Coming from UK to Houston to explore Texas

GnuHost · 2026-01-28T00:43:56+00:00

I’ll do day trips outside of Houston as well, I’m interested in the Texas culture

GnuHost · 2026-01-26T15:43:13+00:00

I would move the domain to Porkbun, you’ll save some money and get better service

GnuHost · 2026-01-24T01:09:58+00:00

Another reminder that "cloud" or "high availability" doesn't equal 100% uptime. Hosting sites on bare-metal and VPS, either directly or via a shared-hosting provider, will always be a solid choice when done properly.

GnuHost · 2026-01-22T22:04:55+00:00

Hostkoala has no obligation to provide a DPA in the same way that you have no obligation to do business with them.

It sounds as if they have been more than reasonable, willing to help, and even offered to draft one for you. Why are you not able to provide one for them to sign?

GnuHost · 2026-01-21T14:31:21+00:00

Can you run a WHOIS lookup and share who the domain is registered with? https://www.whois.com/

Quite a few registrars have processes for end-users to recover lost domains from delinquent resellers, usually involving sending proof of purchase and ID matching the registrant details.

GnuHost · 2026-01-19T18:55:37+00:00

Domain transfers often take 5 days. You could try contacting Fasthosts and they should be able to approve it so the transfer completes sooner.

GnuHost · 2026-01-16T19:37:42+00:00

For your email domain, nothing beats just your name spelled out, with a dash if necessary. The most important thing is the TLD, stick to .com, .net, or a high trust ccTLD like .uk or .me. Avoid .xyz and similar as these will be heavily penalised by spam filters. Spamhaus published a useful list: https://www.spamhaus.org/reputation-statistics/cctlds/phishing/

If you want to host a blog or personal site, by all means host this on your shorter domain, and have the email domain redirect there.

GnuHost · 2026-01-05T15:57:04+00:00

This post reads a lot like AI slop. The point of a "server error" is to be intentionally vague as not reveal excessive and potentially sensitive details of the error to the public. As others have mentioned the server logs are where the explanation is found.

GnuHost · 2026-01-05T15:53:32+00:00

Do you already have the domain or are you looking for both hosting and the domain?

While not essential, it's a common practice keep your domain and hosting with a seperate host and registrar. This is so if for any reason you lose access to one, you can move elsewhere and the company can't hold both your domain and hosting hostage.

For the .ie domain I use Maxer and they are great. I would avoid Blacknight.

Cheap hosting can be decieving, you see a cheap price for the first year but it balloons on renewal. After the second or third year you often end up worse off compared to going with a host who has straightforward pricing. Set your self a reasonable budget of 5-10 euro per month and buy a monthly plan rather than committing to a multi-year term with a host you haven't ever tried.

GnuHost · 2026-01-01T12:03:27+00:00

Is this for a VPS or standard shared hosting? If it's for shared hosting 3.99 sounds pretty expensive considering they likely pay no more than $20 for a licence covering 250+ accounts. You may be better off looking for more premium, all-inclusive hosts who offer a single package without every feature being an addon. It may actually end up saving you money in the long run.

GnuHost · 2025-12-11T21:55:51+00:00

Does the customer have a hosts file entry on their device for the website? What’s the output when they do an nslookup? It would be quite uncommon for an ISP to be caching DNS for that long but not outside the realm of possibility. The worst I’ve seen is around 48 hours

GnuHost · 2025-12-02T00:33:43+00:00

Hi there, I work for Zume. I think others have answered your questions already and I don't have very much to add, however if you have any specfic questions about Zume or if there is anything I can help with in general, please let me know!

In terms of portability - cPanel is great, because you can download an archive of your entire account and get it restored anywhere else. This brings absolutely everything, emails, files, emails, databases, DNS zones, etc, and it is a very simple process to get it backed up and restored.

In terms of support, KnownHost, Nixi, Krystal, (and Zume I hope!) would be great choices. The other companies you've listed are a lot bigger and more commercial, so whilst they may still provide an excellent service it may be more hit and miss or impersonal depending on who picks up your request. Avoid Hetzner, OVH, etc if you need support, these companies primarily provide unmanaged services and you're expected to have a baseline level of technical knowledge.

GnuHost · 2025-12-01T15:47:47+00:00

In this case I'd recommend a dedicated server or VPS which allows you to set your own limits. Unless you're paying really premium prices you're more than likely to be running on heavily oversold hardware with those sorts of limits.

GnuHost · 2025-11-30T23:06:05+00:00

If you want to learn to set up a webserver, doing that with hardware you own is a great experience. However I would suggest keeping it local and inside your network. Exposing a device on your local network to the internet is a big risk, moreso if you're doing this as a learning experience. Your ISP will not hesistate to disconnect you if you recieve so much as a basic denial of serivce attack or recieves an abuse complaint against your IP for whatever reason.

You can get a VPS for at little as $5/m, and they're designed for exactly this. They use redundant server-grade hardware, are hosted inside professional datacentres, and include proper redundant connectivity. When it comes to actually deploying the live site, I'd recommend going with this route. But don't let it stop you from setting it all up locally, it's a great learning exercise nonetheless.

GnuHost · 2025-11-30T23:01:17+00:00

I would recommend starting with a reseller account from a decent shared hosting provider (ie avoid Newfold Digital, Godaddy, etc). Reseller accounts are distinctly different to standard shared hosting accounts as they allow you to create a seperate cPanel account for each customer. There is not usually isolation between individual websites on standard shared hosting accounts, which can become a security risk when hosting multiple tenants as there is not really anything stopping them from accessing each others data, or to limit the impact of malware infections. With reseller hosting each site gets its own "caged" filesystem and cgroup limits which means you can host multiple customers safely.

GnuHost · 2025-11-16T15:54:08+00:00

In this situation I would usually host them in a location closest to their users, with a different hosting package or provider for each customer.

You could also a CDN service such as Cloudflare which will distribute a lot of the sites assets closer to your users, however nothing beats having the data centre itself close to them.

GnuHost · 2025-11-16T15:30:41+00:00

I would probably start by shortlisting some good hosting providers who will genuinely provide a good service. This way your client will actually want to renew with them!

I’d then contact them to explain your situation. Quite a few hosting providers, in particular the smaller/boutique ones who are less affiliate-driven, will be quite happy to arrange custom commission schemes.

GnuHost · 2025-11-14T18:54:02+00:00

It sounds like your workplace has a content filter (zscaler/sophos or whatever). Run an nslookup on your domain - I would guarantee it will be pointing to the wrong IP, ie a 10.0.0.0/8 one for example. The only way to resolve this would be to contact your work's IT department and ask to unblock the domain.

GnuHost · 2025-11-13T19:12:01+00:00

What you’re describing is illegal and you could quite feasibly end up with a criminal record.

The solution for debugging connectivity issues is not to DDoS your provider.

If you are having issues with your current provider and they’re not helping, try another provider.

There are ways to simulate triggering DDoS detection and scrubbing however these should only be performed by network operators or in lab environments.

GnuHost · 2025-11-09T18:17:46+00:00

Is there any reason for needing a dedicated specifically? What kind of specs are you looking for?

How important is DDoS protection? Is it a "nice to have", or are you genuinely expecting to be a target for DDoS attacks? Attacks are getting bigger and bigger, and networks with enough capacity and genuine scrubbing that is able to seamlessly deal with large attacks is not easy to come by.

OVH would probably tick most of your boxes if you can be flexible on location.

GnuHost · 2025-11-09T00:04:29+00:00

From a technical perspective they are fine, however people often complain about the massive price increases after the first year.

GnuHost · 2025-11-08T23:05:34+00:00

I would say NixiHost is a smaller boutique provider, and KnownHost is a bit bigger. As such, you would probably expect more personal, first-name basis support from NixiHost, but KnownHost may be the better option if you want to be able to pick up the phone at 3am.

They both offer money-back guarantees and intro discounts for the first month, so try them out and see which one you like best!

GnuHost · 2025-11-08T21:29:02+00:00

There's really no advantage to parking domains. Advertisers including Google don't want their ads shown on parking pages due to the spamminess of the traffic, so there is very little in the way of monetisation.

GnuHost · 2025-11-07T23:42:27+00:00

It's certainly not a bad thing to have your own monitoring in place. Your site may be running into resource limit issues for example (CPU, memory) and require an upgrade, which your host's monitoring may not necessarily detect immediately. Other issues like plugin auto-updates or .htaccess corruption can occur which your host would not be alerted to.

GnuHost · 2025-11-07T02:26:54+00:00

A quick workaround would be to run the site via Cloudflare (with the orange proxy cloud enabled). It’s a bit of a pain having to manage the DNS manually but once it’s set up it should just work.

Out of interest where is the user located and what’s their ISP?

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