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Is shared hosting still popular? Or has everything moved to docker? Yes, Dwight. I know your opinion. 
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Popular? I still pay for Dreamhost’s shared hosting that I never use. Mostly because I’m grandfathered into a dirt cheap $1.95 a month plan from 2010, which comes with a free domain every year. Still useful for small sites, Wordpress, and domain hosting, I guess.
I used to use EC2, but I started using Google Cloud last year, persuaded by a $300, 1-year free trial. Google’s always free stuff is better than Amazon’s, IMO, especially for my needs. A free VM for life tugs at my frugality pretty hard.
Right now, I’m playing around with Google App Engine, which has the potential to host a ton for stuff that I use infrequently or for development purposes, while keeping on Google’s always free tier. It also has the advantage of never having to divert my time to sysadmin work, because there’s no OS or applications to maintain. And it scales automatically, so I never have to migrate later.
Also, when I find a good deal on lowendbox.com, I tend to impulse buy VMs that I don’t need.
If the content is static, Google has a no-cost option.
If the site is low bandwidth you could do what I did: use an otherwise idle Raspberry Pi.
Ugh. Every single day linode probes my Pi. From my perspective they are somewhat irritating.
I’d think that’s someone who purchased IaaS from them rather than Linode themselves.
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Yup. That.
Could be. Too lazy right now to go check.
I have crossed paths with a few similar companies who admit to running spiders with similar access patterns (DigitalOcean springs to mind). The earlier post was based on what seemed likely (marketing research) and what I remembered (which is unreliable in this case).
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vcc = voltage at the common collector
and Godaddy isn’t a bad place to host a website
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To answer OPs question … I really like https://www.dreamhost.com/
You can create many domains, sub-domains, databases, emails and also privilege separation by having many different real system users. It also allows, Ruby and Python. For $10 per month it is pretty sweet. I will say the only downside I have found is that you can’t run big processes like composer.
I have multiple websites running on AWS, and it is fantastic. If you have a static site that doesn’t get a lot of traffic, you can host on an S3 bucket for pennies per month, and it is very robust.
If all you want to do is host a static site though, check out Netlify and GitHub Pages. They specialize in static sites, offer free tiers, and are probably easier to setup and use—I am just much less familiar with them.
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@Jerry_Kassebaum if your wanting to run any php, nodejs, ror app (workpress, etc…) then The best host is heroku or digitalocean.
If its static content then use Github pages.
HackerNoon has a great article on the subject and yes there is plans for teaching a class on aws.
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more like VCC Computer Committee but vintage/retro tech is in our blood
No really, those borg nanoprobes won’t go away 
Dreamhost, bluehost, and fatcow are all the same guys as Hostgator. There is a running internal joke with the company that they all laugh when a customer say’s their quitting the service and end up just dialing up a different help desk number to get the same tech support guys.
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Dreamhost is not on that list you provided. I don’t think all shared hosting is owned by the same people. It is interesting that many are owned by the same group. Dreamhost is different than most other hosting providers out there.
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I strongly disagree: I recommend NOT hosting your site with a Registrar. They provide domain hosting primarily as a parking place for new domains until they ”real” site is launched.
We’ve had a couple of clients each of who’s Google Search Console showed horrible speed of service and high variability on download times for a simple WordPress site.
We moved them to BlueHost and the speed improved 10-fold or more. I’m traveling ATM but I have a before and after graph I’ll try to post when I can get access.
I’ve have good luck with BlueHost and HostPC.
You can use Microsoft Azure to host 10 free websites > Google > Amazon AWS
Plus you get code versioning w/ Visual Studio
I gave up on hosting my own sites and went to Squarespace. I’m pretty happy with the outcome. It costs about twice as much as what I was paying before but it’s worth it to me.
That and Linux is not an Operating System but a kernel. 
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