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Specifically for Wordpress. I'm looking into WP Engine and hosting . com (Former A2 hosting).
What are some other options?
What are some other options?
What is the absolute fastest hosting out there?
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Ashk881
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The fastest is any self managed bare-metal vps. There's no management layer on those machines that will hog or throttle your website. Everything is yours. And there's plenty of memory on those bare-metal machines to handle millions of visitors easily.
They can be cheaper than the managed plans for similar traffic levels too, but you are responsible for your own backups, security, database and other infrastructure stuff.
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For speed - are you talking about latency? or hardware speed?
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Thank you, I'll take a look at those.
I'm not technical enough to go with bare metal stuff. I'm mainly looking at managed VPS and since the websites I manage do not generate huge traffic, that's is not a bottleneck for me.
I'm researching more in terms of connectivity and latency of the data centers. Do you think the management layer can affect the speed besides hogging resourses of the server?
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I'd recommend 10xservers . They have significant connectivity as far as I know to tier 1 ISPs.
Just curious on latency - what are you concerned about, if you,re making a wordpress site? Usually your assets will be cached by a CDN anyway?
nvlus
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I disagree. You absolutely need to have some sort of CDN in front of your website, otherwise page speed and Lighthouse scores will suffer.
Admin dashboard loading speed is not that important.
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also fully agree with this. while nice, admin dashboard speed is definitely not important as compared to actual page load speeds that users actually use
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i had almost 2 years i think of uptime on one site with a2. They are expensive though, but good service. I think hosting speeds are negligible between the main providers, though. Its not like they have a faster type of fibre optic cable or network card connection? I use now OVH and Tier, and I think they are pretty good. Tier are cheap and pretty stable. OVH has a power of API solutions regarding AI, GPU, and scraping facilities.
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You can get ionos for 7$ 1 site for 1 year. It's 12$ but before buying you subscribe to email and get a 5$ coupon.
But evey site you add after that is 12.5$ for ssl. Ssl is not free at ionos.
You cannot create multiple accounts they will not approve it. It's 1 per customer.
jennykumar
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depends how a server is optimized for handling wordpress. it also includes the CPU, PHP resources used for a single page query, (like if your wordpress post is not cached, it will require nearly 200 php scripts to execute to display a web page), RAM, opCache, object-cache (nearly 3K objects are put here on default wordpress installation), then comes the overall load on webserver (litespeed is better than ngnix or apache), the CPU clock speed (higher the better as php uses single thread, so a wordpress site hosted on 5Ghz CPU will finish loading a page faster than a 3.2Ghz CPU), all the number of users on a single node (normally small companies host around 400-500 wordpress or cpanel account on 1 node, big companies like a2, inmotion, godaddy, bluehost, hostgator, will put 1000 accounts). Last comes the network blend, latency, etc. ~ these all factors taken into consideration affect the loading speed of any wordpress site.
Now, going with managed wordpress like wpx, wp engine, pressable, kinsta, will give you a bit of benefit than shared/cloud hosting.
I'm running my wordpress site on ryzne cpu 5ghz, nvme disk, ram cache, apcu, opcode, object cache (redis), having 400 other wordpress sites hosted on node and my bill is $2 a month. becuase I'm using caching, static page is served, plus a cloudflare full page cache. So my CPU usage is 4% on average. I've got 2CPU core, 2GB RAM, of which 1GB is used by php scripts, object cache to store wordpress code/scripts/variables so they are pulled super-fast. So my rating is A+ 100 on gtmetrix.
Else, you can get a vps, specially ryzen than intel or any intel with high clock speed cpu, nvme storage, minium 3 cpu, 3gb ram, and install wordpress, and it is going to be blazing fast plus will save you money (kinsta, wp engine, pressable are too costly)
Now, going with managed wordpress like wpx, wp engine, pressable, kinsta, will give you a bit of benefit than shared/cloud hosting.
I'm running my wordpress site on ryzne cpu 5ghz, nvme disk, ram cache, apcu, opcode, object cache (redis), having 400 other wordpress sites hosted on node and my bill is $2 a month. becuase I'm using caching, static page is served, plus a cloudflare full page cache. So my CPU usage is 4% on average. I've got 2CPU core, 2GB RAM, of which 1GB is used by php scripts, object cache to store wordpress code/scripts/variables so they are pulled super-fast. So my rating is A+ 100 on gtmetrix.
Else, you can get a vps, specially ryzen than intel or any intel with high clock speed cpu, nvme storage, minium 3 cpu, 3gb ram, and install wordpress, and it is going to be blazing fast plus will save you money (kinsta, wp engine, pressable are too costly)
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How do you secure your box from hacking? What do you do for security?
jennykumar
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cloudflare WAF, plus wordpress firewall plugin.
since I'm also using imunify360.. that's enough.
plus I've blocked uploading files.
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Yeah, security is a nightmare. constant attacks by hackers They just scan the whole internet for weak boxes and take it over.
needtraffic24
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I am using Hostinger.
Hi, may I ask which VPS provider you're using for your setup? $2/month sounds incredibly efficient
If you ONLY need high-end performance for wordpress, WebHostMost.
If you need a good all rounder packed with features, Hostinger.
MynameisD
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A Gold hidden gem is Turbo Cloud from Brazil. They offer EXTREMELY fast server and for WP are super good. They have fast support even via WhatsApp. Without doubting it is the best by really far and the best part? Super cheap
Try it and thank me later
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Budget?
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$100 to 200 per month for a decent VPS.