Is It Time to Migrate to Web Hosting

@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.

scottalanmiller

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

@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.

scottalanmiller

@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.

scottalanmiller

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

@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.

lance

ASO looks very interesting...

scottalanmiller

@lance said:

ASO looks very interesting...

And the name is awesome, of course.

@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/

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

scottalanmiller

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

scottalanmiller

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

scottalanmiller

How high is the volume on them aggregated? That $5 ASO account looks pretty awesome.

I few hundred, not much. I have been on ASO before, but I don't like their panel, or their auto wordpress installs.

gjacobse

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...

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.

@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/

This is very interesting.....

http://www.dreamhost.com/cloud/computing/

Does DeamHost take monthly payments now? They use to only take annual payments.