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(DIR) Post #AAwuouAqGAeKeSKjbs by kev@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T11:13:29Z
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Can any of the fine #WordPress people that I follow recommend a managed WordPress host please?Must be: ✅ Fast (cache all the things) ✅ Use a CDN ✅ Include SSL ✅ Backups includedGetting sick of managing my own infrastructure...
(DIR) Post #AAwurcClWa0jn4Wdvs by kev@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T11:14:03Z
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Budget would be around £20/m ($30/m)
(DIR) Post #AAwvrWpnajhr5YJ0ca by LinuxLegend@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T11:24:54Z
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@kev Maybe godaddy? https://www.godaddy.com/hosting/wordpress-hosting
(DIR) Post #AAwxDRwmXjp8FuaYMa by thewk@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T11:40:19Z
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@kev I use easyname.atIt not worpress only, but they have onclick install of wp and check your other boxes to
(DIR) Post #AAwySrzw4KQFLgyqga by nathand@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T11:54:22Z
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@kev EasyWP has some pretty cheap plans. They have a CDN and SSL on the second tier. Backups aren't automatic, but they're easy to do.
(DIR) Post #AAx22l8RMUOULrlOOO by kev@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T12:34:29Z
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@nathand I've used EasyWP in the past and they're really good. They're top of the list at the moment.
(DIR) Post #AAx4AQkzDAXTNHZwHY by celia@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T11:59:29Z
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@nathand Do they offer regional/localized pricing, any chance?@kev
(DIR) Post #AAx4ARHxEauV1X0GfY by nathand@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T12:02:21Z
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@celia I don't think so. I can't find anything in their knowledge base about it.@kev
(DIR) Post #AAx4ARrP6nGanTaZvM by celia@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T12:03:08Z
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@nathand Thought so. Thanks for looking!Seems like no staging site either.@kev
(DIR) Post #AAx4ASON8DdcRj0uJM by nathand@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T12:04:09Z
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@celia Where we're going, we don't need staging 😎 Prod4lyfe!For the price, yeah, they're not going to give you much.@kev
(DIR) Post #AAx4AStDHYJ9zNRXNo by celia@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T12:07:09Z
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@nathand Haha yeah. I live on the edge rn, but would have liked staging.#Prod4lyfIf they offered $35/year forever...I might have been tempted. As of right now, makes sense to be on my own infra.@kev
(DIR) Post #AAx4ATOPPZGHY82S0W by kev@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T12:58:08Z
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@celia what about Cloudways?@nathand
(DIR) Post #AAx6CiOinHB6ZfNiee by reykjalin@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T13:21:03Z
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@kev disclaimer: I work for Automattic who owns WordPress.comI think WordPress.com is by far the best managed hosting solution for WP, so long as Calypso (the custom admin UI) is not too limiting.Pressable (another Automattic product) is very solid for a more standard WP hosting solution, but I’m not sure what sort of caching/CDN work they do.Don’t go with GoDaddy. I’ve seen many tickets in our support queue where problems originate with their hosting setup.
(DIR) Post #AAx8zSU0x76fJWEApE by kev@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T13:52:09Z
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@reykjalin I won't be going with GoDaddy, or similarly bad hosts.The big bearer I have with wp.com is that they restrict access so much - so I can't use my custom theme etc.
(DIR) Post #AAx9nS3GpXgCSHYaWm by celia@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T14:01:19Z
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@kev Impossible at $120/year. 😅@nathand
(DIR) Post #AAxB89J9oXlGMFQAb2 by meduz@m.nintendojo.fr
2021-09-02T14:16:06Z
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@kev Not Wordpress specific, but https://forge.laravel.com does a terrific job at [all the PHP things].
(DIR) Post #AAxCqqbIJZmpK5mYl6 by minkiu@mastodon.social
2021-09-02T14:35:34Z
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@kev I used Siteground in the past, and was surprised by the good customer service: https://www.siteground.com/wordpress-hosting.htm
(DIR) Post #AAxGxBAb9P60fjZOvw by firewally@mspsocial.net
2021-09-02T15:21:29Z
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@kev we use WP engine at work and have been generally very happy with them, pricing tiers are a little confusing to me but it seems like they tick all the boxes
(DIR) Post #AAxPFFnFUznVrCmJ7Y by uglyduck@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T16:54:27Z
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@kev @nathand I'm currently in the process of migrating my Jekyll blog over to EasyWP :)
(DIR) Post #AAxPtC2mrHQFoP5g5w by kev@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T17:01:38Z
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@uglyduck but Brad, EasyWP can’t host Jekyll sites?? 😂@nathand
(DIR) Post #AAxQ39l6D4TjcVZHKC by kev@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T17:03:14Z
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@firewally WPEngine is right at the top of my bracket, I would prefer not to spend that much.
(DIR) Post #AAxQFDDdAe9hpJf70S by uglyduck@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T17:05:40Z
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@kev @nathand
(DIR) Post #AAxR9b63a3MK6D0QZE by g@nerdculture.de
2021-09-02T17:15:42Z
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@kev what about Cloudways? CDN and Backups would be a little bit more than the regular server price but I don't think they would be over your budget.(I have a referral link if you want one)
(DIR) Post #AAxRNupR0xhHLo3gwa by funnylookinhat@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T17:18:25Z
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@kev I'm not joking - exactly what level of service are you looking for? How much load? etc.I've got a pair of 1U servers I'm trying to figure out exactly what to do with, and I was thinking about giving friends / family discounted hosting and using docker to let them manage it. Very early stage idea, but 🤷 who knows maybe it's worth us talking about it?The service would literally be called https://thats-no-barn-thats-a-datacenter.com/ - and would be "you get what you pay for, servers sitting in my barn"
(DIR) Post #AAxRijwUgTQvfYI3gO by MrManor@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T17:22:10Z
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@kev One.com (disclamer: my friend works there) they do a great job. They have developed and submitted several network related patches to the linux kernel.
(DIR) Post #AAxWLHzGxDu04uE8YK by nathan@wpbuilds.social
2021-09-02T18:13:56Z
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@kev Kinsta at that price point. DM me if you want some more context.
(DIR) Post #AAxblYbkHWC4vSZEwq by jan@geekcompass.com
2021-09-02T19:14:37Z
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@kev I use Neostrada for these things. They’re Dutch and pretty much offer all this—well, I do use Cloudflare for the CDN bit—and fairly decent support for under €5 a month. Gets you cPanel, SSH access, Git, auto-renewing Let’s Encrypt certs, and more. (Well, I actually use their “mid-size” reseller package which is like €30/month, but still.) Hard to imagine something similar can’t be found elsewhere.
(DIR) Post #AAxd99hwbvTkbVHcuG by kev@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T19:30:13Z
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@g I've been playing around with Cloudways today, but it comes out at $20/month, which is fine, but the UI is really verbose, which I don't want/need.I want to use the WP UI and that's it.
(DIR) Post #AAxdJjp3BywlVVeZ3g by kev@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T19:31:57Z
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@funnylookinhat while I appreciate the offer, that would be pretty much the same as self-hosting, albeit free. 🙂
(DIR) Post #AAxdQIAiOXVxmGubC4 by kev@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T19:33:14Z
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@nathan I have considered Kinsta, but with the traffic my blog gets, I'd be looking at over $100/month. :(
(DIR) Post #AAxdVO89fTEDhq914i by jan@geekcompass.com
2021-09-02T19:17:38Z
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@kev Only thing I use a VPS for anymore is if I need Ruby, or Go, or Redis, or headless Chromium, or anything that isn’t PHP/MySQL, really.
(DIR) Post #AAxdVOgBcwRzPO4C7U by kev@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T19:34:08Z
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@jan I have a VPS running Plesk at the moment, and it's great. I just don't want the hassle of managing the web server.
(DIR) Post #AAxgjPTXlPnJnIWhbU by nathan@wpbuilds.social
2021-09-02T20:10:22Z
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@kev of you've got loads of traffic, I'd look at Digital Ocean (Vultr etc.) on something like Cloudways. It's not really managed though. I've also heard good things about Onyx. https://krystal.uk/managed-wordpress
(DIR) Post #AAxjXoN1gATbOLdgAK by g@nerdculture.de
2021-09-02T20:41:52Z
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@kev the Cloudways UI is very different and it does take a while to find what you may be looking for, but I have found once you have it the way you want you don't have to use their UI.Since moving to Cloudways I have had very little (to almost none) downtime, and their support is very good (ticket's answered within a couple of hours).
(DIR) Post #AAxl0rG87M7WhepNdg by kev@fosstodon.org
2021-09-02T20:58:11Z
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@g yeah, I can see that. Are you on a 1GB droplet, or the recommended 2GB?
(DIR) Post #AAxt4QIt4wwNtTKQZE by g@nerdculture.de
2021-09-02T22:28:39Z
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@kev I am on 1gb droplet, on average the most CPU I use is around 30% (I don't use the CDN)
(DIR) Post #AAy8uO7xuhDtW0SN5E by robertoz@fosstodon.org
2021-09-03T01:26:05Z
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@kev WPEngine is pretty solid, around $25/month. SSL, CDN, staging
(DIR) Post #AAynLzc0eQP3kzE9CK by jan@geekcompass.com
2021-09-03T08:59:15Z
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@kev Same, here. I’ve found decent shared hosting is just fine for anything PHP/MySQL.
(DIR) Post #AAynO8fpvlUURN2a80 by jan@geekcompass.com
2021-09-03T08:59:45Z
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@kev Exactly. I’ve found decent shared hosting is just fine for anything PHP/MySQL.
(DIR) Post #AB1ad1Wk4I8ignQxP6 by reykjalin@fosstodon.org
2021-09-04T17:20:45Z
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@kev yeah, WP.com’s restrictions are pretty heavy handed, but in that case you might be interested in looking at Pressable. Those are just plain WP installs as far as I’m aware.I host some of my test sites at work there and I haven’t had any issues, but I haven’t measured performance in any way.Pressable sites benefit from a lot of the WP.com infrastructure, so performance should be good.
(DIR) Post #AB1iK8gS2FQ114TtuS by reykjalin@fosstodon.org
2021-09-04T17:39:36Z
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@kev Also https://frontity.org may be of interest to you? Basically; build a site with React, serve your blog on that site, but write in WordPress.Another disclaimer: I heard about them because Automattic recently acquired the company. I have no idea how good this is, but it looks interesting.
(DIR) Post #AB1iK9KrbzkF2POAts by kev@fosstodon.org
2021-09-04T18:45:38Z
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@reykjalin I’m not sure I have the skills for something like that.
(DIR) Post #AB3GdwiSknUrLgr1pA by mehdi@fosstodon.org
2021-09-05T12:46:11Z
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@kev planethoster
(DIR) Post #AB3VthXwQ99yFLu5mS by aruns@fosstodon.org
2021-09-05T15:36:33Z
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@kev @reykjalin Disclaimer: I am a Happiness Engineer at Automattic, working on customer support for WordPress.com. 👋 WordPress.com has support for third-party/custom themes these days. It's available on the Business/eCommerce plans: https://wordpress.com/pricing/ +1 to WordPress.com as well; I have tried many hosts in the last few years, but keep coming back to WordPress.com for its performance. Super proud of our systems folks.
(DIR) Post #AB3W3JHZUMCLtApR0i by aruns@fosstodon.org
2021-09-05T15:38:22Z
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@kev @reykjalin We do have a 7 day refund window on monthly plans and 14 day refund window on annual plans. Plus, we are lenient on requests that cross the refund window by some time. If you decide to give WordPress.com a try, don't hesitate to ping me! I'll need to work from our helpdesk software though.
(DIR) Post #AB3eNuLEDHC8FZs6wy by kev@fosstodon.org
2021-09-05T17:12:20Z
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@aruns @reykjalin id love to try it, but it doesnt support GeneratePress so it’s a non starter
(DIR) Post #AB68864EEd4svPDWGO by jaz@toot.wales
2021-09-06T21:54:04Z
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@kev I think CDN is a bolt-on but I recently switched a dozen sites to wpmudev hosting, couldn't be happier
(DIR) Post #AB6E3uUFwndRZmmIoy by kev@fosstodon.org
2021-09-06T23:01:33Z
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@jaz I didn’t know they did Hosting - I thought they were a blog haha! Their service looks really cool, I’ll definitely check them out, thanks!