Choosing a hosting provider - ranting shared webhosting, praising Hetzner.com

Recently there has been 2 posts where someone had issues with running Dolibarr on Hostgator under their Baby Plan.

Maybe Hostgator and their webhosting plans is not a good place to run Dolibarr because you can not really investigate when something is not working.

I run my Dolibarr on a small Linux VPS from Hetzner.com’s cloud plan, and I pay only $4.09 pr. month - and I did not even have to sign up for a 36 months plan that renews at $16.49 pr. month - there is no binding time at Hetzner

Yeah, I have to do everything myself, security updates, install a webserver, and then install dolibarr, but my processes are not killed if they use too much CPU - they just run slower, and I can actually get the error log from Apache that can tell me if something is wrong with my installation.

I can log in as root and from their I’ve installed podman, but you can use docker as well and then run your Dolibarr as a container. You can setup that podman container running dolibarr as a systemd service, and then it automatically restarts when the machine restarts.

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Had various issues with hostgator.

  1. Support is 24/7 but most of the times useless, goes to india tech support.

  2. Emails are spammed so have to use vpn to send emails again hostgator ip issue but they blaming my isp.

  3. Osticket and dolibarr support rubbish always got issues resolved from developer forums and NOT hostgator.

If anyone can help me migrate please let me know.