{"id":1002783,"date":"2009-11-01T08:40:07","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T13:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1002783"},"modified":"2009-11-01T08:40:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T13:40:07","slug":"help-me-pick-a-new-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/software-development\/web-development\/blogging\/2009\/11\/01\/help-me-pick-a-new-host\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Me Pick a New Host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m finally getting serious about moving away from pair.com. I&#8217;m not sure who to host with though. Minimum requirements are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WordPress support (i.e. I can install it; they don&#8217;t have to provide it though it&#8217;s cool if they do).<\/li>\n<li>Full root access to WordPress: I can install my own themes and plugins and do my own database dumps.<\/li>\n<li>No fixed bandwidth, storage, transfer, or CPU time quotas (I&#8217;m willing to pay for more as I go up in usage, but I need to be able to handle spikes without the ISP turning off my site.)<\/li>\n<li>Hosted under my own domain name.<\/li>\n<li>Regular, reliable backups<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The more I think about it, the more I suspect I don&#8217;t even want a shell account. I really want a managed WordPress account, preferably hosted in at least three data centers on different continents with hot switching. (Is that even possible? ) Who offers this?<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Larry Aronson recommended <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/\">BlueHost<\/a>. They&#8217;re cheaper than Pair, but they still have CPU quotas, and I couldn&#8217;t find out what those were. (I asked but either they wouldn&#8217;t tell me or their chat system logged me off before I read the answer.) <\/p>\n<p><a href=''>MediaTemple<\/a> advertises &#8220;Hosting that&#8217;s ready for traffic spikes. Start your new blog on a clustered hosting platform that&#8217;s ready for you to hit the big time. Whether you reach the front page of Digg or get an unexpected shout-out on Oprah, your blog will always be available. Get started right-away with our WordPress one-click installer and enough high-speed storage and bandwidth to run a blogging empire.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Their <a href=\"http:\/\/mediatemple.net\/webhosting\/gs\/faq.php\">grid service<\/a> sounds pretty spot on, though pricing for overages is somewhat opaque. That sounds about right. Has anyone used them? <\/p>\n<p>Another possibility is running WordPress on top of Amazon EC2+S3\/RDS. That&#8217;s a little bleeding edge, and may involve more server administration than I want to do, but it&#8217;s at least plausible and it does give me a really efficient model for spiky traffic and easy scalability. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m finally getting serious about moving away from pair.com. I&#8217;m not sure who to host with though. Minimum requirements are: WordPress support (i.e. I can install it; they don&#8217;t have to provide it though it&#8217;s cool if they do). Full root access to WordPress: I can install my own themes and plugins and do my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[214,80],"class_list":["post-1002783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","tag-shared-hosting","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002783"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002787,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002783\/revisions\/1002787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}