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Talk hosting without the noise next door.

A place to ask and answer questions about web hosting: shared plans, VPS and cloud, dedicated servers, control panels, DNS, email deliverability, security, uptime, and the neighbours on your server who eat the CPU and disk your site needs.

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New here? Say hello and tell us what you host and where.

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Shared hosting

Shared plans, resource limits, inodes and entry processes, and getting the most out of them.

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VPS & cloud

Virtual servers and cloud instances: sizing, providers, setup, management and costs.

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Dedicated servers

Bare metal: hardware choices, provisioning, colocation and running your own box.

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Control panels

cPanel, Enhance, Plesk, DirectAdmin and others: setup, migrations, licensing and quirks.

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Performance & noisy neighbours

CPU steal, I/O contention, slow sites, caching, benchmarks and finding out who is making the noise.

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Uptime & monitoring

Monitoring tools, alerting, status pages, outages and keeping sites online.

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Email deliverability

SPF, DKIM, DMARC, blocklists, relays, reverse DNS and why mail lands in spam.

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DNS & domains

Nameservers, records, propagation, registrars, transfers and renewals.

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Security

Hardening, SSL/TLS, malware clean-ups, firewalls, backups and access control.

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Host reviews & experiences

Your own first-hand experiences with hosting providers. Disclose any affiliation.

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Off-topic

Anything else, kept friendly.

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