And I know AWS is the kingpin of cloud servers these days, but I try to
avoid it like the plague. The AWS admin console is just a nightmare to
navigate, and there are literally over a hundred different-named AWS
services that all overlap, making it extremely hard to tell what you want
to do.

Joshua Welker
Library Systems and Discovery Coordinator
James C. Kirkpatrick Library
University of Central Missouri
Warrensburg, MO 64093
JCKL 2260
660.543.8022



On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 10:50 AM Josh Welker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> If you are able to manage your own server with basic Linux sysadmin
> skills, I've had decent experiences with Digital Ocean, Linode, and Vultr,
> with Vultr currently being the cheapest option last I checked.
>
> If you want managed hosting, I have done freelance work for a bunch of
> clients who use Kinsta and have been fairly impressed with that platform. I
> agree with Chris above: avoid Bluehost. Godaddy is also very overrated.
> Wordpress.com is good except my understanding is that they only allow
> plugins and themes from a whitelist. If you want something outside of that,
> you are out of luck. That's a dealbreaker for me.
>
> Joshua Welker
> Library Systems and Discovery Coordinator
> James C. Kirkpatrick Library
> University of Central Missouri
> Warrensburg, MO 64093
> JCKL 2260
> 660.543.8022
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 10:22 AM Chuck McAndrew <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Andrew,
>> Have you considered moving it to wordpress.com? I have been pretty
>> pleased
>> with them. You get to run your site, but they take care of updates etc.
>> Makes running a wordpress site pretty easy and they are fairly
>> inexpensive.
>> Chuck McAndrew
>> IT Librarian
>> Lebanon Public Libraries
>> Lebanon NH
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 12:46 PM Andrew L Hickner <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Dear colleagues,
>> >
>> > We are exploring moving the Wordpress website for the local chapter of
>> our
>> > library association to managed hosting. I'd appreciate any advice and/or
>> > provider reviews you are willing to share, and would be happy to
>> summarize
>> > responses for the list if there is interest.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance for your help.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Andy Hickner, MSI
>> > Health Sciences Librarian
>> > Seton Hall University | Interprofessional Health Sciences Campus
>> > [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> | 1-973-542-6973
>> > http://library.shu.edu/ihs
>> >
>>
>>
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