[kwlug-disc] Website hosting

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Could be worth shooting Khalid or someone a one time setup fee at a 
recommended platform.

i.e. From your description, all you want is access to the WordPress 
administrative functions to do what you need to do.

All the rest is black magic to you, and you're content that it remain 
so. (Don't blame you.)

I suspect most of the hosting consumers are like you, and have 
<dashboards - name escapes me> where you click once and a wordpress 
install happens for you. Granted, still worth throwing someone a 20 to 
confirm that for you. (Saves caveat emptor research / discerning time.)

And there are LAMP vms out there you should be able to just fire up and 
see how complex they are/n't, and whether they suit you. Presumably once 
up a 'aptitude install wordpress' would do all necessary magic for you. 
And I suspect wordpress itself has a 'quick install for dummies' doc. 
[This is worth doing regardless - gives you a test/play site, and a 
place to restore your live wordpress backups. Let's you play locally, 
confirm your backup processes, and give you a path should the host 
disappear.]

In the end, it's about what's your time worth, and do you want a cheaper 
/ more reliable service upon which to just get on with your day.

Move / install is a one off at least, not a continuous cost.


On 14-06-10 03:09 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 2:57 PM, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I currently run two websites that are hosted on myhosting.com.  One is
>> for a charity I help out and the other is my own blog.  Everytime I see the
>> charges on my Visa bill I wonder if there's a cheaper solution. I pay for
>> both my own site and the charity's, so any cost savings would be
>> appreciated.
>>
>
> It says $40 a month per site. So are you paying $80 a month for two sites
> or using one instance to host both sites?
>
> Do any of you guys use a hosting service and if so, which one and are they
>> any good?
>>
>
> I use Linode, and highly recommend them. They start at $20 a month, and
> depending on your sites traffic, one instance may be able to handle both
> sites.
>
> My only real requirements are Wordpress capable (i.e. both sites are
>> predominantly Wordpress generated) and a few email accounts.  I don't need
>> anything too fancy.
>>
>
> Did you look into wordpress.com? They have a free tier. Perhaps that would
> be enough for your needs.
>
>
>> I know somebody in this mail list is going to suggest that I host these
>> myself but I'm not sure if I'm technically savvy enough to do this.  If you
>> can loan me a copy of "web hosting for dummies" maybe I could look into
>> it...
>>
>> Please let me know your thoughts on this!
>>
>
> How good are you with general Linux sysadmin tasks?
>
>
>
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