When you are on a cheap vhost you are sharing the server with upwards of 800 other vhosts.
I worked for two of the largest hosting companies in the world. That was 10 years ago and some things have changed. One company did things right. They separated HTTP, Data, and Mail onto separate servers (clusters). The other company used WHM and Cpanel and all services were confined to each box. They loaded upwards of 800 vhost on one server and would load the HD to 85% of capacity. And they did a lot of business that way. I'm a LAMP developer and am using WordPress for several of my websites. I do my dev using an old HP laptop running a single core AMD with 3GB of RAM. It is my dev server. WordPress runs just fine on it. About a year ago I was hosting using a HostGator reseller account. My websites slowed to a crawl. I contacted HG and they told me it was my plugins. I told him my background and that my assessment was the server was overloaded. My issue was sent to level 2 and sure enough it was an overloaded server. So at that point I decided to do my own hosting. I upgraded my Internet connection and with some help from a friend got an old duo core working. I am not a full fledged sys admin so I needed help. That box has been providing for several of my WP websites for almost a year. The same guy who helped configure the box brought up a good point. He says he has several PHP/MySql websites that run just fine on his reseller account (not at HG) while his WP site is extremely sluggish. Last year we did a test on a Virtual Server with one core and 512MB of RAM. We loaded the stock version of WP on that VPS and it ran just fine. No doubt WP requires more resources than a simple homegrown PHP/MySql app. WP is doing a lot of stuff. It makes it easy to extend by using plugins and widgets. To do so requires a lot of infrastructure. That takes up more resources. I would argue that WP if properly configured should not be a resource hog and any vhost that will not provide enough resources to run WP is one you should avoid. You are leveraging tons of other peoples work. btw a dedicated server in a decent data center should not run $300. You sould be able to get a managed server for around $125/mo. If you want more info contact me off list. In reality you should be able to run a decent WP site on a $40 VPS all day long. I would like to hear any opposing opinion. I'm here to learn. ------------------------ Keith Smith On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 1:41 PM, John Shaver <[email protected]> wrote: My experience working at bluehost was similar, however I don't blame Wordpress (necessarily). Most of those hacked Wordpress sites had not updated Wordpress in a very long time and were several versions behind. Others usually had Wordpress plugins that hadn't been updated in ages. Also, the reason you saw more Wordpress sites hacked than Drupal or Joomla was likely more related to the sheer number of Wordpress sites that bluehost hosts. I'm not saying that wordpress doesn't have it's security issues, but it is sufficient for most people(assuming that they are keeping updated). Also, wordpress makes it extremely easy to see that updates are available and to install the updates. -John On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Merrill Oveson <[email protected]> wrote: > If you know php & html, then I'd recode using those. > > Wordpress is a hacker's paradise. > > When I worked tech support at BlueHost, every evening someone would call > with a hacked CMS (Content Management System) > either Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla. Wordpress by the way was the worse. > > I'm not surprised that it's running slow. > > > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Robert Merrill <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > 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. > > */ > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
