Pluggers, I've been hosting my own WordPress sites for seven years or so now, and the reality is that my sites are just running too slow. I'm using a virtual shared server on media Temple. Admittedly I'm paying $20 a month, so I don't expect best in class performance, but I have to do something different.
I can move my sites to WordPress.com and for the same price per month, get much better performance, it appears… However, with much less flexibility and I can't customize anything other than stylesheets. Before making the leap, I wonder if there something smarter I should do? Is there a better shared server setup that you can think of? Is there something more advanced in the area of $60 or $80 a month? Or am I looking at $300 or $500 a month for something beefy enough to give me reasonable performance? I'm already using some (I think) good caching, as well as a fairly extensive edge CDN media/static file distribution set up leveraging AWS. I'm not opposed to a little learning curve and elbow grease. I'm not a hacker, but I'm more advanced than your average Joe. I know PHP, minimal perl and py, JavaScript, databases, the basic web technologies, I can SFTP and chmod files, mess w DNS zone files, and have minimal but passing capability with .htaccess and the like... but admittedly until a few years ago I thought "Sudo" was a line from a Phil Collins song. Thoughts? Lost cause? Bite the bullet? -- Robert Merrill http://connectedwell.com /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
