Update on 24th Oct - don’t use this provider as they don’t give you a free unending SSL.
This provider is useful for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) stack developers. It's "website applications" allow you to manage the files, phpAdmin and MySQL database and more without the hassle of setting up your own server. It has great 24 hour phone support and from my experience are always very helpful.
This site has a few downsides:
It is limited to a LAMP stack as you have no shell access or admin control of the machine.
It is setup for older website design methods. For example it does not support SPAs very well. By this I mean that if you navigate to a different route (e.g. /home) in your SPA in the internet browser you get the "cannot GET URL" error upon refresh of the page. This is because the browser cannot find /home - it does not remember your route. This is normally dealt with in MERN stacks by using ExpressJS to serve up the index.html to port 8080, and then setting up the ExpressJS server to redirect any non-found "routes" (like /home), back to the index.html. But you can get round this using this Hash History hack (although be warned that as a side effect it can give you an ugly url with # in it):
https://tylermcginnis.com/react-router-cannot-get-url-refresh/
https://reacttraining.com/react-router/web/api/HashRouter
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