Small website hosting package?

[RoyMac5]

Hi does anyone have a recommendation for a reliable website hosting service? I want to use cPanel and it's only a teeny site (less than 500mb). I've had a google and there's lots out there but...

[Comrade 86]

Wix, Ionos and Fasthosts are probably the 3 most commonly used. There are other tailored products for e-commerce though that might be better, depending on what you're trying to do. Shopify was, I think, one we looked at that looked good, but my memory is sketchy tbh.

[RoyMac5]

46 minutes ago, Comrade 86 said:

Wix, Ionos and Fasthosts are probably the 3 most commonly used. There are other tailored products for e-commerce though that might be better, depending on what you're trying to do. Shopify was, I think, one we looked at that looked good, but my memory is sketchy tbh.

No e-commerce needed, but I'll check out the others thanks.

[Bob The Badger]

Blue Host are cheap as are (or were, not sure anymore), Hostgator if it's just hosting you want and you're using WordPress.

Both will give you cPanel access.

I use Cloudways and they are good but expensive for a hobby site. I pay around $30 per month

[Comrade 86]

Sorry @RoyMac5 completely overlooked the cPanel requirement 🤐

[RoyMac5]

Think I might give WHUK another try. I prefer a UK based company, although I don't know why as they all outsource their support! 😄 I need to be able to redirect a .uk domain to a .com website and as I found out from WHUK their really cheap WP Lite hosting won't do that. 

https://www.webhosting.uk.com/

 

[RoyMac5]

3 minutes ago, Comrade 86 said:

Sorry @RoyMac5 completely overlooked the cPanel requirement 🤐

I use that with current host TsoHost, and after a very short burst of seeing Plexus(?) I realised I need something very idiot proof so I'll stick with the little I know. 😄

[Comrade 86]

18 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

I use that with current host TsoHost, and after a very short burst of seeing Plexus(?) I realised I need something very idiot proof so I'll stick with the little I know. 😄

My favourite Aussie saying; Keep it simple, muggy! 

[Stive Pesley]

I use Fastwebhost and they have always been fine, until I came to transfer in a domain a few weeks back.

Their support engineers were totally clueless. I literally had to explain to them every step of the way how to do it. 

Which is fine, because that's what I do for a living so I know (and I also knew when they were giving me BS) - but if I didn't know that stuff, we'd still be no further forward now

I moved my domain there from Zen, as although they were based in the UK - they were double the price

As always - you get what you pay for...

[Day]

2 hours ago, RoyMac5 said:

I need to be able to redirect a .uk domain to a .com website

You can do this easily. You will probably have one, if not create a file called .htaccess and upload it to the root.

Inside that file add:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)oldsite\.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^https://newsite.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

Or if you just have the uk domain but no hosting for it, edit the DNS to point to your website server, then add the domain onto your account 

[RoyMac5]

11 minutes ago, David said:

You can do this easily. You will probably have one, if not create a file called .htaccess and upload it to the root.

Inside that file add:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(?:www\.)oldsite\.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^https://newsite.com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

Or if you just have the uk domain but no hosting for it, edit the DNS to point to your website server, then add the domain onto your account 

Thanks, I will look into that if I don't chose a cPanel hosting, although I don't totally know what it means I know enough to follow instructions. But cPanel has a section that includes a 'redirect' option and that does it for you. 😄 So I think I will look for a cPanel web host because when looking at the cheap WP Lite Wordpress hosting, the user front end Plesk, means you have to 'change' the root directory of the site. Whilst it maybe straightforward I don't want to do the learning needed to do it. I created the small website some time ago using WP and Elementor plugin and I've forgotten everything I knew. I've already girded my loins for changing the DNS for the domains! 😄

[Day]

37 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

Thanks, I will look into that if I don't chose a cPanel hosting, although I don't totally know what it means I know enough to follow instructions. But cPanel has a section that includes a 'redirect' option and that does it for you. 😄 So I think I will look for a cPanel web host because when looking at the cheap WP Lite Wordpress hosting, the user front end Plesk, means you have to 'change' the root directory of the site. Whilst it maybe straightforward I don't want to do the learning needed to do it. I created the small website some time ago using WP and Elementor plugin and I've forgotten everything I knew. I've already girded my loins for changing the DNS for the domains! 😄

All cPanel does is add the .htaccess for you. Hosting with cPanel in general will cost you more as it's licensed software. 

Most support would do the redirect for you as well, so don't pay over the odds for that one file change.

[ThePrisoner]

cPanel. There’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. Didn’t know it was still around! 


 

But on more helpful terms, David has pretty much covered it. A quick htaccess file uploaded into root after 30 seconds in Notepad. Maybe if it’s a super tiny site then checkout Digitalocean or Linode packages for around $5 a month.