Is It Time to Migrate to Web Hosting
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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:
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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@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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@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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I like the idea of DreamHost's high end WordPress option. Anyone have any thoughts or experience on that?
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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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@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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The Varnish cache, I hope, and the dedicated MySQL servers would make the difference. But who knows.
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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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ASO looks very interesting...
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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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Here's hostgator's http://forums.hostgator.com/network-status-f14.html
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I want to start my own hosting provider called A Small Potato.
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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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How high is the volume on them aggregated? That $5 ASO account looks pretty awesome.
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I few hundred, not much. I have been on ASO before, but I don't like their panel, or their auto wordpress installs.
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Are any of the sites for Non Profits? Grassroots.org will get a NPO set up with Bluehost for nothing.
I have Host Monster and have not had any reportable issues. The pricing is decent.. Bluehost and Host monster are 'sister' companies...
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The big question for me is do I want to have shared hosting (less control, fully managed) or a VPS (much more control, headaches when something brakes)
I have been on HostGator for the last 3 years, and have never had downtime. However part of me really enjoys managing a VPS....
Price wise, it's about a wash $5 - $10 dollars a month gives me much more then I need.
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@g.jacobse said:
Are any of the sites for Non Profits? Grassroots.org will get a NPO set up with Bluehost for nothing.
I have Host Monster and have not had any reportable issues. The pricing is decent.. Bluehost and Host monster are 'sister' companies...
I've heard nothing but bad things about Bluehost in recent years. Similar to this http://www.wpsitecare.com/why-wordpress-org-should-stop-endorsing-bluehost/
