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- For someone getting here after 3 years. Vercel now supports streaming through SSE which can be the good alternative to websockets. Bear in mind that it’s a unidirectional streaming, from server to client. Which honestly most streaming in fact are. - What I do is remove, everything Vercel not suppo

Vercel's incident communication is worth reading because it's a rare example of a company getting it right under pressure.

8/10 Pros It provides a lot of good features for web hosting and make hosting next.js application very easy. Cons It could have more guides but

- if I were you (typescript developer, not a sys admin) I would recommend leveraging existing resellers like wpengine or kinsta to handle the hosting. Main reason is that they will handle things like backups and security, which will turn into a nightmare if not actively managed. For maintenance, I w

## Top Comments - Having the same problem - You didn't get unlucky, nor is this beginner error, they failed. Every major hosting company should have triplicates of backups, known as 3-2-1. Forget downloading anything, request a full backup (tgz, zip) from DH, including database. The rest is simple,

We switched to Kinsta. It's still very much a premium service but more in line with the market as far as pricing. WP Engine really seems to be

## Top Comments - None - I have had good experiences with Greengeeks hosting WordPress for over a decade. I just moved a big Woo store from those rip-off MFers at GoDaddy to them. Flawless. I don’t know if they’re the same outfit as Geekstorage though. - None - Never heard of them. However Host4Geek

etc… In contrast, GreenGeeks is strictly shared hosting which is sub-par compared to cloud hosting and has fewer dev-friendly tools. In my opinion, if you don’t care about eco-branding, there are other hosts out there that beat out GreenGeeks’ considering price, performance and functionality. If you

## Content None ## Top Comments - None - Have a friend who uses them for his sites targeting a North American audience and he loves them. Goes on and on about how good their support is when fuck ups have happened. He's sticking with them till he truly out grows them for sure. - I worked for a site w

by which I mean not exceptionally good and not exceptionally bad. Support were responsive but I started to notice that most of their answers were: "No, you can't do that with a shared hosting account". Fair enough, I suppose. However, in the first 10 days alone, I experienced 20 minutes downtime (th

all and pretty much zero contact with their customer support other than the initial account set-up for my first site, which went pretty smooth. This wednesday was my first experience with their customer support regarding an actual issue and I'm now not sure how they have any customers. I have a few

I contacted Vercel, the email I received said that the typical review time is a week, but 13 days without a follow up is nuts. I'm lost, what do

various official Vercel email support channels that I found, Twitter/X. Case number is 01291005. Is Vercel support down? hosting on vercel

@vercel just switched to a sidebar layout It was inevitable I think, but feels bittersweet, like the end of an era.

I'm starting to think about it for a few of my projects. Don't get me wrong, Vercel is great and everything just works, but the cost make me a bit nervous

Switched from. Netlify. I did make the switch because Vercel has better support for Next.js applications. Review source. Non

| | | | | | --- | --- | --- | | | | esperent on Sept 6, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Static site hosting hurdles I switched from Vercel static site hosting, because I recently read an article here about how it's usually more economical to scale vertically instead of horizontally (i.e. us

Green Geeks performs server migration, breaks dozens of sites, and support goes silent

Their service was fine - by which I mean not exceptionally good and not exceptionally bad. Support were responsive but I started to notice that

Greengeeks never helped me with the move over to the new host but then I never asked. The customer support with my new host is worlds better.

etc… In contrast, GreenGeeks is strictly shared hosting which is sub-par compared to cloud hosting and has fewer dev-friendly tools. In my opinion, if you don’t care about eco-branding, there are other hosts out there that beat out GreenGeeks’ considering price, performance and functionality. If you

- Bluehost has been charging my credit card while my hosting was inactive. My site was down, and support did nothing until I got my credit card company involved. They reactivated my account but refused to refund the lost time. Avoid Bluehost—there are better hosting providers out there. Anyone else

The website has had intermittent downtime until about 12 hours ago, when the website and VPS fully went down. I can't interact with the VPS even

Hostinger's interface is arguably cleaner and easier to navigate, and that may be their main advantage over Bluehost.

SiteGround is generally recommended over BlueHost for its better reliability, faster performance, and stronger customer support.

Liquid Web has rug-pulled their phone support without notice. I knew there were big changes with the merging of the Nexcess and LW lines, but

After repeated hacked sites on a Fastcomet managed server plan (for which we pay a lot extra) we are still seeing security breaches.

It seems sensible to just purchase a new plan instead of renewing. Since I don't have any issues with FastComet, I would prefer staying with them rather than

FastComet is my favorite because you can also run Ghost there from CPanel. ... I switched from google to Proton and it's been solid

- I've been hosting my websites with Nixihost for the past 2 years without issues. My websites are faster compared to previous providers and their support is amazing, always eager to help when I reach out. The biggest plus for me is that they did not raise the price at all in the past 2 years, the a

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