I'm posting this as a community wiki because I'd like to get a collaboratively edited list of features for a high-end WordPress webhost. For example, if you are running a high-traffic WordPress-based site and/or a WordPress site that needs really hardened security what features would you love to see offered so that you don't have to implement everything that exceeds the most basic installation of WordPress core? Many of us know that WP Engine has just launched and it's the …
Hello Wordpress developers, I need advice from you. I need to host Wordpress site for a client and I decided to use recommended hosting providers like Blue Host, Site Ground and Namecheap. So what is recommended practice? Should a client register his account and buy hosting service with his own credit card and provide hosting/server/database access to me or I should register my personal account and pay hosting service with my card?
My website is really slow, and I have no idea why : I read some articles about how to save time and so on but it still takes up to 7s to load a page. Here is the report : https://tools.pingdom.com/#5c4199b967800000 I don't really understand what it says, so I'm open to suggestions to gain some time. If it is due to the host, have you any recommandation in Europe for another host in Europe ? Thank you very much
Currently, we are running our WP based website at dedicated OVH web hosting with the highest performance. Due to fact that traffic at our website continuously grows, we are about to migrate to the dedicated solution and here is where my doubts come. While searching for WP HA tutorials I found 2 main approaches - self hosted VPS (with own instance of MySQL and Apache) or predefined hosting using images for WP like AWS or Docker. Which solutions will be …
I am creating a website which I need to host. If I buy a domain from one of the website hosting companies do they provide security from attacks or should I some how take care of it? If I have to take care of it how should I ensure that my website (developed using wordpress) is secure? Also could you suggest some reliable web hosting companies?
I know there are tons of places that offer wordpress hosting but what I am after is one where I dont need to do all the upgrades, patches, SQL admin etc. Basically I want it like wordpress.com where you create your blog and that's it. You blog and don't have to worry about the admin side. I don't mind paying. Why I want this? I am currently with wordpress.com but my site now has built up enough traffic that i …
I am looking for a host to start my new WordPress site. The criteria for this is that they must totally/truly specialise in WordPress hosting. Many companies claim to have a certain expertise in hosting WordPress, but the fact is they just have it installed. I would like recommendations for hosts in the UK but am open to worldwide offers.
At Google's 2013 IO conference, one of their many announcements was the ability to host PHP sites and apps on their Google Apps Engine. They even created a tutorial explaining how to set up a Wordpress site on GAE: https://developers.google.com/appengine/articles/wordpress. I am curious about the supposed performance benefits of running a WP site on GAE. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using GAE versus a hosting service provider like BlueHost or GoDaddy?
I am having tough time to figure out the best most appropriate way to maintain and update my custom theme for wordpress. I have setup local server (wamp) with wordrpess where I mainly develop my theme and push everything to bitbucket. At this point I usually just upload my theme from my local machine to ftp server theme folder - and voilà! However, this seems like an old approach. I see people talk more and more about dynamic update - …
This question is not so much about ISPs and service providers as about the type of hosting that I should choose for a network site. Should I go for shared hosting, dedicated hosting, VPS or cloud? I am being tasked with building a network of university portals that will be white-labeled and handed over to their respective admins. There's a lot of custom development so I would like to have control over apache modules, php ini settings and mysql. These …
Is there any place that has free hosting for wordpress and allows custom themes? I have seen a bunch that offer free hosting but none that seem to allow custom themes. I guess I should add a Little more about why I want it to be free I just want to throw up a site for a couple days to fool around with the theme get some feedback. Not a permanent hosting solution. So if this doesnt exist that is …
I can't seem to find out what level of hosting I'll require for a WordPress e-commerce website. (yes, I realise this will vary based upon a heap of factors but I'm looking for some ballpark ranges for each factor) I'm thinking about such plugins as WP e-Commerce, Shopp, etc... for instance all those mentioned in http://mashable.com/2011/06/16/wordpress-ecommerce-plugins/ ! (tips with direction there would be nice... but perhaps I just need to research more first, or maybe later create an entirely new …