Cloudways WordPress Hosting

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On Bits und so #434, we talked about how hard it is to run WordPress in a low-maintenance, foolproof way. The €2.45 bargain-bin LAMP hosting and the $2.50 VPS are both lousy options for the average blogger.

A possible middle ground, if you have to use WordPress: a provider such as Cloudways supplies a preconfigured image running WordPress tuned for performance and security, handles system updates automatically, and deploys the managed image to a cloud provider of your choice (DO, AWS, GCE).

Varnish sits in front of Apache and WordPress, memcached in front of MySQL, and nginx serves static content. This setup should take care of the worst slowness.

For small to medium-sized blogs, the all-in price is $5 or $15 per month—more or less just the DigitalOcean fee for the bare server. There are also images for wikis, shops, and other things besides WordPress.

I test-migrated this blog with all its posts and images. It took 30 minutes. If you’re reading this, it seems to have worked.

If you want to try it too, get a 14-day trial at Cloudways.