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Re: [LUG] Hosting

 

On Tuesday, 20 August 2019 16:00:10 BST Dan Smith wrote:
> Afternoon all,
> 
> I'm currently reviewing my hosting infrastructure, currently sat with
> DigitalOcean on a 2GB instance for $10 a month. Only hosting multiple
> WordPress websites.
> 
> Currently pondering Hetzner, does anyone have reviews of these or
> recommendations of any others?

I used WPEngine for some WordPress sites in the past, they would likely be 
more expensive, they aren't perfect, but they were pretty good. Likely to 
appeal if you really want just WordPress, and you are happy with their CDN 
option, and appreciate say the nightly backups, checkpoint backups, and 
staging service. You'll probably still want the odd out of WPEngine backup in 
case things go badly wrong.

As a specialist WordPress host their support immediately grok even pretty 
obscure WordPress issues. 

We also put them through some security testing, found obscure XSS in one of 
the bits they add to everyone's admin panel, which they handled well. 

The only gotcha was they didn't do email sensibly, so you needed a sending 
account for password reset et al, in our case we just set up suitable accounts 
at Google Mail, if the company didn't have one.



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