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Anyone still use "traditional" shared hosting? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by d00phy@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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A long long time ago, I bought a domain or two, and a shared hosting plan from Dreamhost w/ unlimited bandwidth/storage. I don't have root access, and can't do containers on this. It's been useful for a Piwigo instance to share scanned family photos. The problem I have is the limited resources really limit Piwigo's ability to handle the large TIF files involved in the archival scans. There are ways around this, but they all add time to the workflow that already eats into my free time enough. I'm looking at moving Piwigo to my local server that has plenty of available resources. That leaves me with little reason to keep the Dreamhost space. So what's a decent use case for cheap, shared hosting space anymore?

To be clear, I'm not looking for suggestions to move to a cheap VPS. I've looked into them, and might use one in the future, but don't need it right now. The shared hosting costs about $10.99/month at the moment. If there was a way I could leverage the unlimited bandwidth/storage as an offsite backup, that would be amazing, but I'm not sure it would be a great idea backing up stuff to a webserver where there best security I can add it via an .htaccess file.

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[–] dugmeup@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I read the details. He has a decent reason to ask WP to pay as they got brought by private equity and significantly dropped their contributions to the WordPress which is open source and hence relies on the community to feed back into the product.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Ask, sure. Sue, maybe. Commandeer extensions, absolutely not.

If they don't like people using their open source project, they shouldn't offer that license.