A lot of people don't know this but I just realized that most of the hosting companies can be very sneaky. They’ll tell you “$X per month,” but when it’s time to renew, they just increase the price. Then you’ll see random fees for SSL, backups, even email! 😂 Has anyone else faced this nonsense?
What are the hidden costs of web hosting?
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Time for initial setup, security, outgoing mail setups (if not enabled by default), anti-spam, and upgrades over time.
Time is worth more than anything for me, so I have to really treat my own time as the biggest cost to anything new.
I often pay more for the luxury of spending less time, but I still go with VPS or dedicated servers exclusively. I haven't used a cPanel build or shared hosting provider in about a decade. So, setups do take time but I use linux images/snapshots so I don't have to setup the same initial services every time.
An example of "luxury to save time" would be Vercel for a node build... Saves a lot of time and ongoing maintenance & monitoring.
Time is worth more than anything for me, so I have to really treat my own time as the biggest cost to anything new.
I often pay more for the luxury of spending less time, but I still go with VPS or dedicated servers exclusively. I haven't used a cPanel build or shared hosting provider in about a decade. So, setups do take time but I use linux images/snapshots so I don't have to setup the same initial services every time.
An example of "luxury to save time" would be Vercel for a node build... Saves a lot of time and ongoing maintenance & monitoring.
My previous host was charging me for SSL certificates, on top of charging way too much for a .net domain too. I ditched them and went with Hostinger since it's much cheaper and they offer free SSL certificates.
Every single hosy provider does it. Even the ones that I'm with now XD I just end up not accepting and do what I do and what I want 🙂 At the end of the day, what they are offering you can get elsewhere anyway or do it yourself at a cheaper rate.
Some of those extra balls are not really needed anyway
Some of those extra balls are not really needed anyway
Weasellion
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Look into the offered maintenance plan; how often they scan for malware/viruses, how often the software is updated, how often the plugins are patched, how often backups are run, and others.
fantanoice
Madly Diligent
Charging for SSL certificates is such a scam when they're literally free with Let's Encrypt
Yep that's why I ditched Ionos lol. It's ridiculous that I had to pay $27 for a SSL certificate, it's the only hosting I ever used that made me pay for SSL certificates.
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