't commit to very long terms, maybe a year max since a lot of shared providers offer steep discounts for paying yearly. I'm sure someone else can recommend a good shared provider but sadly I work in the VPS/Dedicated space and really don't dabble too much on the shared side of things. Just avoid EIG brands & Godaddy. Look for those who give defined resources, unlimited may sound good but very often a lot of things are hidden in the terms of service that limit and restrict you.

Also check out Xenforo's on forums, https://xenforo.com/community/ you can poll current users to see who they might recommend.

Good luck!

If you're sending out newsletters I would recommend using one of the newsletter platforms out there if not what you're looking for is a "transactional email provider" we use SendGrid and Mailgun for several large and mid-size Discourse communities.

nope, canceled it 24 august (2 months ago), and made a deal with cloudatcost (an obscure hosting provider/datacenter in Canada) for them to buy this guy https://www.amazon.ca/Lenovo-ThinkCentre-Dual-Core-Processor-Refurbished/dp/B07G4LVZQZ and host it "indefinitely" with a dedicated ip for $999-one-time-fee ^^

probably not a good trade, it would take 6 years to rack up $999 worth of bills on the worldstream-offer, but now i don't have to worry about forgetting to pay a renewal fee, or something like that, which is nice. and who knows, maybe i actually need it for over 6 years, idk.