Choosing a host

Ways to host an OOTP league

There is more than one reasonable way to do this, and for some commissioners SimHosts is not the right answer. These pages say which is which.

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  SimHosts vs StatsPlus for OOTP league hosting

  StatsPlus bills annually and starts at $119 a year. SimHosts is $5 a month, self-serve, and provisions your league in about two minutes.

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  OOTP hosting vs shared web hosting (cPanel)

  Shared web hosting can run an OOTP league if you configure cPanel, FTP accounts, and permissions yourself. Here is exactly what that involves and when it is the better choice.

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  OOTP hosting vs running your own FTP server

  A $5 VPS running vsftpd will host an OOTP league perfectly well. This is what you take on when you do it, and when that trade is worth making.

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  Is there free FTP hosting for OOTP leagues?

  Free options exist but almost none of them work with OOTP. Here is why Dropbox and Google Drive are dead ends, and what the actually-free paths cost you.