New blog hosting
by havoc
I’m trying out WPEngine instead of self-managed EC2 since my self-managed uptime stats were pretty bad.
Let me know if anything about the blog is more broken than it was before.
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WPEngine is……kinda overpriced junk.
If you know better “full service” wordpress hosting by all means share!
It solves a real problem for me (my EC2 micro instance was always locking up, didn’t have enough memory/CPU, and I didn’t keep up with security patches adequately). And it costs about the same as EC2+staticIP+persistent volume.
Spending time on sysadmin crap to save a few bucks is stupid for me to do.
wordpress.com is the obvious alternative but it’s a pretty different offering so hard to compare on price alone.
Just wondering why you’re not using wordpress.com … its free unless you want your own domain with it
last I looked they had restrictions like no ads, only certain plugins, stuff like that. and I do have my own domain of course. but mostly I just didn’t bother with an exhaustive research project, I read some positive stuff about wpengine and tried it and it seemed to work.