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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/webdev

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For personal projects, I've favored gandi.net for many years, but I'm trying to get a few candidates together for the organization I work for. Not a fan of GoDaddy, NetworkSolutions, or many of the all-in-one web host / registrar / app hosting / whateverelse sites.

Hoping there are a few modern alternatives out there that I haven't seen yet. We had all of our domains on Google Domains, but since they got bought by Squarespace, I'm surveying our options.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Porkbun and namecheap for me

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah PorkBun has been pretty solid for me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Been with namecheap for years, no complaint at all. Their interface is good enough for most things and if I need anything more complex than they make easy I just stick in an NS record and do the fancy shit in Route 53.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AWS and Cloudflare are my go tos depending on the client. Both have top tier tooling and broad support.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I used Cloudflare for other things, but looks like I can't use their registrar services unless I use a "full setup" (explained here: https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/get-started/transfer-domain-to-cloudflare/). We have quite a few domains that point to our organization's name servers. Have you used outside name servers with Cloudflare before?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Domain Registrars which Developers Recommend

[–] alr 2 points 1 year ago

I'm on Hover. They'll host and email inbox for you, but not a website.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was a long date happy gandi customer until this year shenanigans (steep price increase and free mailbox tier suppression).

I'm switching bit by bit my domains to OVH

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I second OVH, been using their services for the best part of 2 decades now, and I can't see myself migrating out unless something big happens.

I really love the ease of editing DNS zones and the free dynamic DNS with your domains. A self-hoster delight, for sure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've been using DirectNIC for quite some time.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

Again? Why are there so many identical posts about this?