Is It Time to Migrate to Web Hosting

scottalanmiller

Here is the basic pricing for DreamHost:

Minion Queen

This is something that we really need off of our plate so as not to deal worry about it. I know that a few people recently have mentioned Hostgator but really don't know a ton about them.

HELP we need some ideas!

scottalanmiller

But as we do tons of WordPress, including some very high traffic sites like SMBITJournal and NTG.co and SheepGuardingLlama, we could use something more. Here is DreamHost's WordPress special offering...

scottalanmiller

Here is what that WordPress special offering includes. As far as I can tell, this remains an "unlimited" use machine, as in you get as many sites as you want, but it isn't completely clear.

scottalanmiller

Here is what A Small Orange offers.

A Former User

Dreamhost or Hostgator would be my to recommendations. I've never had an issue with either besides Dreamhost went down a couple times for less than 2 hrs.

IRJ

watching :shipit:

IRJ

Not being a web guy at all. Let me ask you this, What do most websites need for bandwidth?

Ambarishrh

I was actually thinking about moving off from hostgator to Digital Ocean, but then on second thought I think providers like hostgator is much better, where you get the cPanel license with that to manage most of your installation and setup with:
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But that price is only for the first invoice, for eg: the baby plan for monthly plan is $9.95 after the first discounted bill of $7.96

Hostgator had some downtimes previously, but now seems to be pretty stable. They have one click wordpress installer via quick install in cPanel. If you want to less worry about maintaining the server and concentrate more on the website, I would say go with provider like hostgator.

scottalanmiller

@IRJ said:

Not being a web guy at all. Let me ask you this, What do most websites need for bandwidth?

Not much. Plus we use CloudFlare that offloads a bit of that for us. None of our sites are even showing images or anything. It is nearly all text, so bandwidth is tiny, database hits are heavy. I don't know the numbers offhand but I do know that nothing we do touches the bandwidth of any of these offerings. I can see CF's report on that from time to time and we use maybe 1-2 GB.

A Former User

@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?

A Former User

@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.

A Former User

@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.