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  • @vyas said:
    @ympker read in a WP specific Forum that someone is planning to set upa VPs with PHP5.x and WP 4.x versions (only)
    to make money from those who did not bother to upgrade.

    Lol

  • I came across this in a Wp related discussion:
    YT Channels oN Wordpress:
    I have watched a few videos from each of them and they are helpful at a minimum.

    1. LixingWithPixels
      https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4rBpJF855RQuO8PrUVb68g

    2. Profitable Tools
      https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLavWnVQ9PSRlb3A-91Hyuw

    3. WPCrafter

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjDuxPEhNQ2qn_qAdjRG4YQ

    1. WPTuts
      https://www.youtube.com/user/ipixeltutorials
  • vyasvyas OG
    edited September 2020

    Good summary of the web hosts for WordPress, the market segments and leading players across price points.
    The author is admin of a FB WP group with @ 11 K members

    https://m.facebook.com/notes/andrew-killen/understanding-the-different-types-of-hosting-for-wordpress/10155584723456701/

  • Interesting...

    "Lifetime" hosting deal for WordPress,

    5 sites

    150,000 Monthly visitors

    25 GB Storage

    1 TB Bandwidth

    All for $ 69

    https://appsumo.com/wp-super-host/

  • @vyas said:
    Interesting...

    "Lifetime" hosting deal for WordPress,

    5 sites

    150,000 Monthly visitors

    25 GB Storage

    1 TB Bandwidth

    All for $ 69

    https://appsumo.com/wp-super-host/

    There is also:

    https://stacksocial.com/sales/lifetime-starthost-webhosting-10-websites

    https://stacksocial.com/sales/eurekahost-unlimited-plan-lifetime-subscription

    https://stacksocial.com/sales/box-hosting-lifetime-subscription

    And others out there. Don't trust them much though. Only LTD sub for hosting I got was @MikePT which is running stable :)

  • Likewise. In addition to Myw.pt,
    I have a SS LT Plan for Web hosting (not WP specific) .
    In typical SS fashion, 4 GB storage / 50 GB BW :-)

    Coming back to the. LT Deal,

    We own our entire infrastructure, so we are hosting this on our own machines located currently in Los Angeles, California.

    We are planning expansions of our infrastructure to 3 other locations as well that include Chicago, Dallas, and New York/New Jersey as we have infrastructure hubs in those cities as well.

    For server specs, our standard host machine is a dual Intel E5-2620V4 with 96 GB RAM and 2 TB SSD.

  • Anyone know good WP Theme Dev but not so expensive ??

  • @Ndha said:
    Anyone know good WP Theme Dev but not so expensive ??

    Theme Dev as in -theme developer?

  • @vyas said:

    @Ndha said:
    Anyone know good WP Theme Dev but not so expensive ??

    Theme Dev as in -theme developer?

    Yes it is, want to create wp theme from zero or create wp child theme with function for multi embed videos..

  • vyasvyas OG
    edited September 2020

    Fiver is a good resource, or you can ask in any of the WP forums .

    Or

    @ympker and I had published a multi part series on page builders you can look it up on LES blog and do it yourself

  • @vyas said:
    Fiver is a good resource, or you can ask in any of the WP forums .

    Or

    @ympker and I had published a multi part series on page builders you can look it up on LES blog and do it yourself

    Pinegrow Theme builder perhaps? :)

  • @Ympker said:

    Pinegrow Theme builder perhaps? :)

    lol... I was expecting Mobirise...

  • @vyas said:

    @Ympker said:

    Pinegrow Theme builder perhaps? :)

    lol... I was expecting Mobirise...

    Pinegrow has a wp theme builder function that's why I suggested it :)

  • @vyas said:
    Fiver is a good resource, or you can ask in any of the WP forums .

    Or

    @ympker and I had published a multi part series on page builders you can look it up on LES blog and do it yourself

    Toptal has a lot stricter policy for freelancers, so one is more likely to come across a competent developer - in my opinion.

  • MikePTMikePT ProviderOG

    @Ympker said:

    @vyas said:
    Interesting...

    "Lifetime" hosting deal for WordPress,

    5 sites

    150,000 Monthly visitors

    25 GB Storage

    1 TB Bandwidth

    All for $ 69

    https://appsumo.com/wp-super-host/

    There is also:

    https://stacksocial.com/sales/lifetime-starthost-webhosting-10-websites

    https://stacksocial.com/sales/eurekahost-unlimited-plan-lifetime-subscription

    https://stacksocial.com/sales/box-hosting-lifetime-subscription

    And others out there. Don't trust them much though. Only LTD sub for hosting I got was @MikePT which is running stable :)

    @vyas said:
    Likewise. In addition to Myw.pt,
    I have a SS LT Plan for Web hosting (not WP specific) .
    In typical SS fashion, 4 GB storage / 50 GB BW :-)

    Coming back to the. LT Deal,

    We own our entire infrastructure, so we are hosting this on our own machines located currently in Los Angeles, California.

    We are planning expansions of our infrastructure to 3 other locations as well that include Chicago, Dallas, and New York/New Jersey as we have infrastructure hubs in those cities as well.

    For server specs, our standard host machine is a dual Intel E5-2620V4 with 96 GB RAM and 2 TB SSD.

    Glad to know you guys are happy with our services.

    I've been very happy as well with nice clients like you guys! :D

  • I am testing Webinoly for WordPress installations on a couple of VPS'es: a Virmach idler and a LXC courtesy @Not_Oles . This post is still a WIP, you can find it here. If the post develops well, I might write a How To for LES Blog.

  • Not gonna be useful, but my rule of thumb for my personal usage is that I should avoid the most popular scripts.

    So, I generally use Joomla but am going to use Grav for a next site because Joomla feels old.

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  • @deank said:
    Not gonna be useful, but my rule of thumb for my personal usage is that I should avoid the most popular scripts.

    So, I generally use Joomla but am going to use Grav for a next site because Joomla feels old.

    I like grav, very lightweight..

    A simple uptime dashboard using UptimeRobot API https://upy.duo.ovh
    Currently using VPS from BuyVM, GreenCloudVPS, Gullo's, Hetzner, HostHatch, InceptionHosting, LetBox, MaxKVM, MrVM, VirMach.

  • Yeah, that's why I want to use it. Joomla has progressively been becoming bloated.

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  • Can anyone advise a good plugin to take a database dump or for taking a complete copy of a site including database? I've got to create a "dev" version of a site and only been given wp-admin login and FTP details.

    Not familiar with any of the plugins like this as always had MySQL access in the past lol. My preference would be something that outputs a .sql file but can work with anything really.

  • Have a look at Duplicator plugin - https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/. Will take a carbon copy that you can install elsewhere

  • @LeonDynamic said: Have a look at Duplicator plugin

    Cheers! That looks ideal. I normally take a copy via FTP and MySQL and then reimport into new server. Partly out of stubborn-ness as I don't like adding plugins for stuff that I can do myself lol.

  • Couldn’t agree more about adding plugins for plugin sake. Personally I would rather use a function than a full blown plugin or add directly into the theme.

    Having said that have used that plugin a couple of times in the past as it’s been successful.

  • Updraft Plus or All In One Backup are what I typically use.

  • I can vote for Updraft Plus, you can split the backup into several file, including the database.

    A simple uptime dashboard using UptimeRobot API https://upy.duo.ovh
    Currently using VPS from BuyVM, GreenCloudVPS, Gullo's, Hetzner, HostHatch, InceptionHosting, LetBox, MaxKVM, MrVM, VirMach.

  • Just found out that a college friend is paying 500 USD/year for a simple WordPress site (cPanel), and a "free" .com. So starting from January next year, I will takeover his website at a price of 50 USD/year. Should I offer "free" .com too :)

    Action and Reaction in history

  • @elliotc said:
    Just found out that a college friend is paying 500 USD/year for a simple WordPress site (cPanel), and a "free" .com. So starting from January next year, I will takeover his website at a price of 50 USD/year. Should I offer "free" .com too :)

    Get the Appsumo deal of 5 WP hosting, find 4 more friends :-)

  • vyasvyas OG
    edited September 2020

    Update the WP Hosting deal on Appsumo is over.


    Shared hosting providers offering Liteserver - CDN from the liteserver folks.
    You might want to look at this one.. (in case you knew this alread, oops!)
    https://quic.cloud/cost/

    @MikePT @SmallWeb @seriesn

  • 10Web is releasing an "AI Based" WP service. based on Elementor.
    https://10web.io/ai-website-builder/coming-soon/

    The demo video reminds me of Bookmark, which I had written about in Part 2 of the 6 part series on pagebuilders on LESBlog.

  • Is this okay for my client WP news site which got suspended from HM for resource usage?

    2 vCore
    4 GB Ram
    150 EP
    IOPS 2048
    No. of processes 175
    and atlast
    i/o usage 2MB/s

    I came to know about i/o usage only after payment and logging on to cpanel..

    ✓✓Only shared hosting-both DA and cPanel Still in 2006

  • @Intelpentium0 said:
    Is this okay for my client WP news site which got suspended from HM for resource usage?

    2 vCore
    4 GB Ram
    150 EP
    IOPS 2048
    No. of processes 175
    and atlast
    i/o usage 2MB/s

    I came to know about i/o usage only after payment and logging on to cpanel..

    Tbh HM has some of the highest resource allocations around in shared hosting. Maybe optimizing the website would be a better step forward knowing that some of HM shared plans even have up to 6? GB RAM and high I/O.

  • vyasvyas OG
    edited September 2020

    @Ympker said:

    @Intelpentium0 said:
    Is this okay for my client WP news site which got suspended from HM for resource usage?

    2 vCore
    4 GB Ram
    150 EP
    IOPS 2048
    No. of processes 175
    and atlast
    i/o usage 2MB/s

    I came to know about i/o usage only after payment and logging on to cpanel..

    Tbh HM has some of the highest resource allocations around in shared hosting. Maybe optimizing the website would be a better step forward knowing that some of HM shared plans even have up to 6? GB RAM and high I/O.

    a. Clone the site
    b. Disable all plugins
    c. Turn them on one by one

    Overall the I/O seems low considering the specs. Can they bump that up?
    Check out the specs for ExtraVM or Ramnode in Ympker's sheet.

  • @vyas said:

    @Ympker said:

    @Intelpentium0 said:
    Is this okay for my client WP news site which got suspended from HM for resource usage?

    2 vCore
    4 GB Ram
    150 EP
    IOPS 2048
    No. of processes 175
    and atlast
    i/o usage 2MB/s

    I came to know about i/o usage only after payment and logging on to cpanel..

    Tbh HM has some of the highest resource allocations around in shared hosting. Maybe optimizing the website would be a better step forward knowing that some of HM shared plans even have up to 6? GB RAM and high I/O.

    I asked HM whether they can keep that client's site in their own shared hostng or not. But they refused. Hence no more thinking about HM. My present host (their server is at Hivelocity) is giving 200% CPU and 2GB Ram. Still for better performance, I am moving to the latest 4GB Ram one and will let you know how it goes.

    Overall the I/O seems low considering the specs. Can they bump that up?
    Check out the specs for ExtraVM or Ramnode in Ympker's sheet.

    I asked them to raise i/o usage limit. But they are asking to upgrade to next plan with 3MB/s which I think as unnecessary now. Will move the site there tonight and update you later.

    ✓✓Only shared hosting-both DA and cPanel Still in 2006

  • @Intelpentium0 said:
    Is this okay for my client WP news site which got suspended from HM for resource usage?

    2 vCore
    4 GB Ram
    150 EP
    IOPS 2048
    No. of processes 175
    and atlast
    i/o usage 2MB/s

    I came to know about i/o usage only after payment and logging on to cpanel..

    How much is it? With that spec I think it would be great if you rent a VPS.

    A simple uptime dashboard using UptimeRobot API https://upy.duo.ovh
    Currently using VPS from BuyVM, GreenCloudVPS, Gullo's, Hetzner, HostHatch, InceptionHosting, LetBox, MaxKVM, MrVM, VirMach.

  • edited September 2020

    Hi, I got a nice yearly deal, shared hosting from some provider and install some WordPress and so far so good. I got an idea and for me, it seems to work.
    To add some extra security protection to your /wp-admin/ site you can limit this to certain IP only. Other people won't be able to access this. For more info kindly read this article I made. Too long to paste here.

    https://www.basaka.top/2020/09/securing-your-wordpress-admin-page/

    Hope this helps some newbies out there.

  • @Intelpentium0 said:

    @vyas said:

    @Ympker said:

    @Intelpentium0 said:
    Is this okay for my client WP news site which got suspended from HM for resource usage?

    2 vCore
    4 GB Ram
    150 EP
    IOPS 2048
    No. of processes 175
    and atlast
    i/o usage 2MB/s

    I came to know about i/o usage only after payment and logging on to cpanel..

    Tbh HM has some of the highest resource allocations around in shared hosting. Maybe optimizing the website would be a better step forward knowing that some of HM shared plans even have up to 6? GB RAM and high I/O.

    I asked HM whether they can keep that client's site in their own shared hostng or not. But they refused. Hence no more thinking about HM. My present host (their server is at Hivelocity) is giving 200% CPU and 2GB Ram. Still for better performance, I am moving to the latest 4GB Ram one and will let you know how it goes.

    Overall the I/O seems low considering the specs. Can they bump that up?
    Check out the specs for ExtraVM or Ramnode in Ympker's sheet.

    I asked them to raise i/o usage limit. But they are asking to upgrade to next plan with 3MB/s which I think as unnecessary now. Will move the site there tonight and update you later.

    HM's has a resource usage policy. Something like this:
    “Any account should not use more than 25% CPU consistently for more than 5 minutes. If you are consistently using 25% or more CPU, you will need to upgrade to the next available hosting plan. If you are using the maximum hosting plan and are still using 25% or more CPU consistently, then you have most likely outgrown a shared hosting environment and should therefore obtain a VPS or dedicated server to better suit your needs.”

    Not sure about the other resources. Anyway, what I would do is:

    • check the resource usage stats - to see what is taking, and how many resources, at what times, for how long.
    • see if the website can be optimized, if caching can be implemented (more) efficiently

    Only after doing all the "homework", would I go looking for other (more expensive?) hosting solutions. Because I think it's never too late to throw more resources (and money) into a website. But without good optimization, it can go to crazy amounts.

    Having said that, if memory serves me well (I would check before buying), Veerotech had reseller hosting policy where they said it's OK to use resources as much as you like. They use CloudLinux LVE (Lightweight Virtual Environment) and LiteSpeed to set limits per account, so neither one can (ab)use more than their given share, and said they are fine with a user taking 100% of those - they'd just be cut to the limit (and site should be fine if run at 90% of those).

    Premium price, less crowded servers - that seems to be the story. I hadn't put that to the test though.

    My experience with Veerotech reseller hosting

  • @chocolateshirt said:

    @Intelpentium0 said:
    Is this okay for my client WP news site which got suspended from HM for resource usage?

    2 vCore
    4 GB Ram
    150 EP
    IOPS 2048
    No. of processes 175
    and atlast
    i/o usage 2MB/s

    I came to know about i/o usage only after payment and logging on to cpanel..

    How much is it? With that spec I think it would be great if you rent a VPS.

    I paid around $67 for one year. But only after that I came to know about 2 MBps I/o usage limit. I opened a ticket by requesting to increase upto 4 MBps which they refused. Hence I am thinking to cancel it. At present, iam with 8MBps limit and moving down to 2MBps may not be good for site performance. Right?
    Using cache plugin (the one with cheetah my favourite cache plugin in WP) along with Bunnycdn. Iam using Postie plugin for auto posting via email. The only problem that iam facing is at 6 pm Indian time. The news with Covid19 data for our state will come out at 6pm. But the news posted via Postie at that time will be published only after 20 minutes. In the Postie settings, it's set to check every 10 minutes and publish 2 posts. But only at 6pm, it will take 20 minutes which is the main reason for moving from current provider.

    ✓✓Only shared hosting-both DA and cPanel Still in 2006

  • Try using LiteSpeed WP caching plugin since it's a LiteSpeed server - it works noticeably better compared to most others.

  • @bikegremlin said:
    Try using LiteSpeed WP caching plugin since it's a LiteSpeed server - it works noticeably better compared to most others.

    I used it before when it was in HM server. But the issue of hitting limits were severe. Later I changed to the Cheetah cache and for sure the front end performance improved.

    ✓✓Only shared hosting-both DA and cPanel Still in 2006

  • vyasvyas OG
    edited September 2020

    @Intelpentium0 said:

    @bikegremlin said:
    Try using LiteSpeed WP caching plugin since it's a LiteSpeed server - it works noticeably better compared to most others.

    I used it before when it was in HM server. But the issue of hitting limits were severe. Later I changed to the Cheetah cache and for sure the front end performance improved.

    Try to ser up a staging site,
    with LS Cache... and use Quic.cloud. With HM you can get 10 GB/month in free tier. I have seen some good results so far.
    Nice scores on gtmerix and Google pagespeed too...

    https://amarvyas.in/set-up-quic-cloud-content-delivery-network/

  • WP users:
    How do you publish and Update your blog posts?
    a. "Go Commando" i.e publish directly by logging on to WP
    b. Jetpack: Use iaWriter or similar tool (or WP App)
    c. Use a writing tool (online/offline)
    d. Use a staging site (or a private site, publish there, do sanity checks and transfer)
    e. Something else (pl elaborate)

    I am working on a crazy project (more on that later) and tyring to figure out how to manage the same... looking to minimize logins/ active logges on sessions Thanks in advance for ideas.

  • I log into the website and do all the writing.
    What's the use of using a "modern CMS" if a thing like adding new content requires a more complex procedure than that?
    That's one of its very few upsides compared to a static HTML website, no? :)

  • @bikegremlin said:
    I log into the website and do all the writing.
    What's the use of using a "modern CMS" if a thing like adding new content requires a more complex procedure than that?
    That's one of its very few upsides compared to a static HTML website, no? :)

    I concur.
    My issue was with the following hypothetical secenario
    a. blogging frequently (every 2 days)
    b. Updating new posts multiple times (5 to 6 edits within 24-36 hours)
    c. Updating ublished posts multiple times (3 to 4 edits over 2 months)

    I have seen spiked in resource use while doing 2 and particularly 3. That's what drove the idea.

  • @vyas said:

    @Intelpentium0 said:

    @bikegremlin said:
    Try using LiteSpeed WP caching plugin since it's a LiteSpeed server - it works noticeably better compared to most others.

    I used it before when it was in HM server. But the issue of hitting limits were severe. Later I changed to the Cheetah cache and for sure the front end performance improved.

    Try to ser up a staging site,
    with LS Cache... and use Quic.cloud. With HM you can get 10 GB/month in free tier. I have seen some good results so far.
    Nice scores on gtmerix and Google pagespeed too...

    https://amarvyas.in/set-up-quic-cloud-content-delivery-network/

    Thank you @vyas. I will check Quic.cloud along with LS cache.

    ✓✓Only shared hosting-both DA and cPanel Still in 2006

  • @vyas said:

    @bikegremlin said:
    I log into the website and do all the writing.
    What's the use of using a "modern CMS" if a thing like adding new content requires a more complex procedure than that?
    That's one of its very few upsides compared to a static HTML website, no? :)

    I concur.
    My issue was with the following hypothetical secenario
    a. blogging frequently (every 2 days)
    b. Updating new posts multiple times (5 to 6 edits within 24-36 hours)
    c. Updating ublished posts multiple times (3 to 4 edits over 2 months)

    I have seen spiked in resource use while doing 2 and particularly 3. That's what drove the idea.

    I've seen spiked resource usage only when doing some major changes - like editing categories hierarchy on a website that uses Polylang where categories for both languages are set to be synced automatically.

    But even that didn't cause any downtime, 500 errors etc. The only time I got those errors was when I was on a poor quality hosting - there it happened even when I did no changes to the website. After doing all the optimizations I could, 500 errors had stopped, even during edits/publishing, but load tests failed at about 15 concurrent visitors. So I signed up for a bit more expensive shared hosting, and had no problems even with 50 visitor load tests - so I decided to switch, since I often saw about 10+ people browsing the site at the same time in Google Analytics. And because I had learned about EIG. :)

    What you say might have sense for websites with thousand(s) posts/pages, maybe more than a few editors, and a huge number of visitors - haven't tested that scenario yet. It's an interesting topic to get into.

  • Good points @bikegremlin !
    In the interim I am using Storychief for posting/ updating. Though updating requires clearing cache everytime, etc. a different headache but that also send home the message that all edits, experimentation, etc can be done in SC before publish

  • MXroute of WordPress SEO plugins. :)
    My The SEO Framework (TSF) review/experience

    TL/DR - it's good, give it a try.

    Wrote about the free version only for now - paid one will get a separate article.

  • @bikegremlin said:
    MXroute of WordPress SEO plugins. :)
    My The SEO Framework (TSF) review/experience

    TL/DR - it's good, give it a try.

    Wrote about the free version only for now - paid one will get a separate article.

    Thanks bikegremlin ! Nice post

    I believe in good luck. Harder that I work ,luckier i get.

  • Looks very similar (identical?) to the available option to bypass cache on cookie that comes with Cloudflare's more expensive paid plans (starts at Business, 200 $ per month).

    But you end up relying on Cloudflare, and paying them, every month.

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