[Bradford] Wordpress hosting

[Oliver Burkill]

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.

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.

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.

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Mike Goodman <mike.goodman at zen.co.uk>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Good luck with it.
>
> Mike
>
> On 19/09/15 10:37, Andy Coulson wrote:
>
>> Good Morning All,
>>
>> Long time no see, but I will try and get my butt in gear and get over to
>> a meeting before Christmas. The reason I'm emailing is It's hosting
>> renewal time and I'm seeing if i can get a better deal on my hosting. I
>> own two domains and want to run wordpress sites behind each one. Neither
>> site is likely to be that big -- one will be a photo gallery, the other
>> probably a landing page, but evolving into a blog as I get more writing
>> done. I don't need e-commerce at the moment, so hopefully the
>> requirements aren't too challenging. Any recommendations on good
>> providers?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> --
>> Andrew Coulson
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