what is the lowest-maintenance route for a non-technical person to put one html file on a stable link and replace it whenever the file changes? github pages is common, but are there simpler options that still handle https, custom domains, and private client previews?

I use Polarismail and am having a problem with aliases.

Sometimes when an alias to gmail is used for purely legitimate reasons (zero percent chance the emails could be mistaken for spam) gmail rejects the email. This is what the failure email says:

>Remote host said:
550-5.7.1 Gmail has detected that this message is likely
550-5.7.1 unsolicited mail. To reduce the amount of spam sent to Gmail, this
550-5.7.1 message has been blocked. For more information, go to
550 5.7.1 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=UnsolicitedMessageError586e51a60fabf-4632aed7781si4017481fac.318 - gsmtp

And sometimes delivery fails without even getting a failure notification so I have no way to know the recipient didn't get the email.

Can anyone shed some light on what might cause this and how to fix it?

I asked AI and posted the response below.

Nothing I can do about Polarismail IP/Domain reputation issues. Is Polarismail shady enough to result in emails being bounced?

According to Polarismail SPF/DKIM/DMARC are all correct. My DNS settings are correct according to their support docs. But how can I ensure everything is set up correctly on their end?

Anything else I can do to stop this from happening? Is switching email providers going to help or is this inevitable when using aliases? HELP!

Missing or Misconfigured Email Authentication (Most Common)

If you are sending from a custom domain (e.g., you@yourbusiness.com), Gmail strictly requires standard security records to verify your identity:

• SPF (Sender Policy Framework): Proves your email server is authorized to send on behalf of your domain.
• DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail): Adds a cryptographic signature proving the email wasn't tampered with in transit.
• DMARC: Instructs receiving servers on how to handle emails that fail SPF/DKIM checks.

If these DNS records are missing or incorrect, Gmail will flag your message as potential spam or impersonation.

IP or Domain Reputation Issues

• Shared Server IP: If you are using a shared hosting provider or an email service provider (like Mailchimp or standard web hosting), another user on that same server IP may have sent spam, causing the entire IP address to be temporarily blacklisted by Google.
• New Domain: Newly registered domains sending bulk or cold emails often lack sender reputation and trigger default spam blocks.

I need to register a new domain and i don't want to spend a fortune. but i also don't want to end up with a terrible registrar. i see some places offering domains for like 5 bucks. but then renewal is 20. or they charge for privacy. or support is nonexistent.

is there a registrar that's actually cheap and reliable. no hidden fees. fair renewal prices. decent support. cloudflare seems cheap but I've heard their support is minimal. namecheap is reasonable but not the cheapest. wix gets good reviews online

i've been burned by the cheap first year thing before. trying to avoid that this time. what's the best balance of price and quality in your experience.

I have an active IONOS VPS Linux M+ contract, but I literally cannot create a server. Every single attempt fails with "Error" after 2-3 seconds in the logs. I've tried 15+ times.

**What I've tried:**

- With a private network assigned AND with "Without Network"

- Public IP set to "Automatic"

- Auto-generated root password (left password field empty)

- Incognito window (clean session)

- Different network (mobile data instead of home WiFi)

- Different server names (no special characters)

- Datacenter: US (us/mci)

- Image: Ubuntu 26.04 + Docker

**What happens:**

The "Creating Server" green confirmation appears, but in the logs it shows Status: Error, Duration: 2 seconds. The server never appears in the list.

At one point I also got an HTTP 412 (Precondition Failed) error in the browser console.

Last error ID from the logs: 06881fa2-8e90-4a61-96ed-347aea66bd02

Live chat is unavailable, and I'm calling from Peru so US phone support is hard to reach.

Has anyone experienced this? Is it a known issue with certain contracts or the us/mci datacenter? Any workaround? I'm within the 30-day money-back window so I'm considering switching to Hetzner/DigitalOcean if this can't be resolved.

Their company Wordpress Live charged me hundreds of dollars to build web site., when trying to connect my two URl which are hosted by HG they crashed all my web sites .. I asked for compensation from Wordpress live and also their backup .. because their backup did not work..they eventually had someone call me weeks ago saying they would compensate .. another lie it did not happen.

There seems to be no one in charge except for the ones crashing web sites

So got a notification recently that Hetzner is increasing the .com registration price to EUR 17,26 yearly incl. VAT, allegedly due to price increases on the end of their registrar. It's "just" a 7% increase, but I remember not too long ago, com/net/org prices were around EUR 12,- yearly, and stayed at that level for a decade or so. I do not have many domains, and probably it's good to increase the costs of domain hoarding. Anyone else at Hetzner and found another reliable registrar for the DACH region, with lower domain prices? Or have these increases taken place everywhere?

Hi,

i am quite new to all this create your own Website stuff. My experience is about Carrd level.
So , my problem is i create free (and i want to keep it free) nsfw content, i do comics and picture sets (no real people, no AI).
My Question is, what do i have to keep in mind when i create a site with Wordpress and is this even the best site i could use?
I have currently around 2100 single Pictures which i host over Patreon but due to their new NSFW rules its getting quite hard to provide free NSFW content.

About the costs, i would be okay to spend around 50€ / year if thats gurantee me all above ^_^

Thanks in advance!!

(the reason i cant use Carrd is that its limited to certain numbers of sites which would not be enough for me or to expensive)

Hey,

Im part of a team working on a disposable app hosting service. We decided to build it because we kept facing situations where we needed a public HTTPS URL for a test API or web app, but getting one quickly wasn't always easy because of following reasons:

• We can't always deploy it within our existing infrastructure because of security policies
• Most cloud app hosting services require to sign up, verify email, and add a card

For use cases I mentioned, the ideal solution would be to get the app without signup or payment information knowing that it's getting disposed at some point. With AI coding agents this simply mean telling them something like:

Deploy this app to up.compartment.dev

My question is: would you use something like this for anything besides the testing scenarios I mentioned? If so, which ones?

Hello guys,

I’m new to selling websites business and I was thinking about what should be in the contract when you sell a website to a client, except for the basics of course like ownership and technology used etc, I want to know what are the important details that beginners tend to ignore or not think about?

Thank you in advance and if you have any templates that would really help!

I've had a dream house account since probably 2001 or 2002. I started hosting with them in college off of a deal on something awful and I have kept the plan open for almost 30 years now.

They have started baking in random little fees that kick in with no notice.

One of which is a nasty little fee if you are using an old version of PHP.

The problem is most of the website that I filled with them or WordPress sites that were automatically set up to them and they are supposed to automatically update the PHP and the WordPress. Over the year some of these sites are broken or disabled or not used anymore and off-line.

DreamHost has invented this fun thing that works similar to how banks handle chargebacks on your debit card when you have overdraft protection turned on where they don't tell you that your account is overdrafted but so that you're not embarrassed at the checkout they allow the purchase to go through. So you buy a two dollar Coke and you get charged a $35 fee for the overdraft so that you don't get embarrassed. And since you don't know you continue to do it and you come back and three purchases of less than $20 have suddenly cost you $200 in fees.

This works similarly if their system can't update your PHP they simply start charging you five dollars a month. After a few months, you hit $15 or $20 and they disable your account.

Suddenly, nothing works. All of your sites are off-line email is off-line and you have no idea why.

And then you login and you press one button and you change the PHP to the correct version and everything is fine.

And you contact support and let them know what happened and that you continue to be frustrated that this continues to happen randomly...

A company that cared about its customers - especially one that's been renewing for 30 years - would simply refund the $5 fee.

DreamHost support just repeatedly points you over to knowledge base article that reads like a condescending CYA that says they are nickel and diming you with this little fee if they can't update your PHP.

What should happen is that they should have an option to say that I would never like to get this fee and that if they are unable to update my site's PHP they should simply disable it rather than charge me a random fee that I don't know is happening.

This is far from the only problem I have with DreamHost.

In like 2009 I made a film and my partner wanted to migrate the site to their own Dreamhost account. They somehow accidentally made a sub account that never showed up on anything anywhere, but somehow that sub account became the main account.

DreamHost has no ability to adjust this or fix this and no one is to acknowledge it beyond telling me that it's a thing and that I did it.

Most of my sites are for little music projects or are projects. A lot of them stay up just because I loved them at one point in time. It seems like a hassle to move them and my parents get their email through a domain hosted on DreamHost and they have a website that they like there so I have mostly left it.

But it's weird when small straws break camels backs and I am so sick of having this randomly happened and the lack of customer support and the lack of customer-centric thinking to simply fix this and not trying nickel and dime people over $5 dollars when the fixes simply one button push to force the switch of the PHP.

When DreamHost started, they were the ultimate host and the customer service was insanely good.

Guess I'll be looking for somewhere new to host a bunch of domains.

What do linux/system administrators at hosting companies or Outsourced noc companies actually do day to day. What I'm familiar is that they use cpanel,whm and sshing into vps to solve issues and maintain servers.

It would be helpful if you guys can guide me what do they exactly do daily? What tools/platforms they use? What processes they follow?

I'm also trying to understand these companies' entire workflow is like: who are the customers, who manages the server, who buys the server, who installs the apps on servers, and how do sysadmins correlate to that?

I'm trying to work for such companies as junior sysadmin.

Thank you for your time reading. I'd appreciate any insights!

I'm not a huge fan of the metal trays full of consumer hardware, but I understand it's what they do to achieve the pricepoint they offer.

In the past 1 year it has always hurt me to see a 56 EUR hosting bill each month. Doing the math it accumulates to 672 EUR per year!

I don't know why I didn’t do the math a bit earlier though. It could have saved me those 672 EUR, but hey I never liked math anyway.

So I decided to move everything to a self-hosted VPS.

A VPS is basically a virtual server that you rent from a hosting provider. You get your own CPU, RAM, storage and operating system, but instead of paying for a managed platform like Azure App Service, you are responsible for running and managing the server yourself.

On top of the VPS I run Docker, with my frontend, backend, Dokploy, and Traefik each running in their own containers.

Traefik acts as the reverse proxy, receiving incoming traffic and routing each request to the correct container based on the domain. It also handles HTTPS certificates.

Dokploy is a self-hosted PaaS that gives me the Azure App Service experience on my own machines: push code, get a deployment. It connects to my GitHub repositories and manages deployments, domains, environment variables, logs, databases, and Docker services, all from a single dashboard.

So instead of paying Azure to manage the infrastructure for me, I rent the server directly and run the platform on top of it myself.

The result is around 80% lower hosting costs and much more control over how everything is deployed.

I need some advice on how to handle paying for hosting and a domain for a site that I am building as a favor. Basically I am building a simple site for a family member of a friend, and although I know how to develop the site functionality my experience with actually deploying and maintaining a live site is super limited. I have no issue providing any maintenance/updates to the site as needed but I would like to avoid a situation where I am acting as a go-between, having to pay out of my own pocket and then getting reimbursed. From looking into it the 2 answers seem to be either to have the "client" handle it on their own, or to charge extra or reoccurring for maintenance (which then handles having to pay for hosting). The issues with these is that I don't believe that they would have the technical knowledge to handle domains and deployment, and as for the second option as I mentioned I am doing this for free as a favor so there is no contract or form of payment or anything like that.

So my questions boil down to:

Is there a good way to handle this or am I stuck as the go-between?

I know there are some that offer it for a limited time but are there any hosting options that will host simple low traffic sites for free indefinitely? (It is mostly an informative site with the most complex feature possibly being a mailing list)

Additionally any recommendations for getting a domain or hosting in general would be greatly appreciated tho I know the answer to those is much easier to find than my other questions.

Launched my product yesterday, have domain & hosting with IONOS.

Today, IONOS hosting is down, they tell me they don't have access to the shared server my site is on, so they cannot even temporarily move the sites affected onto a new server. Apparently 1000's of customers are affected.

So I need to move. I have a site with 2 static pages, hosting of 20GB of data (but will need to move up to 100GB fairly soon), 1 SQL database.

This is just a small 1-person project but after 6 months of work, the site I've pointed my test userbase to go to being down is a kick in the teeth.

EDIT- Thanks all. I'm now fully moved over to Zume. Their team is very helpful and the price is decent.

Afternoon everyone, just informing anyone who has liquid web to be weary of their emails. Received a confirmation email that my auto billing if over 400$ was cancelled and would not be renewed. Received the confirmation email.

On my side Im working on not using that card / downsizing how many payment cards I have- and notice they billed me in the full amount for an account that cancelled prior to the renewal with the confirmation email.

Just be careful cause ive been reading around and it doesn’t seem like im the only one. Some I see are on the users, so I rechecked the email that I received for cancelling, and sure enough it is a cancellation email prior to the renewal date

Rant because lowkey just wiped out a good chunk of my savings. Be weary of using them.