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I've just spent the last week phaffing around with different hosting providers and we've ended up going with Ploi with servers from Hetzner (largely due to recommendations in this forum). This was partly a cost saving exercise (although it's taken a week of my time...) and because we wanted to shift some sites back into the EU. Ploi do only have nginx and not Apache. That's not been an issue for any of our PW sites so far, but if you do have something that relies on fancy rewrite rules or something Apache specific then that would be something to consider. Also - if you're only spinning up a single site then it's probably not going to be as good value as if you have lots of sites. Their Pro tier is the same price for 1-10 servers. We also use Krystal for general cPanel hosting. They've been really good, are UK based, B-Corp and green. When I've needed to use their support it was great. The sites we're moving to Ploi are currently on Cloudways. They've also been good - just more expensive for us than we think Ploi will be. We'll definitely keep some sites with them though. They do have Apache on their servers if you need, and I love just being able to duplicate sites with a click. Lastly we have a couple of sites on the bog standard Hetzner hosting. The control panel is archaic but they are updating it. We'll probably move these sites over to Ploi as well just to keep things neat, but if you just have a single site to deal with then it's probably a cheap option.

I've recently started moving some of my PW sites over to 20i.com after becoming disenchanted with my current host. I've found their systems to be performant and reliable and their support to be really helpful and responsive (although they've recently adopted an AI bot intermediary for support questions - which to be fair is quite good, and if it doesn't answer your question you can get straight through to tech support via a ticket). Support tickets are usually answered within a few minutes. They have a custom Control Panel rather similar to cPanel, which is fine; I've not encountered any problems with it. They provide a CDN by default and the handful of PW sites I've moved over are running perfectly happily. Their migration mechanism is a cinch (I'm migrating from cPanel). I've a couple of small cloud servers with them and I'm trying out the reseller offering at the moment. The only downside is that to use their free SSL certs you need to have your domain either hosted with them or if hosted elsewhere, to use their nameservers. For some of my clients that's a non-starter, so I may look at Krystal as well. HTH.

Solved it … another module (CustomUploadNames) wasn't compatible under 8.x and blocked the field upload from working. Not sure how to set it to "solved" … but it is 🙂

I like Runcloud/Ploi.

Just a brief note for anyone following this theme, I have spent some time reading over the various discussions regarding the new default theme and I will need to dig in deeper before I implement any changes to accommodate CSS variables. For now, if you wish to use Chroma for the backend please select 'original' as your AdminThemeUIKit preference. I'm working out some better math for some color calculations to make them less prone to throwing contrast/accessibility errors.