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Discussion on: What shared hosting providers have you tried?

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Mike Bybee

Too many. They all suck. If you're doing something frontend-only, just use Netlify, GitHub or GitLab pages, Firebase hosting, or any number of other free options. If you're doing something with a backend, look into Vercel, Heroku, AWS/Firebase/etc. FaaS and DBaaS, or just a simple DigitalOcean droplet ($5/mo and 1GB RAM gets you further than a lot of people think). Any of these options are better than shared hosting, and often free. If you go the DigitalOcean route and absolutely must have a control panel (I wouldn't recommend it, but it's less of a security risk than screwing with SSH/FTP/etc. if you don't know what you're doing), there are options like Webmin and others whose names I can't recall ATM.

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Jordan Kicklighter

For what it's worth, Vercel is also great at front end only deployments (a la Netlify) as well.

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Yoel Velasquez

How do they use gsuite with the mail service?

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Mike Bybee • Edited

DNS records are all you need. MX for the mail servers, plus hopefully you're setting up SPF/DKIM records to verify authenticity of mails sent from your domain. You can even set up CNAME records to point subdomains to the GMail, Calendar, etc. web GUIs.