[lug] speaking of wordpress : hosting recs

[karl horlen]

thanks quentin. you may have just saved me some pain right there.  i gave the fee-based upgrades a quick perusal.  they do add up quite quickly but since they're annual costs, it actually might be a relatively good deal since it appears there is no base monthly fee.  

1) do you know if indeed there is no base outbound bandwidth limit for sites hosted with wordpress.com?  not that this would be an issue for the site in question but on the basic services page it does say "free".

2) i'll poach your other post here for the dreamhost recommendation.  since you are currently using this service: how is wordpress configured / admin'd at dreamhost.  do you download and manually install it from a control panel or do you have cli access to the shell and a home directory?   are updates manual via the cli or control panel app?  what about backups?  are there stingy basic  bandwidth limits?  and what level of service are you getting for a basic price point (or one that you're currently signed up for)?

thanks





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> From: Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com>
>To: karl horlen <horlenkarl at yahoo.com>; Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List <lug at lug.boulder.co.us> 
>Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2013 4:28 PM
>Subject: Re: [lug] speaking of wordpress : hosting recs
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>The only downsides I've seen with using Wordpress.com for hosting is that at the free level your control over themes and plugins and whatnot. If your needs fit inside the box they've defined, it's a great solution. If not, it get expensive fast. Not expensive, but just FYI, using your own domain costs $13 / year. Blogger will let you do your own domain for free.
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>Here's the list of pay-for Wordpress.com upgrades:
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>http://en.support.wordpress.com/upgrades/
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>On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 4:18 PM, karl horlen <horlenkarl at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>yeah .. wtf is a happiness engineer ;)   the fact that you have a happiness engineer presumes that people are unhappy to start with ;)
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>>thaks for the info.  the fact that this service is "hidden" kind of bugs me though.  i'm not "happy" when companies hide the happiness.  you're well on your way to becoming a happiness engineer it seems  ;)
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>>> From: Jed S. Baer <blug at jbaer.cotse.net>
>>>To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us 
>>>Cc: karl horlen <horlenkarl at yahoo.com>; Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List <lug at lug.boulder.co.us> 
>>>Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2013 4:13 PM
>>>Subject: Re: [lug] speaking of wordpress : hosting recs
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>>>On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 14:48:16 -0700 (PDT)
>>>karl horlen wrote:
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>>>> 4) i believe wordpress org or com itself might handle hosting of the
>>>> type i'm talking about and it might even be free  which might just
>>>> simply nip this thing in the bud.  but if i go that route (or something
>>>> like blogger.com.. which i'm not sure is wordpress but some google cms
>>>> platform), can i seamlessly point my domain via dns to my
 site on these
>>>> services so that it looks like a stand alone domain / webiste and not
>>>> like a jackass child of the service with the parent domain name
>>>> embedded in the url?
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>>>Google bought Blogger from Pyra labs quite a while ago. It isn't
>>>WordPress.
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>>>You'd think they'd mention it at http://en.wordpress.com/features/ -- but
>>>the implication is that yes, you can point your domain there:
>>>"TIME, CNN, TED, Boing Boing, and TechCrunch are all hosted on
>>>WordPress.com."
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>>>But you'll have to dig for it. Maybe it's a non-free extra.
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>>>Shouldn't be hard to discover: "Whether you’re searching the forums,
>>>reading our support pages, or chatting with a Happiness Engineer, you can
>>>always find a helping hand."
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>>>Happiness Engineer? That right there is enough to keep me away. :-P
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