Hosting recommendations wanted.
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I need to find a new host for a dozen or so Wordpress websites.
The current place I am with lost 3 years of work after one of their staff buggered up restoring a site. They didn't have a backup...
I have looked into WPEngine.com websynthesis.com and page.ly but their price for the amount of traffic is on the high side.
The current place I am with lost 3 years of work after one of their staff buggered up restoring a site. They didn't have a backup...
I have looked into WPEngine.com websynthesis.com and page.ly but their price for the amount of traffic is on the high side.
Edited by Olivero on Monday 17th June 21:24
Register1 / Serverstream
Nice and quick, ace support, never had a problem, and they're run by a PHer. Not the cheapest, but then I actively avoid the ones who are as they're generally terrible. FWIW my US sites are hosted on Reg1's servers. They load faster on than on the 3 US based hosting companies servers I've tried- according to Pingdom tools anyway.
Not sure if server location has any other downsides, but I've yet to find any.
Nice and quick, ace support, never had a problem, and they're run by a PHer. Not the cheapest, but then I actively avoid the ones who are as they're generally terrible. FWIW my US sites are hosted on Reg1's servers. They load faster on than on the 3 US based hosting companies servers I've tried- according to Pingdom tools anyway.
Not sure if server location has any other downsides, but I've yet to find any.
Edited by Stu R on Monday 17th June 20:32
Olivero said:
I need to find a new host for a dozen or so Wordpress websites.
The current place I am with lost 3 years of work after one of their staff buggered up restoring a site. They didn't have a backup...
I have looked into WPEngine.com websynthesis.com and page.ly but their price for the amount of traffic is on the high side.
Do not under any circumstances trust backups you've not taken and tested the restore if yourself.The current place I am with lost 3 years of work after one of their staff buggered up restoring a site. They didn't have a backup...
I have looked into WPEngine.com websynthesis.com and page.ly but their price for the amount of traffic is on the high side.
Will wordpress.com suit your needs. If you want your own domain + ad free then it's $46/year/blog ?
To get it cheaper you're probably looking at running your own server but it will take much more of your time and you need to make sure you keep on top of security updates yourself.
As said, don't rely on someone else to backup your data for you. Backups by any hosting company are done their their benefit rather than yours so I wouldn't be surprised if even though they state they take backups, their liability extends refunding you your hosting fees and little else.
If you value it, make regular copies yourself.
If you value it, make regular copies yourself.
cornet said:
Do not under any circumstances trust backups you've not taken and tested the restore if yourself.
This is the first time I have had problems with the host. In the past there has been no problem restoring from their backup.This time they managed to screw it up. I don't trust them anymore so need to more.
cornet said:
Will wordpress.com suit your needs. If you want your own domain + ad free then it's $46/year/blog ?
This might work well for a couple of simple sites I have.Still loving www.linode.com
Fast, cheap, well specced. Multi-image backup too. I run a few Wordpress sites (amongst others) through their basic package.
However, it's an "unmanaged" service, in that you get given a blank Linux distro and go from there, so you'll need to a few basics about Linux, but there are plenty of guides to get you up and running.
Olivero said:
cornet said:
Do not under any circumstances trust backups you've not taken and tested the restore if yourself.
This is the first time I have had problems with the host. In the past there has been no problem restoring from their backup.This time they managed to screw it up. I don't trust them anymore so need to more.
I would never trust a hosting company to do this for me.
cornet said:
If that's the only thing they have stuffed up then I'd be tempted to stick with them and learn to take your own backups. Make sure you test restores regularly.
I would never trust a hosting company to do this for me.
To be fair this is the first time they have buggered things up. Just a shame I lost 3 years of work...I would never trust a hosting company to do this for me.
I think I trusted them because there haven't been issues before and because I asked them before they made the change if they had the backup.
I do think they should take off any mention of Backup/Restore from their website if they can't be trusted.
Olivero said:
cornet said:
If that's the only thing they have stuffed up then I'd be tempted to stick with them and learn to take your own backups. Make sure you test restores regularly.
I would never trust a hosting company to do this for me.
To be fair this is the first time they have buggered things up. Just a shame I lost 3 years of work...I would never trust a hosting company to do this for me.
I think I trusted them because there haven't been issues before and because I asked them before they made the change if they had the backup.
I do think they should take off any mention of Backup/Restore from their website if they can't be trusted.
Second this, been very good for me hosting several domains and the wife's internet business running on Wordpress
V8OW said:
Tsohost are great.
Depending on their size, one of their cloud servers sound perfect for what you want.
I've got several sites hosted with them, and have found them great.
Support is brilliant, and the guys are very knowledgeable.
Depending on their size, one of their cloud servers sound perfect for what you want.
I've got several sites hosted with them, and have found them great.
Support is brilliant, and the guys are very knowledgeable.
MattyB_ said:
Still loving www.linode.com
Fast, cheap, well specced. Multi-image backup too. I run a few Wordpress sites (amongst others) through their basic package.
However, it's an "unmanaged" service, in that you get given a blank Linux distro and go from there, so you'll need to a few basics about Linux, but there are plenty of guides to get you up and running.
Another linode fan here. I've been a customer for few years and the service has been very good indeed. It's possible to have 2 x web servers 1 x MySQL box behind a load balancer with managed backup and restore to any of linodes data centres for approx $100 per month. Fast, cheap, well specced. Multi-image backup too. I run a few Wordpress sites (amongst others) through their basic package.
However, it's an "unmanaged" service, in that you get given a blank Linux distro and go from there, so you'll need to a few basics about Linux, but there are plenty of guides to get you up and running.
Some examples on the net for how much load the smallest linode can take using nginx, Wordpress caching plugin and varnish -10 million hits a day!
RoadRailer said:
Another linode fan here. I've been a customer for few years and the service has been very good indeed. It's possible to have 2 x web servers 1 x MySQL box behind a load balancer with managed backup and restore to any of linodes data centres for approx $100 per month.
Again don't trust them. Do your own backups and learn how to restore them. Nothing against linode but what happens if they disappeared tomorrow ?RoadRailer said:
Some examples on the net for how much load the smallest linode can take using nginx, Wordpress caching plugin and varnish -10 million hits a day!
cornet said:
RoadRailer said:
Another linode fan here. I've been a customer for few years and the service has been very good indeed. It's possible to have 2 x web servers 1 x MySQL box behind a load balancer with managed backup and restore to any of linodes data centres for approx $100 per month.
Again don't trust them. Do your own backups and learn how to restore them. Nothing against linode but what happens if they disappeared tomorrow ?RoadRailer said:
Some examples on the net for how much load the smallest linode can take using nginx, Wordpress caching plugin and varnish -10 million hits a day!
The linode load balancer can take 10k concurrent sessions per instance so the 2 web servers one database host solution I gave as an example above should give a fair sized site enough waft should it get on the front page of slashdot...
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Edited by RoadRailer on Tuesday 18th June 00:20
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