Posted by frost on April 25, 2019 at 12:44pm
Hi all,
Like the title says, looking for managed hosting for a dozen small sites.
Can anyone share their experience/recommendations for a reasonably performant managed host that costs less than €100/month? Doesn't need to have any Drupal-specific functionality, just a reasonable performant host for the money. Most website end users are in Ireland, so host needs to have servers in this region.
Considering SiteGround atm but open to others.
Thanks
Mike
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Fresitilbox or WebcoreCloud
Hi Mike,
If you can up the amount to about €150 a month the FresitilBox Pro - https://www.freistilbox.com/plans - looks like best value for you, and is primed for Drupal.
I use a company in Portlaoise (set up by a guy I know from my schooldays) called WebcoreCloud - https://www.webcore.cloud/pricing/ - for my site hosting - mark.ie and other sites like that. They are not specifically Drupal hosts, but if you ask them to put anything on the server such as Drush and Composer, there should be no problem, and very fast support request times. I reckon you'd get a very good setup from them for about €1000 a year (though not managed hosting, you'd still have to admin the server).
I'm not sure if you mean €100 per month, per site from your original post. If so, you could probably afford something like Platform.sh, if not, I think the two mentioned above would be good fits, especially the FreistilBox on for Drupal-specific knowledge.
Mark Conroy,
Lead Frontend Developer,
Annertech - Web Agency of the Year 2016.
Thanks for those suggestions
Thanks for those suggestions Mark.
It's 100/month for all the sites together (they're all small organisations with tiny budgets), so Platform.sh isn't doable.
webcore cloud managed hosting
I've a bunch of Drupal sites with webcore as well and I've been chatting to Craigue there recently and they do offer a managed service which will certainly cover server stuff. But not sure if you're talking about Drupal sec updates within the managed bit or not...?
But not sure if you're
No, just the usual server stuff.
Nick & Mark, I'll have a
Nick & Mark,
I'll have a look at Webcore, thanks for the suggestion
Mike
Nick & Mark, I'll have a
Nick & Mark,
I'll have a look at Webcore, thanks for the suggestion
Mike
That's not the biggest budget...
Hi Mike,
Finding decent managed hosting (where real people take care of things for you) at a price below 10€ per site might be hard. I'd like to second Mark's suggestions:
If you'd like to learn more about freistilbox, just set up a call with me: https://calendly.com/freistil-jochen
Best regards,
Jochen
Jochen Lillich, CTO freistilbox Managed Drupal Hosting
Hi Jochen, Yes I know, it's
Hi Jochen,
Yes I know, it's for clients and friends with small wallets!
Mike
VPS style solution with simplicity and pricing of shared hosting
I have had great experiences using Gandi Simple Hosting. Not exactly managed server, but it is a kind of VPS style solution with simplicity and pricing of shared hosting.
Servers are hosted in France or Luxembourg, there are some compute limitations, but composer is available out of the box and you can get Drush on it without issue. Git and SSH deployments, but does have its limitations.
https://www.gandi.net/en/simple-hosting
No affiliation, been using them for over 5 years and very happy.
thanks. had a look but we do
thanks. had a look but we do need something that is managed.
Cloud VPS with MyHost
I've been using MyHost.ie for a few years and find them great. They have a managed cloud VPS that's just within your budget. Their servers are based in Shannon and Dublin which might suit your clients.
thanks i've just contacted
thanks i've just contacted them to see what they can do
just an update. Webcore
just an update. Webcore replied and said they'd have to get back to me. And haven't yet.
Myhost quickly responded to my initial and all followup queries.
I know there's a difference between sales and the actual service you get once you sign up, but from my perspective, Myhost certainly make the better impression.
update: Got a response from
update: Got a response from Webcore, discussing details with them now...
I find them great. I have a
I find them great. I have a few of their VZ1GB Cloud VPS's which I have no problems with, which at €65.98 a month is well within your budget (that includes server management and Plesk) . I run 9 Drupal sites on each no problem. I also have a VZ2GB which also has 9 Drupal sites, one of which is a relatively busy site and it performs no problem.
F
AWS: Free (perhaps forever) but some heavy lifting
I've been lurking on this discussion for a while but wanted to throw this unconventional idea out. I know it's not hassle free, so no need to shoot it down, but worth considering the AWS Free Tier (https://aws.amazon.com/free).
I have a T2 micro instance running the main business CMS (Joomla, God forgive me) with shell, root, composer, drush, git, node, etc., also used for a few Drupal development sites & some other CMS / homebrewed PHP installations. It's a pain to provision the instance as a full featured web server (labour intensive; I've heard Alan @ Annertech also has some experience with this) but once done up for Drupal it could easily provide the bandwidth for a dozen small sites out of the available time credits, which accumulate during low usage periods.
That knocks down the hosting bill to zero, neglecting the labour intensive setup. It is "hosted" in the sense that AWS is taking care of the infrastructure & software, but "not hosted" in the sense that you have to lift some other heavy stuff into place yourself & handle some upgrades. Once that's done, when the "free year" expires you can migrate the whole shebang into a new AWS account, for another year on the free tier (hint: I haven't had a web hosting bill for any web site for years).
interesting idea. does sound
interesting idea. does sound a bit more labour intensive than i want, but interesting nonetheless.
Dedicated
I have experience with Hostgator dedicated plans and their servers and services are good and i am satisfied with them. As far as i know, their servers are fully managed.cPanel is also offered for the Linux servers as well. I suggest you to have a look at their offers. And also i suggest you to buy dedicated server if your websites have a lot of visitors because VPS servers are not suitable for running sites with high amount of daily visits.
Doubt is the father of invention ... ZendegiyeSabz
we already have a dedicated
we already have a dedicated server and have maintained it for years.
This new server is for a small number of low-traffic websites, as an experiment