Looking for cheap web hosting
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@JasonNM said:
A small orange is the best I've ever used.
We use them and their customer service is great. We do have very common site outages of a few seconds, though. Like several times a week. They are very momentary, maybe a minute at most, but happen surprisingly often.
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I have few sites hosted on digitalocean too. If you want to run WordPress sites for example, it's super easy to setup one with their one click app install.
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I use Forethought.net which is local to me and has amazing support.
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Thank you all!
Ended up on DigitalOcean
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@MattSpeller said:
Thank you all!
Ended up on DigitalOcean
And how do you like it? Make sure to check out there documentation it is great!
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@anonymous was easy as pie to setup! Performance, well, it loads my test pics of kittens nicely. I'll update once we get some traffic.
I'll checkout the documentation, thanks!
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What size VPS did you chose?
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@anonymous $10/mth to do wordpress
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Good choice. Make sure you setup cache on your VM, or MySQL will keep crashing.
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@MattSpeller said:
@anonymous $10/mth to do wordpress
Just so you know, you can definitely make a small WordPress site work well on the $5/month option. There's some stuff you will want to be able to do in Linux/WordPress before doing it on a production VPS, namely swap file management in Linux and site caching in WordPress, but once you have those down you might be able to save some money on hosting
Might be worth trying out if and when you do a test restore of your site. If you do want to test it out, keep in mind you'll have to do the restore from a WordPress-level backup and not a Digital Ocean server snapshot/backup - they don't let you restore those to a smaller-sized VPS.
With all that said, their $10/month option is what I would pick if I were planning on hosting a forum on the same server.
