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Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 13 hours later, 16 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,303,524
Do you know how to create an SSH key? Do you know how to use PuTTY and FTP? Can you install packages using apt? You can easily Google all of that shit but it helps to be at least somewhat comfortable with Linux in general.
Because for your needs literally any $5/month VPS (DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, whatever) is fine. Install Apache/PHP/MySQL/phpMyAdmin and then get going with Simple Machines.
Don't bother with the "Simple Machines web hosting" offers you'll spot on Google. Don't even bother with a "web host" lol. It's all just the same thing but geared to retards, so it's double the price and locked down so you can't do anything much else. Just pay for a cheap VPS and learn to administrate it yourself instead of being reliant on a "web host" like GoDaddy.
Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 1 year ago, 4 hours later, 20 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,303,557
Linode thankfully hasn't suffered too much since Akamai took over, so I'd still recommend them. Fire up their lowest tier VM and install Ubuntu 24.04 on it - will be more than adequate for your needs.
There are thousands of online guides and tutorials on how to get going with apache/php/mysql, and if that's too old school for you then there are thousands more on NodeJS/Vue/Go/Python/Rust or whatever stack you find easiest to work with.
Anonymous E replied with this 1 year ago, 14 minutes later, 20 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,303,558
@previous (F)
This. Good advice, although I'd go for an LTS release. I last used Linode a decade ago but they were decent. I think DigitalOcean offer more $ in free credits though nowadays?
e: misread lol, you said 24.04. My 1 hour of sleep is catching up to me.