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Shared Hosting Recommendation
I'm seeking recommendations for reliable hosting providers to migrate several production WordPress/WooCommerce websites from my current VPS setup.
Current Setup:
VPS with Netcup managed through xCloud
Multiple WordPress/WooCommerce sites
Requirements:
Strong uptime record with UK-based servers
Reduced administrative overhead (managed services preferred)
Reliable backup solutions included
Suitable for production e-commerce environments
Hosting Type Consideration:
I'm open to shared hosting solutions, provided the provider maintains reasonable resource allocation without overselling their servers.
Proven track record with WordPress/WooCommerce
UK-based infrastructure for optimal local performance
Responsive technical support (when required, can't remember the last time I contacted one)
Transparent resource allocation policies
Managed backup and maintenance services
If you have experience with providers that meet these criteria, I'd greatly appreciate your recommendations and any insights about their performance, particularly regarding uptime and resource management.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
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@speedypage @NameCrane meet everything except that they are unmanaged
@NameCrane
I think we're managed in the way he needs.
For shared the host is always 'managing' the hardware/software, otherwise how else are things maintained?
The OP doesn't mention needing us to login and manage his WP/WC install and put products up, write posts, etc.
Francisco
yeah + you already got one button install for wordpress w/ softaculous and you can either buy crates or reseller package for better resource allocation per website
I have used @speedypage loved the free Bunny Addon, but moved due to a few issues early 2024. I am sure they have made a huge improvement since then.
@brixly after Dennis is a big no no, even though he is CXO there, saw a huge difference in support ticket quality and response when they migrated.
@NameCrane never used them, but thank you for the recommendations.
Do we know if @speedypage (now) or @NameCrane is using HA setup ? I guess i can reach out to their support and ask them question there too.
Honestly, after migrating the DA-DE2 node (from Hetzner) to their own equipment site, it works more stably than before (not because of hetz but because out-of-space errors on the old node). Anyway, I agree with you: high prices and poor support. So yeah, no-no.
Worth giving our shared hosting product line a fresh consideration if you’re open to other EU locations outside of the UK. We currently have Strasbourg and Frankfurt available, both very well-connected and solid choices network wise.
We recently rolled out our next-gen hosting platform. This project upgraded our entire shared/reseller hosting fleet to Ryzen 7950X processors with NVMe storage, all running on CloudLinux OS 9. The idea here is to deliver noticeably better performance and reliability, something our existing clients have already been enjoying across production workloads:
More details on what this next-gen platform means can be found in the above video or on this blog post:
https://blog.racknerd.com/racknerd-unveils-next-generation-shared-reseller-hosting-platform-powered-by-ryzen-nvme-and-cloudlinux-9/ -- and by the way, all new orders are already automatically being set up on the next-gen platform
You can't do HA with cPanel/DA. Maybe Enhance can do something like that, but past that our 'high availability' would be dual PSU's, RAID10's, etc.
Francisco
I am not an expert in cPanel/DA, but maybe install "shared server" in a big-big-big VM and do HA between nodes on Proxmox/Virtualizor level?
Hi,
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Namecrane is the way to go if your website is built with PHP and if you're looking for a faster CPU that is also quite cheap in a shared hosting environment.
I'm not sure if a NodeJS or Python app will work properly, but I don't recommend using it for a reverse proxy because it's gonna to crash a lot like what I experienced in the past.
NodeJS works great, usually just needs a few minor tweaks to the application.
Python I'm guessing works, though it depends on the framework needs.
The reality is that hardware isn't imploding so often that this really matters. You can pick any host that has a few years under their belt and I bet they have VM's running with multiple years of uptime, without the use of clustering/failover. Just raw virtfusion or SolusVM.
We've had SQL servers with multiple months of uptime, with the last restart was to just update the version automagically. You can get abuse that can make things chug, but putting it in HA won't do all that much to lesson that.
You could give each user their own webserver/sql/etc, but that's just a VPS then
Francisco
I used both on NC a while back and both worked.
I don't these options on shared hosting anymore though. I find it's almost always easier to setup and maintain on a VPS.
I personally don't like NodeJS and Python UI deployment in cPanel, it's too stiff and not flexible. Nowadays, I prefer deploying apps with Docker on a VPS. It would be better if cPanel could come up with a modern standard that isolates the app with Docker and automatically reverse proxies it. Though this way would use a lot of ports, not sure if Unix sockets could work.
That would indeed be very cool, but it wouldn't be shared hosting!
That's very true. Hardware just chugs along, and high-availability storage allows one to failover in minutes vs. potentially hours in the rare scenario where hardware fails. Many of the high-availability storage systems also have integrity checks to protect against silent corruption. All of that being said, unless the shared hosting is just part of a larger deployment, the benefit is probably not that great at a host level. It's a lot of hardware and software knowledge investment to do it properly.
Are we talking about the cPanel implementation: https://docs.cpanel.net/cpanel/software/application-manager/ or the CloudLinux one: https://docs.cloudlinux.com/cloudlinuxos/cloudlinux_os_components/#python-selector / https://docs.cloudlinux.com/cloudlinuxos/cloudlinux_os_components/#node-js-selector . Regardless, I find a lot of applications assume complete server access, so it's definitely easier to deploy them on a VPS rather than try to make it work with the Passenger systems. The cPanel options, though, are great for small, simple deployments.
Namecrane is far better than speedypage.
On what basis? Have you used them both?
Yes,
I migrated one of my website to namecrane, its working better now, on speedypage it wasn't loading perfectly.
I still even have 20$ around credits in speedypage account & around 20 days of service left. I just migrated few days back after getting fed up.
GtMetrix also improved from D to B.
I also got over hyped by so many comments here & bought it.
I am not complainting though, may be my traffic got little higher. Which wasn't very much its like 200-300 visits per day only.
Its just namecrane is handling it way better. SpeedyPage uptime is great no doubt. I moved due to slow speed, i wasn't even able to add more blogs, whenever i click submit post. Its just alot of loading & even show error in the end.
Interesting. That's surprising. I have both too and haven't really had issues with either.
Have you tried speedypage premium plan or the enterprise plan of bunny cdn, I think that is one of the selling points, it is great.
All you've done is moved the point-of-failure though. Instead of it being a single node, now you have the chance that Ceph explodes (and we've seen many cases of multi day outages from that), DRBD split brains (though this one is a bit easier), vSAN melt down, etc.
You get deep into orchestration, extra hardware, huge performance hits (ceph dicks even the best of NVME arrays), etc. That cost and performance hit is a guaranteed thing, where as the node exploding for hours? Who knows.
Francisco
The kind of PRODUCTION READY SHARED hosting you are looking for (HA setup, premium hardware/network, fully managed and ultra reliable) is hard to find , if not impossible.
I had a WordPress blog at @NameCrane , which hardly got any visitors (20-30 visits a day) and it was getting downtimes now and then. I would take the fault on my shoulders though, as it was not optimized to full extent.
Have not used @speedypage , but they will the next where I will move my site.
@labze and @NameCrane , both are cheap. May be you can try for one month and see.
Regarding big names , I would recommend MDDhosting (costly but have some kind of HA setup in storage) and KnownHost . I don't think they are on the forum though. Check sig for links .
Sorry for the little bit of post grave-digging, but it is more than likely that your issue is related to your specific account & setup rather than a platform or server issue. Did you reach out to our support team? If so, please reference your ticket ID in DM's if you wish and we'd be happy to take a second look.