I use NameSilo as a domain registrar and Linode for hosting. I have been happy with them for years now. Mark On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 1:34 AM David Schwartz wrote: > I use a company local to Phoenix as my primary registrar, NameSilo. > > For hosting, I use Eleven2. > > In general, I don’t recommend using the same for both. > > I used NameCheap, and they’re owned by the same borg entity that owns > HostGator and tons of other hosting providers. But I’ve used them for years > for name registrations. > > The thing I like about NameSilo is they give you a domain name Privacy > option for FREE forever. NameCheap used to be for one year, but they may > have changed. GoDaddy charges an absurd amount for it starting from the > get-go. > > “Honesty” is relative in the domain world. They all have their policies > and they all enforce their polices. But some are far worse than others. > > The “other” big registrar in Phx has a very “honest” bunch of policies > that railroad you into spending a HUGE amount if you forget to renew your > domain on-time. NameSilo and NameCheap are far more forgiving, and give you > 30 days to renew your domain at the regular renewal rate. They’re all quite > “honest” about it, as long as you read their TOS and pay close attention to > what’s there. > > There’s also an area that isn’t talked about much, and I don’t really even > know what to call it. But you might think that every cPanel / WHM hosting > provider is the same, since they run the same hosting software. I’ve found > that’s not true. Nor is it “dishonest”, either. > > There are several dozen settings that can be enabled or disabled on cPanel > / WHM installations, and there are various plugins that the host can also > include if they want. > > The net effect is, there are some such providers that I’d say tend > strongly towards the “paranoid” side of the scale, while others bend the > other way. > > NameCheap is a very “paranoid” host. If you want maximum security against > hackers and invaders, you’ll like them. They get that distinction because > they have a habit of disabling all sorts of UI options that have even the > slightest whiff of something a hacker could use to get into your hosting > account. > > I put up with this for a few months, and then moved to Eleven2, who is far > more relaxed about things. > > That said, you can always get a VPS, then install cPanel / WHM or any > other control panel, and tweak it however you like. > > Personally, I have a “shared reseller” type hosting account (ie, one that > includes WHM) at Eleven2. Shared hosting tends to overload the servers > after a while, but they usually don’t put as many “reseller” accounts on a > host as regular (single cPanel) accounts — maybe by a factor of 10-to-1 or > more — so they don’t fill up as fast. > > But if your shared hosting account starts to slow down, and if you’ve been > there for a while, ask to have it moved to a newer server. That’s very easy > to do with cPanel accounts, and the places I’ve been tend to be fairly > accommodating if only because they’d rather not lose you to another host > just because they don’t want to spend 5 minutes moving your account. > > -David Schwartz > > > > On Aug 30, 2019, at 12:36 PM, Victor Odhner wrote: > > A friend who is totally non-technical wants to move their WordPress from > the current registry and hosting service, and is looking for is good > providers of registry and hosting, with the most honest reputations within > a reasonable cost. > > A few years ago I worked with NameCheap, and have heard fairly good > stories. > > I’ve heard some registrars are in a better chance to negotiate transfer of > a name which may be owned by the current registrar. > > I’m pretty sure my friend was spoon-fed the setup with a single phone > call, and might find a change too complicated. I am personally free of [ > *largest-of-local-providers*], so my bias is towards running away from [ > *that*], but I don’t really know what choices are “out there” for > innocent button-pressing clients. > > Thanks for any advice, > Victor Odhner > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss