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WordPress Hosting - Lets Get Serious!

by breezynetworks
19 replies
Hey guys!

So my blog has started to get between 3k and 6k hits per day and I have officially decided to commit to my niche and really get further involved in my niche community. I look at this venture to be something that I can use to eventually quit my full time job and thus want to only use the best platform to deliver my content to the masses.

I have decided that I must keep my page load times below 3 seconds for these hosts. I would appreciate your opinion on the following:

WordPress Hosting for 3k to 6k per month:

I have identified the following companies to be the best of the best (suggestions welcome!). I have not tested their speed, but reviews look good.

Code:
 
http://wpengine.com/
http://websynthesis.com/
https://page.ly/
What is your preferred option and why? Is the price justified? What are the speeds like and do you also make sure of a CDN?

Secondly, I wish to purchase Genesis and the "magazine" template. If anyone knows how I can get a discount for the following theme, I would appreciate it very much!

Code:
http://my.studiopress.com/themes/magazine/
Thanks guys, any input would be great and feel free to recommend other hosts, keeping in mind my traffic requirement and speed requirement.

Cheers!

EDIT: I have been told that if you hold the developer licence for Genesis framework and their child themes you are allowed to install it on websites that you sell. If you would like to install the framework and the magazine theme on my website for a fee, please contact me I don't need the Genesis support forum or anything.
#hosting #serious #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author breezynetworks
    Still waiting for any suggestions. Sorry for the self bump but I would really like some advice please
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  • Profile picture of the author rising_sun
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    Verify the company as possible for you,
    you should give priority on bandwidth because of your target (3 sec download),
    By the way I have seen your second link means that magazine theme,but I am not clear what you actually wanna talk about it.Please make it clear and will be better for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author vdek
    The theme is only $80, if you are getting serious with this than $80 is a drop in the bucket, consider it an investment.

    Anyways, do you mean 3k-6k/month or 3k-6k/day? Because you mention both in your post...

    I'm running with namecheap business class hosting on my page, mainly because I'm targeting sub 0.5sec download time and I'm intending to scale up to at least 10k Visitors/day... Costs me $32/month for it though...
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  • Profile picture of the author SeoTank
    where is your target audience

    you can use a tool called Website Hosting Search Tool, Reviews & More at WhoIsHostingThis.com to find where a site is hosting at

    johnchow.com and go to the footer
    he is hosted at hostgator and maxcdn
    How Much Does It Cost To Run John Chow dot Com?

    shoemoney.com - hostgator
    Now Powered By HostGator - ShoeMoney Internet Marketing Blog

    smartpassiveincome.com - servint
    My Monthly Income Report – November 2012

    you dont' need to pay anywhere near the amount the 3 guys above do, im sure the hosters offer lesser plans.

    I personally have a VPS & dedicated with liquidweb and using maxcdn
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    • Profile picture of the author Marketer Matt
      I use WPEngine and I haven't had any issues... then again I've barely had any issues with HostGator either when my site was hosted there getting 3k-4k visitors a month.

      I went with WP Engine and am happy with it, for whatever that's worth. They at least take the headache out of setting up caching on your site, and their support has been pretty good.
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  • Profile picture of the author trevord92
    Whichever theme and host, make sure your site is cached with a plugin like WP Super Cache.

    That way the overhead delivering the pages is reduced which helps page load time.
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  • Profile picture of the author andrej
    I'm using Bluehost so host my Wordpress websites and am fine with them already 4 years - no any problems. They are also recommended as the #1 WP hosting provider by wordpress.org.
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  • Profile picture of the author Wayne
    I just dropped Bluehost. Had their standard account, but the server load was always in the double digits. So I upgraded to their pro plan for $25 per month thinking the server load would be better, but it was still constantly in the double digits, many times in the 30s and 40s, noticed a couple of times it even jumped to over 100. I have switched to a cheaper host, Siteground, and everything seems to be much faster.
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  • Profile picture of the author sunray
    If your Wordpress site uses the usual amount of plugins, and does not use cache, then 3000 hits a day already requires VPN.
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    • Profile picture of the author drtanz
      Check out this review of WP Engine on WP Mayor, they are one of the best, if not the leading managed hosting providers for such kind of traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author trevord92
    Before you change hosts, have you installed WP Super Cache or a similar plugin to help deliver your pages faster?
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  • Profile picture of the author TurnRush
    I use WPEngine, its great, fast, easy.

    One disadvantage is that they block some plugins they don't like and remove them automatically. You have not all the freedom you have on a vps or dedicated hosting ect..
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  • Profile picture of the author rondo
    Look into managed vps hosting plans untill you need a dedicated server. Costs for a vps are about $40 per month, eg Best VPS Hosting Deals - Web Hosting Diary - Best Web Hosting Deals


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  • Profile picture of the author napoleonfirst
    Well, I have been using Hostgator for quite some time and I feel very satisfied with their service. There is also a plugin that will help you load your pages faster and it is WP Super cache.
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  • Profile picture of the author James_Harkin
    For Wordpress there's still no better than Hostgator. I host some websites as charity work, to give back to those who have provided so much and some of the sites generate quite a bit of traffic. For example last month a site I host for a pastor generated over 64,000 visits (3.2M hits) and in one day we had 6,000 visits (400k hits) just to that site ... the shared hosting I have with Hostgator didn't blink ... worked perfectly... However, I probably wouldn't hammer shared hosting at 6,000 visits a day every day ... but 1,000-1,500 visits (75k hits) a day on average it is absolutely fine.

    Regards...

    James...
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  • Profile picture of the author onegoodman
    I would google it, there are dedicated sites for review wordpress hostings
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  • Profile picture of the author Weblover50
    Out of these, one of my clients have hosted with WP engine and I have only positive feedback about them. Whether it is worth the premium, it depends on you. If you don't really need help from Host in wordpress related issues, a normal shared hosting will be good enough. But they do provide better hosting compared to usual oversellers, so if you want great hosting and don't mind the premium, go ahead.
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  • Profile picture of the author breezynetworks
    Hey guys! Thanks for all the comments. I actually went with Synthesis and I find their support and quality absolutely amazing! Getting a free copy of the Genesis framework on their WordPress hosting was also an awesome bonus. After a little tweaking, I have managed to reduce my average page load speed to under 2 seconds, even though I have a number of pictures and sometimes over 20 comments per page. Just giving an update incase someone else is looking for a quality hosting company
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  • Profile picture of the author TopicSpan
    If you really want to lower your page load then use a low-level page cacher such as Varnish (if you can set it up to use your sess ID correctly) or our easy to configure UltraCache. The thing with W3C supercache is it does a GREAT job on the JS/CSS minification and many other things, but it's the wrong choice for full-page caching. Why? Because by the time W3C supercache is polled to check if a cached file is available, WP has already initiated the DB components and read config and includes and classes off disk. UltraCache steps in before WordPress is initialised, and is able to serve up static, cached HTML to the end-user.
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