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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/VPS · 2 days ago

Calls Contabo the worst host they have used in 15 years.

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

Moved from Proton to Tuta and really likes it.

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

Switched to Tuta and is happy.

Reddit · r/degoogle · 9 days ago

Used Fastmail a couple of years before Proton and found it good, but now seems pricier.

Reddit · r/emailprivacy · 9 days ago

Fastmail has been good so far.

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

Free Tuta account ten years old and never flaky.

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 · 12 days ago

Has had really good experiences with Fastmail.

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

No complaints with Tuta mail and calendar.

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

Happy with Fastmail for email.

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

Finds Tuta unappealing but it just works.

Reddit · r/degoogle · 22 days ago

Finds the Tuta app bare bones, slow and old-fashioned.

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

Happy customer but cannot honestly say netcup support is OK.

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.

Reddit · r/laravel · 23 days ago

They were unable to deploy on Forge because deploys were cut off after a few minutes, while the server status page showed green. They also saw a wrong not-updated banner and a buggy Forge UI.

Reddit · r/webdev · 23 days ago

They say Railway has had major issues for over a year and two incidents in two days left them unable to update projects. Even support was down, and they are asking for an alternative.

Reddit · r/webdev · 23 days ago

They needed to ship an important product and Railway had been unable to deploy for 12 hours.

Reddit · r/webdev · 23 days ago

They could not deploy a critical update to their PHP services during the Railway outage and had to take the services down.

Reddit · r/webdev · 23 days ago

As a paying customer running client applications, they could not access projects or deploy during the outage. They give Railway 24 hours before cancelling their subscription.

Reddit · r/webdev · 23 days ago

They moved projects off Railway after the underlying GCP provider cut it off for about a day. They also saw services locking up and needed repeated restarts.

Reddit · r/webdev · 23 days ago

Railway deployments began failing just before they pushed their new Android app announcement to production, and had been down since.

Reddit · r/webdev · 23 days ago

They have thousands of users and could not deploy during the Railway outage, so they are asking for alternatives.

Reddit · r/webdev · 23 days ago

They have the opposite experience of the complaints: they are amazed by Railway's performance and by the features they get for the cost.

Reddit · r/degoogle · 23 days ago

Uses both; Tuta keeps letting through spam from senders they marked as spam many times, unlike Proton.

Reddit · r/degoogle · 23 days ago

Loves Tuta as simple, private and much cheaper than Proton.

Reddit · r/degoogle · 23 days ago

After not signing in for a while they could not even pay Tuta to regain access.

Reddit · r/degoogle · 23 days ago

Tuta suspended their account after creating it as anonymously as possible, so they went back to Proton.

Reddit · r/degoogle · 23 days ago

Finds Tuta's service fine but its app bad, and prefers Proton.

Reddit · r/degoogle · 23 days ago

Moved from Gmail to Proton; it has been great and super easy.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 23 days ago

Customer of eight years whose VPS hosting three business sites was accidentally deleted by Hostwinds and restored after a complaint; then the server went down again with the client area inaccessible and no timeframe.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 23 days ago

Could not connect over FTP or update their sites during the outage, though their existing sites kept working, and says they have had no problems in several years with Hostwinds before this.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 23 days ago

SiteGround updated all their sites within an hour during a critical PHP patch while WP Engine lagged.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 23 days ago

Put premium sites on WP Engine expecting better security response; SiteGround patched in an hour while WP Engine lagged and a client site was shut down.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 23 days ago

DreamHost patched the PHP vulnerability while the WP Engine site was still not patched.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 23 days ago

WP Engine level 1 support knew nothing about the critical vulnerability and gave generic, outdated information hours later.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 23 days ago

Chose WP Engine for support and security features but is pissed at the slow PHP patch.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 24 days ago

They deliberately run on Google-operated regions in Belgium and the Netherlands rather than the London colo region. They were unaffected by the europe-west2 outage and hope it leads to improvements.

Reddit · r/webdev · 24 days ago

They run many client sites on an IONOS VPS with no complaints. On the rare occasions they needed support it was great.

Reddit · r/webdev · 24 days ago

They run hobby projects on a 1 euro per month VPS and report zero problems so far.

Reddit · r/degoogle · 24 days ago

Tutamail is already their favorite and Proton let them down in many ways.

Reddit · r/degoogle · 24 days ago

Has used free Zoho Mail accounts for years since leaving Gmail and finds it clean, simple and nicely designed.

Reddit · r/degoogle · 24 days ago

Tried Proton and Tuta, preferred Tuta within days; fewer features on the free plan but they like the simplicity.

Reddit · r/degoogle · 24 days ago

Tuta deleted their inactive free address after six months and could not be recovered.

Reddit · r/VPS · 24 days ago

KVM 8 renewed at 777 euros after paying 276 the previous year, and support offered only 20% off.

Reddit · r/Domains · 24 days ago

Accounts get locked for identity confirmation, taking 3-4 days and public pleas to get a human to review documents, with no way to upload them early.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 24 days ago

Super happy since moving from Namecheap to Porkbun a couple of years ago, only missing an iOS app.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 24 days ago

Ten years with Namecheap with stellar support until recent months, when renewing a basic hosting plan went badly and they migrated sites to company-managed cloud servers.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 24 days ago

Cloudflare sells domains at cost, about 10-11 dollars for a .com.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 24 days ago

Several of their sites on Kinsta's London data centre were down for hours while waiting for Kinsta's engineers to explain the outage.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 24 days ago

Briefly tried Kinsta and was unimpressed: the PHP worker limit made an optimized WooCommerce store struggle, and one yearly sales report made the site inaccessible.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 24 days ago

Runs everything on OVHcloud EU VPS instances; availability can be limited, but they are much cheaper than Hetzner for similar specs.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 25 days ago

They stopped using IONOS hosting last year yet were charged a large amount for Web Hosting Plus. Their cancellation had been scheduled for October 2027 and they had to exchange multiple emails to request a refund.

Reddit · r/webflow · 25 days ago

Has an ecommerce site on Webflow and wants to migrate to Shopify because Webflow Ecommerce was never improved.

Reddit · r/VPS · 25 days ago

Servers were rebooted at peak hours on five minutes' notice and many never came back online.

Reddit · r/VPS · 25 days ago

Reported a demonstrated networking issue and support asked for root credentials instead of investigating.

Reddit · r/Domains · 25 days ago

Porkbun made a mistake with their domain, admitted it and renewed it free for three years.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 25 days ago

Namecheap disabled a domain with 20k user sites over an outdated abuse report with no prior notice; it came back quickly once they answered the email.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 25 days ago

Has been with Namecheap for 15 years with only good experiences.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 25 days ago

A change to Namecheap’s renewal process required re-enabling auto-renewal on a domain they had auto-renewed for a decade; it lapsed and was auctioned off with the profits kept.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 25 days ago

Years ago one Namecheap email in spam led to everything being disabled in 72 hours; answering the info request unlocked the account and they transferred out.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 25 days ago

Says Porkbun is fine but demands ID verification if the account is created over a VPN with no way around it.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 25 days ago

Has been with Porkbun since Google domains closed, with no issues and 7-8 domains, pairing it with Proton email and GitHub pages.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 25 days ago

Dumped Namecheap, which marks costs up well beyond actual ICANN fees.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 25 days ago

Very happy with SiteGround: one yearly plan covers 10–20 sites with unlimited mailboxes, the interface is easy and real people answer for troubleshooting.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 25 days ago

Bought an OVH VPS at a very good price, but the account was banned without explanation and support was terrible, leaving two days to move a web app elsewhere.

Reddit · r/degoogle · 26 days ago

Has used Proton Mail as main mail since leaving Google around 2018.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 26 days ago

Has used Namecheap since 2019 and appreciates the support for SSL certificates and getting them installed.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 26 days ago

After a hijacked session set URL forwarding on their Porkbun domains, support replies were AI nonsense and they gave up; an earlier domain registration was also blocked without explanation.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 26 days ago

A Namecheap domain expired without a single expiry reminder email, which they had received in prior years, so they are moving it to Porkbun.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 26 days ago

Says Namecheap hijacked their account by blocking password reset after they forgot the old registered email password.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 26 days ago

Moved away from Namecheap after several years because customer service was terrible.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 26 days ago

Has never had problems with Namecheap and has been a customer since asking a founder early on about exit pricing.

Reddit · r/webdev · 26 days ago

Migrating to Namecheap hosting, one primary site lost all its content and backups could not fix it.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 27 days ago

They use Zoho and find it among the cheapest with fine service, but say customer support is too slow for business use and changing settings is awkward.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 27 days ago

They have used Azure since 2010 but are migrating to AWS after a year in which they say support went from present to non-existent.

Reddit · r/degoogle · 27 days ago

The first test email from a new Tuta account got them banned, possibly because of a VPN, so they deleted the account.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 27 days ago

Free-tier Flask apps deployed on Render were suspended, forcing a search for alternatives.

Reddit · r/webdev · 27 days ago

Built a GitHub plus Cloudflare Pages workflow that is straightforward and publishes a site in under 5 minutes at no extra cost per site.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 27 days ago

After 12 years Namecheap locked their account and disabled all domains behind a 72-hour ID verification demand, knocking their company email offline, with support only deferring to a risk team.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 27 days ago

Namecheap accused them of fraud for parking a new domain, locked them out and refused a refund for a month, so they had to reverse the charge through their bank.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 27 days ago

Left Namecheap because the UI could not set IPv6 nameservers, forcing a support request per domain that was sometimes done wrong.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 27 days ago

Got access back within 30 hours after providing the documents, then transferred domains out, noting the transfer was surprisingly fast.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 27 days ago

Has used Porkbun uneventfully for three domains.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 27 days ago

Uses Porkbun and says it has been great.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 27 days ago

Lost three domains through an error on Namecheap’s side while abroad and found support of zero help, even their marketplace card payment buggy.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 27 days ago

Moved all domains from Namecheap, which charged 18 for .coms, to Porkbun at around 11.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 27 days ago

Used Namecheap for many years for registration and DNS and it was fine before they moved to Cloudflare for price.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 27 days ago

Porkbun locked their whole account for a week after a transfer because the domain contained the word server and warned it could seize all domains on any complaint.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 27 days ago

Moved everything from Namecheap to Porkbun, which was quick and easy, with great support.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 27 days ago

Has had no problems with Namecheap for well over a decade.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 27 days ago

Porkbun has been awesome so far.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 27 days ago

Used Porkbun for many years and it is the favorite by far.

Reddit · r/VPS · 27 days ago

Contabo oversells and has constant performance issues; mail server lagging.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 28 days ago

They once had a support ticket open for a year; the issue was known but support said they lacked access to fix it.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 28 days ago

They see capacity shortages across many GCP machine families and regions, even on the alternative GCP suggested, which threatens production scaling.

Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 28 days ago

UK merchant hit with an $18,565 Mastercard BRAM fine passed through by Shopify with no clear explanation of the rule broken.

Reddit · r/webflow · 28 days ago

Six-year Webflow developer is increasingly frustrated with the product's direction after the Box element change.

Reddit · r/webflow · 28 days ago

Front-end developer of 20+ years thinks the Box element cleans up the Add panel and is a big improvement.

Reddit · r/ProtonMail · 28 days ago

Switched about four years ago and now uses the whole Proton suite with no regrets.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 28 days ago

Moved to Porkbun when Namecheap was bought and has been happy enough.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 28 days ago

Namecheap since 2009 without issues until the buyout; now planning to migrate.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 28 days ago

Transferred 4 domains from Namecheap to Dynadot in 20 minutes.

Reddit · r/Hosting · 28 days ago

After 10+ years, Namecheap shut down all their domains over a compliance flag and support was powerless.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 29 days ago

Despite paying for a support subscription, their Azure ticket was answered by an AI that kept asking and suggesting.

Reddit · r/AZURE · 29 days ago

After 4 years on Azure, an unannounced host migration took their MySQL master offline for 45 seconds, causing a week of recovery, and support did not meaningfully respond for almost 2 months. They are migrating to AWS from around $70K a month of spend.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 29 days ago

They have used A2 for about 6 years for a static site, email and Mailman lists, and the package does what they need. Renewals are now many multiples of the original price, so they plan to move.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 29 days ago

They used A2 for 10 years and say Hosting.com is not the same company, advising to dump it. They now use only nonprofit hosts.

Reddit · r/Domains · 29 days ago

Left Namecheap after 21 years for Porkbun, which still charges under 12 a year for .com with no promo codes, and is glad they moved.

Reddit · r/Domains · 29 days ago

After 10+ years Namecheap refused to match the cheaper price of its sister company Spaceship, so they moved.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 29 days ago

Namecheap without problems for a long time, but prices crawl up and the API went behind a paywall.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 29 days ago

Paid about 55 total for 10 years of a .eu domain on Porkbun.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 29 days ago

Porkbun is an absolutely fantastic, no-nonsense experience.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 29 days ago

Migrating a domain from Namecheap to Porkbun could not be easier.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 29 days ago

Ditched Namecheap for Porkbun a few months ago and is happy.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 29 days ago

Moved all domains away from Namecheap because renewal was too expensive.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 29 days ago

Namecheap since 2010 with no problems, quick customer service and free WHOIS privacy.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 29 days ago

Namecheap chat support quickly verified identity and disabled 2FA so an expired domain could be renewed.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 29 days ago

After a decade on Cloudflare registrar, a contact verification bug threatened suspension and support took 3 weeks to reply.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 29 days ago

Switched to Cloudflare, which charges at cost with easy DNS for Let's Encrypt renewals.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 29 days ago

Moved a domain from Namecheap to Cloudflare in about an hour for less than half the price.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 29 days ago

Namecheap used to be cheap but now creeps up every year.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 29 days ago

Namecheap announced another .com price increase; renewals were 16.88 not long ago.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 29 days ago

Customer since 2002 who says Namecheap went downhill a long time ago.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 29 days ago

Transferred 5 domains out of Namecheap because it has been overpriced, particularly on renewals.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 29 days ago

Namecheap renewals reached nearly 20 dollars for .us and 54 for .digital.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 29 days ago

Happy with Porkbun, which works well and lets nameservers be set freely.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 29 days ago

Moved from Namecheap to Cloudflare in 10 minutes and saved 40-50 dollars in renewals.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 29 days ago

Moved all domains to Porkbun: great pricing, flexible configuration and super customer service.

Reddit · r/VPS · 29 days ago

Linode has been spectacular; phone support answered immediately.

Reddit · r/VPS · 29 days ago

Has been on Vultr with good experiences, though without any robust performance comparisons.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 30 days ago

Has been migrating sites off their Liquid Web hosting for the last few months and plans to cut ties as soon as possible.

Reddit · r/BuyFromEU · 30 days ago

Found it too technical and the interface somewhat impossible to use, and OVH was much simpler.

Reddit · r/BuyFromEU · 30 days ago

Worked smoothly without a single issue and offers a clean, focused set of cloud services.

Reddit · r/VPS · 30 days ago

Their Hostinger KVM 8 was CPU-limited 13 times in 10 days with steal peaking at 69% whenever pushed hard.

Reddit · r/ProtonMail · 30 days ago

Fairly happy with a pm.me primary address for a year, then felt locked in because aliases cannot be freely added or deleted.

Reddit · r/ProtonMail · 30 days ago

A county court silently blocked mail from their custom domain, nearly costing a licence until they resent from a protonmail.com address.

Reddit · r/ProtonMail · 30 days ago

Enjoys Proton as primary email, noting it cut down spam and that paying is needed to benefit from aliases.

Reddit · r/ProtonMail · 30 days ago

Switched years ago and finds it great; it is the one service they keep paying for without hesitation.

Reddit · r/WIX · 30 days ago

Says Wix holds payments for months behind constant verification requests and has been a nightmare over two years.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 30 days ago

Runs Next.js on a Hostinger VPS for about 8 dollars a month versus 20 on Vercel, but notes it is only cheaper because they do the fiddly ops work themselves.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 30 days ago

Uses Cloudflare for domains and renewals have stayed competitive at $10.50.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 30 days ago

A Shopify and WooCommerce developer had a client paying about $600 a month on Shopify for a plan upgrade plus add-ons.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 30 days ago

A gift shop moved from WooCommerce to a static site with a small Shopify shop and no longer deals with broken Elementor updates.

Reddit · r/Domains · 31 days ago

Domain registration orders took almost a day to process, so some domains were registered by someone else in the meantime, and they moved all their domains to another service.

Reddit · r/email · 31 days ago

Setup took under an hour from signup to receiving mail in Thunderbird, the webmail is responsive, and the spam filter cut over half the domain's spam on day one, all for about $10 a year.

Reddit · r/emailprivacy · 31 days ago

Uses Purelymail for about $6 a year for a year with no issues.

Reddit · r/VPS · 31 days ago

Expected to leave netcup within weeks but found it superb: clean IPs, easy rDNS and no uptime problems.

Reddit · r/VPS · 31 days ago

Years of great experience; one node corruption was handled with off-site backups and minimal downtime.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 31 days ago

After about 25 years they left Gandi because domains renew at 30-40 euros after a normal first year.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 31 days ago

Many years on Gandi with an easy process and great support at a half decent price.

Reddit · r/Wordpress · 31 days ago

A WordPress developer has a client paying $90 a month for Shopify add-ons that are free in WordPress, on top of transaction fees.

Reddit · r/emailprivacy · 32 days ago

Finds Fastmail quite good, reliable and affordable.

Reddit · r/VPS · 32 days ago

Says OVH is fine until you need support, which can take 48 hours to give useful information, and the website UX is awful.

Reddit · r/degoogle · 32 days ago

Uses Fastmail with their own domain; significantly cheaper and works with any POP3 or IMAP client.

Reddit · r/aws · 33 days ago

They call Lightsail an insecure dev machine on the internet but useful for spinning up different OSs, and they use it to test arm64.

Reddit · r/aws · 33 days ago

They call Lightsail Containers a hidden gem and the cheapest managed container host, used for web and internal apps for over 4 years with zero maintenance.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 33 days ago

VPS running almost five years with no complaints or noticed downtime.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 33 days ago

Self-hosts with Docker and Dokploy on a Hetzner VPS and describes the setup as smooth.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 33 days ago

Moved client Next.js apps to Cloudflare Workers because Vercel started charging an extra 20 dollars for external project members who want to push code.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 33 days ago

Runs four Next.js apps on Hetzner with Dokploy and after a year has had very few issues, all fixed quickly, though it needs more initial setup and some Linux knowledge.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 33 days ago

Hosts a site on Fly.io with no problems and perfect 100 scores across the board on page insights.

Reddit · r/VPS · 33 days ago

Moved to OVH after unreliable service elsewhere: solid uptime and an easy GUI.

Reddit · r/hetzner · 33 days ago

After trying many providers settled on Hetzner for production; nothing comes close even after two price rises this year.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 33 days ago

Long-time customer facing a steep renewal price increase and a support reply from an AI bot, after several outages in the past year that forced their first support tickets; switching hosts.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 34 days ago

They run a Python app with a 2.2 GB SQLite database on a 2 GB, 2 vCPU Lightsail instance at 12 dollars a month, and its CPU burst capacity is exhausted, slowing migration and workers.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 34 days ago

Runs a custom Next.js e-commerce store self-hosted with Docker and Coolify on a Hetzner VPS; calls it incredibly fast and easy, and the shop sees sales up 20 to 50 percent.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 34 days ago

Still uses Netlify for all projects because it is simple and just works: connect the repo and DNS, environment variables, deploy stage and automated builds are all easy.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 34 days ago

Self-hosts now but says that, having used Vercel, Heroku and AWS before, Vercel was the cheapest option for the value.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 34 days ago

Runs Next.js, Postgres and Caddy on a single cheap Hetzner VPS with Docker Compose, and pages are fast because the database sits next to the app.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 34 days ago

Moved to Hetzner with Coolify and Cloudflare for price and full control, getting a cheap solution and plenty of disk for the database, at the cost of a learning curve.

Reddit · r/nextjs · 34 days ago

Left Vercel because with two developers the per-seat charges plus a separate database made costs crazy for a starting project, versus a Coolify setup at much less.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 34 days ago

Says Hosting.com support is now AI responses where they used to get a human with decent support.

Reddit · r/OVHcloud · 35 days ago

A RISE-S dedicated server had a faulty RAM module corrupting memory, and standard support would not replace it without a pricey 12-month support upgrade that wouldn't cover the weekend anyway.

Reddit · r/googlecloud · 35 days ago

They report almost all GCP machine types (C3, C4, C4A, N4A, N2, N4) currently unavailable and call it a disaster.

Reddit · r/webdev · 35 days ago

They moved their static site to Neocities and say it works well, with the custom domain DNS setup going fine.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 35 days ago

Paid account suddenly said the trial ended, nothing worked, and support was useless.

Reddit · r/smallbusiness · 35 days ago

Has run their small business site on Linode for a decade at $5 a month.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 35 days ago

Likes GoDaddy because DNS record updates apply right away.

Reddit · r/hetzner · 35 days ago

Three VPS have been generally fine despite one machine issue they had to diagnose themselves, and you get more than you pay for.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 36 days ago

GoDaddy support misunderstood how to set a DNSSEC DS record and the first rep put 10K of products in the cart.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 36 days ago

A client with 30 GoDaddy domains had every transfer out be a nightmare, and support is like talking to a wall.

Reddit · r/sysadmin · 36 days ago

Needed over 8 calls in a week to get GoDaddy to remove an outbound email block.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 36 days ago

Cloudflare solved the ACME automation need and was easy and less sales-spammy than other registrars.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 36 days ago

Has used Namecheap since 2007.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 36 days ago

Namecheap is fine but pricier than Porkbun with more marketing for other services, so they migrated to save a few dollars.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 36 days ago

Over a decade with Porkbun, never a problem, and the API is great.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 36 days ago

30-year web developer who has used Namecheap forever with no issues.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 36 days ago

Moved from GoDaddy to Cloudflare a while back and it has been solid.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 36 days ago

Nearly 20 years with Name.com.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 36 days ago

Always used Namecheap with no issues for simple needs.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 36 days ago

Bought a first domain at Cloudflare and found it very easy to set up without experience.

Reddit · r/selfhosted · 36 days ago

Buys domains through Cloudflare because it is just easier.

Reddit · r/hetzner · 36 days ago

Moved from Hostinger shared hosting to Hetzner, which has been a solid choice so far.

Reddit · r/hetzner · 36 days ago

OVH repeatedly gave blacklisted IPs while Hostinger and Hetzner were fine in production.

Reddit · r/hetzner · 36 days ago

In production for a while and great, though prices recently rose for new orders.

Reddit · r/webhosting · 36 days ago

Had an A2 reseller account for nine years and says that after Hosting.com took over, WHM was inaccessible for days, cPanel crashed, prices rose and support was horrific, so they left.

Reddit · r/squarespace · 37 days ago

Paid $92 in 2016 and was quoted $228, so cancelled and moved to WordPress for about $50 a year.

Reddit · r/VPS · 37 days ago