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When I hear things like "Wordpress Powers 85% of websites", I wonder how many of them are running on a $5/month shared host
by bluedino 7y ago
When I hear things like "Wordpress Powers 85% of websites", I wonder how many of them are running on a $5/month shared host
- codegeek 7y agoI would say at least 50% out of those 85% (educated guess). The reason WordPress is popular because literally anyone can start a blog or website with it relatively quickly on one of those cheap shared hosts. And thats why the volume.
- antoineMoPa 7y agoYou can handle a surprising amount of traffic with a $5/month Linode.
- mobilio 7y agoYou even can run WP on free shared hosting on services like AwardSpace: https://www.awardspace.com/ https://www.awardspace.com/
- wastedhours 7y agoBack in the late 00s I probably had about 5 installs on one £2.50/month shared host. Granted, not getting any substantial traffic (and more to test WP after my hacky self-built PHP CMS from before). cPanel > Install on a lot of shared hosting accounts made it insanely easy.
- markosaric 7y agoI wouldn't be surprised it's way more than 50% of them. My one is on something like $3/month too. And depending on the design theme you choose (there are huge differences in terms of performance from theme to theme) and as long as you activate a caching plugin, it can easily handle substantial amount of traffic too (such as being on the top of Hacker News for a few hours etc).