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Looking for recommendations on full service DNN hosting companies in the US

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We are looking for a full service DNN hosting company in the US and hope the DNN community can provide a few companies to look into. The past DNN hosting threads are from 2020, and since Managed was hacked, and recently purchased PowerDNN, your updated opinions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time.

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Hi. We provide high performance / high security AWS managed hosting service for our Plant an App customers. Drop me an email at [email protected] if you want to explore this option. Thanks

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I should probably add that we do not need help building a website, just hosting, moving the current website over to the new server, applying updates and occasional DNN support.
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If we are only talking about hosting with a company that knows DNN, I'd say dnn4less is my go to recommendation, they have been using good security practices, have great and fast support. If we are talking about a full service (advice, maintenance, regular upgrades, development, design), I'd say discussing with agencies that have a description and location that suits your needs here https://dnncommunity.org/community/agencies . Recommending a specific one would be like asking a mother what is her favorite child)... Now no matter what you do however, it is really important that YOU have the power and siscipline to NOT rely on your hosting provider for backups. You should regularly get offsite backups to prevent losing everything.
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Hello!  

Many DNN agencies have full/partial service DNN hosting options, including us.  It really matters on what you're looking for and what you're budget is.  Full service can mean a lot of things to a lot of people.  😉 

I'd suggest using the DNN agencies page to find a few to contact and then vet the ones you want to work with.  

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Thanks Will. 

I'm sure there are more on the list, but to get started we're looking for assistance moving our current site... so DNN install/setup, a dedicated IP, SSL assist, website security monitoring, DNN upgrade protection/support, offsite backups... I'm not sure of the budget, but security and support are important so I can say it's more than $15/month. We've narrowed down our 1st search to PowerDNN, DNN Mart and DNN4Less, but that was based on Google searches, not actual user feedback. IT is concerned about PowerDNN now that Managed has purchased them.

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Thanks Daniel.

Thanks for the dnn4less recommendation and the reminder of the importance off site backups! dnn4less in the top 3 of our 1st draft, but we've only just begun.

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Oh, gotcha...   From your short list, the only one I'd recommend is DNN4Less.  I haven't heard good things about PowerDNN/Managed recently, including from our clients who are still using their services.  I don't have any personal experience with DNN4Less, but I haven't heard anything bad about them.  😉 

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In your list, off those 3 I would go with Dnn4Less, they have a good security track record, great support team, they are active in the community, sponsor DNN events, etc. They really care about DNN. If you are looking into shared hosting, probably an offsite backup solution could be https://www.evotiva.com/products/dnn-backup setup to use some storage provider that is off-site. If you are instead looking into a dedicated/vps hosting, then you have more on-server backup options.

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