WordPress Hosting Recommendations
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We have been using TSOHost for the past few months but their shared servers are appalling. We only have a small website (Woocommerce) but the speed is agonisingly slow. Just when we had a run of 2 months with relatively good speed it has ground to a halt again.
Can anyone recommend another host?
Can anyone recommend another host?
Edited by BeastCoast on Tuesday 21st May 13:18
After reading a thread on here a couple of people recomended https://www.siteground.co.uk/
So far Ive been impressed.
I moved to Krystal last year and have been very impressed with their service https://krystal.co.uk/
GlenMH said:
I agree with you about TSO - it is only the fact that I am putting the company in to suspended animation that has stopped me migrating away.
Other websites I have are on Krystal and it is night and day in comparison.
Other websites I have are on Krystal and it is night and day in comparison.
ctrph said:
I moved to Krystal last year and have been very impressed with their service https://krystal.co.uk/
I've been looking at Krystal and their reviews seem to be very good. Would their cheapest package (AMETHYST) be suitable for a small Woocommrce site (15 pages total)?BeastCoast said:
I've been looking at Krystal and their reviews seem to be very good. Would their cheapest package (AMETHYST) be suitable for a small Woocommrce site (15 pages total)?
I am running two wordpress sites on one of their Amethyst packages without any issues. Their support is really good as well. If you know what you're doing or have someone managing the site / servers for you, I would highly recommend Digital Ocean.
If you have enough content on the site to warrant it, would also recommend adding Bunny as a simple / budget friendly CDN to help load times: bunny.net
A lot of the plug and play 'one-click' WP hosting providers are terrible in my experience so be very careful if the site is business critical.
Please feel free to reach out if you need any more help.
If you have enough content on the site to warrant it, would also recommend adding Bunny as a simple / budget friendly CDN to help load times: bunny.net
A lot of the plug and play 'one-click' WP hosting providers are terrible in my experience so be very careful if the site is business critical.
Please feel free to reach out if you need any more help.
Edited by tpalmer on Wednesday 9th October 13:54
There's a pher on here who runs/owns blinkweb..( https://blinkweb.co.uk/) can recommend, even if just for the hosting.
No affiliation other than using to host one of our sites.
No affiliation other than using to host one of our sites.
While we're on the subject of Wordpress hosting, I wonder if anyone can answer this for me please - what's the difference between installing Wordpress on my own web host and doing something with it, and hosting a site on wordpress.com ?
I currently have a site on wordpress.com and it's fine, easy to alter, insert blocks of text and images, and I could probably do loads more that I don't need to. I also look after a small club site which is all hand-coded HTML, and in need of an update. If I download and install Wordpress, do I end up with the same kind of interface for editing the site that I have on wordpress.com, or is it something different? I don't need complicated stuff like shopping carts or really any kind of database. I don't want to put the club site onto wordpress.com as we have our own domain name, and it's currently being hosted on my own hosting - to retain the domain I think we'd have to have a paid wordpress.com account.
I know the proper way is to hand-code it again, but I'm years out of date on stuff like that, and a fairly poor designer.
I currently have a site on wordpress.com and it's fine, easy to alter, insert blocks of text and images, and I could probably do loads more that I don't need to. I also look after a small club site which is all hand-coded HTML, and in need of an update. If I download and install Wordpress, do I end up with the same kind of interface for editing the site that I have on wordpress.com, or is it something different? I don't need complicated stuff like shopping carts or really any kind of database. I don't want to put the club site onto wordpress.com as we have our own domain name, and it's currently being hosted on my own hosting - to retain the domain I think we'd have to have a paid wordpress.com account.
I know the proper way is to hand-code it again, but I'm years out of date on stuff like that, and a fairly poor designer.
Wordpress is notoriously hard to run yourself. It gets hacked constantly and upgrades of the modules can easily break your site. It also doesn’t perform great. It’s one thing I’d stump up for managed hosting for.
Functionally, the managed versions and the self hosted open source will be similar.
Functionally, the managed versions and the self hosted open source will be similar.
muscatdxb said:
Wordpress is notoriously hard to run yourself. It gets hacked constantly and upgrades of the modules can easily break your site. It also doesn’t perform great. It’s one thing I’d stump up for managed hosting for.
Functionally, the managed versions and the self hosted open source will be similar.
In fairness to Wordpress, it's invariably the plugins that cause the security headaches and performance issues. Wordpress core is pretty solid and performant enough for a basic club website. Functionally, the managed versions and the self hosted open source will be similar.
The headaches come when choosing Wordpress for an all singing and dancing commercial site because the initial development was cheaper.
droopsnoot said:
Thanks. The hosting company will install it and presumably maintain it, though I'd need to check that.
If they are installing it through something like cPanel / Scriptaculous etc. then they should be able to set it up to auto-update wordpress and plugins.that can cause issues if a plugin goes rogue (biggest issue with wordpress), but otherwise is fairly seamless - we have wordpress on our servers for a number of clients and rarely have to sort anything out for them now and when we do it is almost always that they have installed some wacky plugin with no thought!
Stick with the basic wordpress and as few plugins as possible - find or buy a decent commercial template for a few pounds and you are sorted
and yes it will be baasically the same as the hosted version...
akirk said:
Stick with the basic wordpress and as few plugins as possible - find or buy a decent commercial template for a few pounds and you are sorted
and yes it will be baasically the same as the hosted version...
Cheers, I'm not planning anything spectacular, and may even bite the bullet and learn how to do it myself again, but it's perhaps a quick way to get it updated.and yes it will be baasically the same as the hosted version...
droopsnoot said:
akirk said:
Stick with the basic wordpress and as few plugins as possible - find or buy a decent commercial template for a few pounds and you are sorted
and yes it will be baasically the same as the hosted version...
Cheers, I'm not planning anything spectacular, and may even bite the bullet and learn how to do it myself again, but it's perhaps a quick way to get it updated.and yes it will be baasically the same as the hosted version...
As a basic content site to be managed by someone who has other priorities than learning to code - great system!
akirk said:
I dislike WordPress - but that comes from (a) being able to code and (b) clients who demand WordPress and then expect it to do things it was never designed to do!
As a basic content site to be managed by someone who has other priorities than learning to code - great system!
As a basic content site to be managed by someone who has other priorities than learning to code - great system!
that's a spot-on summary
We love Wordpress We run many sites some simple, some complex, some for those on here !. The crux of the matter is regular backups and a maintenance package....... ours start at as little as £80 per month for a site hosted on our servers, a little more for those hosted elsewhere.
We also code so can produce a website using HTML /PHP etc but where projects are price sensitive we elect to use Wordpress to reduce the clients bill.
We have coded clever solutions for customer using the power of the MariaDB that's built into Wordpress and some extra forms ,views and reports
They are stable
They are inexpensive
With a little thought they can be very powerful for automating clients businesses
It's fun
We also code so can produce a website using HTML /PHP etc but where projects are price sensitive we elect to use Wordpress to reduce the clients bill.
We have coded clever solutions for customer using the power of the MariaDB that's built into Wordpress and some extra forms ,views and reports
They are stable
They are inexpensive
With a little thought they can be very powerful for automating clients businesses
It's fun
It's the design part of it that I struggle with. I haven't coded much HTML or CSS for a long time, but in order to brush up on it, I first need to figure out what it needs to look like. It just seems that with some sort of CMS I could do that much more quickly, and Wordpress is the one that my host supports.
I'll have a go with it, see how it goes. I can always just use it as a stop-gap until I find the time to do it myself.
I'll have a go with it, see how it goes. I can always just use it as a stop-gap until I find the time to do it myself.
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