Can anyone recommend a Wordpress host? By which I mean a company that provides and supports the Wordpress install and just leaves the customer to deal with the content, not a company who provides hosting onto which I could install Wordpress myself.
A company my wife works with has been left in lurch after their existing host decided they're going to shut down, and I said I'd ask around, and I know a few people here are involved in hosting.
Although it's a FOSS application running on a FOSS O/S it feels like it's only on-topic on a technicality, so I'm happy to take off-list replies or discuss here as others see fit.
On 31 August 2017 at 09:58, Mark Rogers mark@more-solutions.co.uk wrote:
Can anyone recommend a Wordpress host? By which I mean a company that provides and supports the Wordpress install and just leaves the customer to deal with the content, not a company who provides hosting onto which I could install Wordpress myself.
A company my wife works with has been left in lurch after their existing host decided they're going to shut down, and I said I'd ask around, and I know a few people here are involved in hosting.
Although it's a FOSS application running on a FOSS O/S it feels like it's only on-topic on a technicality, so I'm happy to take off-list replies or discuss here as others see fit.
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I've used to host my WP sites on Dreamhost, but lately the performance on sites has really deteriorated and if you want "optimised" performance, they charge quite a bit. I'd personally run a VM on a vps and install wordpress on it. If it's a bit too fiddly or time consuming, Atlantic.net do one click installs via a simple LAMP server, https://www.atlantic.net/community/howto/wordpress-atlanticnet-one-click/ although I haven't tested that setup myself. (You can give try it out by spinning up an instance and only pay by the hour so virtually nothing until you decide to commit)
John
On 31 August 2017 at 10:19, John Cohen johnmcohen@gmail.com wrote:
I've used to host my WP sites on Dreamhost, but lately the performance on sites has really deteriorated and if you want "optimised" performance, they charge quite a bit. I'd personally run a VM on a vps and install wordpress on it.
Me too, except the Dreamhost bit, but I've come across them and many others in the past. WP hosting tends to be "cheap" (£3-5/mo) and you do tend to get what you pay for. Yes, a VM from the likes of Atlantic or DigitalOcean can be had for similar sums, but since all the bits that frequently break are outside their scope they do tend to be pretty reliable for the cost. Companies which try to deliver consumer products (with support) for £5/mo tend to cut too many corners in my experience.
If it were for me, I'd use a VM with WP installed myself - and indeed I do run two WPMU installs on different servers for various purposes. But I'd rather stay out of this one as it's not a favour for a friend or a charity site, and quite honestly I don't want the responsibility; I'm busy enough on other work!
One big annoyance with WP is that it really isn't that easy to pick up a WP install from one location and install it somewhere else, and it gets a hundred times worse when one end or both is WPMU rather than straight WP. I've done it, I know how to do it, and as long as you have time to iron out the bits that break it's not impossible, but I think it's that bit I'm running scared of more than anything else.
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