equinox_code wrote:

It's for my girlfriend. She will turn 26-28,

dynamiteReady wrote:

I have my registration and webspace with one provider and I get notifications from their customer portal. Bit late now of course but maybe going for an allin1 solution is better in the long run?

Depends... You can save a lot of money splitting out certain things. If you're careful, and your requirements allow it, you can serve a '.com' for the price of the domain name (i.e. free) these days. That's a different convo though, tbh. But don't listen to me. I'm paying way too much for stuff at the moment. I need to take my own advice...

You're right - shopping around and separating domain reg will be cheaper. It's the trade off re convenience I suppose. My website is only something I use for tinkering with PHP coding etc. Something I haven't gone back to in an age (in fact I think PHP is broken on it at the mo). I use it to host some images and 2600 ROMS I hack too. I use Jumpline. My domain costs $50 a year (inc. SSL certificate - it was $35 before that became necessary). The webspace hosting is $7 a month. I get Perl & PHP code, a couple of opensource databases, cPanel for managing, email (inc. email marketing which I obvs have no need for) and a decent selection of applications that I've never looked at (content management, wikis, forums et al). The support function/ticket raising is pretty good - I get fast responses and they seem to know what they are doing.  I can spend more if I want my own VM etc, but for what I need which is just a sandpit to play in, it's more than good enough.

I've been using Digital Ocean for years, and that's good for general purpose stuff of a certain scale. I think they still do $5pm boxes (1GB Linux boxes). Recently though, I've been using Cloudflare.  Their DNS management tools and free caching services are well known, but they now have this 'Workers' product, which is a kind of alternative to AWS Lambda. Again, $5 a month, but you can serve an infinite number of static sites as long as you don't max out the quota, which is generous (like, 500,000 requests). There's a bit of a learning curve associated with it (which is bad, because it's a tie in), but being able to do processing on a CDN node is pretty awesome ('edge computing' I think, is the yuppie term for it), though I've not really needed it. With it, you can do stuff like serve pages based on the user's location without a 'traditional' webserver, which is fun, if you're into that sort of thing. X'D They have a free tier for this stuff too. But Netlify is also an option, and their free tier is legendary. Was thinking of trying that next time. @monkey - Good luck to your GF... Will be interesting to hear how that all works out, if you're willing to share. I think I'd just tap out, and change names, but that's not always an option.