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Direct Answer: Get away from AWS. It will be too costly to build any application over AWS. This one time, I hosted an OTT platform over AWS for one of my clients, and guess what, It charged around 1800$ due to bandwidth. I have to quickly move away. Now, I host with Local DCs with Unlimited Bandwidth, and guess what, prices are between 200$-400$. The only thing is AWS is renowned for its infrastructure and so many of them try using AWS first and obviously think Peak Prices in the Market.

If you need any Free VPS, Go with Oracle Cloud(It actually gives 1 free VPS forever).

I mostly use OpenStack for my Cloud purposes and to Provision a Direct Local Network using Virtual Private Network.

@Monsta Host said:

IMPORTANT Lessons I've Learned About Hosting

I'm still new at this, but I've learned these important things about hosting from this forum:

1) Always have separate providers for your webhosting and domain registration. A separate provider for email is a great idea too.

2) Get the cheapest domain registration possible and then move it to Cloudflare in 90 days. Cloudflare is also an ethical host; every account is secure and anonymous by default, there's no useless domain locking tools, no "upgrades" that aren't really upgrades, no strange billing practices, and they don't try to lock you out of a move. I respect that they don't treat the user like a wallet full of money to be taken advantage of.

3) Just avoid GoDaddy and any EIG hosting companies (Bluehost, HostGator, Web.com)

4) Put a free Cloudflare edge cache on top of your hosting. You probably want Cloudflare edge caching, it also gives you one panel to manage both domain and edge cache.

5) Cloudflare is the cheapest registry as they charge only at cost with no markup.

Seems like you trusted CloudFlare too much. Let me tell you one thing, it seems Cloudflare seems Speeding website up but actually its makes up its own caching layer which makes Dynamic websites harder to Update every second. Morever, it actually slows down your website using proxying. The best thing for which I use it is DNS only, We have 4 DNS Servers so that our Cloud Never goes down and 2 of them are of Cloudflare because its trusted for DNS Servers.

I partially disagree with your first point, you can keep Hosting and Domain providers different but Email hosting always seem to me as a waste of money. Most of New comers just go to GSUITE because they think its integrated with Gmail. I give the same to my customers without a GSUITE. People don't know how to Integrate POP3 and SMTP with Gmail and thats why they have to pay more but reality is Each of my Customers are on Gmail with Business Email for free.

Your second point, I totally disagree with! Domain Registrar Lock should always be there, in the current scenario, People can easily guess EPP code and just run away with your Domain. Though, each Domain Registrar is trusted in this matter even Godaddy because they have their level of ethics as a registrar.

I totally agree with your Third point!

For the fifth point, Cloudflare is a Registrar, not registry! Registry for .COM TLD is Verisign and so on for each different TLD!

Don't take this review in a Negative way...

@Tapioca said:
Hey guys,

Need to consult with you regarding the WordPress Static Site Generator tool.
Recently came across Flatsite.com - these guys offer Platform To Manage WordPress Websites.
Is it really good for PBN/ SEO/ WP sites management?

DIRECT ANSWER: Its of no use, Its just the copy of WPengine tool which does the same thing and I have tried their Pro Plan. If you want to Make a Static Site, Try us at https://builder.cloudmate.in. Its Totally free without any charges. If you still want Wordpress site Management, Consider Jetpack because thats what gives you something out of it. I am open to more questions if you wanna ask!