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Quick question.
I've noticed that most of my clients always separates their domain and host services? I was wondering what specific reasons to why they would not get a hosting service provider that includes a package of having a free domain?
And furthermore, I would like to know how the process of moving a hosting service provider to another one. Is it similar to how a domain just redirects their nameservers?
Pricing vs Specifications is what I look for. Usually I get a domain from Namecheap (because they're reliable for decent prices) and purchase a VPS/Dedicated Server from DigitalOcean, Vultr or OVH. I avoid web hosting and prefer to set it up myself, because I am able to and web hosting packages are usually pretty terrible and slow due to shared resources.
Can I please ask but what exactly is required technically if I establish my own web hosting service?
I think that the web hosting market is now dying because of the simplicity of getting an AWS account with free tier to setup an EC2 instance, RDS for the database, elasticache if you need distributed cache and EFS for shared storage. Scale up as your business grows. It used to be harder as you had to purchase a dedicated server or a VPS and setting up everything took time. Now you can get yourself online in less than 15 minutes.
The thing is about web hosting is that it's usually limited, and slow because of shared resources as people have written.This really. Getting a server that have great specifications for the price is easier than ever. On top of that, services like Envoyer and Forge from the team behind Laravel provide excellent solutions for quick, easy and automated deployment which build the LEMP / LAMP stack for you (among other things). I don't really know anyone who uses standard Web Hosting anymore.