I will be upgrading my virtual server’s OS.  I will be making an exact copy of the virtual server then using Elevate and then test.

When I did this some years ago, after testing I put the sites onto holding pages, copied over the up-to-date databases the switched the IP address on the 2 servers so visitors just immediately went to the new server.  All done within the day.

However this time I have may more sites and some are far more complex. So, my plan is to switch it a different way and just wanted some feedback of any cons or if it’s not a good idea.

My idea is, after testing, switch the domains one by one over the course of a week or so by changing the DNS to point to the new server.  It means I can concentre on one domain at a time, make it up to date, test it is properly working before moving on to the next.  Once all domains point to the new server and the new IP address I’d close the old one down after it has all settled down.

What I’m not sure about is how long in the real world does a change of IP take to propagate these days?  Also, are there any considerations in changing IP of a domain in terms of SEO or reputation management? Are there any other things I’ve not thought of?

I'm not building websites for paid clients; however, I've built a fairly complex website (as a volunteer) for the camera club I belong to. This site has been running without incident for eleven years and I built it from scratch using Joomla. It currently contains over 12,000 photographic images in various galleries. I have advised the club that the board should consider building a new site because (for numerous reasons) it cannot be migrated from Joomla 3.x to the newer Joomla versions. I offered to build a replacement site using WordPress, but the club has decided to go with Visual Pursuits (SaaS) against my recommendation. Their one valid concern is that I'm the only one in the club with skills necessary to serve as a volunteer webmaster/builder of a WordPress site. Right now, I'm looking at taking over our current hosting service, and building a site for my own personal use and photo portfolio. Sorry for this lengthy description of my situation, but I do have relevant questions regarding web hosting providers.

Our current hosting service is hosting.com when I took over as webmaster in 2015 the club was using GoDaddy. My primary complaint with GoDaddy was performance. I moved the hosting service and website to A2hosting which resulted in an immediate performance improvement. I've been happy with A2hosting for many years. However, A2hosting has been acquired by hosting.com, actually World Hosting Group (WHG). Hosting.com is raising prices on my (A2hosting) legacy account and I'm considering going to a new provider. My legacy (A2hosting) account included 100 GB of storage which I no longer need for my personal website. This was at a monthly rate of $11.99 (with a 3 year term). I would consider staying with them if they maintained this price point. However, they now want to charge me $16.99 per month for a three-year term. Consequently, I'm now looking for an alternate hosting provider to accommodate my single personal website. I will most likely build the website using WordPress but may consider other platforms as well. I would like a shared hosting service that includes cPanel, SSL and at least 10 to 20 GB of storage for a reasonable price. Also, a service which maintains availably to latest PHP updates, good support, and quality service. Given my experience with hosting.com, I would prefer a service which has not been acquired by an investment conglomerate which is only interested in maximizing profit with a lesser concern with regard to support and quality of service. I am located in northern California.

Any advice would be appreciated.

For those interested, the production Joomla site is found here (only accessible in the U.S. only; it was intended to reach out to local photographers interested in joining our club located in Placer County, CA):

https://placerphotoclub.org/

I had also built a test site (as a subdomain) to show what could be done with a WordPress replacement (accessible everywhere). I used the free Elementor plugin and a small number of additional plugins along with some custom PHP and CSS with the objective of avoiding any subscription based (paid) plugins:

https://wp.placerphotoclub.org/

Both sites contain many additional features which can only be accessed by club member login.

Railway just suffered a significant internal attack involving systems that store customer environment variables. They have already regenerated all s3 container credentials which may have broken some of your railway projects, and they are recommending to also regenerate and reimplement all other secrets that you may have implemented in your projects env variables. Read more here.

https://blog.railway.com/p/security-disclosure-wednesday-october-21st

https://github.com/Anon0ne/DomainPulse something that was threw together to monitor domain expiration; maybe I will get lucky and score one of those 100k domains! Any ideas to make this more likely to happen?

If you're on shared hosting, it's worth asking your host directly whether your server has the PHP2Shell fix yet.

GoDaddy's own update (last one 19:30 UTC yesterday) says Managed WordPress is patched, but regular Web Hosting and Windows Hosting are still waiting on patched PHP packages from their vendor, with some temporary mitigations in place. VPS customers have to update PHP themselves. In the GoDaddy Help thread on X, customers say cPanel still only gives them 8.4.25 or 8.5.10, which are not the fixed versions.

DigitalOcean emailed every customer last night. They're suspending their one-click WordPress, LAMP, LEMP and Laravel images until patched, and say they may restrict traffic to anything showing signs of compromise. So an unpatched site that gets hit can end up taken offline by its own host.

Meanwhile VulnCheck published what their decoy servers saw on the 21st: scanners probing from 08:37 UTC, hours before PHP released the fix, and at 17:22 someone tried to plant a backdoor through the upload-progress path. It failed on their decoy, but that's the attack.

Fixed versions are 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35. 8.1 and older got no official release at all.

Has anyone actually heard back from their host with a straight answer? Curious which ones are done and which are still waiting.

(I built a free outside checker for which PHP version a site shows, if it helps anyone: simgen.dev/php-patch-check)

Ok so I was asked to connect our new business domain to email before a client launch, and I thought I knew what I was doing. I copied the records from our email provider into the DNS screen, then saw a warning about existing MX records and deleted them because I assumed they were old.

They were not old. They were the records for our actual staff email. For about 35 minutes nobody could send or receive mail, including our director who was waiting on a contract from a client. I also managed to remove the website verification TXT record, so the site started showing a connection warning too. I feel sick about this and I am kinda shy to even post it, but at least the backup had the records. We restored everything and email came back, but I still have to explain why I thought MX meant maybe expired. Has anyone else made this mistake?

I see the status warning on Liquid Web but has anyone had direct contact with them or can confirm their accounts/websites have had their PHP updated with the new patches?

I’m moving a small business site to a new registrar and the security feature pages all start blending together after a while.

I care about MFA on the account, a proper transfer lock, WHOIS privacy, DNSSEC, and being able to recover the account if the owner loses access. Some registrars make this stuff easy to find. Others bury it under five menus, which is not great when the domain is tied to email and payments.

I’ve looked at Namecheap, Hover, GoDaddy, and Wix for comparison. Wix looks convenient for the website side, but I’m trying to judge the security controls on their own. Is there one feature people regret ignoring? Any hints?

Hi my English isn't that good sorry

I was trying make my own website but wp keeps freez after 12 mins of using

Then i should wait for long time to to get everything good and problem keep coming every time i use hostin ger

After a routine CVE maintenance reboot in the AUS region, Contabo’s hypervisor spawned an orphaned VM from March 2026 and routed our production IP to it.

Our actual production server (intact October data) was trapped, accessible ONLY via VNC. We run an active New Zealand e-commerce business generating over $450,000 NZD (~$280k USD) in revenue every 6 months.

We have been down for over 72 hours. Contabo sat on the ticket for 3 days, only to send an insulting tier-1 canned response without reading a single line of our logs.

If you run a production business on Contabo, take this as a critical warning.

Hello,

At work, we currently use SiteGround for hosting WordPress websites.

We've had issues with using UpTimeRobot and mySitesGuru monitoring tools, it keeps on taking the websites down.

SiteGround keep saying that the requests from mySitesGuru are flooding the server. I've got in touch with mySitesGuru, and they've said that their service is not the cause. It only sends one HEAD request.

We currently have around 418 websites on the server. A few have been turned offline.

Server specs
16 CPUs, 28 GB RAM, 1000 GB SSD

Has anyone else experienced problems with SG before?

Any recommendations for hosting that is not SiteGround?

More about how the monitoring service works explained here: https://mysites.guru/blog/uptime-monitoring-explained/

Thank you,

Hello, on the advice I found here about Canadian hosting, I chose Crocweb and since registering a domain and buying a hosting plan, I have had at least 10 spam calls and texts trying to sell me website building products and services.

Crocnow purports to offer free WHOIS privacy protection along with the hosting service but it's obviously not working or they are selling my information to an internal list for profit, which the privacy policy terms of service seems to indicate they reserve the right to do: https://www.crocweb.com/privacy-policy/#disclosing-information

Are there other Canadian companies that don't have this issue at comparable prices- $12US per month? Anything else I should be doing? I checked their knowledgebase and opened a support ticket but neither has resolved the issue. I am an individual, not a business, but I might use my website commercially eventually so I'd prefer extra security to just removing the info from WHOIS.

I don't have time to be blocking spamcalls everyday, I'd prefer to find a hosting that has better privacy and doesn't sell my information to third parties, whether in Canada or the U.S.

Thanks in advance.

GoDaddy Reselling at it's price point and benefits has been okay for me in the past for the small bits of webhosting that I actually use and provide for very few customers since I've transitioned to more of an MSP model. It's not a profit center, it's merely a functional symbiosis right now.

Recently while doing my Q3 2026 sales taxes, I found that GoDaddy had charged me for something I had never purchased (Some marketing add-on). I got on two separate support chats to ensure that product is removed from my account (I couldn't even see it in my products to remove it myself). Then when I finally got GoDaddy support to stop trying to upsell me and answer my question about refunding me, they directed me to their phone support.

Phone support was hilarious because the representative said that this erroneous product getting applied to my account and billed has happened to multiple people including herself. She was great about it and put in a request for refund of the erroneous product last night. This morning, GoDaddy denied me, so I'm done. It was somewhat a trivial amount, but I can't do business with a company that will charge me for products I never consented to, and then refuses to give me my money back when I call them out on their fraud.

I've already begun migrating customers to Cloudflare and use a lot of their services extensively, but in terms of actual hosting I'm curious what others have migrated to that could provide a better reseller experience. Perhaps I even just need to forget about the reseller crap and just get my sites on solid hosting. Most everything is on Managed WordPress and I use the CI/CD features and all that which I was actually kind of impressed by. Figured I'd reach out to a community on reddit before I go asking Ai so I can also properly bash GoDaddy on my way out.

Noob question with background:

I bought my domain from Provider A 2 years ago. Tge registry shows the last update about 5 months after I bought it. I've gotten an invoice email from WHC (Provider B) advising that the credit card on file will be charged 5 days before the due date.

To cancel (I didn't end up using that domain), I'm required to log into their secure client area and cancel the auto renewal.

Question: Is it normal for a different registrar to not only request payment, but create an account for someone without advising them at any time before invoicing? It feels scammy.

So I've been with Hostwinds webhosting for a good 8 years. Used to love their budget pricing and customer service.

However for the past two months (since Sept 2026) service have been really shotty. They accidentally deleted my entire VPS server hosting three business sites. I complained, so they restored it claiming it was an ACCIDENT on their part.

So as of yesterday (Oct 20 2026), my server is down again and their client login area can't be accessed by any customer (Holy Crap!!!), and worst of all the live chat said they're working on it but have no timeframe when it'll be fixed, I can't even submit a tech support ticket. I also just found out the company was acquired by Canadian web host HostPapa in 2026(Maybe that had something to do with the current bad service, IDK).

Does anyone have Hostwinds and feedback on this situation?? Or a recommendation on a better budget friendly hosting company. I'm seriously thinking of leaving.

All PHP versions are currently vulnerable to a major exploit that allows attackers to remotely compromise the accounts running PHP. This means any system running PHP is vulnerable, which is currently about 80% of the internet. The PHP security team will be releasing a patch soon, but only for PHP 8.x:

https://www.php.net/archive/2026.php#2026-10-20-1

Please check whether your application is running on PHP 8.x. If it is, apply the patch as soon as it’s released. If you’re on an older PHP release, it will not receive a fix, so you should consider taking your application off the public internet until you can upgrade to a patched PHP 8.x install.

¡Hola a todos!

Estoy planeando lanzar mi propio blog personal. Después de investigar un poco, entendí que una buena opción es registrar un dominio, contratar un plan de hosting y usar WordPress para escribir y administrar el blog.

También leí que es buena idea comprar el dominio y el hosting por separado, para que en el futuro pueda cambiar de proveedor de hosting si hace falta, sin tener que cambiar mi dominio.

¿Podrían recomendarme algunos registradores de dominios y/o proveedores de hosting confiables y a buen precio?

No espero ganar dinero con el blog, al menos al principio. Simplemente quiero probar durante un año o dos como proyecto de lado y ver qué tal me va, así que busco una opción con un precio razonable, sin costos de renovación caros ni compromisos a largo plazo.

¡Gracias de antemano por sus sugerencias!

Edit: estoy en la UE

I need a fully managed hassle free wordpress server that should be powered by Hetzner or Vultr only. Should have external backup option as well. Any suggestion. Please do not recommend runcloud or ploi.

Monthly budget - $15 to $20
Users located in US.
Hosting Wordpress site.
IF VPS: No experience.

Hi devs, I want to create my digital profile . So I am thinking to buy a domain for my self and maybe I need to have a server as well . Kindly help me choose among the current providers for domain and VPS. I came across a few of them and also researched a bit so namecheap and cloudflare standed out but the renewal fees is one thing I am unable to understand can that differ after some years or stays the same.

Also, should I buy a domain for 1 year and then buy another because some have 1st year fees quite low like on godaddy you pay just 1 rs for first year.

About VPS , I am not able to understand how much configurations should I look out for . Currently I am planning to create my portfolio and host it somewhere and then after that I will be creating some small , small projects . So will 1 GB ram and 1v cpu is okay for that or not .

Some additional details
1. I am from India .
2. Current budget is around 4 to 6 USD per month for VPS and for domain 10 to 20 USD per year
3. Portfolio website and some websites
4. No traffic idea right now
5. Have used linux but worried about cost and resources utilization .
6. Checked the sidebar but cost is more than the budget

P.S. - I do not know if this is the best subreddit ( community ) to ask this . If not help me I will ask it at a better place. Kindly give suggestions .

I keep hearing nightmare situations with carious hosts and not sure where to take my business, so looking for community feedback based on experiences

I posted a minute ago but it got deleted immediately, I am not sure why, perhaps it was automatic. I was previously able to use chatgpt remote browser to access my websites but then the IP address was blocked by Siteground, using the self help it said unable to unblock. Tech support said they unblocked it, however from that point onwards I have been unable to access my websites using the remote working browser.

Siteground deny that the IP address is still blocked and say I should contact OpenAI's tech support instead.

I don't know whether anyone here has any ideas, I just wanted to leave a public record of the problem in case others are experiencing the same issue.

So far the only way around was to download the app to my desktop and have it use my own desktop's chrome to do the tasks I set it.

I've a couple of sites that have been down for a few hours now. Apparently it's not Cloudflare related but still awaiting an announcement from their engineers. Anyone else having a problem?

I'm pretty much a newbie, coming up on the one year anniversary of my small website. I registered my domain last year through Porkbun and will continue with them this coming year, I think the increase is less than a dollar for the year.

But my hosting site (which I can't mention it seems?) is one I learned about in this sub last year when I started looking into getting my own site. It's going to $9-$11/month and I'm pretty sure my first year was $30 total? I don't have a lost of stuff on my site, it's mostly a portfolio for my commission work, but I do really like the email for clients contacting me via my hosting company. I realize that first year discount is a thing, but also I'm not very tech-savvy. I had a third party rebuild my site from a Wix free one and help get me setup on both Porkbun and my hosting site, so I'm not sure how difficult it would be for me, with minimal web knowledge, to switch my host to somewhere else at a better price.

Can anyone offer me any insight how difficult that would be for me to switch hosts, particularly switching the email which is very important to me. And also if others feel my hosting renewal fee is on the high side, and even if maybe staying on my current hosting site but exploring a non 'Premium Plan' is something I should look into? I reached out to my hosting company awhile ago about renewal costs because I knew it was coming up, but never heard back from them, of course lol!

Thanks in advance for any helpful comments! My non-tech ass sure appreciates it and I learned a lot lurking in this sub last year when I first decided to cut the free Wix cord!

BUYER BEWARE!! Do not use SilentNode.Host they are scamming multiple customers. Money now gone.

Paid for their service using crypto. Transaction got 250 confirmations. Their own website said the payment was COMPLETE. Then suddenly I get a popup saying I didn't pay in time, wtf?

The transaction was completed within 2 minutes btw and it's now been 24 hours and still not funds in the account.

I try to contact support to figure out where my money went. Guess what? YOU CAN'T EVEN OPEN A SUPPORT TICKET WITHOUT ADDING MORE MONEY TO YOUR ACCOUNT. Minimum $25 LOL.

Are you actually taking the piss?

I've already paid you. Your website says the transaction completed. My balance is still empty. And now I need to give you another $25 just to ask where my original payment went?

I don't know what the hell is going on behind the scenes, but from my experience this looks shady.

Posting this so other people don't make the same mistake I did. Do not send these people your crypto unless you want to get scammed like I did. I wish I'd seen a post like this before I paid.

So our budget is under 20 euros a month and our location of users are almost all in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands, so EU hosting is a must for our GDPR.

- Traffic: about 400 business accounts, low traffic, spikes at month end

- Stack: Django, Postgres, Celery and Redis, all in Docker

- Needs: 8GB RAM, daily backups, a data processing agreement I can show customers

Currently on a US PaaS and the customers' lawyers keep asking where the data lives.