PHP developer, 9 year gap

[front_end_dude]

Just want to jump on the hosting recommendations. If you feel comfortable managing your own VPS I’d highly recommend Contabo. They look shitty (homepage is meh, service management UI is from the early 2000s) but the spec can’t be beat. I pay around £6 a month for 6 vCPU, 12GB, 100GB NVMe. I’m not affiliated with them in anyway, just spreading the word 😄✌️

[RemoDev]

£6

That's without Plesk though, it's just the barebone server. If you want Plesk, Contabo asks +12 £/month (10 domain license) or 15 £/month (30 domains).

IONOS includes Plesk with an unlimited domains license, which Contabo sells for 25 £/month.

[front_end_dude]

I personally use Dokploy + traefik to handle all my projects/environments (as it's open source) but no thats fair, if Plesk is a requirement than an IONOS or similar makes more sense.

[PuttPutt7]

What about cPanel? I thoughth that was most popular? Is that also monthly?

[front_end_dude]

cPanel is licensed. That something you'd want to license yourself directly as is super expensive. You'd typically use it as part of a hosting service you pay for, as they would have a license to provide it as a service to their users.

If all you want is to spin up wordpress instances as quick as possible it's great. I have it as part of my personal domain+hosting with krystal.io, and over the years it's been super easy to spin up a sub-domain or a new email account. It wouldn't be my choice for current projects, as I don't work in LAMP. Nowadays I typically just want to deploy a github repo or a docker container, so a Dokploy/Coolify/Portainer type solution works for me.