ISPs that you like. I need a new one

[Steven Demonnin]

My Isp made some changes that make it impossible to use BBEdit (and Coda).  So I need a new one.  Which makes me very upset because I just renewed my subscription to the old one a month ago.  

One thing that would be nice, but not required, is in addition to PHP would be .net as well. 

I have heard good things about Gator.  And Bluehost. 

[Patrick Woolsey]

Just as a quick followup to Steven's request:

Though hosting services aren't in our own (i.e. Bare Bones's) bailiwick :-) I'm hoping some of you folks out there may have advice to offer and would appreciate same.


Regards,

Patrick Woolsey
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[Greg Raven]

HostGator and Bluehost are not ISPs, but web service providers. Your ISP is the outfit that allows you to connect to the Internet, such as Comcast, Charter, Spectrum, Frontier, etc.

If you are looking to change hosting, I absolutely love Digital Ocean, although if you don't have the chops to run a server you should check out ServerPilot as a "front end" to Digital Ocean. Although with ServerPilot you have to pay an additional monthly fee, it allows you easily to run more than one site in a single Digital Ocean droplet, rather than spinning up separate droplets for each website. (Depending on the traffic to your sites, one site per droplet may be preferable.)

For static JAMStack sites (JavaScript API, and HTML markup only), you can't beat Netlify. It's blazing fast with a generous free tier.

[Watts Martin]

While this is very much a YMMV sort of thing, I've been happy with a low-end Linode plan for years. It's a VPS (virtual private server) rather than a shared hosting plan, so it's a little less user-friendly than some other plans might be; you have to be able do some basic Unix-ish system administration. But if you're comfortable at a Terminal prompt and know how to use Homebrew on your Mac for package management, you can learn your way around Ubuntu without too much pain. I can certainly confirm that it works with BBEdit's SFTP system, even when you're doing weirdo things like requiring SSH keys for login (hello, I am that weirdo). If you're coming from a shared hosting plan you can almost certainly get by with one of Linode's cheapest plans. While their marketing page has gotten a bit enterprise-y over the years, check out the "Shared CPU Plans" that start as low as $5/month. (Personally, I'm using a $10/month plan to host several low-traffic domains.)

Digital Ocean is also a good VPS-style provider, has very comparable pricing, and has a system of "Droplets" to set up servers for specific purposes that might be useful, too; if I hadn't already been on Linode when DO was getting going, there's a good chance I'd have been there.

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[Sam Birch]

This is what I do too, but one should keep in mind that if you go this route you are responsible for managing your own server security. This can be a big job, depending on what software you’re using and how exposed you are. With managed hosting someone else, who probably knows more about all this, takes care of it.

Cheers,
-sam

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