Wordpress Hosting

[Michael Schofield]

Heya MRH,

To feel satisfied with either managed or shared hosting, I think you need the following criteria:


·         You, or no one available to you, can or is willing to install WordPress manually [the “5 minute install”]

·         Your website will probably not be in danger of having high simultaneous traffic

·         You are not concerned with having 100% control over your site.

Managed hosting is for many a huge convenience, but it is often at the cost at being able to make certain decisions – even so far as which plugins you can use. You can still build or commission custom themes, but certain functionality that is available to other plans will not be available to you for reasons of security or load. If you’re cool with this, then Yahtzee. The managed hosts aren’t out there to screw you, they’re making educated decisions, but if these kind of decisions will ever get in the way of your vision for your website, then MWP isn’t right for you.

Shared hosting just gets bottlenecked with traffic. So with proper caching, a well designed site, and moderate traffic, you’ll be just fine. If you ever hope to land on the front page of reddit or you want to use your shared host to disseminate podcasts, you’ll want a better plan.

As for hosts, everyone has a nitpick, but the web is my moneymaker and I have been happy with the specs and customer service of Media Temple. They were acquired by GoDaddy awhile ago, but any fears about that corrupting the awesomeness of Media Temple aren’t founded.

As for Omeka? Anything that can host Omeka can host WordPress. Omeka is really simple to install manually, just as WordPress. I often suggest people avoid the one-click installs anyway, so whether Omeka is present in your eventual host’s arsenal shouldn’t determine your choice of host. Choose a host that has excellent specs and excellent customer service.

If you have more WP questions, there’s a WordPress Librarians FB group, too.

Have a good one!

Michael
@schoeyfield
www.libux.co


From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Hess, M. Ryan
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 11:30 AM
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Subject: [WEB4LIB] Wordpress Hosting

Hi all,

We’re about to put in an RFP for launching an external Wordpress site for our blog. I’m curious to hear from some seasoned folks who’ve done this out there what level of hosting you use and what experiences you’ve had with your vendors.

While we’re at it, we also think finding a host that has some experience with Omeka would be a plus. We currently use Blue Host for some prototyping and emergency band-aid projects…but they don’t include Omeka in their list of one-click installs and when we launched our own test of Omeka and Neatline, their support was really unaware of the platform and not especially helpful in getting around some initial issues.

Anyway, some questions for you all:

  *   For your Wordpress instances, do you use a Managed Wordpress service? Or does the simple web hosting (ala shared hosting, etc.) do the trick just fine.
  *   What recommended vendors for Managed Hosting or Shared Hosting would you give us?
  *   Any other insights you’d wish you’d known when you set out to launch your own externally hosted Wordpress?

Regards,

M Ryan Hess
Digital Services Coordinator
DePaul University
JTR 303-C, DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus, 2350 N Kenmore Ave., Chicago IL 60614
office: 773-325-7829 | cell:  650-224-7279 |  fax: 773-325-2297  | mhess8 at depaul.edu<https://outlook.depaul.edu/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>

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