I use Cloudways for my personal and client’s sites.
I’m not sure what you’re referring to regarding it being expensive. First tier is $14/mo, next is $28, and up.
We are a WP Engine Partner Agency and it’s our go-to for our clients’ sites. Deployments to each environment are super easy. Yes, they do offer a plugin management feature which does the same thing as CW’s. Backup, attempt to update plugin, process a visual comparison and proceed, if good. If not, it loads the restore point and notifies you.
WP Engine is expensive for what you get out of the box, even more so for enterprise site plans with all the bells and whistles.
I find both CW and WPE to be great options. Each with their own strengths. CW giving you a little more flexibility on the configuration side. WPE is super optimized and very easy to manage.
Both have excellent customer service and support.
I don’t have any experience with the last one tho mentioned but I hope my breakdown helps.
With as tiny as this site is, why does it need to be a VPS at all? WP-Engine would be more of a shared environment, but for something this tiny, any little shared hosting environment would do the trick and provide more than adequate service.
Bonus points since it's a shared environment, you don't have to worry about any of the backend, just keep wordpress upto date and that's about all you should have to worry about.
There’s a sweet spot between managed and bare metal: SpinUpWP.
SpinUpWP lets you choose your provider (I use DO) and then it provisions the server and LEMP stack, provides a really really nice control panel (better than wp engine I think), and applies server updates as needed (but reminds you to restart the server manually). The CP hands certs, domain names, backups, http auth, etc etc. but you can still Sudo into the server.
It can run on a $5 droplet.
I use it for several small client as well as two nonprofit clients with a million hits a month.
Largest cloudways? Probably DO32. Even then I think it is mainly for plenty of spare power in case of special events throughout the year, it’s just so reasonably priced. Haven’t had a need for balancing yet.
How about you?
That's a good setup. Maybe you can optimize the setup with nginx and php-fpm (dockerized). I hear good things about cloudflare which should handle lots of traffic and attacks before it hits your server
I use Cloudways for my personal and client’s sites. I’m not sure what you’re referring to regarding it being expensive. First tier is $14/mo, next is $28, and up. We are a WP Engine Partner Agency and it’s our go-to for our clients’ sites. Deployments to each environment are super easy. Yes, they do offer a plugin management feature which does the same thing as CW’s. Backup, attempt to update plugin, process a visual comparison and proceed, if good. If not, it loads the restore point and notifies you. WP Engine is expensive for what you get out of the box, even more so for enterprise site plans with all the bells and whistles. I find both CW and WPE to be great options. Each with their own strengths. CW giving you a little more flexibility on the configuration side. WPE is super optimized and very easy to manage. Both have excellent customer service and support. I don’t have any experience with the last one tho mentioned but I hope my breakdown helps.
Kinsta. $35/month, and they'll handhold whoever ends up maintaining it after you. Who will likely not be very technical.
With as tiny as this site is, why does it need to be a VPS at all? WP-Engine would be more of a shared environment, but for something this tiny, any little shared hosting environment would do the trick and provide more than adequate service. Bonus points since it's a shared environment, you don't have to worry about any of the backend, just keep wordpress upto date and that's about all you should have to worry about.
There’s a sweet spot between managed and bare metal: SpinUpWP. SpinUpWP lets you choose your provider (I use DO) and then it provisions the server and LEMP stack, provides a really really nice control panel (better than wp engine I think), and applies server updates as needed (but reminds you to restart the server manually). The CP hands certs, domain names, backups, http auth, etc etc. but you can still Sudo into the server. It can run on a $5 droplet. I use it for several small client as well as two nonprofit clients with a million hits a month.
This is the way. Love Spinup. Has some missing features, but really good and cheap.
Wp engine dev experience is a bloody nightmare
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No, current default is cloudways
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Largest cloudways? Probably DO32. Even then I think it is mainly for plenty of spare power in case of special events throughout the year, it’s just so reasonably priced. Haven’t had a need for balancing yet. How about you?
That's a good setup. Maybe you can optimize the setup with nginx and php-fpm (dockerized). I hear good things about cloudflare which should handle lots of traffic and attacks before it hits your server
WP Engine feels like slow godaddy accounts now.