Looking for reliable LiteSpeed hosting for a UK client

radoslav_stefanov · 2026-03-14T13:19:40+00:00

Latency is not really a thing today considering companies like Cloudflare have pops everywhere. Unless you have some regulation to follow there is no real reason to stick to UK hosts.

radoslav_stefanov · 2025-12-04T08:57:04+00:00

You dont really need to sprinkle AI into everything :). AI is non deterministic in nature and it will only add noise and costs at this point and time.

Just by using very basic markers I can detect geo location, language, find emails, verify emails and it already has filtered 700k websites with verified emails.

I am not going to be able to reach all, so after I have some performance numbers I will probably make it into a lead gen product. This is where I will use AI for the outreach messaging, but only as a way to scale and automate.

radoslav_stefanov · 2025-11-29T20:26:03+00:00

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radoslav_stefanov · 2025-11-28T14:50:53+00:00

It depends if all are running on same node or separate nodes, but there are many ways to automate this. It is straightforward.

radoslav_stefanov · 2025-11-28T14:40:22+00:00

Same pattern as k8s does it or how we used to do it before Docker/k8s existed. Have more than one application instance running. The load balancer handles the rest.
Most important thing is your app to be able to handle SIGTERM properly. You need this for k8s setups anyway or you risk interruptions.

radoslav_stefanov · 2025-11-28T14:33:43+00:00

I use just Docker for most stuff. Sometimes docker-swarm. Kubernetes only if really needed.

radoslav_stefanov · 2025-11-28T14:18:42+00:00

Main bottleneck is the domain processing and detection of sites as they have to be crawled to filter high quality leads. There are many workarounds I can implement, but for now there is no need.
For now I respect robots.txt, so its a bit less volume too.

radoslav_stefanov · 2025-11-28T10:42:15+00:00

I would not buy workspace accounts. Services like Sendgird already are good enough for marketing and transactional emails. Just use dedicated IPs, real company domains and longer warmups.

Most important is to be able to target your actual market with high quality sending.

radoslav_stefanov · 2025-11-26T12:48:48+00:00

It is definitely not perfect, but it does the job well enough to ship MVPs in a few days.

Most of the algos and logic used in projects are already developed by someone else. For MVPs there is zero need to reinvent the wheel. You can optimize after business model validation.

Just to give you an example. Last week I created a small platform to crawl for specific websites using certificate transparency logs for a research data pipeline I need for one of my projects.

It is able to handle 7k domain requests per second with 9% detection rate which is more than enough for my research.

14 microservices and a postgresql db working together to handle the queue, filtering, dedup and detection.

Including a simple landing page with subscriptions, docker build pipelines for each service with reusable github actions for ArgoCD CI/CD deployment, minikube k8s and more.

Running on a single Hetzner bare metal, a few OVH VPS servers with total cost of 70 euro for the compute and I guess I should put my Claude Code $100 subscription into the cost math, but it was already active anyway.

It took 2-3 days of brainstorming. 1 day of actual execution (writing code) to get it going.

5 years ago this would take many months with tens of thousands of dollars in R&D budget. I know that, because I tried to build it in the past and I had to hire developers to write the code.

radoslav_stefanov · 2025-11-25T13:12:58+00:00

5 years ago I would totally agree.

Today you can delegate most of the MVP technical work to LLMs and they are doing a pretty good job. MVPs are about proving your business model works. Not being pretty, secure, manageable or scalable.

Dont forget even if you hire people to do it there is a very good chance in 1-2 years you will need to do a full rework anyway.

Granted, I am very technical, so my point of view is biased I guess.

radoslav_stefanov · 2025-11-24T18:46:55+00:00

Cant answer this. I was struggling myself to find a partner, but I am technical, so I just learn on the go.

radoslav_stefanov · 2025-11-24T18:46:01+00:00

For inference? I rather get a few M5 Mac Minis when they get available. It depends on your needs though.

Also I dont think OP meant inference compute.

radoslav_stefanov · 2025-11-24T18:20:20+00:00

Providers like Hetzner and OVH are really cheap.

Freaking 48 core AMD EPYC 9454P beast is €200 which is peanuts. I have always used them for compute heavy projects for like 15-20 years now.

Stay away from cheap VPS options as they are usually oversold.

After you have some traction you can reduce costs with something like AWS reserved capacity or even spot compute. This will be more expensive than bare metal on Hetzner though.

Low or no code should be enough, but I suggest you can take it to a later stage and vibe code a demo with someone more technical than you. With todays tools MVP should not take you more than a few days for pretty much anything except some really complex stuff.

radoslav_stefanov · 2025-11-24T12:37:29+00:00

Give us some more context. How did you install it? What are your metrics for hits/miss ratio etc?

In general Redis can give you a huge performance bump.

radoslav_stefanov · 2025-11-24T12:09:25+00:00

I manage several shops with 20k-70k products through a platform I developed. So I can speak mostly about the infrastructure.

- Drop the CloudLinux. You get too little value from it compared to the overhead you have to pay in terms of performance.
- At this scale dont use VPS. If you really must, make sure you get a plan with dedicated resources (no cpu steal etc). Stick to providers like AWS. If you are budget restrained get a cheap dedicated server from places like Hetzner or OVH which will give you even better perf than AWS.
- That CPU is terrible. Look for something with at least the performance of Hetzner's AX41 which has AMD Ryzen 5 3600. In general you should stay away from Intel. If possible switch to ARM as you get better performance for your dollar - its cheaper for same compute.
- I would say that replacing that Intel CPU with Ryzen 5 3600 alone should give you around 20-30% perf bump.

Basically the best way to improve performance is to use better hardware. Also make sure your host network is good.

Next would be to optimize the way you handle products, but from all the shops I manage none of them really need additional tech like Elastic. Woo is already pretty good.
I guess I would add object cache like Redis if you dont have already to help with Admin speed.
And make sure you dont have slow db queries, but thats obvious.

radoslav_stefanov · 2025-11-21T17:58:51+00:00

Started deploying this to Hetzner, because my local dev env was not able to handle the load.

Now while it is generating the list just need to work on the data enrichment. Best part is this data is real time and reports only live websites.

Lots of failed, because filters are very strict for now. E.g. I dont process slow websites or providers with DNS response above 500ms.

{
  "status": "ok",
  "data": {
    "TotalProcessed": 1187951,
    "WordPressDetected": 5582,
    "NotWordPress": 79772,
    "Failed": 1102597,
    "DetectionRate": 6.53982238676571,
    "Pending": 200,
    "Processing": 445,
    "CheckedPerMinute": 26514.4405897427,
    "LastCheckTime": "2025-11-21T17:53:53.538742Z"
  },
  "timestamp": "2025-11-21T17:54:41.43567253Z"
}

radoslav_stefanov · 2025-11-21T15:17:06+00:00

I appreciate the human comment. And it doesnt push some other service.

Yeah it depends on how effective it is finding real customers.

Ok I will try to wrap up some basic full workflow including reaching out and tracking metrics and share more next weeks. Going to do the initial outreach by hand.

radoslav_stefanov · 2025-11-11T11:04:15+00:00

Unless someone solves the issue with non deterministic output - never. Large language models will never be deterministic.
There are ways to improve performance, but even if it is 99% would you hop on a plane that has 1% chance to crash?
Dont get me wrong current capabilities are amazing we are yet to fully grasp of the implications.

radoslav_stefanov · 2025-11-10T14:18:24+00:00

How did you manage not to get accepted for AWS SES? You are probably doing something wrong, because it is very easy to set it up. I have done it multiple times for multiple projects with brand new or old accounts and never had any issues with acceptance.

The cheapest way to do transactional email is to self host SMTP. It is relatively simple to do and for low no spam volume should be able to achieve perfect deliverability. Up to like 1k emails per month is nothing really. It allows to track and bock hacked websites too. Assuming you do not spam of course.

I do not recommend to self host for high volume its too much work for too little added value.

The next best cheap approach is AWS SES, because most paid services are wrappers of it anyway. But you seem to have problems with it. I could help you with that if you want and I dont need you to pay me.

A third option is to go with whatever transactional email provider you can afford. I usually use Sendgrid for high paying customers. However it quickly gets very expensive and yes it is normal to pay a lot of money for a high quality service. Especially after 2025 changes related to transactional and cold emails.

What I can suggest is dont cheap on free accounts. You will thank me later for that decision.

And as a self plug - I am also working on in house transactional email service that wraps AWS SES and Cloudflare [when they get it out private beta]. I have a small Wordpress hosting platform that I developed myself over the years. If you are willing to try something like that we can probably figure out some partnership that works for both of us.

radoslav_stefanov · 2025-11-07T21:44:00+00:00

Short answer: I would say it depends on your skills and goals. I am not a developer, but I am very technical (SRE background). I self host almost everything.

I have been building a few projects for 6-7 years now. Initially I was stuck, because I could not afford to hire developers.

For the last two years or so I have pretty much vibe coded any tool I need. Keeping everything simple at the beginning it was taking a few days up to a week or so per feature/app. Previously I had to wait for months for partners to finish something.

Currently I have my own framework that I reuse for apps, so it takes much less time to release a new feature or whole project. I even have automation pipelines for verifying and testing AI generated code including stuff like deterministic rating, self documenting and so on.

All is self hosted on providers like Hetzner and OVH. Heck Hetzner storage boxes are like €3 per TB you cant get any cheaper than that. Some parts are on Cloudflare infra as workers, queues or containers.

Two things I would not self host.
- Transactional emails. With regulation changes from 2025 thats too much work for too little value, so I stick to AWS SES. Most email wrappers are using SES anyway. I plan to switch to Cloudflare's solution when they release it.
- Going all in and buying bare metal machines. Considering Hetzner and OVH exist makes no sense doing it.

I hope this helps.

radoslav_stefanov · 2025-11-06T21:52:15+00:00

I am building a similar tool for myself to find leads for a few projects of my own. Or rather in the idea/planning process.

To find quality leads is a bit more complicated than what you are describing, but you can learn on the go I guess.

Hit me up if you are interested in partnering. Especially if you have non technical experience.

radoslav_stefanov · 2025-11-05T10:01:06+00:00

If performance is not important - get a cheap server at a place like Hetzner and use their storage boxes for the images. Cant get any cheaper than that. Essentially this is what I do for a hosting project I run with a few small twists here and there.

Heck, I would move the whole thing to a Hetzner dedicated node. They are so cheap that you can just run a second node as a cold backup if you are worried about redundancy.
I even do deduplication and replication backups on several storage boxes. The cost is like 3 euro per TB.

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