I want to create a site to showcase repair services I can provide. It won’t need to process purchases/payments it’ll really just be a portfolio. I’d like it as simple as possible in terms of creating the theme to fill in.

Do I get the wordpress or static option?

After long consideration and comparison, I don't need the speed the bigger guys like KnownHost could give me, so I'm gonna start with porkbun. The only downside I can think of, hosting & name registration with the same company. I'm not worried about them holding my domain names hostage. Right?

So, I had a frustrating experience with Namecheap. They simply tripled the renewal price of my .com domain. I thought about transferring the domain and buying another one I need at Porkbun, but do they also have this kind of trick? Will they suddenly raise the price 3, 4, or 10 times? In my case, the price tripled in 1 year. Or is it better to just go with Cloudflare?

If anyone has experience with these domain registration sites, please clear this doubt for me.

After much consideration I decided to buy a domain with Porkbun.

You can tell me later I made the wrong decision, but for what I gathered, they are pretty good.

I decided to host the domain with them now, but I have no idea about web hosting. I studied computer science and some programming in high school and could probably re learn the basics of web design again.

You will probably tell me that I should hire someone to make the page, but I don't have too much money and live in a very cheap country and plan to update the page regularly, so I think I'm better learning how to make a web page on my own to save the trouble later.

I learned how to use many programs in the past by myself and even if it takes me some time I think I'm capable of making a simple web page.

The web page would be my music portfolio. I don't intend to necessarily load music there but maybe integrate a web player to something like SoundCloud, so I guess it won't take much space from the page.

My intention is to create something that's a little animated. With a top bar that follows when you scroll down, and maybe some graphics “appearing” (like a fade in) when you scroll down, so it looks more professional and cool I guess.

I know those things are probably hard to implement (maybe not) but I need to know first what hosting option to choose. There's static HTML, PHP, WordPress (probably Not gonna choose that one), a site builder called Weebly, and they are all in some ways limited in the less expensive options.

I'm looking for some opinions based on my description of the page. My idea is not to pay too much for things I don't need, like a video or audio player if I can integrate a Soundcloud player instead with some coding.

I'm not very new to coding and already did some basic HTML pages back in college, so I think I'm capable of relearning again and go even beyond to make my web page.

TL;DR: I want to make my web page for my music portfolio with a Soundcloud player and some basic effects and want to know what's the best option.

Hope to hear your opinions!

I'm so frustrated right now.I have a domain at porkbun, and also got myself webhosting through them.I setup my web site and I can access it, but had some problems with speed due to content. Was recommended to use a CDN so I made a Cloudfare account and added my domain there.

Problem 1: Porkbun has poor support for other nameservers than their own - so the webhosting part broke down here when I add the Cloudfare nameservers to "authorative nameservers". Accessing the site gives me the Cloudfare 552 -error splash telling me that the connection between Cloudfare and my website is broken. (Tracert command shows no problem though).

Porkbun support is useless and tells me to use their name servers, so I revert back. Now the CDN is no longer active. It's like they didn't even read my email (in fact - the first time they didn't as they asked me to reach out to my web host - meaning: Porkbun.)

Problem 2: I have an SSL at Porkbun which is active for my domain and any subdomains *.my_domain.art and I've setup a CNAME for blog.my_domain.art which points to hashnode . network but I still get a "Your connection is not private" -error when trying to go there.

I'm a technical user, I work in game dev and I've studied front end web design and a tiny bit of server stuff. But when it comes to setting up these things I'm completely lost - so much technical jargon combined with long network pipelines - 20+ different places where things can go wrong if you miss a tiny detail. I can't even begin to imagine how a non-technical user is supposed to deal with all this technical crap.

Has anyone here setup Porkbun web hosting with Cloudfare CDN successfully? If so how did you do it?

Saw a lot of options and only have one email that needs to be custom domain. Looking for something not too expensive until profit grows.

I also heard of Zoho's free option and someone called Mxroute.

And is it easy to switch email hosts in the future?

Advice welcome, please

Hello,

I’m working on setting up email with Fastmail. I want to get a domain for it. I already own a domain with google domains that I don’t want to use. I’m considering Cloudflare and Porkbun after reading a lot of posts here.

I see that Cloudflare has all these subscription plans. I still can’t figure out if I need a subscription with them. I also do not see anything information about domain locking. Would you guys do -

• Porkbun for domain with a Cloudflare free account to use them as the NS or

• Cloudflare for both or

• Cloudflare/Porkbun for domain and Fastmail’s NS?

I do like the fact that Porkbun has some customer support that I can reach out to. Haven’t found an easy way to reach Cloudflare. Your thoughts on this will be appreciated!

Thanks!

I am trying to migrate from using wordpress.com to using wordpress.org, and currently in the process of finding a good hosting provider.

I hear people saying that its best to host your domain on porkbun, and have a different company for webhosting? Is this even possible? Is it a good idea? How do I do this???

Also, I hear people saying something like you should install cloudflare for free on your webhost? Whats that all about?

Also, if you can recommend an unbiased opinion on what webhost is good, that would be much appreciated.

Please bear with me as I'm very new to this all. Thanks!

I wanted to build a website (and app) for a product that I'm making and I am selling it online, maybe through something like Shopify. The domain name seems to be the cheapest on Porkbun. For webhosting: https://porkbun.com/products/web_hosting, there are 5 different services that they work with. Out of these, (Easy Wordpress, Easy PHP, Static Hosting, Sitebuilder, and CPanel) which would you recommend? To note, I would like to have one with a good web builder.

Hi everyone,

just reposting because my last post did not meet this subs requirements..

btw total noob here...

I'm wanting to create a website to have my services as a tutor, just a simple landing page with a the option to book and purchase lessons .. nothing too fancy, and in terms of traffic .. not thousands per month.

Im considering porkbun for my domain purchase - i hear good things about it and its cheap.

but im not sure which hosting to choose - I see that namesilo has hosting for $2.99 a month which is very affordable considering a site I had with bluehost years back cost me about $150-200 a year.

Does anyone have any experiece with namesilo hosting? Will it be sufficient for a basic website?

I would be keen to hear any recommendations about it OR other hosting websites if you have any...

My monthly budget is max $10 for hosting

I'm located in Canada - my users are located all over the world - South America, Europe, Asia

I would be hosting a wordpress site.

estimated traffic volume each month: not sure but probably less than 500 (although I would hope higher in the future!)

I'm not sure what vps's are (as asked in this subreddit questionnaire)

I have looked at the sidebar hosting suggestions.

Thanks!

Hi everyone!

So I have decided on using PorkBun for my registrar and NixiHost for the web hosting part. I am in Canada if that makes any difference and we also have PorkBun hosting the email address (which took me FREAKING FOREVER to move all of his emails over to this new thing because GoDaddy locked them in Outlook which has no way to get emails off of it now so I had to move to Apple Mail and export that way then move to thunderbird and then move to his Gmail with the emails forwarded there from PorkBun and I really, really don’t want to have to do that again)

I’m fairly new to all of this but helping my mom set up something for her tutoring business and then separately my finance for their design business (will need POS transactions for this one)

Basically I’m trying to suss out which of the available options on NixiHost I need. Does PorkBun having SSL mean anything for me? Is that needed for either of these websites?

Neither are going to have aggressive traffic (I’m assuming 50 or less for my mother and I would assume only a little more for my fiance, their Instagram tends to be the busier aspect) but the design one for my finance will have a little more and will also have much more photo and video content on the website. Though could just embed YouTube, I’m not sure if that helps.

My mothers will be focused more around explaining her OG curriculum, having a bio page, about page, a page that links to needed purchases (on other websites, not her own sales)

My finances will be focused around showing his design work, embedding some of his previous fashion show runways, images of previous collections, images of custom work, etc and then a small shop for current pieces on sale and a request for custom work to be done.

Does NixiHost have website builders within it or will I need to create everything off of NixiHost and somehow link to it? We already have majority of images ready and links to YouTube etc. GoDaddy was being used before but rather sick of them

I think I included all the information needed (I hope)

I want to register a domain name on Porkbun, It has little information on the net about reliability, I want to hear people experience with it like are they good with uptime, do they increase price while renewing like a bad player?

P.S: Doing a project (Static site for Retail Store) for my first client, I don't want to fuck up. Please help, Thanks.

Porkbun is a very popular domain registrar here on Reddit due to their competitive prices. They also offer various web hosting services, including Cloud WordPress hosting.

It doesn't look particularly interesting, and there is barely any information about the service except for the disk space and number of PHP workers for each plan. Looks like they hastily put that page together and didn't bother much with it, which is not usually a good sign.

One thing grabbed my attention though: it is powered by WP Cloud. This is a very reliable cloud infrastructure that is specifically optimized for WordPress. It powers WordPress.com, Pressable, and other WordPress hosting services.

So, they have a solid infrastructure, but that's useless without a solid support service.

If anyone has used Porkbun's cloud WordPress hosting, I'd love to hear about your experience. How was the performance? How was the support service? Was it "oddly satisfying" as the company's motto claims?

Hey All - My Google Domains started getting moved over to Squarespace this past week, and it's been a less than stellar experience. Not only do I not to control what account these domains end up in, managing domains in Squarespace is not what I'd call straight forward.

As a result, I went to the Interwebs and Reddit to see what was recommended. The same 3 kept getting recommended: Cloudflare, Porkbun, Namecheap

The trend on Namecheap - which I used a decade ago - is that it is no longer actually cheap, with constant price hikes & advertisements, so I ruled them out and decided to split my domains between Cloudflare & Porkbun, to see how the experience was. Worst case, I move the domains again in 60 days, if one is really horrible (yes, I would need to pay the cost to extend one more year).

Since there have been a few threads on this topic, I figured I'd share where I fell out - with details, in case it helps you make your decision:

• Cloudflare

  • Pros

    • Has every enterprise level feature & customization you could want, within policy (see below), although many of these are upsells

    • The transfer process is done in a way where it's very hard to screw up the DNS settings post-transfer (e.g. you need to move the NS over before you can initiate transfer)

    • Cheapest domains out there

    • Been around for a very long time, and relies on other revenue, so not likely to go out of business

  • Cons

    • The interface is very "heavy"; It's clearly built for Enterprises, not prosumers, and so it can take a bit of searching to find the thing you want

    • It feels like Cloudflare takes positions on the "right" way to do things, and for those things, there is no workaround. Examples include:

    • Not all ccTLDs supported yet (but the ~200 they cover were all I needed)

• Porkbun

  • Pros

    • Simple & straightforward, albeit quirky, interface

    • You can pretty much do whatever you want, including domain masking & email forwarding without pre-approval (this could also be abused)

    • Probably the 2nd cheapest domains

    • Other redditors have commented that their customer service is fast & friendly

    • I didn't count but their supported domain list seems much longer than CloudFlare's

  • Cons

    • Been around as long as Google Domains, so unclear if this business model is sustainable

    • UI is not the prettiest, or the best laid out, but it's so simple that's it's pretty easy to figure out

    • Because you can do anything you want, you could transfer your domain and lose all your previous settings, which would mean you would need to figure out what those records would need to be/reverify your domain

A good example of the experience between these two is SSL.

• Cloudflare: Since you had to have CF NS in order to transfer, CF automatically enables SSL (great!). To find that they did this, you would go to your domain, click on the SSL section, and see in the Overview that you have "Flexible" SSL on by default vs Full vs Full (strict) ... or off. Now they use diagrams to explain what each of these is, but you need to dig to understand what the difference is here vs a standard LetsEncrypt cert on a server. It turns out LE certs are equivalent to "full" (to my best understanding) and that "flexible" means just the connection between browser and CF is encrypted. So you can go and switch it to full ... for every domain you have.

• Porkbun: They have a simple listing of your domains, where you click details. One section is "SSL". If you click the small edit button, it will tell you that they can only generate SSL for you if you use their NameServers, and they give you a single click button to make the switch. You push the button, they update, and tell you that a cert is being generated using LetsEncrypt. You need to check back to see status switch from "Nothing yet" to "Have certificate" in green. This takes 10-20 minutes. You could do this rapidly for all domains, as they are all listed in a flat list. If you switched to their NameServers during transfer, this step is automatically done.

For me, while Porkbun is a bit fast and loose (and doesn't have as many options as Cloudflare), it's been a more enjoyable experience. I also didn't like that Cloudflare prohibits me from masking, and I'm worried about what else they will prevent me from doing in the future. While I understand some of these settings can be abused, they also can allow me to provide a more pleasant experience for simple things, like not showing an "ugly" URL.

If I was running an enterprise site, where I needed to tweak the hell out of everything to ensure optimal load times, while fending off DOS attacks, and needed workers to handle different end points with different situations, Cloudflare would be a great fit. I'm not doing that though.

I'll probably let these domains sit on both of these registrars for another 6 months to see if anything really breaks (I still have to see how the Sites redirects land). If something major pops up, I'll update the post.

I hope someone finds this helpful. :)

UPDATE (2024.07): I'm all in on Porkbun. Cloudflare made basic changes complicated and Porkbun support is absolutely phenomenal.

So I've been shopping. Learning about host services and domains.

Anyway, Porkbun is closed for the day.

I chose a domain I like after an arduous tinkering of the name. Well, I've added the domain to cart and it's now asking if I want to add some things on. Such as:

• email for $24/yr

• EASY WORDPRESS for $xx

• EASY PHP for $xx

• STATIC HOSTING for $xx

• L.INK for $xx

• CPANEL for $xx

Are any of these necessary for a person like me who wants to blog and monetize on it?

I think I've also settled on A2

Separate question: I heard you get paid $2 for every 1000 ad clicks/views using AdSense? Is there a ad firm that pays more for less clicks/views?

I'm very excited to get started

Hey guys just wanted to get the communities consensus on Porkbun vs Cloudflare?

EDIT: Afer reading the stories from user billhartzer of Cloudflare domains getting hacked (see comments below), I'll be sticking with Porkbun for the time being.

I've been using Porkbun them for the past 5 years and have only had good experiences with them but am interested to hear your experience vs Cloudflare?

It looks like Cloudflare has really good domain rates as .com renewals are $10.45/yr at the time of writing this. Porkbun renewal rates for .com domains are currently $11.06/yr.

In total I've been purchasing my domains with Porkbun then for web hosting I've been using Cloudways along with WordPress to build my websites as I believe it's the best web hosting provider.

If you're looking to do this same this tutorial will walk you through the process.

Anyways, in the past I used to use Namecheap but ever since they've increased their prices I've stayed away from them as they've significantly increased their domain rates and most definitely NOT cheap.

Overall across the board, it appears domain registrars have increased their pricing, even just a few years ago you could get a .com domain with Porkbun for ~$9/yr but that has since changed to ~11/yr.

This still wildly beats GoDaddy and Namecheap, their .com renewal rates are $22/yr and Namecheaps are $17/yr.

I always tell people to stay away from GoDaddy. Namecheap isn't bad but they're just more expensive. Most people haven't heard of Porkbun and find the brand amusing (I love it tbh). Cloudflare on the other hand is more well known especially amongst the tech literate crowd. I'm interested to hear your guys' thoughts on Cloudflare since I haven't used them in particular.

Thoughts?

I've been struggling to decide between namecheap, porkbun and hover as a domain registrar. I'm setting up a shopify store for e-commerce. There are so many pros and cons, hundreds of YouTube videos, most of which are repeating the identical script they probably found from chat GPT. And my head is genuinely tarting to physically hurt. I'm so overwhelmed.

Which one should I go for. I don't know much about web development at all. But from what I've heard this is what I need.

1. SSL certificates - the thing that makes my website safe and not look sketchy I guess??

2. Custom email hosting - so I can have my own custom email @ which is very professional and very cool.

3. Email forwarding so may all goes to my personal email?? (I guess this is good but I don't really know if I want that. I'd rather just log into my business email every time I want to respond to customers) - this just seems like it would inconvenience me and getting my way.

4. Domain forwarding could be very useful, so even if someone types the wrong domain, they would still end up on my website. (But not a necessity I suppose idk)

5. I barely even know what a sub domain is, but I think I need this. (Yes I will continue researching these things)

6. DNS management - the most important of all I reckon. From what I've learnt this is the thing that ensures that there are no connectivity issues. When people type in my website name they actually end up on my site + with no slow loading time etc)

The lower the price the better, but not if it means I'm going to have a headache running this business. I see the extra prices as a way of delegating the hard work to somebody who isn't me. You're very important for someone running their first business on their own.

I tried asking chat GPT, I did it for hours actually. But it kept giving me false info, I was incredibly biased for some strange reason, telling me the price per month for certain companies but the price per year for other companies. When I calculated the numbers they were all wrong. And even I barely know anything I had to correct it, it would agree and explain again, still getting things wrong. So I'm overwhelmed and coming to Reddit for help.

I won't get it from shopify in case I feel like I need to transfer it later. I'd rather own the domain individually, so shopify won't be an option.

Thank you in advance.