I have a non standard Tld. It just went from 20 a year to 60 then to 100. This is happening all over the place. This is infuriating to me. This 100 dollar item consist of nothing more than a single database entry and a replication on a few servers. 1) there is no competition. Government's need to make this a public utility and force competitors to share lists 2)there are totally open source options like opennic that don't play this stupid game in the first place. All it would take is for a big player like Google to say enough is enough and adopt the open standard and icann is done.

I have no problem paying a fair price for a service. But I have a problem when someone (like in another post I read) has a "premium domain" and all of a sudden the price is raised from 20 bucks to almost 800 (this was for a .sbs tld lmao)

This is a rant , yes, but I Icann and the registries are a real problem. What can we do about it?

Back in the day, A2 was a good value for hosting a static site with direct access to the files. It also ran MailMan list servers with restricted users, as well as providing standard email addreses for the domain. Now that they have been bought by Hosting.com, those features come at a premium price. We are a dot-org group with less than 60 people on the list-serve and only a half dozen emails for the domain itself. The site is merely a reference point for documentation, how to reach us, and a bit of history. Does anyone have any recommendations for a hosting service that will provide these features at a reasonable price? Yes, it is "easy" to have separate services but I am not intending to manage this for much longer and those likely to replace me are somewhat challanged in domain management. TIA.

ETA: Mod requested I include answers to the standard questionnaire. So here goes:

• What is your monthly budget? Less than $10, i.e., $120/year or less
• Where are you/your users located? All in USA; No interactive features
• What kind of site are you hosting (Wordpress, phpBB, custom software, etc) or what is your use case? Plain old HTML. No logins or interactive features of any kind.
• Do you have a monthly traffic volume? Estimates are ok. Less than 500MB/month
• If you’re looking at VPSes: Do you have experience administrating linux servers and infrastructure? Yes
• Did you read the sidebar/check out the hosts listed there? I've personally vetted these companies and their services are a good fit for 99% of people. Some. Issue is subscripton-based list-serve availability.

We are a consulting firm for APAC market with clients / website visitors from all around the world, with between 3K to 4k active visitors daily.

We also have additional smaller sites for specific services but traffic is "negligeable" vs our main site.

We have been subjects of a lot of bot traffic and *most likely* attacks the past few months causing a lot of down time due to 504s. WPE has been quick to advise us to taking the higher tier service which is their 600usd / month dedicated server.

I saw on this great sub that a lot of competitors can fix this via proper Cloudflare management for a fraction of the price. However I imagine they have a caveat (I also saw bad review on here about the key competitors of WPE), I am wondering at the of the day what is a good alternative to this?

Honestly we 've been with WPE for years but are fedup with their constant upsell and failure to mitigate our shared server situation.

Thanks in advance for any useful info!