Loved all the responses here - great discussion. Hopefully I will add
something
Virtual or non-virtual.
In my professional life I need non virtual. Yes, I use hundreds of gigs of
ram, all the cores, but more importantly to get the performance I need I
disable cstates, power throttling on the CPUs, I also pin processes to
individual CPU's to take better advantage of L2 cache, I completely mess
with how the kernel does networking, I require virtual hardware that
normally conflicts with hypervisors, I am very concerned with how NUMA is
handled, etc, etc, etc.
But this is because I support a cloud infrastructure. Otherwise I care
about word press and email and will never have enough traffic to warrant
$12K of hardware hooked up to a 1GB pipe. So small virtual slices are fine.
However I have also had issues with bad neighbors and over subscription. So
a GD Dedicated server eliminates that problem, despite it having a thin
virtual layer. That layer also provides a lot of advantages as mentioned
above. So unless I need to do the very low level hardware stuff I do as a
infrastructure provider it seems like a great option.
Like Keith mentioned I mostly require wordpress, email, calendar, direct
mysql databases, etc for my hosting needs. So for workspace like things
(Email, calendar, etc) I use google apps for domains because I was lucky
enough to be grandfathered in for free. Everything else is GoDaddy.
However when you look at something like WordPress you have a number of
options at GoDaddy. I can think of about 5 offerings that provide it. Some
are a shared [CPannel | Plesk] server, elastic grid hosting, [Dedicated |
Virtual Dedicated] servers, and of course managed wordpress.
I chose managed word press because I want some one else to pay attention to
security and to, quite frankly, make it easy for me.
https://www.godaddy.com/hosting/wordpress-hosting
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 4:01 PM, David Schwartz <
newsletters@thetoolwiz.com>
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
>
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