Help me with my new website!

[bennyboy]

Do you think it would be a good idea to apply to the Hostinger hosting for 8$/month and 10x as much bandwidth? I can keep the same URLs, and, right now, 8$/month doesn't sound too much (I pay more than that for my mobile phone right now). Though every dollar is good if I somehow end up homeless, and I can't really know what will happen to me (I don't know enough programming to make money with that, and I could have never guessed both my parents would have become unemployed and that my mother would have ended up in jail for an entire year).

I pay big money for an Azure VM now, but I played around with shared hosting for several year. They are pretty much all crap. For you, I would imagine that region might be an issue is well-- ideally you'd like something hosted in your part of the world.

One option is to find a local small company in your area. Google showed a few cheap shared hosting companies in Croatia.
https://www.google.co.kr/search?q=dedica...e&ie=UTF-8

You might want to seriously consider that some of the big dogs now offer free hosting in various terms, for example:

https://www.infoworld.com/article/317978...-best.html

I haven't tried it, but Azure VM has a free version for developers publishing web apps. Search the page for "F1" option, which is very low-level but I'll bet it's still going to be better than a cheap shared host. It seems to me that it is pretty much designed for someone like you, who needs a sandbox to play around and learn how to develop apps.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricin...e/windows/

Is the same true for other web-hosting services who claim high uptime?

Absolutely. I dealt with hostgator, A2, and a couple others. I even paid for higher tiers of more elite service. They were total crap.

And what would be the advantages of building it in PHP? I can see an obvious disadvantage right now, I can debug JavaScript using the Safari Developer Tools, but I don't know how to debug PHP.

Server-side builds have the following advantages, among others
-can access a private database easily
-save processing power of users
-hide more of the logic behind your site so that people can't reverse-engineer your efforts

So for example with your assembler, all the client can see is the final result; they won't be able to read (or just easily copy) your algorithms.

That being said, I know a lot of systems are going more client-side these days-- lots of async AJAX calls to load parts of pages, and so on. I'm not criticizing, I was just curious why you did it that way.