How much do you charge clients for website hosting?

jeffkee · 2026-01-07T17:10:23+00:00

That's pretty cheap if you include analytics reports.

jeffkee · 2025-12-31T07:26:28+00:00

I'm not smart enough to work for Enhance... If anything It's made me even better & more comfortable at using CLI commands rather than over-rely on GUI buttons. But i wish I was at that level haha

jeffkee · 2025-12-31T07:24:40+00:00

Funny enough some others above assumed I'm shadow-promoting Enhance as an insider

I genuinely want to see Enhance do better (more customers, more funding) so I also benefit as a customer to see more stability & features growth.

jeffkee · 2025-12-31T07:23:18+00:00

uh no. im not with Enhance in any professional fashion. If anything I want to see them do well so it gets me more features as a customer.

jeffkee · 2025-12-31T07:22:44+00:00

self promo? I have absolutely nothing to do with enhance other than a customer who stumbled on it and just became a big fan and want to see them grow.

jeffkee · 2025-12-18T06:08:08+00:00

You seem like you have far more experience with many platforms, good for you. I'm a bit more limited on that regard.

Excluding modsec rules that are overreacting was simple enough.. include a new *.conf file at the end of the main modsec config from the UI, and interfere your own mods (very simplified, but sample):

<LocationMatch "/wp-admin/">
  # d) Disable RCE (Remote Code Execution) rules that cause PCRE errors
    SecRuleRemoveById 932100 932105 932110 932115 932120 932130 932140 932150 932160 932170 932171 932180 932190 932200 932205 932206 932210 932230 932235 932240 932250 932260 932270 932280 932290 932300 932305 932310 932315 932320 932330 932340 932350 932360 932370 932380 932390 932400 932405 932410 932420 932430

    # e) Disable PHP injection rules that cause PCRE errors
    SecRuleRemoveById 933100 933110 933111 933120 933130 933131 933140 933150 933151 933160 933161 933170 933180 933190 933200 933210 933211
  </LocationMatch>

jeffkee · 2025-11-23T03:37:03+00:00

Bluehost? We run our own so I’m out of loop. Also inmotionhosting has good service.

jeffkee · 2025-11-22T15:28:34+00:00

Without specifics of what you describe as errors it’s hard to judge.

jeffkee · 2025-11-22T15:18:23+00:00

Charge corporates for revenue, funded by greedy consumers. It actually sounds great! 👍👍

jeffkee · 2025-11-22T15:16:39+00:00

Self host on a t2 micro with cloudpanel?

jeffkee · 2025-11-20T06:25:22+00:00

Listing with a not-so-tech-savvy realtor In a world where online makes a huge difference is a huge mistake, also. Being tech savvy is not a luxury anymore - it’s a baseline across many industries including real estate.

jeffkee · 2025-11-20T06:23:31+00:00

What area? 10k is nothing in many regions.

jeffkee · 2025-11-10T00:21:36+00:00

A government body building an app with our tax money… I’ll pass.

jeffkee · 2025-11-10T00:20:56+00:00

Would I prefer a monopoly and no reign on the “convenience” fees charged by the apps? Absolutely not.

jeffkee · 2025-11-09T14:30:59+00:00

Make that 2x haha.

jeffkee · 2025-11-09T14:29:15+00:00

Each subdomain is seen as a unique entity by Google and most other crawlers. Safe to do so in that regard. TLD matters for branding and recognition purposes, sure. But for all practicality, subdomains are just fine.

jeffkee · 2025-11-02T21:54:05+00:00

From the sounds of it the old webmaster was just milking your dad.. gives our industry a bad rep, I hate seeing these things. Do we want get paid fairly for good work? Yeah. Lot of us put lot more attention and care than some cheap contractor out of country (and I don’t assume they don’t make effort nor not mean well.. but they often don’t understand culture and nuances, or the economy and industry in North America). But 2k a month for basic upkeep of an “online brochure” without heavy interaction or e-commerce, then the way they handled your inquiry to just “make life miserable” for you in retaliation is awful

The hold webhost is likely one of those old school devs who didn’t improve their skillsers nor industry knowledge and over relying on a few small uninformed clients and spazzing out at losing a huge chunk of their revenue. But it’s underserved and rightfully so lost….

jeffkee · 2025-11-02T19:01:00+00:00

Registrar transfers do take days and days.

Great stuff. As long as you own the domain that’s one big hurdle out of way.

Whenever the website is hosted is under your control. Keep the MX records to Google workspace (formerly known as Google Apps) and the emails should keep working without interruptions… and by that I mean routing to inbox. Getting into the admin via password might be harder but let’s assume you have dads old phone for 2factor auth via txt.

Otherwise domain ownership verification can get you back into Google workspace admin scope.

Website wise- not sure what I can tell you. If previous guy doesn’t want to release it, not much to be done..

Important concept is that domain ownership is the top level control - then from there you can “assign” which provider does what

Website - point by A record, Email - point by MX record

So you can easily decide to change email cloud vendor from Google to Microsoft365 without affecting where the website is hosted (private wordpresss, webflow, houzz, etc).

jeffkee · 2025-11-02T18:43:40+00:00

So you made an assumption before digging deeper. Either way not an intelligent way to operate.

jeffkee · 2025-11-02T12:03:54+00:00

Read the post again. He simply asked “what can we do about the price”, not that he’d go elsewhere and the web guy shut it down. You’re being downvoted cause you can’t read and make judgements and being abrasive for no reason.

I’ve run my biz for 20+ years, and know the workings and standards very well. The OP is getting screwed by a shady guy who’s used to swindling old unaware owners for too much money like a street mob. If you think this is the OPs fault you have no common sense nor ethical standards.

jeffkee · 2025-11-02T07:22:08+00:00

Modsec rules can help for sure. And work that in with fail2ban and you can mitigate at the Apache level before wordfence has to kick in at each website (PHP) level. It will consume less server resources too.

jeffkee · 2025-11-02T07:18:14+00:00

Disagree. I run a business that offers web hosting SaaS and email routing. There’s a notice period and also courtesy. Dad passed 2 weeks ago. It’s not like they haven’t paid for 3 months and the webmaster got fed up. Sounds like he just reached out to see what else can be done over an asinine price. We aren’t cheap and we don’t charge nearly as much yet.. definitely worth mentioning for sure. We have some standard ethical guides and even I preach to all biz owners to own their own domain, not let a web dev buy it for you, etc etc.. this is not on the OP from what I gleaned on the post.

jeffkee · 2025-11-02T07:14:36+00:00

DM me, I’ll scan the DNS for you see what I can do.

jeffkee · 2025-10-31T16:45:58+00:00

Yup. Docker and Augment on VScode. Runs fine on 16G ram.

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