FluentCommunity and Shared Hosting
Is anyone using a shared hosting for their community? How's performance? What shared hosting provider do you recommend for a small community?
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David Fore What plan do you use?
Marek I'm currently using their "Elite" plan running 5 low volume Community sites all with FluentCommunity.
David Fore I think that's overkill. I've been running two small communities on Managed VPS (2 CPU 4 GB RAM) and it uses only 30% of resources. I got it for $15/month for the first year as black friday deal. The price will increase after that and I'm thinking about moving to shared hosting because I don't even think I need that many resources at this moment.
I've had a good experience running FluentCommunity on quality shared hosting. For a small community, a good shared hosting plan is usually more than enough and performs smoothly.
That said, it really depends on the number of active users and overall traffic. I ran my community on shared hosting for quite a long time without any major issues. Once the community grew to around 5,000 users, I moved to a VPS to have more dedicated resources and room to scale.
So, if you're just starting out, I'd recommend investing in a reputable shared hosting provider first and upgrading to a VPS only when your community actually outgrows it.
Arif Hossain What shared hosting provider did you use and how much did you pay?
I'm using shared hosting with 100+ members + lots of add-ons and snippet, I'll move to VPS when I have more members.
And my fluent community is my main domain: https://mpaddi.com
WiLson Eberechi What shared hosting provider and plan do you use?
Marek I'm using "Hosting", that's the hosting provider, for the plan I think it's the minimum or something.
WiLson Eberechi Starter plan for $2.99/month? I'm amazed how well your community runs if you only pay this much.
Marek I'm actually talking about "Hosting" not "Hostinger", though my staging/tester site is using "Hostinger" but my main site mpaddi is using "Hosting"
WiLson Eberechi nice website 👌. Im new with fluent community. I saw your have an app for you community. May I ask how did you make it?
Thanks!
George Khair I built it myself.
WiLson Eberechi that's nice! May i ask what did you use to build it or is just an app that a shortcut to your domain name? I appreciate you! Thanks 🙏
George Khair programming languages, php and JavaScript. CSS for styling.
Hostinger cloud startup is a great choice !
I'm also on this plan and haven't had any problems so far with a small community and a website for my web radio (which is more resource-intensive). The multi-year offer is attractive.