Hello everyone,

First of all, I wanted to say that I am very new to this and I may get a lot of terms wrong, so sorry about that. (Also sorry if this isn't the right sub to ask this.)

I currently use OneDrive to store my data. I mainly use it to have a backup on the drive and to sync it between computers. I am a very simple user, as I only have about 60GB of storage there.

I want to leave big tech companies and have my data more private and secure and I heard that hosting your cloud is an option. I looked into nextcloud and I should need to use a public cloud provider to use it. I looked into Hostinger and Linode and they seem to be about 10$/mth for 100GB, and that seems like a lot. I also looked into Hetzner and they offer a cloud service, a storage store and storage share for nextcloud that are way cheaper, but I don't understand what are the differences between this services.

Also, I wanted to ask if for a regular user like me it's worth doing this instead of going for a secure drive service like Proton Drive. I know it's harder to setup, but I am wiling to learn, my biggest problem seems to be the price.

Thank you in advance.

I’ve been wanting to make a website to move my blogging onto. I saw on the internet that Wordpress was good.

I didn’t realize there was 2 different ones(.com vs.org) and bought a subscription to the .com.

Is there any point in keeping it or should I refund it before I start learning how to work it.

I have no website making experience, if that is any help.

Thank you very much!

I want to share my experience with ThePowerHost.in because it has honestly been a nightmare, especially for beginners who purchase hosting in a hurry without carefully reading every policy.

I bought a web hosting plan directly through their PhonePe payment gateway. The payment was successful, but after that they never provided access to my hosting account. Instead, they kept redirecting me to a KYC verification page.

The strange part is that according to their own KYC policy, web hosting services are not even listed as requiring KYC. So the entire situation feels very suspicious.

I contacted their ticket support, and for almost a full day they just kept repeating the same things: “Provide contact details” “Check KYC page” “Complete KYC” and so on.

I understand if they have a strict KYC requirement, but if they refuse to activate the service without it, then why not simply cancel the order and refund the payment? The hosting account was never activated, and according to their refund policy, the payment should still qualify for a refund.

The main reason I don’t want to complete KYC is because I’m not comfortable sharing personal documents and sensitive information on a website that already feels unreliable to me.

At this point, I just want my refund, but they keep delaying everything instead of resolving the issue properly.

Hey everyone,

With the recent absolute nightmare surrounding the CVE-2026-41940 critical exploit in cPanel/WHM (the 9.8 CVSS auth-bypass that basically handed root access to anyone with an internet connection), I finally hit my breaking point with standard WHM infrastructure.

Between cPanel’s aggressive price hikes over the last few years and now zero-day exploits actively being used in the wild to hijack entire servers, relying on a monoculture panel feels like sitting on a ticking time bomb.

I’ve been testing out cloud hosting providers that use Hepsia instead of cPanel, and I wanted to share a quick, unbiased breakdown of how it actually holds up for anyone looking to migrate away from WHM.

The Good: Why custom/isolated panels are winning right now

• Security by Obscurity & Isolation: Because Hepsia isn’t running on millions of generic automated servers like cPanel, it isn’t a mass target for automated botnets. More importantly, its file architecture isolates domains into distinct root directories rather than stacking them as subdirectories under a single primary account. If one site gets hit, the rest don't immediately fall.
• All-in-One Dashboard: Unlike cPanel where you have to log into a separate WHMCS billing system, a domain registrar panel, and then the cPanel itself, Hepsia handles the site files, domain registration, and billing from one single login.
• Insane Panel Speed: Because it’s built natively for specific server cluster environments rather than being a bloated "one-size-fits-all" software, the file manager (which supports direct drag-and-drop) loads incredibly fast compared to a heavy WHM setup.

The Trade-offs (What to expect)

• The Learning Curve: If you’ve spent 10 years looking at the classic cPanel grid layout, Hepsia takes a few days to get used to. It's clean, but the settings are in different places.
• Lack of WHM Root Tweaks: If you're a hardcore sysadmin who likes breaking into the command line to tweak niche Apache modules every Tuesday, a managed Hepsia environment gives you less "raw" server control because it's optimized out of the box.

Who is actually using it?

It's surprisingly hard to find hosts using it because everyone defaults to cPanel out of laziness. If you want to check out how it looks/feels, a few independent providers run it. I’ve been testing my dev sites on a American/Moroccan host ( souini Hosting ) lately because their entry tiers are cheap, but there are a handful of others out there utilizing the platform.

Are any of you guys actively ditching cPanel after the April/May exploits? What panels (Hepsia, RunCloud, CyberPanel) are you migrating your clients to?

I spent important time looking up managed openclaw hosting options because self-hosting maintenance was eating too much time. Here's my honest comparison of what's actually available and working right now:

myclaw.ai - $29/month base plan, decent uptime but limited customization options. their UI is clean but you can't modify the underlying openclaw configuration much. good for basic use cases, frustrating if you want to experiment with different models or skills.

runmyclaw - $35/month, better technical flexibility and they actually let you SSH into the container for debugging. uptime has been solid in my testing. main issue is their support team doesn't seem to understand openclaw very well, so you're mostly on your own for configuration problems.

clawdi - easiest one to deploy, premium pricing but the security architecture is genuinely different with TEE isolation. setup process is the smoothest I've tested and their team clearly knows the openclaw ecosystem well. worth the extra cost if you're putting sensitive data through the agent.

clickclaw - $25/month, cheapest option but you get what you pay for. had multiple outages during my testing period and their backup/restore process is manual. fine for experimentation but I wouldn't use it for anything business critical.

xclaw - $40/month, positioned as enterprise-focused but still feels like a solo developer project. good technical capabilities when it works, but inconsistent performance and their discord support is hit or miss.

overall, the managed hosting space is still pretty immature. if you need reliability, you're probably better with clawdi or continuing to self-host with proper monitoring.

After using one hosting provider for about 3 years, I finally decided to move because the pricing and performance no longer felt worth it for the projects I manage.

I tested a different VPS setup over the past few weeks and the difference has honestly been noticeable. Pages are loading faster, resource usage is more stable, and I have a lot more control over the environment now. It also ended up being more affordable long term for my needs.

Has anyone else recently moved away from traditional hosting to a VPS setup?

The title says it all. CanadianWebHosting is borked. DNS fails, with their web interface and emails being down there's no easy way to contact them. Perhaps a phone call, but I don't have a phone number handy, I might get completely frustrated and call, but what a mess.

Any recommendations on another Canadian hosting provider I could migrate to?

How do you normally migrate? I've note migrated hosts in a couple decades. My major concern is how to move emails?

i’m planning to launch a small website project this year and honestly choosing hosting has been more overwhelming than i expected. every provider claims to be the fastest, most reliable, or best value, but once i start reading real user experiences the opinions become completely mixed.

right now i’m mostly deciding between shared hosting and starting with something slightly more scalable from the beginning. traffic should be pretty small at first, but i’d still like decent performance, reliable uptime, and support that’s actually helpful if something breaks.

what’s making this difficult is how many hosting reviews online feel heavily affiliate driven, so it’s hard to tell which providers people genuinely stay happy with after a couple years instead of just during the introductory pricing period. renewal pricing and support quality seem to be where most complaints start showing up.

for people here hosting personal projects or smaller sites long term, which providers have actually stayed reliable for you over time? and if you were starting from scratch today, would you still choose the same hosting setup or go a different direction?

I'm looking for a reliable hosting provider that allows users to manage their own Imunify360 Ignore List via cPanel
I need a host where I can manually whitelist plugin paths myself to avoid false positives.

Que tal, estoy probando InterServer, son claros con los precios $8 USD/month cPanel con espacio ilimitado, correos ilimitados y Softaculus justo donde instale Wordpress y Woocommerce, honestamente va bien, lo siento algo lento al cargar, esa es el unico inconveniente, de ahi en mas quisiera saber si hay mejores servers que este en cuanto a precio, velocidad y espacio, lo uso para mi Portafolio y pienso trabajar cosas en un futuro sobre estas opciones de hosting, no importa si es con Interserver u otro, quisiera saber si por el mismo precio o un poco mas, alguien ofrece algo de este calibre y que sea mas rapido.

After nearly 2 decades of cPanel usage for my servers, time to say goodbye.

What used to be a simple, affordable control panel has turned into a licensing headache, especially with the constant price hikes that bring absolutely no real value in return.

Instead, the “value” seems to be constant vulnerabilities and security issues that either barely get communicated, get quietly patched with little transparency, or leave hosts/admins scrambling to update before problems spread.

No software is perfect, obviously. Every panel has bugs. But cPanel increasingly feels bloated, with enterprise pricing without enterprise-level transparency or innovation.

Meanwhile, alternatives have become genuinely viable products that move faster, cost less, use fewer resources, and actually get the job done.

At this point, I feel cPanel survives mostly because people are used to it, clients recognize the name, and migrations can be annoying.

But once the price-to-convenience ratio disappears, combined with the constant issues and security vulnerabilities, the “industry standard” label starts to mean a whole lot less.

I have officially transferred off my last cpanel server as of tonight.

Do better cpanel.

Edit:
A lot of people are wondering where I moved to.
Almost all of my own personal sites are just bare metal now without control panel. This was the last one I did last night.

For one of my servers though I used DirectAdmin. It isn't as "feature rich" but it uses less resources for the same job. Transfering cPanel accounts over to direct admin was also stupidly easy.

Then for my clients I have both enhance, and direct admin depending on the server and clients.

Most clients don't actually use control panels often, so there didn't seem to be to much friction with the change.

I’ve been using control panels like cPanel and DirectAdmin for years and they mask a lot of complexity, really. But I've been thinking, if someone had me go pure command line, no GUI, no online interface whatever... what would actually be the hardest aspect on a day-to-day basis?

I suppose for me it's managing email accounts. Adding a new mailbox, setting up forwarders, checking spam filters, all of stuff is terrible without a decent UI. Or even database management? I am so used to phpMyAdmin that doing everything via the MySQL CLI would be a massive slowdown for me.

How about you? “Without a control panel, what’s one routine task that would turn into a nightmare?

(And yes, I know CLI is faster once you understand it, but I’m talking about the battle to get there.)

Vancouver hosting center OFFLINE
system panel offline, our webs offline, VM unreachable

Down 90 minutes - then up long enough for me to file a ticket, then down again. (Still down)
They had their DNS nuked a week or two ago, we were down three hours on that one (though I could still SSH into our VM there).

Anything else gone awry in the vancouver network scene right now?

Hi, I'm trying to decide on the best hosting platform to build a WordPress site. I am trying to learn WP but finding it really difficult so the simpler and most novice-friendly host would be best. A lot of people seem to strongly recommend Hostinger. But WP dot org recommends both and lists BH above Hostinger on its page of recommended hosts. The big difference from what I can tell is BH has phone support and Hostinger doesn't. For a newcomer no-nothing like me, it seems BH would be best. Is there a reason Hostinger would be better despite not having phone support? BH is more expensive but still in the low-price range. Thank you.

I have made a React website for a client with 3d elements and animations. It works very well now but I want to make sure it operates smoothly after hosting. Which platform would you support for hosting and domain purchase - Hostinger or GoDaddy? Which will have better performance and better renewal deals

I've tried both serverless platforms and raw VPS setups, but both had tradeoffs that got annoying over time. so far hostinger node js hosting feels like a decent middle ground for smaller projects.

My current hosting setup has started struggling as traffic grows and I’m trying to avoid making another bad move.

For people here running WordPress sites with decent traffic, what’s been the Best WordPress hosting in terms of stability and support? What made it the best wordpress hosting for you in real day to day use?