Who has the best Wordpress hosting? I haven't run a blog in years since I sold off my old ones. Previously I used Hostgator.
I need something that can scale up bandwidth quickly without massive overage charges if necessary.
In the past I ran blogs that were designed to stay relatively low traffic until a specific event happens. As an example, I might run a Dick Van Dyke blog which has general info and news updates every week or so. The blog sits quietly, building up search engine rankings and getting enough ad money to cover the monthly server costs, but other than that isn't really expected to be a huge money maker. If something big happens, like Dick Van Dyke's death, the blog explodes in popularity as people Google him.
Aren't there issues with quickly scaling up with VPS?
Isaiah Evans
wpengine
Sebastian Perez
>vps >v not really with a decent provider only need a couple of gig ram for wp, use a cdn if you get loads of traffic
Dominic Sullivan
>only need a couple of gig ram for wp niggu i can run 5 wp sites in a 5$ 512mb vps fight me
Adrian Phillips
>overages billed at $1 per 1000 visits
Could get expensive
Logan Rogers
Any other recommendations Sup Forums?
Ayden James
nosupportlinuxhosting.com
$1/mo
Jayden Murphy
Bump for interest
Charles Wilson
AWS has a Wordpress service now
Grayson Long
Managed WordPress, or WordPress service in the sense that you can set it up on an Ec2 instance?
Adam Nelson
I work with AWS, you can exploit the free tier. Comfortably run two to three sites with HHVM/LEMP. Seriously easy.
Ian Perry
I already do for testing and demo sites, but I'm looking for a managed WP provider for a client. Something I can set up and walk away from.
Any tips for getting a job at AWS?
Tyler Perry
I like the idea of using AWS, but it seems a lot more complicated than other webhosts. How long would it take me to learn this vs using a dedicated Wordpress host?
Christian Thompson
About twenty minutes if you can follow instructions, there's a multitude of tutorials out there for it. You really won't run into any trouble man, it's child's play and if you fuck something up, flatten the instance and go for gold again. Protip: make sure you setup a swap partition and set it to remain after a reboot.
Robert Thomas
It's Iaas so you're responsible for installing and maintaining PHP, MySQL, Apache, WordPress, etc.
There's plenty of tutorials you can find online. It's not hard my man.
Tyler Sanders
you can run wordpress on 128mb with no "lag", fucking retarded people pretending to know about "hosting"
Gabriel Johnson
>128mb >No lag
Fucking retarded people pretending to know about "hosting". Maybe if you're running a default theme with no plugins and the site has no functionality or purpose or use whatsoever. Lay off the methpipe friend.
When I fuck around with the calculator I'm not even entirely sure what I should be punching in.
James Adams
If your not sure what to enter, tan free tier should be fine for you.
Jack Bennett
>self hosting wordpress Don't do it. You will fuck it up and then become part of a botnet.
Jackson Thomas
I know about blogging and building blogs, not all that much about webhosting.
Andrew Gomez
>Fucking retarded people pretending to know about "hosting". Maybe if you're running a default theme with no plugins and the site has no functionality or purpose or use whatsoever. Lay off the methpipe friend. source this
so, lighttpd+phpcgi+optimized mysql conf, is not enough? oh so i supposed you've actually tried it your self right?
No, it's not. If you have more than 20 visitors a day, or want to install any themes or plugins, it won't be enough.
Landon Reyes
prove it
Ethan Flores
You can tell them to shut you down after X overages, the odds of you getting say, $100 worth of overage visitors in one month is nil (thats 100,000 new users staying 31 seconds or longer, not bots) wpengine.com/support/count-visits/
You'll get just as raped by any VPS with their data transfer limit, and all those 'unlimited' VPS solutions are trash
I only ever use WPEngine to host client sites, and also refuse the work if it involves any other hosting because they'll just be calling me all the time when shit breaks and it will be a waste of their money paying my hourly rate when they could just shove it on WPEngine and forget about all the hosting details completely.
Ian Bell
1k visits can be a few mb to a few hundred, most vpses come with 200gb+ bandwidth, considering 1k hits can be cached, cloudflare's free cdn will save you a shitton of bandwidth as well
Jack Williams
You have no idea what you're talking about. Honestly even the barebones VPS he's describing is overkill for hosting a blog. I've hosted plenty of things on shit-tier a VPS, if you know what you're doing it's fine.
Christopher Brooks
this site was just a freebsd box for the longest time, same with 2channel (two freebsd boxes) and 8ch00onz according to Jim's twitter
Logan Martinez
That may be true, but now we're getting into hosting a private blog vs a site paid for by a client. World of difference there