Best Wordpress Hosting
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I've had a horrible experience with the security on wordpress hosting with GoDaddy. Someone recommended Blue Host as my next option. Does anyone have any experience with BlueHost and what other hosting companies would you recommend for wordpress hosting?
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Have been very disappointed with Bluehost. LOTS of downtime in the last 6 months.
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My vote goes to WPEngine as well. Great people there.
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I just moved my sites from Hostgator to Media Temple...I saw an increase in search traffic w/ in days of the move for what it's worth.
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WPengine is by far the best host for Wordpress in 2012
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HI Christine
Even i have many issue with godaddy and so as with hostgator, lately i am able to find a data center in India named as CTRLS,
these guys are very focused on just one business that's hosting, nowdays i am having 3 VPS with them, its little costly, but definately worth every penny i have spent.
just google for them
** Please note i am not trying to promote them by any means NOR receiving any benefits from them ******
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What sort of penetration testing? Any suggestions for places to do this?
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Wordpress and PHP both have inherited vulnerabilities that help intruders. And When you add extensions, it adds. For Security, only Host can not do any thing.
Either, you make a penetration testing from some reasonable security company, and you will get save from 99% of amateur attacks.
Or make your Wordpress installation always updated, and use as less extensions as possible.
Its better to use some backup plugin, and keep on taking daily automatic backups. So In any such case you can instanlty bring your site back to life.
I am using http://me.wisnetsol.com for last 3 years, and never get hacked.
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Well, I don't believe even Amazon will help much about it. There are certain vulnerabilities inherited with Wordpress, php that helps hackers to intrude. And when you add extensions, it adds.
I suggest you get proper penetration testing, and remove those vulnerabilities. And you can run your blog on any reasonable shared host without any issue.
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GoDaddy's cheap accounts are hosted on Windows, and you have no access to the server to do 301 redirects, etc. There's also some kind of caching so changes might not "take" immediately. Overall it's a real pain, and not Wordpress-friendly at all.
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GoDaddy is horrible and they are not as helpful when help is needed for changes, fixes with site.
HostGator is awesome for hosting and customer service. I can be on the road, call in and they fix it immediately for me. Godaddy's response --- "Sorry, we are not allowed to do that for you."
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I use Bluehost a lot. They're a great value for a basic (shared) hosting package, with good support. No complaints.
I'll second what EGOL says if you have more than a few thousand users per day. In that case you'd probably want to go to a CDN.
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Wordpress operates on PHP. If someone wants to hack or website, it is the hosting companies job to limit them but its your job to make sure all of your passwords are considered strong passwords
First thing i would recommend is to make sure all passwords to any admin area are changed.
Read the article Gyi suggested http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress
For these reasons I have recently launched my own web hosting company because I want to offer the most secure environment for my customers.
If you need any help or have any questions with your wordpress securing, PM me and I would be happy to assist you.
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+1 for hostgator, also, not sure if this was in the thread, but worth looking at: http://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPress
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Wow! Thank you for all the insight! I am going to look at HostGator as I've heard several good things about them. With regard to udpates, the Wordpress platform has been udpated at every opportunity and, in addition, I've updated with "patches" through GoDaddy as well. Unfortunately, this is the third site that has been hacked. I'm overseeing 150+ sites so I need to consider another option as I've also had bad experiences with GoDaddy in other areas. Thanks again for everyone's input! Very much needed and appreciated!
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I have a few sites that I have set up using Wordpress - I always use Hostgator - it's cheap - quick - seems reliable and they have that great Fantastico Deluxe thing where you can easily upload Wordpress without using FTP and that kind of thing. Always runs very smoothly and I've never had problems!
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Hi Christine
I've used Bluehost a couple of times for small WP sites and found it very straightforward to operate and good value. The one-click WP install makes it particularly attractive for beginners. I can't comment on security as I haven't had any issues.
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You are coorect
they have php5 but after checking, i find that they have dicontinued mysql used by wordpress i believe, I am not famialer with WP much myself.
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Agreed Godaddy is terrible. I use Bluehost and find them OK, but I do get a better service with Just Host ( bit.ly/iw8cpo)
United Hosting is also very good.
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Very good point about updating WP promptly to avoid security holes. It may not be the hosting company at all.
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(First... have you been updating your WP promptly when updates are issued? I assume that you have but just askin'.)
If you have a tiny site with very little traffic this host might be OK. However....
Be careful as they offer: "UNLIMITED GB of Site Transfer" (their CAPS, not mine).
With this type of offer once your visitor counts get up to a few thousand per day you might see service outages because instead of throttling your BW they instead limit your "processing units" or some other parameter.
UNLIMITED BW is often true but there will be another variable that will throttle your site.
Some sites require a dedicated server and terrabytes of BW per month. No host will give you that for $6.95/month.
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Alan, Christine is looking for a host for a wordpress site. discountasp (.NET hosting) doesn't strike me as the right choice.
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Our WP site has been hacked just about on every possible host and platform from shared to dedicated server. Entry points were different, sometimes through entire server, sometimes via plugin weakness. We're thinking about Amazon right now, still undecided as one of our staff gravitates towards hosting the site on our own box in the office.
PS: Found this presentation: http://blog.rochenhost.com/2010/06/joomla-and-wordpress-hosting-and-security-presentations-cms-expo/ I haven't heard of this hosting company before but anyone who is presenting on wordpress hosting security must be worth investigating further.
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I am not sure what security problems you had, but the main thing i would be looking for is load speed. this is a factor in ranking.
I host my own sites in Australia, but i do host a few at discountasp. they seem to have all the featuers and they are great value.
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