Ask HN: What are your favorite domain name and hosting providers?

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For hosting in Europe I recommend Hetzner:

They have an incredible price/performance ratio and their new Cloud offering is very competitive (for the limited features it offers). The Cloud user interface is wonderful as well: Simple, elegant and very fast. I recently started moving all my domains to them as well since they provide very competitive and non-BS pricing (i.e. no bait-and-switch offers like so many other registrars) and I trust them much more with my data than other providers.

If your business is in the US their services might not be very attractive though as they don't have data centers there.

Scaleway is also a very good provider for simple cloud services, I don't think they offer domain services though.

karmakaze7 lat temu

Domain registration/DNS, Namecheap. For renewals I might try CloudFlare.

Hosting plain VMs, Vultr. Good performance/price and they give you an IPv4/IPv6 block stack. I also like to support Digital Ocean because they write such good docs.

teeray7 lat temu

I love Hover[0] as a registrar. No pushy upselling, privacy included, and TOTP auth are some of my favorite features.

I also have used their mail hosting and have been reasonably happy with it. I only wish it supported catchall addresses so I could hand out, for example, [email protected]

[0] https://www.hover.com

EDIT: add link

dhruvkar7 lat temu

I use https://domains.google.com and that has catch-all addresses. Also not pushy, WHOIS privacy included, and simple interface. It's also slightly cheaper than Hover.

But it's google.

blairbeckwith7 lat temu

I'm a big Porkbun (porkbun.com) fan for domains. The pricing is great, their admin panel is good, and they've got personality which makes me trust them more.

ypkuby7 lat temu

Porkbun, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, OVH

ilmiont7 lat temu

iwantmyname.

DigitalOcean.

They're the only providers I use, respectively for domains and cloud.

notomorrow7 lat temu

namecheap, linode