Inexpensive managed hosting with decent performance

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Posted by frost on April 25, 2019 at 12:44pm

Hi all,
Like the title says, looking for managed hosting for a dozen small sites.

Can anyone share their experience/recommendations for a reasonably performant managed host that costs less than 100ドル/month? Doesn't need to have any Drupal-specific functionality, just a reasonable performant host for the money. Most website end users are in Ireland, so host needs to have servers in this region.

Considering SiteGround atm but open to others.

Thanks

Mike

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Fresitilbox or WebcoreCloud

Posted by markconroy on April 25, 2019 at 1:03pm

Hi Mike,

If you can up the amount to about 150ドル a month the FresitilBox Pro - https://www.freistilbox.com/plans - looks like best value for you, and is primed for Drupal.

I use a company in Portlaoise (set up by a guy I know from my schooldays) called WebcoreCloud - https://www.webcore.cloud/pricing/ - for my site hosting - mark.ie and other sites like that. They are not specifically Drupal hosts, but if you ask them to put anything on the server such as Drush and Composer, there should be no problem, and very fast support request times. I reckon you'd get a very good setup from them for about 1000ドル a year (though not managed hosting, you'd still have to admin the server).

I'm not sure if you mean 100ドル per month, per site from your original post. If so, you could probably afford something like Platform.sh, if not, I think the two mentioned above would be good fits, especially the FreistilBox on for Drupal-specific knowledge.

Thanks for those suggestions

Posted by frost on April 25, 2019 at 1:42pm

Thanks for those suggestions Mark.
It's 100/month for all the sites together (they're all small organisations with tiny budgets), so Platform.sh isn't doable.

webcore cloud managed hosting

Posted by nick.morahan on April 25, 2019 at 1:10pm

I've a bunch of Drupal sites with webcore as well and I've been chatting to Craigue there recently and they do offer a managed service which will certainly cover server stuff. But not sure if you're talking about Drupal sec updates within the managed bit or not...?

But not sure if you're

Posted by frost on April 25, 2019 at 1:44pm

But not sure if you're talking about Drupal sec updates within the managed bit or not...?

No, just the usual server stuff.

Nick & Mark, I'll have a

Posted by frost on April 25, 2019 at 1:43pm

Nick & Mark,
I'll have a look at Webcore, thanks for the suggestion
Mike

Nick & Mark, I'll have a

Posted by frost on April 25, 2019 at 1:43pm

Nick & Mark,
I'll have a look at Webcore, thanks for the suggestion
Mike

That's not the biggest budget...

Posted by geewiz_ on April 25, 2019 at 1:56pm

Hi Mike,

Finding decent managed hosting (where real people take care of things for you) at a price below 10€ per site might be hard. I'd like to second Mark's suggestions:

  • A more common hosting provider like Webcore where you still have to be hands-on fits your budget better.
  • freistilbox managed hosting (disclaimer: I'm their CTO) fits your needs better.

If you'd like to learn more about freistilbox, just set up a call with me: https://calendly.com/freistil-jochen

Best regards,
Jochen

Jochen Lillich, CTO freistilbox Managed Drupal Hosting

Hi Jochen, Yes I know, it's

Posted by frost on April 25, 2019 at 10:09pm

Hi Jochen,
Yes I know, it's for clients and friends with small wallets!
Mike

I have had great experiences using Gandi Simple Hosting. Not exactly managed server, but it is a kind of VPS style solution with simplicity and pricing of shared hosting.
Servers are hosted in France or Luxembourg, there are some compute limitations, but composer is available out of the box and you can get Drush on it without issue. Git and SSH deployments, but does have its limitations.

https://www.gandi.net/en/simple-hosting

No affiliation, been using them for over 5 years and very happy.

thanks. had a look but we do

Posted by frost on April 25, 2019 at 10:26pm

thanks. had a look but we do need something that is managed.

Cloud VPS with MyHost

Posted by frankdesign on April 25, 2019 at 4:09pm

I've been using MyHost.ie for a few years and find them great. They have a managed cloud VPS that's just within your budget. Their servers are based in Shannon and Dublin which might suit your clients.

thanks i've just contacted

Posted by frost on April 25, 2019 at 10:22pm

thanks i've just contacted them to see what they can do

just an update. Webcore

Posted by frost on April 29, 2019 at 3:00pm

just an update. Webcore replied and said they'd have to get back to me. And haven't yet.
Myhost quickly responded to my initial and all followup queries.

I know there's a difference between sales and the actual service you get once you sign up, but from my perspective, Myhost certainly make the better impression.

update: Got a response from

Posted by frost on April 29, 2019 at 4:20pm

update: Got a response from Webcore, discussing details with them now...

I find them great. I have a

Posted by frankdesign on April 29, 2019 at 3:14pm

I find them great. I have a few of their VZ1GB Cloud VPS's which I have no problems with, which at 65ドル.98 a month is well within your budget (that includes server management and Plesk) . I run 9 Drupal sites on each no problem. I also have a VZ2GB which also has 9 Drupal sites, one of which is a relatively busy site and it performs no problem.

F

AWS: Free (perhaps forever) but some heavy lifting

Posted by rphair on April 29, 2019 at 4:14pm

I've been lurking on this discussion for a while but wanted to throw this unconventional idea out. I know it's not hassle free, so no need to shoot it down, but worth considering the AWS Free Tier (https://aws.amazon.com/free).

I have a T2 micro instance running the main business CMS (Joomla, God forgive me) with shell, root, composer, drush, git, node, etc., also used for a few Drupal development sites & some other CMS / homebrewed PHP installations. It's a pain to provision the instance as a full featured web server (labour intensive; I've heard Alan @ Annertech also has some experience with this) but once done up for Drupal it could easily provide the bandwidth for a dozen small sites out of the available time credits, which accumulate during low usage periods.

That knocks down the hosting bill to zero, neglecting the labour intensive setup. It is "hosted" in the sense that AWS is taking care of the infrastructure & software, but "not hosted" in the sense that you have to lift some other heavy stuff into place yourself & handle some upgrades. Once that's done, when the "free year" expires you can migrate the whole shebang into a new AWS account, for another year on the free tier (hint: I haven't had a web hosting bill for any web site for years).

interesting idea. does sound

Posted by frost on April 29, 2019 at 4:19pm

interesting idea. does sound a bit more labour intensive than i want, but interesting nonetheless.

Dedicated

Posted by shamio on May 1, 2019 at 10:06am

I have experience with Hostgator dedicated plans and their servers and services are good and i am satisfied with them. As far as i know, their servers are fully managed.cPanel is also offered for the Linux servers as well. I suggest you to have a look at their offers. And also i suggest you to buy dedicated server if your websites have a lot of visitors because VPS servers are not suitable for running sites with high amount of daily visits.

Doubt is the father of invention ... ZendegiyeSabz

we already have a dedicated

Posted by frost on May 2, 2019 at 1:09pm

we already have a dedicated server and have maintained it for years.
This new server is for a small number of low-traffic websites, as an experiment

Ireland

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