u/snow__wolfe

For 20+ years, I have always used shared hosting. I have used several (inmotion, hostmonster, setrahost) with the changes being that the service just seems to steadily degrade through the years to the point it is just a headache to stay with them. I am coming to the conclusion that instead of continuing with the shared hosting, it is time for me to go with VPS. My problem is, I am not finding a good resource for actually learning about using one, other then provider videos telling how to purchase their service. I only have 3 sites with 1 being really the only one getting some traffic, nothing heavy. I prefer videos over manuals as it is easier to figure out and work along at the same time with them, like a walkthrough. I have had bot attacks (weird since I only get 2000 visitors or less a month), so I have got to be able to understand the security side of it also.

I have only used shared hosting up until now but after the crap with setrahosting I think I am ready for VPS, but with my lack of experience at it, it's freaken scary. What affordable (prefer to keep under $200 for the year) VPS is there out there that is also user friendly. My main site has experienced carding/bot attacks in the past so I know it needs some kind of "firewall" to help with that type of issues. I have 3 sites that will be hosted on it, with 2 being wordpress based and the other just being a link tree page. I used to love playing with all the bells and whistles, but I will be honest, that was 20 years ago and now I just want set it and forget it for the background things for the sites.

I am currently with Setrahost, and for several years, things were at least acceptable for what I was dealing with but lately the issues just keep piling up. The final straw was them billing me 10 days early and charging the wrong card, causing a whole other slew of issues.

I don't make a lot from my sites, like $500 a month, so please don't suggest hosts that are expensive. Budget is $10-15 monthly. I just need one that does what it says, and not do crap like closing my sites because of an issue on their end (yeah they did that and it was found out to be THEIR ISSUE). I do have 3 different sites so a host that allows for multple sites. My domains are through porkbun so the host doesn't need to have domain hosting included.