Wordpress Hosting

[Hess, M. Ryan]

Thanks for the comments so far. Yes, as I begin to look at the Managed services, I'm seeing some limitations that may be a deal breaker for us...for example, no support for multisites with Dream Press for example.

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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From: Web technologies in libraries [WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) [haitzlm at UCMAIL.UC.EDU]
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Subject: Re: [WEB4LIB] Wordpress Hosting

We’ve used Hostgator for both hosting Wordpress sites, and Omeka (this is our sandbox environment: ulsandbox.org), and one shared site. However all our Production Wordpress installs are done on our own servers. We have 3 standalone installs, and two network installs (long story) , and they all work  great.

I would echo Michael’s comment on hosted: One of our shared sites is booksbythebanks.org. This has minimal traffic year round. The day of the event however, the site went down as we had reached the CPU limit in the shared environment. I had to do some quick scrambling to bring it back up. So, do consider traffic and bandwidth.

Lisa Haitz
UC Libraries



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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