WordPress Hosting
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For those of you who use WordPress...
Do you use a specific WordPress hosting option (such as many places like GoDaddy offer) or do you spin up your own server and host it yourself?
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We use A Small Orange and host through there.
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Never GoDaddy, of course. ASO has been good for us. Good speed, low price, decently easy to use. cPanel based, which is meh.
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With all the DIYers here, why isn't doing it yourself an option here?
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@BRRABill said in WordPress Hosting:
With all the DIYers here, why isn't doing it yourself an option here?
It is, as long as it is for learning and not for production. DIY isn't for commodity, non-advantageous services. There is no way to do this yourself in agood way. Just like email. There is on competitive advantage to it, so your own staff should never do it.
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Do you just need normal, every day hosting? How could you do it yourself and not have it cost more? One hour of your time is a year's worth of hosting.
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I use cloudways, mainly because I was actually not comfortable hosting a public facing web page on my own. It is in my plans to properly learn to manage a stack such as the one used by cloudways including the different layers of caching but I am not there yet.
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@scottalanmiller said in WordPress Hosting:
@BRRABill said in WordPress Hosting:
With all the DIYers here, why isn't doing it yourself an option here?
It is, as long as it is for learning and not for production. DIY isn't for commodity, non-advantageous services. There is no way to do this yourself in agood way. Just like email. There is on competitive advantage to it, so your own staff should never do it.
I don't mean having your own server.
I mean like spinning up one of the WordPress instances on Digital Ocean, for example.
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I guess if you figure in updating the server, etc., that's where the cost comes in. Labor and whatnot.
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@Minion-Queen said in WordPress Hosting:
We use A Small Orange and host through there.
I love asmallorange!
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@BRRABill
I made a wordpress site, internal only, using Debian. works great.
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I have tried quite a few hosts. A2 has been the best. The speed is great and service is good as well. One of the big advantages for me is the optimized wordpress install they offer.
Their install automatically sets up caching, CSS minimization, HTML minimization, database optimaztion, image compression (lossless), some other features. It also setups security on your site and renames wp-admin to something random, locks editing files (you can always unlock, etc).
You can turn any one feature off at anytime and it's a great time saver vs doing all those things manually.
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I had bad luck with asmallorange and migrated my wordpress site to cloudways. Just posted few screenshots of cloudways on ML
https://mangolassi.it/topic/10133/cloudways-screenshots/9 -
Thanks to everyone for the input thus far.
I am not going to say where I am currently hosted, but I know know where to move to. Or at least where to start looking.
ASO looks nice, and cheap right now.
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I use Vultr for a website I put together, but that's because I want Drush access (it's built on Drupal) and I can't get that with shared hosting. However, for a regular Wordpress business card site, you're better off with shared hosting.
It's kind of a pain to update Drupal on shared hosting.
I also recommend using Pantheon (https://pantheon.io) to develop your site. Hosting through them is expensive (it's a PaaS with a lot of stuff) but development is free.
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BTW:
a small orange is RIDICULOUSLY cheap.Are they always this cheap, or is that just a really great promotion??
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@BRRABill said in WordPress Hosting:
BTW:
a small orange is RIDICULOUSLY cheap.Are they always this cheap, or is that just a really great promotion??
THere is a good promotion right now. SHould be about $5/mo after that.
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@scottalanmiller said in WordPress Hosting:
@BRRABill said in WordPress Hosting:
BTW:
a small orange is RIDICULOUSLY cheap.Are they always this cheap, or is that just a really great promotion??
THere is a good promotion right now. SHould be about $5/mo after that.
Yeah looks like they only let you keep it for a year at that price.
But even the other price is very reasonable.
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@BRRABill said in WordPress Hosting:
@scottalanmiller said in WordPress Hosting:
@BRRABill said in WordPress Hosting:
BTW:
a small orange is RIDICULOUSLY cheap.Are they always this cheap, or is that just a really great promotion??
THere is a good promotion right now. SHould be about $5/mo after that.
Yeah looks like they only let you keep it for a year at that price.
But even the other price is very reasonable.
The price is $5. What do you mean only for a year?
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@scottalanmiller said in WordPress Hosting:
@BRRABill said in WordPress Hosting:
@scottalanmiller said in WordPress Hosting:
@BRRABill said in WordPress Hosting:
BTW:
a small orange is RIDICULOUSLY cheap.Are they always this cheap, or is that just a really great promotion??
THere is a good promotion right now. SHould be about $5/mo after that.
Yeah looks like they only let you keep it for a year at that price.
But even the other price is very reasonable.
The price is $5. What do you mean only for a year?
If you sign up for a year of hosting (say the small plan) they take an additional 65% off, so it is only $17.50 for the year.