<div dir="ltr"><div><div>I work for a hosting company eukhost. Wordpress hosting is £4 a
month and can host up to 5 sites. I don't have direct technical
involvement with that product but I know it's no worse than any other Wordpress hosting out there.<br><br></div>If you buy an unmanaged
VPS with Digital Ocean or anyone else then remember you are buying a
server only, their responsibility is to make sure it is running and has
network connectivity, beyond that you are on your own.. If you have
sysadmin experience or want to learn then it's great, but if you want
someone to make sure your website is running as it should as opposed to
just the server then buy a hosting service.<br><br></div>The biggest
issue customers with Wordpress hosting is security. Wordpress has had 3
critical security vulnerabilities in the last year, also a number of
popular themes and plug-ins have also had issues. I see hacked Wordpress
accounts all the time. As well as this Wordpress sites suffer
performance issues due to brute force attack on the log in
page. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Mike Goodman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike.goodman@zen.co.uk" target="_blank">mike.goodman@zen.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Why not self-host, Andy? WP is pretty well automated for installation and updating. You can get a "cloud" VP from. e.g. Digital Ocean starting from US$5 per month so about three quid and set it up with whichever distro you fancy. Even that is automated for several distros. I can send you my "affiliate" link if you like (oi you lot I woz fust! ;)) but there are lots of similar offerings out there now.<br>
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My business has been on a DO "droplet" since I started it. More than a year and not a glitch to date. Except for it taking a while to get the IP address clear of a previous "tenant" who apparently used it as a spam server.<br>
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Good luck with it.<br>
<br>
Mike<span class=""><br>
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On 19/09/15 10:37, Andy Coulson wrote:<br>
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Good Morning All,<br>
<br>
Long time no see, but I will try and get my butt in gear and get over to<br>
a meeting before Christmas. The reason I'm emailing is It's hosting<br>
renewal time and I'm seeing if i can get a better deal on my hosting. I<br>
own two domains and want to run wordpress sites behind each one. Neither<br>
site is likely to be that big -- one will be a photo gallery, the other<br>
probably a landing page, but evolving into a blog as I get more writing<br>
done. I don't need e-commerce at the moment, so hopefully the<br>
requirements aren't too challenging. Any recommendations on good providers?<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<br>
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