Found a nice domain name, and I intend to buy it to host my personal website and maybe blog (if I get around to write one day). But now a great question arises: where do I buy it?

Do you have any advice on a cheap and nice registrar and hosting provider?

I've shopped around for deals from companies like 1&1 and namecheap. Google domains is an option. I thought cloudflare was a registrar but I could find a way to register a new one just to transfer in.

Oracle cloud includes free hosting, but requires you manage the site. Given you're here, I'm assuming you can handle that.

I think namecheap was cheapest last time I looked. There isn't much variety in cost, so if you're not bothered about $5 per year or $15 then it probably doesn't matter (I did some stuff to help out a charity, so it was preferable)

Full AWS. Honestly if you have a low traffic it's the cheapest, assuming that your website is only front end

I've always gone namecheap, but they're all the same really. Not like one gives you a better service.

@Tounai is right.

I've done 1&1, GoDaddy, Google, AWS.

AWS is the cheapest, easiest, most configurable solution you will find.

Fuck Amazon, but damn it's a great product.

It's a difference of a few dollars a year, so unless you're unemployed it doesn't really matter which Registrar you pick. I'm currently using Google Domains but I might switch to Cloudflare since I'm already using them for DNS.

Namecheap or Netregistry for me.

Depends on the extension I'm after.

But yea, all are almost the same, you pay them, some give you the ability to customise the DNS and point it somewhere, some make you pay more for that, and you set and forget until you need to change it.

Namecheap usually propagates in a few minutes so I've just stuck with them, where as ones like Godaddy can literally take days.

Strato

NameSilo

Namecheap + Netlify static website hosting

I'm surprised no one said Gandi but alot of you are saying AWS, which is strange because Gandi is the registrar that AWS uses. I have moved all my domais to them. They are not only the cheapest, but also have the best API and most importantly of all, they are the most transparent about pricing, updates, outages, etc..

@DarkMukke For the price of a domain name you don't have to import manually, you can host a static website on S3. It's cheap AND effortless

I use 1&1 as registrar, DigitalOcean for DNS, very little as a personal website because I can't really be bothered, and legacy free Google Apps for mail.