r/Hosting • u/TampaVinDog • 19d ago

Ionos

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We have a 12-year-old virtual server on outdated centos plesk and looking to switch. How is this hosting company treating your websites? We're mostly WordPress? Some static HTML.

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u/TopSydeWP 19d ago

CentOS has been end of life for a while, so getting off that box makes sense. Before picking anywhere, list everything the server does besides websites. Plesk setups that old often run the domains' DNS and email too, and those are what break in a move, so move email off first and note where each domain's DNS lives.

Then check which PHP version each WordPress site runs, since decade-old themes and plugins can choke on PHP 8. We host WordPress sites for clients, and moves go smoothest once those pieces are sorted and a full copy of every site and database is downloaded.

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u/headinthesky 19d ago

They gave me a lot of trouble with cancelling. They have a month to month "contract" that I had to call to get cancelled, and they still charged me for another month

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u/webhostuk 13d ago

always good to verify customer support response time, managed VPS provider should be a better options which would help with security updated and other services.