Are there any web hosts or hosting providers in the house??
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Hi guys,
Random question, but are any of you in the web hosting space? If so, where do you get your industry news and what other communities are you members of? I'm really trying to get a feel for how best to reach the market with content. Thank you, and hope you all had wonderful Thanksgivings with plenty of turkey comas!
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Define "in the web hosting space?" To my knowledge, no one here runs a webhost, but most of us use them in various forms.
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I specifically mean hosting providers that may offer clients server backup as a premium service.
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That's definitely not web hosting
That's online backup hosting. Very different term. Web host would be someone hosting websites. -
Have you seen Cloudways managed cloud hosting?
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@masterarts said in Are there any web hosts or hosting providers in the house??:
Have you seen Cloudways managed cloud hosting?
That's Cloudways for those without a link.
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I don't see what cloudways does, they list a bunch of vps and cloud providers on their page...
What's a DO license? I know I've heard this... maybe... or it's just the developer side in thinking of.
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@bigbear said in Are there any web hosts or hosting providers in the house??:
I don't see what cloudways does, they list a bunch of vps and cloud providers on their page...
What's a DO license? I know I've heard this... maybe... or it's just the developer side in thinking of.
I've had the same issue. I know what they do from customers talking about it. But everytime I go to their page I'm like... I can't tell what this service is. Nothing says what they offer, anywhere. Even knowing them pretty well from other users, I'm never clear if they will meet any given need that I have because the site doesn't tell me anything.
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@bigbear said in Are there any web hosts or hosting providers in the house??:
I don't see what cloudways does, they list a bunch of vps and cloud providers on their page...
What's a DO license? I know I've heard this... maybe... or it's just the developer side in thinking of.
Digital Ocean would be my guess.
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@scottalanmiller said in Are there any web hosts or hosting providers in the house??:
@masterarts said in Are there any web hosts or hosting providers in the house??:
Have you seen Cloudways managed cloud hosting?
That's Cloudways for those without a link.
Cloudways is a single management pane for a bunch of different hosting providers. So if you have services with Vultr, Linode, and AWS, you can manage all of those in one place.
Edit: At least it was, looks like they've added a lot of features since I looked at it last.
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@travisdh1 said in Are there any web hosts or hosting providers in the house??:
@scottalanmiller said in Are there any web hosts or hosting providers in the house??:
@masterarts said in Are there any web hosts or hosting providers in the house??:
Have you seen Cloudways managed cloud hosting?
That's Cloudways for those without a link.
Cloudways is a single management pane for a bunch of different hosting providers. So if you have services with Vultr, Linode, and AWS, you can manage all of those in one place.
That's not very interesting. It triples the cost just to keep me from opening three windows instead of one? That can't be their selling point. I can install Mist.io for $2.50/mo and get that for all kinds of stuff. And Cloudways doesn't handle Linode, so wouldn't do anything for me.
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@travisdh1 said in Are there any web hosts or hosting providers in the house??:
Edit: At least it was, looks like they've added a lot of features since I looked at it last.
But what ARE those features? What are you seeing?
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@scottalanmiller Some sort of optimized CMS hosting service. I haven't looked any further than the bottom of the page you linked yet, so no idea on the details.
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@travisdh1 said in Are there any web hosts or hosting providers in the house??:
@scottalanmiller Some sort of optimized CMS hosting service. I haven't looked any further than the bottom of the page you linked yet, so no idea on the details.
That's what I thought, but it doesn't seem to say that anywhere. So I'm lost. I have no idea for what purpose I would choose this verses something else. I'm unclear what their competition or use case is.
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I'd call them a managed web app service. They offer the following applications in several cloud server providers.
Setup in what they call Thunderstack, which is:
I was using them to host a couple of wordpress instances using their $5 a month plan on Digital Ocean (which they now offer for $7). So they basically managed the OS and their stack and I dealed with Wordpress just as any another web hosting provider with the advantage of having better performance thanks to using a vps.
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Do they deal with security and CDN on Wordpress? Like a replacement for pagely or wpengine?
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@bigbear said in Are there any web hosts or hosting providers in the house??:
Do they deal with security and CDN on Wordpress? Like a replacement for pagely or wpengine?
They don't really specialized in wordpress so don't think they are fully comparable
