Looking for a Shared Hosting Plan

SocksAreComfortable

Hello! Need a solid shared hosting plan for one of my sites. Details:

• Ideally in France, potentially Luxembourg/Belgium/Switzerland as alternate location. Most traffic is to those 4 countries and also a few Central & West African countries.
• Only one domain needed.
• Disk size of at least 25GB (the site only uses about 6 now but anticipating long-term).
• Bandwidth would need to be 3TB/mo or more based on the most active past months (current usage is significantly lower but again, long-term)
• Needs PHP & MySQL, nothing fancy (literally only 3 dbs, probably gonna redo to use just 2 soon).
• Prefer cPanel as I'm more familiar with it, but DA is not a deal-breaker.
• Site uses WordPress, can manage it manually but would use Softalicious or similar if available.
• Backups are nice. Not absolutely required but definitely preferred.
• No need for any email (I use MXroute and prefer to keep mail separate from hosting).

Biggest thing for me is the reliability of the hosting (both in a business and technical sense) and the support offered. I say shared hosting because I don't trust myself enough to install and manage things via a VPS for anything in production, but if some some version of semi-managed hosting or whatnot fits in the budget, then that would be perfectly fine. I would also prefer ticket support (English or French is fine), and a host that has a decent reputation and has been around for a bit. I do not use support often (roughly around 10-12 tickets in the past decade), but just want to make sure it's available and solid when needed (and perhaps a bit patient/friendly as web stuff is a side gig for me, not my main job, nor is my main job even tech-related, and as such my skills/confidence are not the highest, lol).

In terms of budget, I'm currently paying about $25/year for a cheap plan for the site, but I am willing and frankly kind of expect to pay more for the reliability/support that I'd like. I would say max of around $100/year, preferably more like $40-$60. However, the reliability/support are more important than a few dollars in the budget, so none of those numbers are absolutely set in stone.

synthohosting

Hello
we can do this:

25GB SSD NVMe
3TB/month bandwidth (upgradable in future)
Unlimited MySQL databases
99.7% guaranteed uptime
Advanced DDoS Protection (L4)
Advanced h24 support (Telegram/Phone/Email/Ticket)
Plesk Panel
Falkenstein location
IPv4+IPv6
55€/year

On webhostings, we do off-site backups every night.
Deal? Let me know in DMs

MikeA

@SocksAreComfortable Try out my web hosting in Europe, it's on Hetzner FSN network. Runs SPanel which has many similarities to cPanel and has everything you need. I'll give you a plan to match your storage needs in your budget, just PM me.
https://extravm.com/webhosting.php

AuroraZero

@MikeA said:
@SocksAreComfortable Try out my web hosting in Europe, it's on Hetzner FSN network. Runs SPanel which has many similarities to cPanel and has everything you need. I'll give you a plan to match your storage needs in your budget, just PM me.
https://extravm.com/webhosting.php

@SocksAreComfortable DO it you won't regret it!!!! Mike won't even steal your socks!!!

MikeA

@AuroraZero said:
@SocksAreComfortable DO it you won't regret it!!!! Mike won't even steal your socks!!!

Confirmed. I'm not a sock sniffer.

bikegremlin

I use MDDhosting even for the Serbia/Europe "centred" websites.

Performance and tech. support are awesome.

Price for the high-performance shared plan ("Plaid") is $30 per month.
I use the Plaid reseller (my review) plan for the same monthly price, but with lower bandwidth and storage limits included in the price (and with the pay-per-use policy when you exceed the limits).

For me that's worth it because of the quality - I can concentrate on making articles and websites, not worry about the foundation (the hosting). Your budget, choices, and priorities may be different, of course.

Relja

Edit:
Cloudflare can save bandwidth, with some decent caching: