As many will now, i have in the past developed tutorials in relation to Orangehost.com.
I have seen members posting issues they have had with this service recently.
While i do not use this service on a day to day basis I do have 2 accounts and have revisited the platform.
I have experienced multiple issues with the configuration of their servers.
I spoke with one of their managers who basically said they will not support users using their node.js platform and blamed all the issues on Wappler despite me giving a detailed description of exactly what was going wrong and why.
As a result I feel i must warn all users about the use of this service.
I will be closing my accounts with them and will no longer be able to give any advice or support and certainly do not endorse its use for anyone considering using them.
Thing is Digital Ocean have over a decade in the business and a huge support network. This is what I fail to understand why not go with a trusted and reliable host for two Dollars more..? Yes it is still absurdly cheap but that extra couple of Dollars buys you a solution that both works out of the box and is very well supported. You know what you're getting with Digital Ocean... Regardless you'll never know if you don't try I suppose. So many hosts out there but some are just well worth steering clear of...
Thankfully i never relied on them in a oroduction situation. I saw a few people praise them so signed up to do tutorials thinking it would provide a cheap platform for those who have never used node to use to "dip their toes into node" before moving to a more trusted platform.
I for one really do appreciate the sacrifices you put yourself through for the Community Brian. In no way am I taking away from the fact you work so hard to help others. I think I stand for everyone when I say your help and advice has probably been taken by all of us here at some point or another. Certainly has helped me many a time indeed. We live and learn.
I agree Brian, I love the price point and when it works, it works, but we have had to jump through so many hoops to get some stuff to work on their platform, when it works fine on other platforms. The killer is the lack of support for Node. They only support Wordpress. I was just trying to upload a file to verify my domain with Stripe and it errors trying to verify the file. I'm sure it's Orangehost issue. I will be moving back to digital ocean or another solution, although it seems that it's not a flat $4 a month for Digital Ocean, cause it's based on usage if I remember correctly. I never had the website live yet I remember $6 bills. I guess I'll have to see as I use it.
How much time has this issue cost you? I would think it's way more than the price difference, even over an entire year. DO just works with minimal issues.
Apologies, Brian. That question was directed to TwitchBlade. He mentioned that this was causing issues for showcasing an e-commerce site in the original post. Digital Ocean isn't "shared hosting", all of the servers you spin up are VPSs, so you're not affected by the whims of the service provider.
No worries Brian, it was a good learning experience. Learned a lot about troubleshooting Node apps since their support was no help. I don't love docker cause I'm using to being able to browse through the files easily on the server, but I do like the amount of integration Wappler has with DO. If I end up not liking it, I'll move somewhere else.
Digital Ocean is just a provider of servers (i.e. virtual private servers). You can use them as regular servers and FTP to them or install docker on them. I prefer the ease of uploading docker containers, but the choice is yours.
You don't have to run a separate database or use DOs managed database option. You could put a database on the same server/droplet as your app code or create another droplet to use as a separate database server. The choice totally yours.
Additionally, you can run multiple schemas for different projects in the same database server, whether that's one DO managed database or a separate database that you setup in a droplet. So unless your hitting some type of performance issue, running multiple project databases in one database server is totally acceptable.
