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PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

It’ll be vastly cheaper and easier to just get hosting somewhere.

Wordpress hosting is fine for most small businesses and starts at about $10/mo. You can go fancier and more reliable and go up to $30/mo or something, or if you really need your own VPS you can go with Vultr or Hostinger and get a pretty similar price range for pretty much whatever you want to do.

I think the only reason to self-host is if you have some crazy special hardware or legal issue, or your own dev stuff that you don’t want/need to push to “the cloud” to put it online. Otherwise it’s such a buyer’s-choice market that it’s hard to justify.

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Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Yeah… and unless you really, really enjoy configuring your own stuff and tinkering, a hosting service is much easier.

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- PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yeah. I’ve run plenty of services from a computer sitting in someone’s office, or in my living room, while they’re in-production-while-in-development. Sometimes it makes sense. But it’s just not something you want to deliberately aim for as the solution. What if the power goes out? What if your motherboard dies? What if the toilet overflows when you’re not there, and floods the place?
  
  Just get a dedicated service and pay them their $10/month and have them worry about all that crap for you.
  
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harsh3466@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
FWIW, it might be better to avoid wordpress hosting UNLESS you go with hosting from wordpress.com, since there’s kind of an all out war in the wordpress world right now and the fallout to people who just want their websites to work is unknown.

The tl;dr is that Matt Mullenweg, wordpress founder and owner/CEO of Automattic (which is the company that runs wordpress.com), has engaged in a Trumpish crazy war with wordpress hosting engine WPEngine, and in doing so has arbitrarily (in the name of his war) been doing crazy shit with the open source wordpress project.

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- PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yes yes this is a very good point, stay well clear of Wordpress.com, Automattic, or any similar nonsense. All I meant by “Wordpress hosting” was managed hosting from some third-party place like Bluehost or Hostinger. The software is fine, it’s all open source and the worst that will happen is 6 months from now, it’s not getting a lot of feature updates because the core company that was making it has imploded completely, and someone from the community has taken over security updates.
  
  But yes you need to stay clear of the clusterfuck while it’s going on. Don’t use Wordpress.com or anything adjacent to it.
  
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  - harsh3466@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Mullenweg owns wordpress.com. It’s arguably the only safe place to host WordPress since it’s his company and while he seems willing to burn all goodwill down to the ground for wordpress open source, hes (probably) not going to burn his own company and cash cow to the ground.
    
    I mean, it’s not a great option, and I may be stupid for saying that, but that was my reasoning for saying so.
    
    TBH, I’d just host it myself if I was going to do it.
    
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    PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yeah but why would the company run by the crazy person be the only safe place?
    
    It’s open source. Just find a different host that isn’t run by a known unstable human. Literally any other. That would be my feeling on it, at least.
    
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