I have just a simple 1 page umbraco installation on umbraco 17.
I am struggling a little in general to find a cheap and reliable provider for hosting it. I thought Simply.coms basic suite was enough - but after contacting them i found out i had to pay double for the standard suite. So I am looking for other alternatives.
Yes all versions of Umbraco including V17 are supported.
You also get our expert knowledge of Umbraco with our hosting which you do not get with generic hosting providers.
I am hosting a site on Simply’s standard suite, but that is actually due to having access to a MS SQL database. I’d wager that is why they state that you must use their Standard Suite.
However, newer versions of Umbraco are able to run using a SQLite database (file-based), and so in theory should be able to run on their Basic Suite.
I haven’t tested it out, and it is generally not recommended to use SQLite for much more than a basic site, but it sounds like your requirements for Umbraco (1 page installation) are not too heavy on such a server.
I tried running a small site on Simply with SQLite, and they do some weird stuff with their varnish cache, that creates too many connections to the database. So it never really worked.
I didn’t want to pay for MSSQL database, and ultimately I also thought they had gone a bit too expensive for my needs.
So I ended up moving to https://www.monsterasp.net/ on their Premium Single plan, so far everything is running smoothly!
It’s not a high traffic site (~500 visits per month) though.
Oh, this takes me back… I used to manage loads of Linux VPS’s back in the day!
Not so long ago I wouldn’t have dreamed of running Umbraco on a cheap Linux VPS but…
Kestrel is now officially hardened enough to be an edge server on its own.
SQLite is fine for single-editor sites and “just works”
SQL Server Express is free and can be installed on Ubuntu
I appreciate it’s very a DIY approach but it’s a cheap way to host and great skills to learn. Plus you can run whatever other software you want on there.
It’s not for everyone though, so if you want more of a turnkey solution @Ikasy then I’d definitely check out the other recommendations.
It’s worth noting that if you are hosting for a registered charity then Microsoft offers a generous Azure grant.
Just want to add its not that easy to do but then again I’m not a Linux expert. I currently have it running using and old Desktop PC I installed Ubuntu 24.x on and I deploy to it as a test machine. I used Nginx Proxy Manager (running in Docker) to do the reverse proxy. I had to change some code in Program.cs to forward headers, since the traffic arrives at the reverse proxy as https but is then routed to http://localhost: but Umbraco needs to “think“ it is on https in order to work, these code changes are documented somewhere in the Umbraco documentation.
Also next issue which I ran into is logging in to the Umbraco CMS backend did not work while the frontend did work. But I I refreshed the page after login → error → refresh it worked. Reason I found aout later is that Umbraco sends pretty larger headers and by default NGINX truncates at 4K, so you have to run commands to set this to at least 8K. Then it seems to work ok.
@Ikasy see you are looking at 0,50 per month hosting options, Umbraco typically needs much more power. So if your website is a really simple one pager showing content and you want to go for cheap but still reliable website. What you also could consider is to run Umbraco locally and edit everything locally and use an HTML exporter plugin package to export as a plain HTML website and then you can host the HTML/CSS/images basically everywhere and a 0,50 per month plan is then sufficient.
I have been using UmbHost for a while and I am happy with it. Aaron is very helpful and great to work with. I currently run 17.0.1 on prod and 17.0.2 in staging with no issues. I would recommend taking a look at them and giving them a consideration
