I’m looking to host a (very) basic website - assume limited technical knowledge - most likely with WordPress (though I am open to alternative suggestions).

Do ppl have recommendations on non US hosting platforms where I can also purchase a domain?

Price is of course important but not high up on my list, I would rather spend money to make sure its non US and as easy as possible to use.

  • unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I use Inleed and I’m really happy with them. It’s a Swedish company with servers in Sweden and France. My WordPress site was super easy to set up through them. Hosting is as cheap as €2/month and you can buy your domain through them too.

  • Libb@jlai.luEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I use a small French company called monarobase. I don’t use it but they offer wordpress hosting (and they have easy to use assistant for all their other offers). I’ve been their customer for well over 10 years now and I wouldn’t want a larger more widely known host because 1) I never had any major issue with them, contrary to larger ones 2) their customer support is is the closest to perfection I have ever dealt with—which I find invaluable since I have myself very, very limited technical knowledge: every time I’ve made an oopsie, they fixed it in a matter of hours (and they never laughed at me :p)

    If you want a bigger host and not some small French one (we have great cheese, too), like already suggested I would say the German at Hetzner are great but depending the offer, you will have a lot of maintenance to do yourself. So is the Swiss Infomaniak, I can say I really like what they’re trying to make with their Site Creator, even though it still needs some work.

    Infomaniak cloud/office suite is also very nice, if anyone is interested: myksuite.

    WorPress (though I am open to alternative suggestions).

    I started to use WP when it first appeared but in the last decade or so I became incredibly tired with both the direction it was going and the constant flow of feature updates and countless security updates. Not mentioning extensions). I wanted something a lot less demanding, simple and less bloated. I learned to use Hugo, a static website generator. That’s what I’m now using. May not fit all use case but it’s perfect for me. And I have zero maintenance (security or whatever) server side, since Hugo is only installed on my computer on the website is 100% static.

    • Technoworcester@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Employer owned peaks my interest. Ta! Will have a look.

      I did a Google search as well before I asked the question here - hopefully I get some use case replies.

  • Yigru Zeltil@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    5 days ago

    InfinityFree are based in the Netherlands, though at one point at least they were using US servers. It seems like the best solution for free hosting by far.