[lug] speaking of wordpress : hosting recs

Tue Sep 3 17:23:20 MDT 2013

Sure thing, glad to be a help.

Sadly, the deal I got was literally a "the colo owner owes me a favor" deal.

QH

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:01 PM, karl horlen <horlenkarl at yahoo.com> wrote:

> awesome.  thanks.
>
> also, if you feel like sharing that colo information assuming it would be
> available to a non-friend, ping me back, privately or otherwise.
>
>
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>  *From:* Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com>
> *To:* karl horlen <horlenkarl at yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List <
> lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 3, 2013 4:53 PM
>
> *Subject:* Re: [lug] speaking of wordpress : hosting recs
>
> 1 - I don't know about their outbound stuff beyond what's listed there.
> When I worked with a site that was hosted with them ~7 years ago that blew
> up bandwidth-wise they dropped us an email that basically said, "woah man,
> what's going on with your site? If this is going to be normal we need to
> talk." It was all very cordial, and the site owner came to a reasonable
> agreement with them. Not sure what the current state of affairs would be.
>
> 2 - I stopped hosting my sites w/ Dreamhost a couple years ago when I
> lucked into a friends & family rate at a colo (1U, no power reqs, and
> "don't be a jerk" bandwidth limits for $40 a month? yes please.) and setup
> my own box. I only host DNS with them now. That said, at the time I used
> them last, if you go with their basic hosting all the typical admin tasks
> you mention can be done via their control panel. It was all pretty slick. I
> had no downtime problems with them at all, and would still be using them if
> hadn't gotten my colo deal setup. More info on them:
> http://www.dreamhost.com/partners/wordpress/
>
>
>
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> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 4:42 PM, karl horlen <horlenkarl at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> 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.
>
> Here's the list of pay-for Wordpress.com upgrades:
>
> http://en.support.wordpress.com/upgrades/
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 4:18 PM, karl horlen <horlenkarl at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> yeah .. wtf is a happiness engineer ;)   the fact that you have a
> happiness engineer presumes that people are unhappy to start with ;)
>
> 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
>
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 14:48:16 -0700 (PDT)
> karl horlen wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> Google bought Blogger from Pyra labs quite a while ago. It isn't
> WordPress.
>
> 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."
>
> But you'll have to dig for it. Maybe it's a non-free extra.
>
> 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."
>
> Happiness Engineer? That right there is enough to keep me away. :-P
>
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