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What platform providers use to host their main site.
I am curious to know what providers normally choose for hosting their main website. Like if they put it on a shared environment as of their users or host on a vps. It would be interesting to see if dedicated server is also being used to host a single hosting site.
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If someone does put the client area on a shared host, its never a good idea, it wont end well.
been there done that!
We use a small e5, 16GB RAM, 2x480GB raid1 Dedicated server to host it
To have alot of power. Also i don't want any of my clients (or someone elses) to get affected by high load either on vps or shared hosting node. Especially when layer 7 attacks hit us again one day or other. The dedi and his configuration runs it well.
Using LiteSpeed Webserver + custom script to activate lsws captcha, restart lsws automatically if load is xxx + cloudflare. IP behind it has some protection as well
Etc etc. For WHMCS MariaDB instead mysql. Much better performance
Backups done to a vps though automatically.
Uptime over a year + since installed
Never rebooted..
VirMach billing panel is on OVH.
It's normally behind Cloudflare, but it's possible to figure out the server IP.
BuyVM KVM, install OS from ISO, use full disk encryption and opt-in for the DDoS filtering.
Though I'm sure it'd be just as safe on most provider's setups, assuming they offer KVM, filtering and you can bring your own ISO.
I've been eyeballing some Pi stuff... Namely high density colocated Pis... and figured a good 'test' of my idea would be to simply cram a handful of Pi's in a 1U server mount and use them for internal stuff.
I would think Cloudflare or similar CDN would be standard...the "who we are/here are our products" stuff is all static anyway, and then the client area can be on a VM or dedi.
Personally I dont like an official site behind cloudflare. it just doesnt gives the vibe of authenticity unless its a very popular site. So for new consumers checking my website and find it hidden behind cloudflare ips could make some potential clients lost. One thing is for sure client area should be on atleast vm.
It really all depends on how much traffic you're getting. But for sure don't use shared for your main site. That way you won't have any headaches down the road.
You should host your main site on your own provider. This way when you are down you don't get spammed with tickets.
@cociu
Started off using ServerCheap.net, then moved to an E5-2430 Node I had laying around, now I'm on BuyVM Las Vegas.
Hostsolutions 8tb storage VM
We are using a vps on a hostsystem only used for vps controled by us, so that customers cant effect our Website and panel Performance.
Legacy WHMCS / SolusVM:
8C16G KVM VPS from our own core location. Host node is equipped with 2x40Gbps uplink + RAID1 NVMe SSD
In the past, php-fpm always end up using too much memory so I allocated more memory just in case.
New System:
Kubernetes w/ 5 worker nodes (16C/32G) in different host nodes, same host node spec.
PostgreSQL, Clickhouse servers are in other dedicated servers.
LoadBalancer + 2 VMs (2vCPU, 4GB RAM, 50GB disk) for the control panel
Cloudflare + Azure Blob = for static website