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Rebuilt a Squarespace site and hosted it from GitHub with Cloudflare, ending up with a better site at a much lower cost.
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Reddit · r/squarespace · yesterday
Rebuilt a Squarespace site and hosted it from GitHub with Cloudflare, ending up with a better site at a much lower cost.
Reddit · r/squarespace · yesterday
Moved their domains over after the Squarespace acquisition and found the transfer simple: request it, wait out the lock, then follow the instructions.
Reddit · r/fastmail · yesterday
After reporting several bugs, the replies showed no grasp of the problem and then communication stopped.
Reddit · r/fastmail · yesterday
Every contact with support has been outstanding in quality and reliability, with a sense of being taken seriously.
Reddit · r/hetzner · yesterday
Moved from the old GoDaddy-owned hosts to Hetzner and netcup, with no surprises, rarely needed support, and netcup usually a bit cheaper.
Reddit · r/VPS · yesterday
Two months into an RS 8000 root server, tickets take days and end in unexplained one-line closures, with repeated downtime from the network, so they plan to move away. The provider is inferred from the RS 8000 plan name and the Austria network mention.
Reddit · r/Hosting · yesterday
After about four years on the host, the swap from SiteLock to the host's own AI protection meant malware was found twice without any notification or cleanup for a small business site.
Reddit · r/webhosting · yesterday
About 20 WordPress sites kept crashing on shared plans, and the move to a managed VPS on the host's advice made things worse, so they are leaving.
Reddit · r/webhosting · yesterday
Runs large side projects on WP Engine base plan at a fixed monthly price.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 2 days ago
Moved hosting from Azure web apps to Linux on Hetzner with Cloudflare edge caching and cut the monthly cost dramatically.
Reddit · r/fastmail · 2 days ago
Recently moved their custom-domain email to Fastmail and loves it; Squarespace price rises prompted looking at hosting.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 2 days ago
Was charged for a domain they never ordered; GoDaddy said a staff member with account access made the purchase and gave no clear explanation of how.
Reddit · r/Hosting · 2 days ago
Has used GoDaddy for over 12 years and feels it declined; contact-form emails stopped reaching their inbox and GoDaddy branding is on their emails.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 2 days ago
Found it frustrating that a client's whole Squarespace site could not be reassigned to a new subscription, forcing a manual rebuild, and now leans toward Framer for clients.
Reddit · r/Hosting · 2 days ago
Finds Contabo good value and flexible for both site and email hosting.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 2 days ago
After years on a shared plan, renewal hikes put their bill at about $20.63 a month, above the $17.95 list price, so they feel overcharged and are shopping around.
Reddit · r/VPS · 3 days ago
Runs KVM 2 plans and advises paying monthly, since one plan kept its old price while another jumped sharply on the next bill. Cancelling anytime is a plus for them.
Reddit · r/VPS · 3 days ago
Finds Contabo low quality, with roughly 30 percent CPU steal that forces buying more vCPUs than needed.
Reddit · r/VPS · 3 days ago
Uses RackNerd and checked their plan: about a year for a modest price with 2 cores, 3.5GB RAM, a 65GB drive and plenty of bandwidth, seen as roughly on par in price with a pricier Hostinger plan.
Reddit · r/VPS · 3 days ago
Uses Hostinger for website hosting and says it has always been pretty good.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 3 days ago
Moved servers from Hetzner to Scaleway after Hetzner raised prices by more than other cloud providers.
Reddit · r/fastmail · 3 days ago
Waited about 12 hours on the trial, then paid for two years; likes the clean interface, fast site and app, and runs aliases and a custom domain.
Reddit · r/fastmail · 3 days ago
Came over from Proton, tried mailbox.org, and returned to Fastmail; found support great when needed.
Reddit · r/fastmail · 3 days ago
On the Fastmail trial after leaving Proton; so far finds few limitations, works with their own domain and masked emails, and likes the clean UI.
Reddit · r/Hosting · 3 days ago
Used a series of Liquid Web dedicated servers for 18 years and is moving on, citing outdated hardware, cPanel price rises and doing more maintenance with an AI assistant than with their support.
Reddit · r/Hosting · 3 days ago
Ran a web app on Vercel and liked the easy GitHub deploys and dashboard, but worried about the bill when junk traffic hit usage-based pricing, and later moved to a rented VPS.
Reddit · r/Hosting · 3 days ago
Has run several projects for months on an OVH 4 CPU, 8GB VPS with no problems and previously had good experience with Hetzner.
Reddit · r/VPS · 3 days ago
Bought an IPv6-only netcup VPS two months ago and enjoyed the low price with Cloudflare proxying, until a service needing IPv4 whitelisting caught them out.
Reddit · r/Infomaniak · 3 days ago
Support couldn't accommodate a custom webmail subdomain, leaving users confused by the mismatched login domain.
Reddit · r/fastmail · 4 days ago
Opened tickets about mail providers not receiving their custom domain emails and a billing issue; nine days later neither was resolved, and authenticated mail was still landing in spam.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 5 days ago
Has run a VPS on Leaseweb infrastructure through a reseller and reports no problems with it.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 5 days ago
Has been a Leaseweb customer since 2019. Finds it never the cheapest but consistently better on support response and assistance, which matters for their business.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 5 days ago
Says Leaseweb is raising prices and that support is poor, and is migrating away from it.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 5 days ago
Hosts with both Linode and Hetzner. Finds Hetzner cloud locations often full, so adding new servers can take months, and notes Hetzner has begun raising prices.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 5 days ago
Hit a ghost keyboard input problem installing an OS through Hetzner's KVM on a dedicated server. Support swapped the KVM, which partly fixed it, though a USB image error remained and they finished the install another way.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 6 days ago
A couple of years on Proton and it has been fine.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 6 days ago
Very happy with Fastmail, with many domains to choose from and masked email used often.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 7 days ago
Moved from Proton and Tuta to mailbox.org with a custom domain; fine for years apart from clunky interfaces.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 7 days ago
Left Tuta for mailbox.org and likes it, with third-party app support and a custom domain.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 7 days ago
Four years on mailbox.org without issues, but support could not fix downgrade errors over three weeks.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 7 days ago
Found Tuta support extremely bad: overcharged, a support post unapproved, and three days for an answer, so they deleted the account.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 7 days ago
Tuta blocked two paid accounts and one free account, and their card could not be used on a new account without emailing support.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 7 days ago
Uses mailbox.org with a custom domain; does not love the interface and has heard of sent mail landing in spam, but incoming mail is fine.
Reddit · r/fastmail · 7 days ago
Has been a Fastmail customer for about five years and is very satisfied overall, praising its support documentation and noting it was easy to reach support the three times they needed it, while not always agreeing with its decisions.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 7 days ago
Has used DigitalOcean for years, finds it very reliable and has never needed to contact support because it has always just worked.
Reddit · r/fastmail · 7 days ago
Picked Zoho over Fastmail for a first custom domain because it was cheaper and after two years has no reason to move.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 7 days ago
A couple of years on Tuta; works great apart from a weak spam filter.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 7 days ago
Enjoys Tuta though the UI is disliked by some and third-party clients are unsupported.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 7 days ago
Set up Fastmail on a new domain over a weekend; easy and everything works great.
Reddit · r/emailprivacy · 8 days ago
They used the basic plan with their own domain and it worked flawlessly, with quota warnings only when forwarding and moving many mails; they call it cheap and good.
Reddit · r/laravel · 8 days ago
They could not provision servers or deploy client sites for hours during the incident. They patched PHP manually over SSH, and Forge's published instructions were incorrect.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 8 days ago
They run their 8-person agency's tooling on 2 cheap VPS managed through Coolify and call it one of their favourite tools, handling deployments and infrastructure. They have also moved client workloads from AWS and Vercel to it.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 8 days ago
Has been with Hosting.com for about five years on a reseller plan and is leaving after three price increases in a single year, the plan renaming and going from $39.60 to $48.60 a month. Says he was not told the amounts in advance and found out only when charged; he cancelled and is moving elsewhere.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 8 days ago
Is moving a 100-site plan away from Nexcess after a year of decline: the price rose from $638 to $849 a month with no added benefits, PHP patching took over a day with little communication, and the included CDN and automatic updates did not work reliably. Says the speeds are still great but would not recommend it.
Reddit · r/fastmail · 8 days ago
Has used Fastmail with their own domains for about 15 months. Finds the support very good and human, and likes the configurability even though the many settings felt overwhelming at first, plus the detailed headers, boolean search and subdomain aliasing.
Reddit · r/fastmail · 8 days ago
Has used Fastmail for several months and likes the 1Password masked email integration. Says the apps just work, has no complaints and considers it great value for the money.
Reddit · r/webflow · 8 days ago
Moved a marketing site off a roughly $12k a year Webflow Enterprise plan to Astro on Cloudflare for about $5 a month.
Reddit · r/emailprivacy · 9 days ago
They have used Migadu for 3 years on the Micro plan with two domains, called it their best choice, had only two issues that were solved quickly, and never hit daily limits.
Reddit · r/laravel · 9 days ago
They found the Forge control panel completely unavailable during the PHP patch incident, not just slow as the post-mortem described.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 9 days ago
They were charged $480 for a new site, could not edit it until buying a $520 plan, and now can only reach an AI support agent despite 24/7 support claims.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 9 days ago
Used Fastmail a couple of years before Proton and found it good, but now seems pricier.
Reddit · r/fastmail · 9 days ago
Used Proton Mail with SimpleLogin for two years before switching to Fastmail. Found the domain transfer smooth and simple, and has zero complaints about the web, desktop or Android apps so far.
Reddit · r/webflow · 9 days ago
Agency paid Webflow about $9k a year and replaced it with a self-hosted stack costing about $25 a month.
Reddit · r/webflow · 9 days ago
Rebuilt a Webflow-ready sports team site on Astro, Sanity and Cloudflare to avoid about £34 a month.
Reddit · r/webflow · 9 days ago
Non-developer designer loves Webflow and builds from Figma links via Claude in minutes.
Reddit · r/webflow · 9 days ago
Moving away from Webflow as it is too limiting for ecommerce and nobody in house wants to use it.
Reddit · r/webflow · 9 days ago
Agency developer no longer recommends Webflow and is moving budget clients away due to high small-site hosting costs.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 9 days ago
Has a dedicated server with Liquid Web bought in 2024 and was told it would rise about 51% on 17 days notice. The old price can only be kept by paying twelve months up front, which they find hard to afford as a self-employed customer.
HostingRecs · Mathieu · 10 days ago
My domains have sat at Gandi since around 2009. Back then the mailboxes came free with each domain and renewals were never something I thought about. Since the company was bought, both changed. Mail became a paid add-on, so I moved it to another provider and only kept the free forwarding, and my .com renewals now cost more than three times what I pay at Porkbun. The DNS editor is still clean and I can't remember a single outage. Twelve domains moved so far, the rest will go as they come up for renewal.
HostingRecs · Tomasz · 10 days ago
Freelancer here. I run 11 small client WordPress sites on one Hetzner VPS with the Essentials plan. Unlimited web apps on a single server is what makes the maths work for me. The panel takes care of the dull parts: setting up the stack, free SSL, picking the PHP version per app, scheduled backups, and one staging site where I test plugin updates first. Keep in mind you still pay Hetzner for the server, RunCloud only manages it. Prices have gone up more than once since I signed up, and API access is now only on the Business tier, which annoyed me. One time an agent update failed and I had to update it by hand over SSH. Support is ticket based, they answered within a day and were polite but it's not instant.
HostingRecs · Pieter · 10 days ago
Been on a Cloud VPS 20 with them since early 2024. It hosts my Nextcloud, a Gitea instance, Uptime Kuma and a few Docker side projects. 12 GB of RAM for what they charge is still hard to beat anywhere I've looked. Know what you're buying though. The vCPUs are shared and you can see steal time in htop during European working hours, so anything CPU heavy runs noticeably slower than on my Hetzner box. Disk is fast, no complaints there. Uptime has been decent for me. Two unplanned outages so far, one about 40 minutes, plus a maintenance reboot announced with very little notice. Support tickets get answered but slowly and the first reply is usually a template, so I don't count on them for anything. The panel looks old but does what I need: reinstall, snapshots, rescue mode. I keep restic backups off the server anyway. For self hosting by someone who can manage Linux it's great value. I wouldn't put a client's shop on it.
Reddit · r/emailprivacy · 10 days ago
After several years on Fastmail they let the subscription lapse because they never needed the 60 GB storage and found it too expensive for their light use.
Reddit · r/emailprivacy · 10 days ago
They have paid for Fastmail for 5 years with no issues but can no longer justify about 60 euro per year.
Reddit · r/emailprivacy · 10 days ago
They tried Migadu but all mail, including 2FA codes and login prompts, always arrived about 5 minutes late.
Reddit · r/VPS · 10 days ago
Running multiple VPS instances for production web apps and AI agents with zero downtime and fast customer support responses.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 10 days ago
Finds Fastmail's organisation far easier than Proton for a real inbox, and less buggy with a rock-solid app.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 10 days ago
Three months testing mailbox.org for the move out of Gmail; very solid and covers the basics and more.
Reddit · r/emailprivacy · 10 days ago
Found the mailbox.org UI clunky and dated with no dedicated app when trying to set it up.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 10 days ago
Migrated family to Zoho Mail on a shared domain; works fine and is affordable, though with more spam false positives than Google.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 10 days ago
Signed up in 2025 with a custom domain and wildcard; uneventful and as wanted, though mail rules are weak.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 10 days ago
About six months on mailbox.org via IMAP with a custom domain and a training spam filter, pretty good.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 10 days ago
Was a Liquid Web customer for close to a decade and had several frustrating support experiences. When the renewal email threatened a 12% increase unless a one-year commitment was signed, it confirmed the decision to move to another host.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 10 days ago
Got the same Liquid Web renewal email but their increase is only 5% on a good original deal. Notes the price freeze now requires paying twelve months up front instead of monthly, and they do their own monitoring and troubleshooting anyway.
Reddit · r/VPS · 10 days ago
Already runs a VPS with netcup and is happy with it. Ordering a second one took just under 48 hours to provision with no status note, which they accept, and they praise the service and use the servers for AI testing and non-production work.
HostingRecs · 10 days ago
KVM 2 for about 8 months, running n8n, a Postgres container and a couple of small APIs in Docker. 8 GB RAM at that price is hard to beat, and the panel makes snapshots, OS reinstalls and firewall rules easy. I barely touch it beyond SSH. Then I ran a heavy scraping job overnight and the server got throttled hard, everything crawled until the next day. Support pointed me to their CPU usage limits. Uptime otherwise has been fine. Check the renewal price before you pay. The intro rate only covers the prepaid term, after that it's a lot more.
HostingRecs · Felix D. · 10 days ago
About two years building client sites on it, mostly Next.js. The developer experience is still the best I've used. Push to GitHub, every branch gets its own preview URL I can send the client, merge and it's live. Pages are fast and downtime has been a non issue.
HostingRecs · 10 days ago
Moved the bakery's WordPress site and email here almost three years ago because the first year was so cheap. For a long time it was fine. cPanel is the normal one, installing WordPress took about ten minutes, and the chat agents were polite even if half the time they just sent me a knowledge base link. This year was rough. Renewal came in at more than double what I first paid. Then in August the whole thing was down for most of a day, site and mailboxes, and live chat was down too, so the only updates I could find were posts on X. Customer orders that came in by email didn't reach me until the next day. A couple of times around holidays the site also showed a resource limit page when traffic went up. Fine for a hobby site. If your business runs on email, put it somewhere else. I'm moving mine this month.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 11 days ago
Switched from Proton to Fastmail for email, calendar and files.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 11 days ago
Migrated from Gmail to Fastmail with easy import and replies from within Fastmail.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 11 days ago
Uses Fastmail and stopped looking for anything better.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 11 days ago
Tuta deactivated their account twice, so they moved to Runbox and had no problems since.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 11 days ago
Says they have never been able to keep a Tuta account active, paid or otherwise, calling it a dealbreaker.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 11 days ago
A week-old Tuta account stopped logging in with invalid credentials and the recovery code failed too.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 11 days ago
After confirming a new Tuta account, the next day login failed with invalid credentials despite correct details.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 11 days ago
A new Tuta account worked for one day and then returned invalid login credentials.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 11 days ago
Could not create a free Tuta account without emailing support, which soured them.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 11 days ago
Paid Tuta user since 2019 who is moving to Proton because Tuta caused too many headaches.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 11 days ago
Free Tuta account for over seven years with no issues, though used lightly.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 11 days ago
Paid account with a custom domain for almost two years with no issues, plus a free account for a spouse.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 11 days ago
Free user for a year and a half who finds Tuta amazing after the account was unusable for a day or two after creation.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 11 days ago
Uses Tuta with a custom domain, many aliases and a family plan without problems, though support can be slow.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 11 days ago
Paid Tuta account since 2019 with never a single problem.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 11 days ago
A flagged Tuta account was fixed with one email, and they liked the service enough to pay, wishing Android notifications worked better.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 11 days ago
Over a year on Tuta with zero flakiness or remembered downtime.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 11 days ago
Had Tuta account problems five times and found customer service deplorable before moving to Fastmail.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 11 days ago
Calls mailbox.org great and cheap with multiple aliases after almost a year and has not considered others.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 11 days ago
Seven years on mailbox.org without a single issue across mail, contacts, calendar, tasks and drive.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 11 days ago
About two years on Fastmail with no problems; everything just works.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 11 days ago
Uses Fastmail for its features and because other providers accept its mail with less bounce back.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 11 days ago
Nearly got locked out of PayPal because Proton Mail refused to receive the verification code, then moved critical mail back to Gmail.
Reddit · r/emailprivacy · 11 days ago
Left Tuta because customer service was severely lacking, with zero empathy and rudeness.
Reddit · r/sysadmin · 11 days ago
Says Microsoft 365's built-in backup is super easy to set up and works well.
Reddit · r/webflow · 11 days ago
Mid-build developer says the Box element change forced a workflow switch and will make this their last Webflow site.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 11 days ago
Was with Liquid Web from the start and left two years ago. Says the company went from a favourite to one that made them sick after the private-equity buyout, and recommends looking elsewhere.
Reddit · r/emailprivacy · 12 days ago
Occasional spam-folder problems with this provider, but they don't feel it is selling their data, at least as far as they know.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 12 days ago
Years of use across about eight support domains for different apps, with forwarding into a single admin inbox; for the price nothing beats it.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 12 days ago
Six years on a Proton Visionary subscription, happy with performance, privacy and security; renewing.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 12 days ago
On Purelymail with a custom domain so they never have to migrate addresses again.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 12 days ago
Has used Zoho's free tier for personal email since launch and the paid tier for work, with no major issues.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 12 days ago
Over ten years on the free version for several addresses with no problems or pressure to upgrade.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 12 days ago
Proton's free version is all they need; they found Tuta's UI disliked.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 12 days ago
Uses Fastmail as main email and works well with aliases, rules and subfolders for separate addresses.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 13 days ago
Their company uses Zoho's paid service because it is cheap and its spam identification is good.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 13 days ago
Moved email from Fastmail and Proton to Zoho, calling it best for a complete task, calendar and mail solution.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 13 days ago
Tried Proton briefly then stayed with Fastmail, finding it solid and just works.
Reddit · r/emailprivacy · 13 days ago
Finds Purelymail the cheapest and most straightforward provider, lacking only business features.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 13 days ago
Tuta has been fine; not as fully featured as Gmail but worth the trade-off.
Reddit · r/VPS · 13 days ago
A newer OVH VPS-2 plan gave absolutely awful, CPU-starved performance for a game server, unlike their earlier VPS-3.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 13 days ago
Trying Fastmail so far so good and migrated easily.
Reddit · r/WIX · 13 days ago
Wix refused to cancel on request and billed a year they would never use after five years as a customer.
Reddit · r/WIX · 13 days ago
Used to find Wix easy and intuitive but now spends hours fixing things that fall apart after a change.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 14 days ago
After 25+ years, their WordPress installs were all hit with bot and spam files for the first time during DreamHost's security incident.
Reddit · r/emailprivacy · 14 days ago
Switched from Proton to Tuta over a year ago; basic, cheap and does a great job.
Reddit · r/emailprivacy · 14 days ago
Two years on Tuta, does the job 100% and mail delivery is instant, though the client looks dated.
Reddit · r/emailprivacy · 14 days ago
Paying Tuta customer for about two years and very pleased given their threat model.
Reddit · r/emailprivacy · 14 days ago
Made a Tuta account a few months ago with no issues and is slowly moving everything over.
Reddit · r/emailprivacy · 14 days ago
After Proton, Posteo and a failed Tuta signup, uses Fastmail with custom domains; apps are great and snappy.
Reddit · r/emailprivacy · 14 days ago
After a year on Proton, mail on a premium-only domain stopped overnight when the subscription ran out, with no warning.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 14 days ago
A few years on Fastmail with a positive experience.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 14 days ago
Opened their Fastmail account in March 2014 and renews happily every year without ever having an issue.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 14 days ago
Started on Proton and switched to Fastmail with no issues and a happy family.
Reddit · r/ProtonMail · 14 days ago
Proton email is blocked at the college where they work, so student applications never get a response.
Reddit · r/ProWordPress · 15 days ago
Git-based deployment workflow where updates merge from dev to production is solid for enterprise apps, though adapting to its rigid workflow can be disruptive for agencies.
Reddit · r/webdev · 15 days ago
Stopped using Railway after security incidents and because prices skyrocketed once there was some traffic; now on cheaper Hetzner servers.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 15 days ago
Tried several providers and recently switched to Fastmail a month ago; it has been great.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 15 days ago
Loves Fastmail and uses it alongside Google Workspace for junk.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 15 days ago
About a year on Purelymail and it has been working well.
Reddit · r/fastmail · 15 days ago
Finds the official Fastmail Mac app extremely fast, much quicker and less buggy than Apple apps.
Reddit · r/fastmail · 15 days ago
Uses the Fastmail desktop app for advanced keyboard shortcuts with a best-in-class move-to-folder flow.
Reddit · r/ProtonMail · 15 days ago
Their Proton custom domain was blocked when emailing a US state agency until the contact asked admins to unblock.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 15 days ago
Calls starting a website with GoDaddy the worst decision of their life.
Reddit · r/AZURE · 16 days ago
They could not open a support ticket during the outage even as owner and creator of the subscription, getting through automated support agents only to be told to ask their provider to open it.
Reddit · r/AZURE · 16 days ago
They had about an hour of trouble with their SQL elastic pool in West Europe where the server was reachable but no tables were accessible.
Reddit · r/AZURE · 16 days ago
They saw not only SQL problems but also disconnected virtual machines during the West Europe incident, all of which came back later.
Reddit · r/AZURE · 16 days ago
Their AKS VMs were live migrated several times a week, which exposed a Redis client config issue causing latency and pod restarts. After tuning pings and keep-alives they have had no VM freeze in months.
Reddit · r/AZURE · 16 days ago
They ran a cluster of 40 then 120 nodes on Azure and hit network backplane flooding, fixed by bigger VMs and then API refactoring. They say Azure documents these best practices poorly.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 16 days ago
They run one Coolify on a single VPS for a Next.js app and find day to day deploys are just git push. The proxy being Traefik cost them debugging time because many older guides use Caddy labels.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 16 days ago
Liked not thinking about infrastructure on Railway, but recent downtime is a blocker and they are looking at self-hosting.
Reddit · r/VPS · 16 days ago
Finds Hostinger great for most use cases unless bandwidth limits matter, with only good experience in North America.
Reddit · r/VPS · 16 days ago
Support would not respond during outages and afterwards said they saw no problems on their end.
Reddit · r/AZURE · 17 days ago
They found the Azure health history still showed no event for their subscriptions during the West Europe incident and felt the status and health reporting is lacking.
Reddit · r/AZURE · 17 days ago
They saw no problem during the West Europe outage because their Azure SQL server is only privately accessible, which they suspect explains why others were hit.
Reddit · r/AZURE · 17 days ago
They had to restart a stuck elastic pool with eight databases during the incident, with SSMS not showing logins and a job looping on authentication.
Reddit · r/AZURE · 17 days ago
Their VMs sat on full servers with no capacity, so every small hiccup shuffled the whole rack slowly, and they eventually moved region.
Reddit · r/AZURE · 17 days ago
Their Windows VMs crashed right after provisioning with disk hardware errors and a month of work with support, including kernel dumps, got no result. They switched from spot to on-demand VMs at higher cost.
Reddit · r/AZURE · 17 days ago
They hit an Azure SQL outage in West Europe where connections failed intermittently and tables could not be listed in SSMS on the primary of their failover group, while the read-only failover copy looked fine.
Reddit · r/AZURE · 17 days ago
They could connect to their server but not browse the databases in their Azure SQL elastic pool, and restarting the pool failed with an internal server error while service health showed nothing.
Reddit · r/AZURE · 17 days ago
They lost metrics and databases during the West Europe elastic pool outage, a restore failed, and support gave no response for two hours beyond generic automated replies.
Reddit · r/webdev · 17 days ago
They chose Railway for its managed setup and infrastructure visualizer at a price close to a VPS, and say it is far cheaper than AWS for them, despite its reliability issues.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 17 days ago
They run Coolify across two servers for side projects and client sites and like its one-click services and template library. They find it heavy on resources and say the UI gets confusing as servers are added.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 17 days ago
They ran Coolify on a single VPS for small apps and internal tools and stayed because it needed so little attention day to day. They could drop down to plain compose when a tweak was needed.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 17 days ago
Two-person kitchenware store with 90 SKUs has a 6.1 second mobile load and 71% bounce, blamed on script-injecting Shopify apps and a $4,800 agency fix quote.
Reddit · r/webflow · 17 days ago
Archived their portfolio site and cancelled Webflow because it was too expensive.
Reddit · r/WIX · 17 days ago
Says you will never speak to a human at Wix and will face exorbitant cancellation charges.
Reddit · r/AZURE · 18 days ago
For a month their AKS Linux VMs froze together with connectivity issues and support was not useful. Switching from Dasv6 to Dsv7 stopped the freezes but costs more.
Reddit · r/AZURE · 18 days ago
They lost invoice access entirely, and after weeks support told them to create another subscription for billing. First-line support just follows a script until a senior engineer gets involved.
Reddit · r/webdev · 18 days ago
They report essentially zero downtime in the 5 years their team has used Render.
Reddit · r/webdev · 18 days ago
They currently run a VPS with IONOS and have no complaints, though they describe their use case as simple.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 18 days ago
Locked out of email for three days after a forced password reset; DreamHost ignored repeated requests to reset MFA and does not take phone calls.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 18 days ago
Likes Fastmail for aliases: 1Password integration and it handles replies.
Reddit · r/devops · 18 days ago
AI API key stolen via Railway; an Anthropic alert, not Railway, revealed it, and a spend cap limited the loss.
Reddit · r/Hosting · 18 days ago
Moved 26 low-traffic WordPress sites onto one large Contabo VPS with CloudPanel in 2024, using about 9GB of RAM with object caching, and notes disk can drag under load.
Reddit · r/ProtonMail · 18 days ago
Custom domain hosted on Proton landed in spam or was blocked; after switching to iCloud there were no issues.
Reddit · r/ProtonMail · 18 days ago
A retailer silently cancelled a limited edition order because its terms disallowed Proton Mail addresses.
Reddit · r/sysadmin · 18 days ago
During GoDaddy's certificate mass revocation, certificates had 3 hours or even negative warning, and GoDaddy's delegation settings were a joke.
Reddit · r/hetzner · 18 days ago
Going through last year they found they appear to have been double billed, which they link to shifting billing dates.
Reddit · r/VPS · 19 days ago
Newly assigned DDoS-protected IP came cluttered with dozens of old firewall rules and support ignored tickets and refund requests for 17 days.
Reddit · r/VPS · 19 days ago
Recycled DDoS-protected IPs retained old customer firewall rules without being reset, and mounting issues after the acquisition forced a move to OVH.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 19 days ago
When they reported a hacked site, DreamHost support gave minimally useful info but kept the site up and put a restored backup in a separate directory.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 19 days ago
Paying Fastmail user for years; free aliases on its own and custom domains are easy to drop.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 19 days ago
Uses Fastmail masked emails per site and really likes it.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 19 days ago
Fastmail masked emails work perfectly; only two companies ever questioned them.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 19 days ago
Uses Zoho Mail with a catch-all on their own domain and sending works well.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 19 days ago
Had two Linux VPSes restart unexpectedly during the outage and could no longer log in with their passwords.
Reddit · r/sysadmin · 19 days ago
GoDaddy-backed certificates were mass revoked with only 3 hours notice at 2am on some and no notice on others, forcing rushed renewals.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 19 days ago
Left SiteGround because the plan renewed at several times the introductory price after the first year, and moved to Hetzner where the renewal matched the signup price.
Reddit · r/googlecloud · 20 days ago
As a student they used the $300 trial to host a Minecraft server on virtual machines and ended up with a $157 charge. Their billing account is closed and support redirects them to an automated assistant.
Reddit · r/googlecloud · 20 days ago
With about a decade in cloud, they ran two startups on GCP and never had a billing or alerting issue.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 20 days ago
They found Coolify extremely resource hungry for how little it does, with critical bugs in persistent storage handling for compose services, and would not use it in production.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 20 days ago
After a malware attack on shared hosting, HostGator support wanted over $300 to fix and restore.
Reddit · r/devops · 20 days ago
Railway is insanely fast to deploy with a nice UI, but security and reliability let them down; switching permanently.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 20 days ago
Kinsta help is nice and available, but overage charges for bot traffic are out of control and they are looking for a new host.
Reddit · r/squarespace · 20 days ago
Squarespace stopped their domain after a business structure change, halting emails and billing during peak season with one useless reply a day.
Reddit · r/webdev · 21 days ago
After an earlier outage they moved their services from Railway to AWS. After the latest incident they cancelled their subscription, saying even the support page would not load.
Reddit · r/webdev · 21 days ago
Their team spent a full day rotating secrets after the Railway incident and lost count of the complaints in their chat.
Reddit · r/Hosting · 21 days ago
InMotion left a client's VPS unpatched for a security issue for over a day while two tickets went unanswered and phone support could not escalate.
Reddit · r/devops · 21 days ago
Beta site on Railway: Gemini key abused for about $2k in two hours, no notice from Railway, deleted all accounts.
Reddit · r/devops · 21 days ago
Started on Railway because it was easy and cheap, but two years of outages and the breach handling are pushing them off.
Reddit · r/devops · 21 days ago
On a 7-day Railway trial, could not deploy on day 3 and is not happy.
Reddit · r/devops · 21 days ago
Moved everything to Cloudflare; Railway's infrastructure stability was not consistent.
Reddit · r/webdev · 21 days ago
API credits drained despite usage limits after the Railway breach, and they could not redeploy for 30+ hours.
Reddit · r/devops · 21 days ago
Revoked an OpenAI key before it was used, but says Railway has had too many issues and will use a better-known host for sensitive apps.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 21 days ago
Had three servers down for over 48 hours with no information from Hostwinds and plans to move to a new host.
Reddit · r/VPS · 21 days ago
Later netcup VPSs had weaker, slower virtual CPUs than the US ones, though they would still choose netcup for a VPS.
Reddit · r/sysadmin · 21 days ago
GoDaddy revocation emails arrived at 20:30 CET and 80 certificates had to be reissued overnight.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 21 days ago
With A2/Hosting.com for over 12 years, says support feels less personal now but is more effective and faster for many issues, and that things have been stable lately.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 21 days ago
Six years with A2, now Hosting.com, with no issues from the change apart from pricing, and great support.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 21 days ago
Started building a site on Bluehost, went another way, and found cancelling hard: no online option, and customer service kept questioning the reason for more than 15 minutes.
Reddit · r/email · 22 days ago
Easy to set up after just getting it, used with Thunderbird on a Linux PC and FairEmail on the phone.
Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago
Rolled out a new PHP update across an entire fleet of hosted sites within half an hour of upstream release.
Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago
They had downtime during the Railway incident while they redeployed their app on DigitalOcean, and do not plan to return.
Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago
They describe a Railway outage running toward 48 hours with their availability dropping from 99% to about 95%.
Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago
Their app got a big traffic boost from a podcast shoutout, but new users could not sign up and they could not deploy a fix because Railway deployments were down.
Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago
They say Railway's status page claimed slow builds while deployments were not working at all, even on the pro plan.
Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago
Railway asked them to change exposed variables but they could not deploy a new build, leaving their service inoperable.
Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago
They moved their Rails apps to DigitalOcean Kubernetes a few years ago using the Cuber gem and say it works perfectly.
Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago
They use Heroku for all their client work and say elsewhere they have had no issues in about 10 years.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 22 days ago
A year on Tuta: the iOS app is awful, gestures finicky and widgets unreliable, so they plan to leave.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 22 days ago
Mail sent from their Proton address does not arrive at their Gmail.
Reddit · r/degoogle · 22 days ago
Chose Zoho Mail as nearly the only provider supporting a custom domain with plain-text auth.
Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 22 days ago
Manufacturing business says managing inventory calculations and bundled units on Shopify is insane for made-to-order products.
Reddit · r/webflow · 22 days ago
Agency owner thinks $29 a month is fair for a powerful CMS, hosting and a platform to manage a whole site.
Reddit · r/webflow · 22 days ago
Agency keeps its SMB clients on Webflow and both sides are happy with it.
Reddit · r/webflow · 22 days ago
Former enterprise client paid $90k a year for Webflow, with the contract running to 2028 despite exploring Sanity.
Reddit · r/webflow · 22 days ago
Building entirely with AI inside Webflow, finds it the best it has been for go-to-market teams.
Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago
Cybersecurity worker says Railway was unreliable for six months before the env-var breach and is moving off.
Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago
Solo founder's OpenAI and Anthropic keys were compromised; rotated them but could not deploy because Railway paused deployments.
Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago
Anthropic disabled a Railway-linked key after unauthorized use; Railway never notified them.
Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago
Outages are common on Railway and the breach handling gave no proper notifications or dashboard warning.
Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago
Spent hours rotating keys after the Railway breach only to find the new ones leaked again; fixes would not deploy.
Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago
Liked Railway but the env-var breach spooked them into moving small projects to EC2.
Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago
Production database down for hours with no way to restore or redeploy on a Hobby plan.
Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago
Third time burned by Railway; migrated their business to DigitalOcean.
Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago
Many issues lately; says Railway is not worth the $200/month they pay and is moving.
Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago
After the Railway incident, migrating to Fly.io was far easier than expected, about 30 minutes.
Reddit · r/webdev · 22 days ago
OpenAI key leaked through the Railway incident and was burned; a spend cap limited the loss.
Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago
OpenRouter disabled leaked keys; Railway never said which projects or keys were affected.
Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago
Their Anthropic key was used by an unknown party after the Railway breach and deployments stayed down for 10-14 hours.
Reddit · r/devops · 22 days ago
A 7k increase in OpenAI costs from a key leaked via Railway.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 22 days ago
Used Hostwinds for a few years without issues, but their server hosting a newly released app's backend has been down for 48 hours with customer service suddenly unavailable.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 22 days ago
Has multiple sites and databases on Hostwinds that went offline and came back repeatedly for 24 hours with a broken ticketing system; credentials were reset and needed a support email to regain access.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 22 days ago
Locked out of the Hostwinds client area for a second day while needing to work on a client's website.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 22 days ago
Received an unpaid-bill email despite paying on time through PayPal, then lost client-area access with all websites down and only AI chat bots on live chat.
Reddit · r/Hosting · 22 days ago
Stayed with MDD Hosting for about a decade and still calls them fantastic, leaving only because they could not swing the pricing for another three years.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 22 days ago
Many-year customer who found service rock solid until recently, then had their VPS terminated without warning followed by this outage, and will not renew.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 22 days ago
Production e-commerce down 72+ hours after maintenance and support sent a canned reply without reading logs.
Reddit · r/VPS · 22 days ago
Business account setup took a week and tax is still not set correctly.
Reddit · r/VPS · 22 days ago
Paid for a server and received no credentials or reply to two tickets.
Reddit · r/WIX · 22 days ago
Finds Wix infuriating to contact, with only an AI chat bot for help.
Reddit · r/sysadmin · 22 days ago
GoDaddy gave a generic ChatGPT-style answer that would have cost the company its data during an outgoing migration.
Reddit · r/sysadmin · 22 days ago
During the GoDaddy certificate mass revocation, communication was generic, the portal did not show affected certs, support was clueless and Europeans got 3-4 hours notice.
Reddit · r/sysadmin · 22 days ago
Needed nearly four hours on the phone with GoDaddy support to renew an OV certificate after the revocation purge.
Reddit · r/sysadmin · 22 days ago
GoDaddy phone support transferred the caller and a 65 minute wait ended with no help because a customer ID was needed.
Reddit · r/sysadmin · 22 days ago
All certificates went untrusted after hours during the revocation and GoDaddy's cert manager was crawling.
Reddit · r/selfhosted · 22 days ago
Runs RAM-heavy quiet services on a 12GB Contabo VPS, noting shared CPU on the cheap RAM-heavy plans is real.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 22 days ago
Left Liquid Web over poor service and saved $100/month with a DigitalOcean droplet and RunCloud.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 22 days ago
Moved to A2 Hosting for better performance than GoDaddy; after the Hosting.com acquisition the legacy plan rises from $11.99 to $16.99/month.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 22 days ago
Pantheon communicated far better on its status page than WP Engine during the PHP incident.
Reddit · r/Wordpress · 22 days ago
Sites on their IONOS account went down during the PHP incident while SiteGround and Krystal were fine.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 22 days ago
Says their Hosting.com server stayed unpatched against a critical PHP exploit for 12+ hours, forcing them to take production servers down for a day, and plans to leave at renewal.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 22 days ago
Former A2 customer pleasantly surprised two years after the Hosting.com takeover: prices remain attractive, services run as intended and tech support is great once past the AI bot.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 22 days ago
Found SiteGround middling: better than Bluehost and worse than Kinsta, with pricing that matches that middle position.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 22 days ago
Hosts about 418 WordPress sites for work on a SiteGround server; sites keep going offline and SiteGround blames the uptime monitoring tools, which the poster disputes.
Reddit · r/webhosting · 22 days ago
Manages about 150 small-business client sites on SiteGround, likes the control panel and extra services and rarely needs support, but would not use its VPS or cloud plans for heavy sites.
Reddit · r/laravel · 23 days ago
During the PHP security release day Forge was unusable for them, taking 3 minutes just to load the servers list.
Reddit · r/laravel · 23 days ago
They found that a manual PHP update on Forge installed a version without the security fix during the release, which they found very annoying.
Reddit · r/laravel · 23 days ago
They report that both a manual update and the UI update for PHP 8.5 on Forge still gave them the old PHP version during the security release.