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Some day I won't be around any more, and a family member relies on me to manage their work website. They don't know how to log into the domain registrar if DNS settings need adjustment, they don't know how to update the blog or pages or how to push the results (static site) to gitlab pages.

We did try Wordpress, but the constant hassle of plugin updates, vulnerabilities and login security was nothing but stress for sites that add or edit a little content once per month on average.

Hugo and other static site generators weren't professional enough looking (and are difficult to use). Publii does not fix showstopper bugs, such as broken support for syncing with GitLab, GitHub, etc.

I'm thinking that I could use Wordpress Studio to create a locally hosted site, teach them how to edit that, export the static site and upload to GitLab or similar. But honestly, they're technically as weak as it gets. If they get into trouble they won't be able to get out of it without going to UpWork.com and finding someone there maybe.

Has anyone solved this for themselves that can share their solution? I'd like to have a solution in place while I'm alive rather than leave instructions in a will.

When I decided to build my startup on European infrastructure, I thought it would be a straightforward swap. Ditch AWS, pick some EU providers, done. How hard could it be?

Turns out: harder than expected. Not impossible, I did it, but nobody talks about the weird friction points you hit along the way. This is that post.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/936919

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I am a former employee of the company. When I started, it was a small operation out of Bellevue, NE being sold by the founder to a pair of investors in Minnesota. For a time, things were alright until the company was sold off to Deluxe. Deluxe did nothing for the brand and in fact let it get worse by not doing anything. Then, they sold the company off to HostPapa, where tenure was reset.

Over the years, the quality of the service we provided did start going downhill, especially when we started chasing after the new-and-latest thing, rather than focusing on the core competency - competent ASP.NET CMS hosting with white glove service, 24/7/365. Today, I'm lucky if I get a response from my former colleagues within 15 minutes.

Currently, their old Hyper-V Cluster is having some issues, has been for almost half a month. And guess what, someone's dragging their feet to get it fixed. All while corporate chases AI to sell to customers. It's a dumpster fire. Stay away.

My web hosting company can't explain this.

My website is old school static, just HTML, CSS and js files. Nothing fancy.

No VPN, it loads fine. With VPN (various, but in my case Mullvad) it won't load. I get this screenshot. All other sites load fine with that vpn!

Can anyone recommend decent UK hosting, VPS. 2 GB RAM, single core will be fine 30+GB storage, and PCI-DSS compliant for future business needs. Free backups would be a bonus!

I recently purchased a domain for myself as a why-the-fuck-not purchase and I need some ideas for what to put on there. Some ideas so far include: Small Blog Personal S/FTP server to sync back to Minecraft server

Does anyone have other ideas? Thanks :)

I'm considering creating another personal website, but for more formal things like writing articles and programming updates, as opposed to the usual blog stuff I have on my Neocities site. It'll also have a simpler design, optimised more for reading than having a fun appearance.

Unless the generic domain is particularly nice, I'll buy a domain from Namecheap; but Neocities requires a subscription in order to use a custom domain, so does anyone have any suggestions for cheap or free web hosting that I could use?