I'm looking to host a (very) basic website - assume limited technical knowledge - most likely with WordPress (though I am open to alternative suggestions).
Do ppl have recommendations on non US hosting platforms where I can also purchase a domain?
Price is of course important but not high up on my list, I would rather spend money to make sure its non US and as easy as possible to use.
19 Comments
Emperor@feddit.uk · 13 pts · 1y
Hetzner
Technoworcester@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Cheers. Will have a look.
SrMono@feddit.org · 6 pts · 1y
https://uberspace.de/en/
Also static page generators like hugo or nikola.
Technoworcester@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Thanks. Will check them out.
SrMono@feddit.org · 2 pts · 1y
They got tons of tutorials and encourage you to expand on your technical knowledge. Also, I've never seen somebody, who didn't make it. Warning: they all became more nerdy :-)
Technoworcester@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Awesome. I can traverse from geek to nerd. Lol.
Libb@jlai.lu · 4 pts · 1y
I use a small French company called monarobase. I don't use it but they offer wordpress hosting (and they have easy to use assistant for all their other offers). I've been their customer for well over 10 years now and I wouldn't want a larger more widely known host because 1) I never had any major issue with them, contrary to larger ones 2) their customer support is is the closest to perfection I have ever dealt with—which I find invaluable since I have myself very, very limited technical knowledge: every time I've made an oopsie, they fixed it in a matter of hours (and they never laughed at me :p)
If you want a bigger host and not some small French one (we have great cheese, too), like already suggested I would say the German at Hetzner are great but depending the offer, you will have a lot of maintenance to do yourself. So is the Swiss Infomaniak, I can say I really like what they're trying to make with their Site Creator, even though it still needs some work.
Infomaniak cloud/office suite is also very nice, if anyone is interested: myksuite.
I started to use WP when it first appeared but in the last decade or so I became incredibly tired with both the direction it was going and the constant flow of feature updates and countless security updates. Not mentioning extensions). I wanted something a lot less demanding, simple and less bloated. I learned to use Hugo, a static website generator. That's what I'm now using. May not fit all use case but it's perfect for me. And I have zero maintenance (security or whatever) server side, since Hugo is only installed on my computer on the website is 100% static.
Technoworcester@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
That's a great response. Thanks very much for taking the tjme. will have to have a look!
unsortedcustard@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
infomanaiak is based in switzerland and does hosting as well as dns
note that i literally just googled this, i dont have any experience with them but they seem like a good company (incresingly employee owned!)
-- their web host is like 6€/month https://www.infomaniak.com/en/hosting/web-hosting
-- about them https://www.infomaniak.com/en/about
Technoworcester@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Employer owned peaks my interest. Ta! Will have a look.
I did a Google search as well before I asked the question here - hopefully I get some use case replies.
0x0@programming.dev · 4 pts · 1y
Quite a few options, i'll get back to you on that.
Technoworcester@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Ta.
0x0@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y
I've been mostly searching for VPS providers, but these tend to also offer website hosting. So,
Hetzner (🇩🇪), Mythic Beasts (🇬🇧🇳🇱🇺🇸), Liquid Web (🇺🇸🇳🇱), ionos (🇺🇸🇪🇺), limitless (🇬🇧🇺🇸🇸🇬🇦🇺).
Again, my focus was VPS providers and i'll have to double-check if any are american companies, but should get you started.
Technoworcester@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Awesome. Thanks.
Keener@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Ionos are German based I think
Technoworcester@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Ta. Will check them out.
unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
yigruzeltil@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
InfinityFree are based in the Netherlands, though at one point at least they were using US servers. It seems like the best solution for free hosting by far.
uzsomtu@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
https://www.websupport.sk/ Slovak
Technoworcester@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Thanks. Will check em out.