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Looking for DirectAdmin shared hosting with working NGINX Unit support
ersauravadhikari
Member
in Help
Hello everyone,
I’m looking for a DirectAdmin shared-hosting provider that has NGINX Unit properly enabled and usable for customer accounts.
Just saw here that some providers do offer it 
I have subscribed to few providers, including HostBrr, Advin Servers, and Limitless Hosting, but their DirectAdmin installations do not appear to offer working NGINX Unit access.
My requirements are fairly simple:
- DirectAdmin shared hosting
- Working NGINX Unit integration
- Support for major nginx unit apps; Python, Node.js, Java, Ruby applications
- A reasonable LowEndTalk/LowEndBox-style price, preferably an inexpensive annual plan
- Any location is fine
I am specifically looking for a provider where someone has actually deployed an application using NGINX Unit. Having the menu visible in DirectAdmin but disabled or unusable would not be enough.
Does anyone know of a provider offering this? Providers are also welcome to mention their plans and resource limits.
Comments
Looking for it as Unit does support ASGI apps like; FastAPI; among many other.
Reference: https://docs.directadmin.com/webservices/nginx_unit/
Update: Apparently Hostslim does support it; but I am honestly not sure if I should purchase them or not
Asking here in the meantime.
Will wait for a while before pressing the buy button; still looking for other providers which when I search on Lowendtalk doesn't show complaints only
To be honest i'd guess hosts usually avoid enabling this due to the potential headache it's likely able to create for them. I mean, depending on how locked down their php installations are there might be alternative ways to do the same but even if those aren't also disabled shared hosting isn't really about running arbitrary scripts and all that. It's about hosting websites only thereby reducing complexity a lot, which is why it's usually so cheap. If you want to run scripts i'd highly recommend to just get VPS instead.
Nginx Unit is used to run websites; more than arbitary scripts like CRON does
Oh really?
Yes; quite a useful tool imo; as it allows you to host much more diverse type of web apps.
For example FastAPI is not really hostable on directadmin with passenger; because passenger assumes WSGI; although we can build a WSGI to ASGI via adapters; it completely looses it's intended purpose when we do that and the performance penalty becomes huge.
Same with Django via ASGI and other ASGI frameworks.
As well as other languages like Java/Ruby.
Passenger limits how you can build apps; while Unit allows you to be very much flexible with that; with much broader options.
I won't challenge any of this. I still question how much this matches the philosophy of shared hosting though. Once your use case requires websockets and/or some kind of fancy backend a VPS simply is a better fit (on both sides - provider & client).
All that flexibility has a very real cost after all. Not only in support requests the provider is faced with due to people messing with stuff that's just over their head (and ignoring that their service is unmanaged or simply not understanding what that even means), performance instabilities due to clients running whatever insane (from the perspective of a normal shared hosting environment) contructs or security holes due to way more attack surface/possibilities to shoot oneself in the foot.
Also chances are that when you are running something that exceeds the usual shared hosting use case in complexity you'll want more debugging options than what you get from a webpanel (indirectly again flooding the hosts helpdesk due to people getting stuck).
TL;DR: Just because something exists doesn't mean that it's a practical idea. Shared hosting is usually a very simple thing that gets sold for peanuts. Exotic setups just don't fit that scope.
Hostslim is not recommended anymore. I think Visual web technologies was offering NGINX based shared hosting. Please contact them
Thanks
@visualwebtechnologies is this true?
Ohh; I was interested in this as well.
Does VWT support Unit? Has anyone checked that?