Hello all,
I’m a long time Linux desktop user who has never set up a server or website before. I’m simply looking to host a wordpress blog on a nice and fast host with minimal effort on my part. It looks like there is an easy way to get wordpress up and running on DO. I see that DO is targeting developers, but for my application would DO be a good choice or would someone else like bluehost be easier?
Thanks, Adam
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Digital Ocean is great for WP, but your qualification of “minimal effort” means I have to answer, NO. There is a “one click” install for WP, but you still need to do security updates and generally know how to manage a server. I can almost guarantee you that at some point something will happen and YOU will have to figure it out. WP is like a big honeypot for problems… 80K lines of PHP…a database…a huge cottage industry of novice programers making crap plugins… oh the things that can go wrong. Get someone else to manage it unless you want to put in a lot of time learning. Best of luck!
I really appreciate the reply. Great point about the maintenance, I hadn’t thought of that. As much as I would love to learn all about managing the server, I’ve got two kids 2 years old and under so my extra time for this kind of ‘fun stuff’ is minimal these days. Cheers.
Hello, I have a question. I have a wordpress.com blog- yaALLAH.in. it has 22000 views daily. Now, I want to transfer this to my own via taking a server. My website data is not more than 500MBs right now and in future till 1 year it would not go beyond 1GB. It basically has text based articles with a very few pictures and no video. My question is that:
1.Would VPS would be the best choice for this wordpress.com blog? 2.Need something economical. 3. My aim is to put ads on this blog.
Thanks, Imran
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