Which shared hosting service for a website is good?

For a website that needs the standard features/functions

A2
Hostgator
Bluehost
Ionos
AWS
GoDaddy

I’ve used at least half of those listed and have usually ended up going with whichever has the best promo going on at the time. I just registered a domain earlier this week with Ionos since they had best pricing.

What about Hostinger?

Thanks for insight

There is no such thing as good shared hosting.

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I think "good" is relative, in most cases relative to price. If shared hosting satisfies the requirements, why pay more?

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This is another example of non-technical people coming up with "requirements" out of thin air instead of listing their actual underlying objectives, which is that they need a website to serve xyz business needs. Saving $5 to get such an inferior, slow, and risky product is not good for 99.9% of use-cases out there.

Nobody's actual requirements are that they need a shared cpanel account where god knows who else is using the same public IP, private network, kernel and file system.

If all you have is wordpress then just get hosted wordpress.

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I am a technical person. I have some sites running wordpress on shared hosting

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I think "good" is relative

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It most definitely is. Is you website going to be for a real business, or is it just you wanting to launch an website to make money off of said website, is it going to be just a website for you to put stuff for your little league baseball team?

What do you know about writing html? Do you plan on selling stuff or just static content or what?

The hosting plan for your little league site doesn't need to be dedicated, shared would be fine.

We need way more info on what you know and what you plan to do.

It would suck to pay for hosting on a dedicated server with databases and tons of bells and whistles if you don't need that.

Likewise it would suck to pay for a cheap site that doesn't offer databases and then you find out you need databases.

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I would suggest not facilitating a race to the bottom.

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Capitalism will do that whether you or I facilitate it or not.

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A customer that "requires" the cheap crap you promote is not worth my time. I mean, are you staying on top of the constant updates and plugins that needs to happen? Are you spending the time to harden the environment? If so, how much do you charge an hour? Must not be much..

I've dropped customers for listening to their tech-savvy nephews and whatnot who make terrible recommendations.

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I'm not "promoting" it so much as stating that it is very often a more than adequate option. And OP didn't ask for your or anyone's time, OP asked specifically for shared hosting options.

OP obviously has no idea what is needed, but literally the only detail provided was the specific ask for commodity shared hosting. For all you or I or OP knows, it could just be a static site in which case updates and environment hardening are handled by the host.


I get the sentiment. I install cameras, and it irks me whenever someone specifically requests wireless or battery powered cameras (I replied to one such request tonight). But this is a different industry with different properties. With cameras, a wired camera is almost always the best option and will provide more value and customer satisfaction, though there are cases where for various reasons a wifi or wire-free camera is the best fit and would serve the purpose just fine, and I will accept that as an option in those cases. As it turns out, with websites shared hosting is in most cases a valid option. For every web app that is in constant flux and growth with users and databases and teams of developers, there are 100 static sites that get 10 hits a day and 1 update a year.