Ask HN: Best Web Hosting Options in 2014?

I recommend http://www.asmallorange.com

We use them for a dedicated server and their support is awesome. They are also not too big like the godaddys and seem to care about their customers. No affiliations, I just like them a lot.

Someone mentioned to me in IRC that they are owned by Endurance, same owners of HostGator and a bunch of other hosts. Not sure this really affects anyone's opinion.

I have a 35/year personal site hosted there.

> I have moved some of them onto a simple VPS with DO for now but would like a better long term solution (i.e something managed).

> The main problem I am having at this point is that given they are NGOs money is a big issue and finding something that would work with their price range and isn't at the Godaddy level is proving to be a bit of a challenge.

These statements contradict each other. If money is an issue, you're going to have a hard time finding someone to manage an environment that small.

S3 + Jekyll are out if you need SSL. Have you thought about Docker containers on Digital Ocean with Cloudflare in front of the site (free tier comes with SNI SSL)?

I'd like to be able to hand the project off at some point and fear that much beyond a basic hosting setup will really limit their options in the future due to too much perceived complexity.

> S3 + Jekyll are out if you need SSL.

Isn't this possible with cloudfront?

https://www.google.com/search?q=s3+website+sshl&ie=utf-8&oe=...

What are you going to host? static site or dynamic site, or just a wordpress site? How is the traffic of this site?

Some tools suggested from previous HN discussions:

http://www.hackertoolbox.com/tags/cloud%20hosting

http://www.hackertoolbox.com/tags/email%20hosting

Check out Zoho Mail for an alternative to Google Apps email interface [1]. Has worked pretty well for me when handling several non-proit email platforms. It isn't as pretty of an interface as Gmail or google, but I have found it to be reliable and cost-inexpensive.

[1] https://www.zoho.com/mail/

Is Heroku sufficient? It doesn't have the email aspect but there are plenty of standalone options there. It abstracts away a lot of the headache from custom VPSen, as long as the sort of thing you want to host is supported. AWS OpsWorks could be an alternative.