[TriLUG] WordPress hosting question

Thomas Delrue via TriLUG trilug at trilug.org
Tue Sep 15 12:38:50 EDT 2020


On 9/15/20 10:33 AM, Cristóbal Palmer wrote:
> [...snip...]
> 
> I think you're going to have to clarify "lack of the need to host the
> full domain" for folks. Do you mean you have www.example.org that
> you'll continue to manage, but you want to host blog.example.org with
> this managed service provider? Or do you mean something else?

Yes, this is correct

> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 8:59 AM Thomas Delrue via TriLUG
> <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>>
>> I know this isn't purely Linux related, but I figured I'd run this
>> question past the collective mind here anyway:
>>
>> Does anyone have any solid recommendations and good experiences for
>> managed wordpress hosting? The requirements are:
>> - high availability (obviously)
>> - Ability to talk to the backing database directly as well (in order to
>> migrate content from other, non-wordpress site into the new wordpress site)
>> - Lack of the need to host the full domain with them as well
>>
>> I'm eager to hear the recommendations!
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> P.S.: The "rough" answer is to "Why don't you host it yourself?" is
>> "Because that's not what our org does, we just need the site to work and
>> don't want to have to think about keeping a wordpress server up and
>> running. We're fine paying someone else to babysit that server and keep
>> it online."
>>
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