[Hidden-tech] website hosting

[Alexandra Martines]

Similar to Maria, I've been a big Dreamhost user for the last few years.
Lately their shared hosting has entirely been incapable of hosting a
WordPress site - we're talking 5-10 second page loads for very small and
optimized sites, and quite a lot of sporadic downtime.

Making the switch from shared hosting to Dreampress was definitely a huge
improvement, and Dreamhost's support staff are world class.

However, I've begun using WP Engine for larger WordPress sites and
ecommerce sites, and it's about the best you can do. It's $30/month for an
individual site (less if you have a plan with 10+ sites), super fast,
exceptionally secure, and you get all kinds of goodies like a CDN and
WordPress-customized cache. I'm planning to only host on WP Engine going
forward.

As others have reported, I've had truly awful experiences with both
Bluehost and GoDaddy in the past.

--Alex

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 12:48 PM Korolov, Maria <maria at korolov.com> wrote:

> Allen --
>
> I've been using Dreamhost for several years for about a dozen sites, and
> have recently upgraded to their Dreampress platform for my highest traffic
> site (over 300,000 page views a month).
>
> I've been super happy with their user-friendly control panels and ease of
> installing new sites. And with Dreampress, they take care of all the
> Wordpress management and security issues and I've had zero downtime and all
> customer service requests are answered immediately.
>
> I've looked at some of the other hosting providers, like Bluehost, but
> really really did not like their user interface. But this was a couple of
> years ago, and things may have changed.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
> -- Maria
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> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 8:27 PM, Allen Cohen <acohen at svcable.net> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I want to switch from HostGator to a new service.  HostGator used to have
> excellent support, but it has gone downhill.  It is also a lot more
> expensive than others.  Recommendations would be appreciated.  A couple of
> sites list Bluehost.com as one of the top, but I'm not sold on any one at
> this point.
>
> Thanks,
> Allen Cohen
> (802) 380-2182
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