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It's really going to depend on what you want to host and how you want to interact with it as an admin.

For Node app hosting, I've been enjoying Render over the past year or so. But it seems like opinions on them are mixed among the HN audience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42832696

If you look at that thread, you'll see comparable services mentioned as well, like Fly.io, Vercel, etc.

But if what you want to host is a WordPress site or just a Linux server, the options to consider are going to be different.

This is interesting and was not on my radar thank you for sharing this.

If you're running WordPress, WPX is top tier. The customer service we get from them is unbelievably good. It's an easy move from Namecheap, and it's a real step up.

I'm taking a run at a Cloudflare based tech stack, looks promising so far

I've tinkered with it but they don't support cms that I have seen.

A vps with openbsd and httpd.

render.com

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