Yesterday I received an evasive email from my long-term web host, Pair Networks. After careful reading, it seems to mean that they are increasing the prices on all their shared hosting by 50%, starting on January 1, 2025. That will take the price up from $12 a month to $20, which seems like a silly price for my limited needs.
Does anyone have recommendations for a new web hosting company? It’s not about price, but reliability and good customer service.
We’ve been using Krystal (https://krystal.io/hosting) for several years. We get a big discount for charities and it’s really good, no fuss just fast. Mind you, we don’t use the cheapest package but one of the intermediate options.
I have been extremely happy with A2 Hosting. Great customer service, very reliable, and great prices.
https://www.a2hosting.com/
I have been using Green Geeks for around 8 years or so, since I set up a website for my PhD research, with no problems at all, and their prices are very attractive
https://www.greengeeks.com/track/efficacy
(For clarity, I do get a small kickback if you sign up with that link, but I would never recommend a service I don’t use and trust myself)
I have built all of my (many, many) pages on free Blogspot sites, and then paid for one Domain Name (URL) to cover them. No hosting cost, just the purchase of the custom URL.
I have four separate sites (four paid URLs), but the service where I bought my domain names (GoDaddy) lets me make subdomain names, so I’m using dozens of blogs (mostlytheir static pages). I just make a separate Blogspot blog and use a subdomain name on it.
Here’s an example of a main domain:
https://www.thetempleguy.org/p/guide.html
And here’s one of the subdomains that I point to:
https://chinaskeytemples.thetempleguy.org/p/blog-page.html
To be clear, those are static pages. Here’s an actual bloggy blog:
https://www.thetempleguy.org/index.html
Each of those is a separate Blogspot blog; there are around 10 at The Temple Guy, all based on the one URL.
There are around 45 separate Blogspots tied together under my JamesBaquet.com umbrella!
All for the price of the one domain name, about $35US per year. (Blogspot blogs ending in Blogspot.com are free.)
It took some figgerin’, but I’m no programmer. With a little diligence, anyone can do it if I can.
I’d be glad to answer specific questions.
James Baquet took the words right out of my mouth. I was going to recommend Blogspot as well. It suits my needs on no budget. I built my website on it.