Our Stack: Hosting, Servers and Tools

Hosting and servers

We always register hosting in the client's name and just get access ourselves. That way the project belongs to you, even if you switch developers one day. For more on choosing, read our guide How to choose web hosting.

Hostinger: for simple websites

Shared hosting with the easy-to-use hPanel control panel, SSL and email. We pick it for landing pages, small business websites and WordPress, when the owner wants to manage the site themselves without dealing with a server. Check the renewal price before you buy. Full review.

DigitalOcean: for production

Cloud servers that spin up in a minute, with backups, monitoring and excellent documentation. This is where our clients' CRMs, Node.js sites and sales-critical bots live. Deployment guide.

Contabo: lots of resources for a minimal price

VPS plans where a few euros get you 4 cores and 8 GB of RAM. We pick it for scrapers, n8n, test servers and backups, where price matters more than peak performance. Full review.

If a VPS is not enough, Contabo also runs Server Deals: dedicated servers with a fixed configuration at up to 57% off, for example 10 cores and 256 GB of RAM from 67 € a month. More in the review.

And when you need a specific configuration on current hardware, there is the full dedicated server line-up: recent-generation AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon, NVMe in RAID, up to 1 TB of RAM. When it is worth moving from a VPS is covered in a separate article.

Domains

Spaceship: domains with honest renewals

A registrar from the Namecheap team: a .com costs under $10 and renews for about the same, WHOIS privacy is free, and DNS can be managed from the dashboard or via an API. This is where we register domains for client websites, keeping hosting separate. Full review.

Proxies for web scraping

Webshare: affordable proxies with a free plan

Datacenter, static ISP and residential proxies. We plug them into price and catalog scrapers: a hundred datacenter addresses for a few dollars is enough for most sites, and we use residential ones for protected sites. Full review.

Tools we use every day

No affiliate links here: we recommend these simply because they are good.

• Cloudflare - DNS, CDN and DDoS protection. The free plan is enough for most websites.
• Let's Encrypt - free SSL certificates with automatic renewal.
• GitHub - code, change history and automated deployments.
• Docker - the same environment on the developer's machine and on the server, and easy moves between hosts.
• n8n - an automation builder you can self-host on your own server with no limits on executions.
• Playwright - browser automation for testing and for scraping sites with dynamic content.
• PostgreSQL - our go-to database for CRMs and web apps.
• Telegram Bot API - a free platform for bots, payments and Mini Apps.

Why there are affiliate links here

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