176 – My Journey Through 6 Different Website Hosting Providers
Announcements
- WordPress 3.8.3 Maintenance Release is available
- Fixed a bug with the Quick Draft tool in the dashboard
- WordPress 3.9 RC 2] is available
- 5 Dozen changes were made in WordPress core
- Heart Bleed bug has caused chaos in the past week to many hosting provides.
- It’s also a great time to change your passwords to all of your online accounts.
Tools / Plugins
Great Responsive Site Tester for determining how your website looks on different sized mobile devices.
Listener Feedback
Daniel J Lewis wrote in with a recommendation for Ian from Episode 166
– Diamond MultiSite Widgets
– Building a Magainze Style Homepage
My Journey Through Hosting Providers
- Pros
- Typical shared hosting plans
- Less than $100 per year
- Live Chat
- One Click WordPress Installs
- Cons
- Sites run slow
- Servers are oversold
- Pros
- Site ran much faster
- Support was great
- Cons
- Were not WordPress experts
- No live chat
- Pros
- Free
- Dedicated WordPress hosting
- Caching and backups are done by them
- Staging area
- Cons
- Couldn’t run Pretty Link Lite plugin
- Pros
- Glorified shared hosting plan
- Could create hosting environments for clients
- Cons
- Websites ran slow
- Interface was clunky, not typical cPanel, which was slow too
- Hard to bill clients
- Pros
- Website was super fast
- Cons
- Everything had to be configured, nginx
- Pros
- Website is super fast
- Dedicated WordPress hosting
- Great admin dashboard
- Hand off charges to clients
- 2 weeks of “free” hosting for dev sites
- Cons
- Initially hard to set up because of database prefix
- Pros
- Cheap – only pay when people use it
- Helps you to stay flexible with your hosting company
- FTP access to folders
- Cons
- It’s another service you have to pay for
Dustin,
Another great podcast. You’re definitely one of my must-listen-to podcasts.
I am considering FlyWheel and wanted to know how you’re staging sites. I think you had podcast about this previously, but I’m not sure if it applied to your current host.
Thanks for any info.
– Peter
Apr 24, 2014Peter_Ingersoll Hey Peter, currently I’m staging my site locally using Desktop Server. I keep an identical copy of my site on my computer at all times.
I’m following all the steps listed in Episode 166: http://yourwebsiteengineer.com/166-push-local-changes-live-wordpress-site/
Apr 25, 2014Thanks for this, Dustin. I’ve been re-evaluating hosting lately, so I listened to this episode again. Then, I signed up for Flywheel! It’s only been a week, but so far, so good.
Apr 25, 2016