I run ~6 websites, mainly WP but also 1 Joomla and a static. When I started out getting into creating sites, I used to love doing it all myself, and the AWS thing would have been perfect.
But ... I then started getting paranoid about WP security so loaded on a bunch of security plugins. And then paid for a backup service.
In the end I was spending too much time messing around, so just migrated them all to Siteground. Binned off the extra security plugins. They take care of all backups. If something goes wrong, they are pretty good at sorting it out - even if it's not directly related to their hosting. All is good !
Have used Vidahost also in the past, but prefer SG now.
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Originally posted by ladymuck View PostMy brother's band have wordpress on some guy's box for £25 a year. The performance is tulipe because it's not the only wordpress instance he's running and he refuses to let them have FTP access to enable decent updates and management. Not saying you'll behave the same way but there can be issues with initially kind offers of hosting.
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Originally posted by TestMangler View PostJings, It's a bloody Wordpress site. I'll stick it on my dedicated box for you for £25 with a fully auto-updating WP install and CPanel access to your webspace. Unless you're planning to turn yourself into the next Facebook, you need nothing more.
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Jings, It's a bloody Wordpress site. I'll stick it on my dedicated box for you for £25 with a fully auto-updating WP install and CPanel access to your webspace. Unless you're planning to turn yourself into the next Facebook, you need nothing more.
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Originally posted by woohoo View PostAzure, It's what us cool kids use.
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I've been with Zen Internet for a few years for a basic wordpress website and have not had any issue with them and they had decent support.
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Originally posted by LondonManc View PostOnce the free trial is out of the way, how much does that sort of site cost (cba with clicky clicky)
Lightsail has a fixed (albeit large) amount of bandwidth and storage space for the flat cost, whilst the "proper" AWS is all based upon the CPU/Storage/bandwidth that you use over the course of the month, which can be as little or as much as you want (hence everything is "elastic").
There's more to it than this, however, but this is the "layman's terms" if you will.
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostI must say Amazon AWS sounds good, and there are simple instructions here for setting up a Wordpress blog on it:
https://aws.amazon.com/getting-start...press-website/
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostI must say Amazon AWS sounds good, and there are simple instructions here for setting up a Wordpress blog on it:
https://aws.amazon.com/getting-start...press-website/
Around 12 months ago, I switched all my websites to run on a single AWS EC2 instance (t2.micro instance) at a slight increase in cost of around $130 USD per year, however, I have yet to receive a monthly uptime report with anything less that 100% up time for all of my sites. Plus, I now have full control over hosting as I'm running my own Virtual Machine (so I could easily put additional software on there, for example, at no extra cost).
So, whilst AWS isn't the cheapest, you'll get what you pay for and if you're after affordable and very reliable hosting, you can do far worse than AWS.
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostI must say Amazon AWS sounds good, and there are simple instructions here for setting up a Wordpress blog on it:
https://aws.amazon.com/getting-start...press-website/
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I must say Amazon AWS sounds good, and there are simple instructions here for setting up a Wordpress blog on it:
https://aws.amazon.com/getting-start...press-website/
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostHaving registered a couple of domain names (.co.uk and .com) for a blog I plan to start, the next stage is to subscribe to a web hosting site.
Any recommendations?
I suppose it would be better if the site was hosted in the UK, although this is not essential.
My main criterion is that page views must be fast, and the subscription not vastly expensive.
Also, it must be flexible in letting me configure Apache security within subdirectories etc, i.e. not a "managed" and limited environment.
(I'll want to run Wordpress, with a MathJax or MathML plugin.)
I know I could just Google something like "best UK web hosting", and indeed already have, but I also wanted to hear any esteemed CUK readers' recommendations and constructive suggestions (for example of slick-looking hosting companies that are actually awful and best avoided!)
I've posted about using AWS before, but just to be clear. I have nothing to gain from these recommendations, I'm just a very happy and satisfied customer.
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