On 2023-04-03 13:57, Shaun Anderson wrote: > My wife and I host a wordpress site on Bluehost and it's been a > dumpster fire. Once the season is over in the spring we're going to > rehost somewhere else but my opinion on BH has definitely soured. I > can't speak for general hosting, but the hosted Wordpress has been > awful. > > It was "hacked" (Crappy php scripts dumped that were easily cleaned > up) and they said you need to buy the Sitelock protection. OK...we > bought the protection package. Weeks later it happened again. I > logged into the console and they removed it for some reason. I get > the sense that support is just a queue of people grabbing questions > and answering them in whatever way they know how. There is no > continuity from case to case so each call is spent trying to explain > to them why their people chose to solve the last problem the way they > did. Our staging site has been unusable since we started with them, > the site went down and we finally got someone to admit that the > physical host we were on went down despite several people assuring us > it was on our end and not theirs, I could go on.... > > I know enough now about wordpress that I'll probably move to Lightsail > or GoDaddy or something. But Bluehost is definitely out for me. > > My .02 > > -Shaun Thank You So Much For The Feedback!! > > On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 1:48 PM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss > wrote: > >> I am looking at cheap shared hosting providers. >> >> I found two so far... Bluehost and HostGator. >> >> I used Hostgator in the past and it was good and then really bad, >> and it >> has been a while. I eventually moved on. I have not used Bluehost >> and >> the reviews are mixed. >> >> I have three requirements: >> >> 1) must have a control panel. >> 2) must have ssh access. Not sure this is really necessary because, >> off >> the top of my head, all I need is to be able to edit the .htaccess >> file >> which I can do local and FTP up... or the control panel might have a >> >> built in editor. I probably need access to SSH so I can set file >> permissions. >> 3) must be highly discounted when buying in bulk. >> >> Any other cheap hosting providers you would recommend? >> >> Your thoughts? >> >> Thanks!! >> >> Keith >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss