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      scottalanmiller
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      Here is what that WordPress special offering includes. As far as I can tell, this remains an "unlimited" use machine, as in you get as many sites as you want, but it isn't completely clear.

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        scottalanmiller
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        Here is what A Small Orange offers.

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          A Former User
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          Dreamhost or Hostgator would be my to recommendations. I've never had an issue with either besides Dreamhost went down a couple times for less than 2 hrs.

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            IRJ
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            watching :shipit:

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              IRJ
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              Not being a web guy at all. Let me ask you this, What do most websites need for bandwidth?

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                Ambarishrh
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                I was actually thinking about moving off from hostgator to Digital Ocean, but then on second thought I think providers like hostgator is much better, where you get the cPanel license with that to manage most of your installation and setup with:
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                But that price is only for the first invoice, for eg: the baby plan for monthly plan is $9.95 after the first discounted bill of $7.96

                Hostgator had some downtimes previously, but now seems to be pretty stable. They have one click wordpress installer via quick install in cPanel. If you want to less worry about maintaining the server and concentrate more on the website, I would say go with provider like hostgator.

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                  scottalanmiller @IRJ
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                  @IRJ said:

                  Not being a web guy at all. Let me ask you this, What do most websites need for bandwidth?

                  Not much. Plus we use CloudFlare that offloads a bit of that for us. None of our sites are even showing images or anything. It is nearly all text, so bandwidth is tiny, database hits are heavy. I don't know the numbers offhand but I do know that nothing we do touches the bandwidth of any of these offerings. I can see CF's report on that from time to time and we use maybe 1-2 GB.

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                    A Former User @IRJ
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                    @IRJ said:

                    Not being a web guy at all. Let me ask you this, What do most websites need for bandwidth?

                    Solely depends on the traffic a website sees. a lot of host do unlimited or next to unlimited anymore. But for small sites you don't need much at all.

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                      scottalanmiller
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                      I like the idea of DreamHost's high end WordPress option. Anyone have any thoughts or experience on that?

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                        A Former User @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        I like the idea of DreamHost's high end WordPress option. Anyone have any thoughts or experience on that?

                        I've used wordpress on them but, never their specific wordpress hosting. When using it on their standard hosting packages even with caching it's slow.

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                          scottalanmiller @A Former User
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                          @thecreativeone91 said:

                          I've used wordpress on them but, never there specific wordpress hosting. When using it on there standard hosting packages even with caching it's slow.

                          That's what I'm worried about. Rackspace was the same. It's not caching that is the issue, it is database performance that gets us.

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                            scottalanmiller
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                            The Varnish cache, I hope, and the dedicated MySQL servers would make the difference. But who knows.

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                              A Former User @scottalanmiller
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                              @scottalanmiller said:

                              @thecreativeone91 said:

                              I've used wordpress on them but, never there specific wordpress hosting. When using it on there standard hosting packages even with caching it's slow.

                              That's what I'm worried about. Rackspace was the same. It's not caching that is the issue, it is database performance that gets us.

                              Yeah. That was my main reason I had switch to hostgator wordpress works fine in their standard package and is cheaper.

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                                lance
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                                ASO looks very interesting...

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                                  scottalanmiller @lance
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                                  @lance said:

                                  ASO looks very interesting...

                                  And the name is awesome, of course.

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                                    A Former User @scottalanmiller
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                                    @scottalanmiller They had few recent outages based on Facebook and twitter. Plus this yesterday http://forums.asmallorange.com/topic/18550-closed-dallas-cloud-partial-outage/

                                    Some more http://forums.asmallorange.com/forum/2-hosting-status/

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                                      A Former User
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                                      Here's hostgator's http://forums.hostgator.com/network-status-f14.html

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                                        scottalanmiller
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                                        I want to start my own hosting provider called A Small Potato.

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                                          scottalanmiller
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                                          small french potato

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                                            A Former User
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                                            I have also been thinking about this. I host about 5 different WordPress sites, but I am not sure where they should be at.

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