Comments on: How-to choose a WordPress Hosting Provider

By: Olaf

Olaf — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 09:20:42 +0000

Hello Daniel,
I don’t think it’s so easy, if your blog has more than 500 daily visitors, most shared hosting platform is not the plasce where you should host your blog. The problem is that a more popular blog is also a standard victim for spammer and bots. These “evils” use bad scripts and your host need be fine tuned for wordpress or your site get down
I don’t think that “wordpress hosting” provied by most hosting provder is different from the “regular” hosting.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 02:29:26 +0000

Very interesting read. Once again I could not agree more. I would always suggest starting a blog on the cheapest plan. Unlimited data storage is standard now so unless you have a larger number of blogs or your blog is already well established, the basic plan will always suffice. Upgrades work fantastically well you can increase your hosting package in line with your blogs growth and only pay the difference between the teo plans.

By: Olaf

Olaf — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:59:30 +0000

Hi Jackie,
since your WordPress blog is hosted @hostgator, how are possibilities? Do you need to use your FTP details to download plugins, themes or updates?
Is it possible to edit theme files without changing the file permissions to 0666 or 0777?

By: Olaf

Olaf — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:39:56 +0000

For what do you use SSH? I think most WP user looking to handle all content and functions with the CMS.

By: Best Development

Best Development — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:27:45 +0000

The main key thing that many hosts dont provide, and comes in handy when working with WP is SSH – thats what I look for when i need a WP host.

By: Olaf

Olaf — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:51:54 +0000

hello Sally,

Thanks for stopping by, I checked page.ly before, but for people with 5 or more blogs it might be a little bit to expensive (for $75 I get a strong VPS with more than 1GB of memory)
I’m sure your service is great for WordPress sites, but a hosting account from providers like webfaction, gives the user much more freedom. They offer guaranteed memory for each Linux user account, SSH access and much more.
page.ly is a great upgrade for people moving away from the (free) hosted wordpress account (wordpress.com account). The “mature” webmaster will choose a regular hosting account

EDIT: People should find a provider between high-end and cheap offers. Most blogs don’t need a HUGE dedicated server and people should be careful with any offer like “unlimited sites, unlimited bandwidth”.

By: Sally Strebel

Sally Strebel — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:27:52 +0000

I couldn’t agree more with your statement- “You don’t need one at the top-of-the-line and don’t go for the cheapest plan you can find.” With the cheapest plan you never know how many sites are on a server and the type of sites they may be hosting. Also, if they’re not making money of the hosting, they may make money off selling information.

I’d love to have you check out page.ly. Only WordPress sites are hosted and there’s auto WordPress core updates as well as nightly backups. Some tech industry leaders have called page.ly the easiest and fastest way to create a website. Hope you like it. =)