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    • Minion QueenM
      Minion Queen
      last edited by

      We use A Small Orange and host through there.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
        last edited by

        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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        • BRRABillB
          BRRABill
          last edited by

          With all the DIYers here, why isn't doing it yourself an option here?

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @BRRABill
            last edited by

            @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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            • StrongBadS
              StrongBad
              last edited by

              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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              • RomoR
                Romo
                last edited by

                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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                • BRRABillB
                  BRRABill @scottalanmiller
                  last edited by

                  @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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                  • BRRABillB
                    BRRABill
                    last edited by

                    I guess if you figure in updating the server, etc., that's where the cost comes in. Labor and whatnot.

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                    • wirestyle22W
                      wirestyle22 @Minion Queen
                      last edited by

                      @Minion-Queen said in WordPress Hosting:

                      We use A Small Orange and host through there.

                      I love asmallorange!

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                      • momurdaM
                        momurda @BRRABill
                        last edited by momurda

                        @BRRABill
                        I made a wordpress site, internal only, using Debian. works great.
                        oh, you dont mean what i said. oops

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                        • IRJI
                          IRJ
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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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                          • AmbarishrhA
                            Ambarishrh
                            last edited by

                            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

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                            • BRRABillB
                              BRRABill
                              last edited by

                              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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                              • stacksofplatesS
                                stacksofplates
                                last edited by stacksofplates

                                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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                                • BRRABillB
                                  BRRABill
                                  last edited by

                                  BTW:
                                  a small orange is RIDICULOUSLY cheap.

                                  Are they always this cheap, or is that just a really great promotion??

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller @BRRABill
                                    last edited by

                                    @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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                                    • BRRABillB
                                      BRRABill @scottalanmiller
                                      last edited by

                                      @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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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller @BRRABill
                                        last edited by

                                        @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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                                        • BRRABillB
                                          BRRABill @scottalanmiller
                                          last edited by

                                          @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.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @BRRABill
                                            last edited by

                                            @BRRABill said in WordPress Hosting:

                                            @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.

                                            Oh okay, yes, that promotion is not for forever or they would have all of their current customers quit and sign back up. That would not go over well. Promotions for a service have to be temporary.

                                            The $5 price is the standard price.

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