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Any multilingual (beyond PHP, NodeJS and Python) shared hosting?
ersauravadhikari
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Hi,
Most shared hosting providers offer cPanel/DirectAdmin/Plesk with PHP, Node.js, and Python support. But what about other modern languages like Go, Java, Rust, or Elixir? I'm particularly interested in Go for custom applications.
Traditional panels make sense for mainstream stacks (WordPress, etc.), but shared hosting has real advantages for early-stage projects:
- Managed server and hardening (the best aspect of it)
- Managed DNS and email
- Cost-effective for low-traffic apps
- Background processing (cron, workers, etc.)
I suspect demand is higher than providers realize as many developers use VPS not because it's better, but because it's often the only viable option besides platforms like Heroku/Railway.
I know APISCP (@apis) supports Go. What other shared hosting platforms offer true polyglot support with the convenience of traditional hosting?
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May use vps because it's better and easy ,
And one thing called freedom
Yeah, that is true in that VPS does give you much freedom.
But it is also a hassle to manage and maintain a server. Where some people see a case not to do so. Managed VPS servers are not cheap as well. Also Shared host gives you emails for basic transactional needs (which for VPS will have to purchase other services).
This is specially so when you are hosting something for your client. As managing server for them, regardless of how able you are is indeed an effort you need to do from your side, which if can be offloaded to a shared hosting provider would make it much more easier.
Hence, the question
The reason why shared hosting is so cheap is because it is an area with zero innovation and zero braincells required for the hosting provider: just pay $$$$$ to cPanel, have "magic" happen in the background, onsell capacity to clients, ???, profit.
Doing something new like Golang (which should be fairly easy considering you can have self-contained binaries, btw) is just too much effort for everyone involved. Unless you use a lazy hosting provider who has not locked down their server and you can upload and run random binaries. Which has been known to happen.
I also seriously question your characterization of Java as a "modern" language for web-facing stuff.
In any event, "managing" a VPS is not very difficult. Especially if you are doing it for clients, because then you can afford to spend time developing some management scripts to automate the process for you. It is not exactly hard to run a Debian-based OS, apply updates every month or so and have an automated script do backups. That's all the "management" you'll need, and that's all the "management" your Shared Hosting provider does anyway. They are certainly not looking at logs or manually patching vulns or anything of the sort.
Speaking for myself, I gave up on Shared Hosting maybe 3 months into my online journey after I read in my first host's AUP that I could not use rsync to upload files to their server. WTF was I supposed to be using then, TCP over Avian Carriers?
In regards to Java; Indeed my apologies; I meant to add it there as an alternate stack (not as modern; because Java does not indeed qualify for it).
As for VPS management, IMO it depends on cost. Wether you want to spend your time managing servers for your clients, and for what cost as well as how willing they are to pay for said service.
You do not want a single client's service to restrict other clients and you also do not want to do the security patches on many small VPSes, having a managed service does help with that a lot. Obviously docker does help with that, which I won't discount.
Although one might argue to use Ansible or something similar to manage a fleet of servers, which again adds on to the complexity of doing basic stuffs.
Having a shared hosting platform that I register in behalf of the client where I can just throw the build output to and have someone else manage the stuffs, including basic support makes sense in many cases.
Note: Client as in freelancing clients, for building software products.
Use shared host for basic email and vps for your needs.
I don't think you will need managed vps if you're just running simple website. Maintaining it is fairly simple. Just don't forget to backup.
Oh wait, you're reseller 🤣
It's your client's problem
The market has been dominated with Open-source techs with easier learning curve and PHP, Node, Python, Js etc easily fit here. Shared hosts are primarily for basic web apps with low spend and maintenance. So other languages aren't much popular amongst these.
With VPS you have more control so for your case it will suit you better.
For basic transactional needs you can opt for email service providers with free tiers like zohomail, mailjet etc.
VPS management is a valid point in that case you can have a look with cloudflare workers, pages, D1 database, email routing etc.
I believe, the proper method is to have your client informed of the pros and cons. Certain language have higher performance than most commonly supported language, but they aren't supported by shared hosting. Or using vps may help them scale when the the demand outgrew existing capacity.
Create Ansible Playbooks for your tasks and you won't need to spend any time managing servers.
There’s a shared hosting service that supports many different technologies:
https://www.hostuno.com/
Python, Ruby, Node, Perl, Java, TCL/TK, Lua, Erlang, Rust, Go, C, C++, D, R, PHP and many more.
FreeBSD*
Just got to know opalstack does this as well.