Hello, when choosing a domain name and hosting for a long-term project, what factors should be prioritized? Beyond reliability, price-to-performance ratio, support quality, and bandwidth, which technical details (e.g., SSD storage, CDN integration, backup policies) stand out? What steps should those planning to scale up a small project follow? What are your general thoughts?
What should we pay attention to when choosing a domain/hosting?
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Yesterday, I had two consecutive sleepless nights because my hosting provider's SSD storage unit suddenly couldn't read with a 90% error rate. Since no backup was provided as a temporary solution, I had to reclone the data from the source code—three days of my life gone. Based on that experience:
The "Flagship" plan, which I chose for its high price-performance ratio, didn’t offer any backup options despite experiencing downtime. I was pretty upset when I realized that even simple weekly snapshots were being sold for an extra €10–20.
If you're planning to grow from small to big, first discuss the "rapid growth" scenario—I prefer VPS or cloud infrastructure over shared hosting with CPU limits, like the one I had that couldn’t handle sudden traffic spikes. With DigitalOcean, you can go from a fresh setup to Kubernetes in under 20 minutes. Detailed backups, automatic snapshots, CDN integration, and scalable pricing that won’t break the bank. I’m using it now, and I haven’t heard a peep from my server keeping me up at night.