[Web4lib] Library WordPress Hosting

[David King]

Another great wordpress hosting service is lishost.org - they host a lot of library bloggers, and library websites. 

I use them!

David

On Mar 8, 2011, at 8:38 PM, "Mutch, Andrew" <AMutch at twp.waterford.mi.us> wrote:

> Chris,
> 
> I've hosted Jen Swan's "Reading Rants" WP site on DreamHost for the past
> 4 years. We've been running around  500,000 requests per month for the
> past year (each page view includes a lot of book covers which runs up
> the total request numbers). We've only had a handful of times when the
> site went completely down or was running extremely slow and all of those
> outages were resolved promptly. DreamHost's tech suppport is pretty good
> and I only had one support session that went more than a day when they
> had multiple servers fail at once. I use their basic package and that
> runs a little under $10 per month for hosting. They also throw in a
> domain registration for free. 
> 
> http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html
> 
> Because I'm able to host multiple sites on a single account, my hosting
> cost per site actually is much less than $10/ month and it's nice being
> able to manage all the sites including the databases from a single web
> site. I think this is pretty typical for most hosting services these
> days but because I've been happy with DH, I haven't had to look around. 
> 
> Andrew Mutch
> Library Systems Technician
> Waterford Township Public Library
> Waterford, MI
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of c
> Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 5:41 PM
> To: web4lib
> Subject: [Web4lib] Library WordPress Hosting
> 
> My library is looking into WordPress hosting and I was curious if anyone
> has had experience with the 4 options listed on Wordpress.org (BlueHost,
> DreamHost, MediaTemple, and Laughing Squid).
> 
> We are going to roll out a few sites this summer, but our userbase and
> usage are really not that large or intense. We have maybe 150,000 visits
> a semester with around 416,000 pageviews. We are not streaming video.
> The sites are not that complex or intensive.
> 
> I am also considering getting vaultpress accounts for each of our sites.
> 
> Any feedback or experiences would be much appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
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