WordPress Hosting
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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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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 -
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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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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BTW:
a small orange is RIDICULOUSLY cheap.Are they always this cheap, or is that just a really great promotion??
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@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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@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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@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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@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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@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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@scottalanmiller said in WordPress Hosting:
Never GoDaddy, of course.
What's wrong with Go Daddy, BTW?
(This should be good...)
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On ASO ... did you sign up for their
"Secure and Accelerate Your Site - Highly Recommended"
Option?
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@BRRABill said in WordPress Hosting:
@scottalanmiller said in WordPress Hosting:
Never GoDaddy, of course.
What's wrong with Go Daddy, BTW?
(This should be good...)
Everything. Slow, unreliable hosting, bad service, and like how you never tie services together, you never get any additional service from your registrar. That would be like getting email or phone service from your ISP.
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@BRRABill said in WordPress Hosting:
@scottalanmiller said in WordPress Hosting:
Never GoDaddy, of course.
What's wrong with Go Daddy, BTW?
(This should be good...)
You mean SlowDaddy?
It takes me 5 minutes to get logged in, and another 2 to 3 to pull up the DNS settings for the domain I hijacked from Pops, lol.
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@BRRABill said in WordPress Hosting:
On ASO ... did you sign up for their
"Secure and Accelerate Your Site - Highly Recommended"
Option?
Hey I am reasking my own question since it may have gotten ignored.
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@BRRABill said in WordPress Hosting:
@BRRABill said in WordPress Hosting:
On ASO ... did you sign up for their
"Secure and Accelerate Your Site - Highly Recommended"
Option?
Hey I am reasking my own question since it may have gotten ignored.
Have never seen that.
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Here is the full text:
Secure and Accelerate Your Site - Highly Recommended
$20.00 (Billed Annually)
Protect your website from fraud and malware, while speeding up its performance for your visitors. This advanced security helps to block malicious traffic and scans daily for other harmful threats. A $99 value, powered by SiteLock. -
Nice, I've never seen them advertise that. Got a link?
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@scottalanmiller said in WordPress Hosting:
Nice, I've never seen them advertise that. Got a link?
No, it is just on the signup page.
But I found this:
https://asmallorange.com/sitelock/Wondering if it is worth it for $20.
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@BRRABill said in WordPress Hosting:
@scottalanmiller said in WordPress Hosting:
Nice, I've never seen them advertise that. Got a link?
No, it is just on the signup page.
But I found this:
https://asmallorange.com/sitelock/Wondering if it is worth it for $20.
Depends on the site that you are running. But could easily be.
