It's been a long time since I've used this forum (tens of years) But I've just created a CMS, I'm at the point where I am about deploy live and start to market it For my old sites, I use to use a domain name registrar that I think Shawn also used (creator of digital point), at least I think so, but I have no idea what that was anymore (It had a nice UI for locking site domain names, but a terrible ui for auth)... anyway So this is a split question, sorry if that breaks any forum rules I have about 10 domain names (but that might increase to 20 - 40), I've not just created the CMS to resell, but it's for building lots of sites Domain Registrar: i) in 2026, who are cheap (not the initial cost, but the renewal fees concern me, most seem to go up to £14 to £17 a year, surely that cost can be brought down) Cheap UK/US Host: ii) And who are good starting hosts? I need a shared host (separate to the domain name registrar), since I might want to easily change and don't want to be tied to a host. I will be starting with 3 sites, one for reselling the software, 2 for real usages of the CMS -- basic requirements: MySQL, PHP 8.3+ (it is built with vue 3 and Slim PHP and a lot of custom PHP) mod_rewrite cPanel (probably ssh access, but might be able to survive without) I am aiming for cheep, no thrills, we are likely to have a handful of users, but as it grows (if it grows) then easy to upgrade server? 3 sites, low traffic (and I think a basic setup from above, so cheap), I'm uk based, host can be US or UK based (since those 2 markets are the ones I will be aiming for, I want to aim for UK, but depends if US is much cheaper). I have used fasthosts uk before, but I think I can do better for speed and price (sorry fasthosts)
I’d consider going for reseller hosting if you really expect to end up with 20 to 40 sites. You still get cPanel, but each site can have its own account, which makes backups, migrations, and problems with one site much easier to manage. For only three sites, though, normal shared hosting is plenty.