Maybe 3 years ago I had several WordPress sites hosted on a HostGator reseller account. They were so slow it took about 30 seconds for a page to load. I moved on for a short time. Do not recall where I went. I gave them another try a couple years ago when they were offering 1/2 off on their reseller accounts. I've since moved to Drupal 7 which is much more resource intensive and without any caching my sites are reasonably fast. I think HG was sold several years ago and the new owners bought a lot of hardware and fixed a lot of the over selling issues. At this point I am not sure I can beat HG for $25 a month. I have had only two issues since returning. 1) There is a setup fee of $10 for SSH per domain, and 2) I have a friend on HG regular hosting and sometimes my emails do not reach his inbox - this is very very rare. Keith On 2016-03-23 16:01, David Schwartz wrote: > After some outfit named RegisterFly or something like that got > “acquired” by GD, I began using NameCheap as my main registrar. > They offer 1 year of privacy for free, then it’s a few bucks a year > after that. > > When NameSilo came along, they posted something here to get people to > try them out, and I liked what they offered. So I migrated my domains > over there. > > As for hosting, I had my own machine at a co-lo in town for several > years. After the HD died for the 3rd time, I decided it would be > cheaper to just get reseller hosting somewhere. So I got a reseller > account at HostGator. > > I was getting fed up with the declining quality of support at > HostGator, and last fall I was doing something where it was > recommended to get a VPS. > > So after many years with HG, I moved my reseller account over to a > VPS. Most of it was Wordpress sites. I typically set up one mailbox > per domain with a bunch of forwarders (to avoid a wildcard on the main > mailbox). > > Unfortunately, I discovered that there’s a downside to having a VPS: > shared server hosts implement lots of anti-hacker stuff that keeps out > a LARGE amount of riffraff. > > Over six months, every one of my WP sites got hacked. The hackers are > merciless in their onslaught. At one point my VPS locked up because it > was “out of disk space”. WTF? When I transferred everything over, > there was only 12 GB of disk used. After a month, it maxed-out at > 25GB. This was just a handful of WP sites with very little activity! > It seems spammers got into my email on several sites and started > pumping out spam emails. And for whatever reason, they didn’t get > sent, or deleted. So the VPS basically developed a bad case of > constipation due to overload of outbound email queues! About half a > million of them, according to my admin. Sheesh. > > In January, my VPS host shut down my email entirely because he said it > was exceeding email bounce rates and was putting the IP and some other > stuff at risk of getting blacklisted. > > That was it. I’d had enough. > > So I looked around and decided to move everything to a reseller > account at NameCheap. They’ve been in the hosting game for a while, > and they offer standard cPanel hosting among other options. I put in a > ticket and they moved everything over from the VPS to their server in > a few hours. Everything seems to have worked very smoothly. > > ——————————— > > Overall, I mainly to use my hosting for two things: WordPress and > email. > > So much is shifting over to hosted platforms that I’m finding less > and less need for my own hosting. > > I’ve got a few domains that I use for my main email, but over a > dozen that have email configured. I think they’re all just one > mailbox plus a bunch of forwarders. > > For many years, I’ve used a 3rd-party SMTP host for all outgoing > emails, which I started doing when I had my box on co-lo in order to > stop the hackers from using my machine to send out spam. (I disabled > the outgoing email.) > > I used DNSMadeEasy’s SMTP service for years. It started out at $8/yr > or so, and is now $29 or so. It’s limited to 500 outgoing emails per > day. > > But I recently found SendGrid, which is free for up to 12,000 emails > per month. So I switched over to that. > > I’d like to be able to ditch the hosting entirely, but as others > have pointed out, getting just standalone email support can cost more > than full hosting! > > (I have a small WHM reseller account on NameCheap that costs me > $16.95/mo for 25 cPanel accounts.) > > ———————————— > > Just today, NameCheap announced that they’re going into beta with a > Managed WordPress hosting that’s free for now. > > You can get into their beta by visiting: EasyWP.com > > They’re looking for feedback from people, and said they’ll offer a > lifetime subscription when it launches to people who participate in > their beta program. > > I dunno what that means in $$ terms, but hopefully it’ll be cheaper > than the other managed WP hosting solutions that are out there. > > BTW, NameCheap has 88-cent domains for a dozen popular TLDs right now, > and nice discounts on some others. > > -David "The Tool Wiz" Schwartz > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Keith Smith --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss