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It looks it could be served pretty easily as a static site for very little cost. I try to use WP2Static whenever possible. It's a plugin that crawls the WordPre
by john-shaffer 6y ago
It looks it could be served pretty easily as a static site for very little cost. I try to use WP2Static whenever possible. It's a plugin that crawls the WordPress site and deploys a static version to a server of your choice, like S3/CloudFront or Netlify.
If you're the only person who accesses it, you can run the WordPress instance locally in Docker via https://lokl.dev/ https://lokl.dev/ and pay only for the static site costs, which are usually laughably small. If you want managed hosting, there are proprietary options like HardyPess and Strattic. Or you can use any commodity host and install WP2Static. I'm developing a low-cost ($10-15/mo) WP2Static-based hosting service at https://app.staticweb.io https://app.staticweb.io that should be very easy to get started with, but we haven't quite gotten ready to launch yet. The servers work great, but we don't yet have a support ticket system set up. If you want to try it and need support, you can just email me at john@app.staticweb.io without the "app.". Even if you don't try it, feel free to email with any questions about WP2Static.
The only hitch is that the site seems very large. Some people report slowness with WP2Static crawls, but all the sites I've tried have been fine, so YMMV. I've done some work in an addon[0] to support incremental crawling, but it needs a bit more love to make sure it's reliable. I lack a slow site to test it on and fine-tune it.
[0] https://github.com/leonstafford/wp2static-addon-advanced-crawling https://github.com/leonstafford/wp2static-addon-advanced-cra...
- jhabdas 6y agoTIL Lokl. Only ten stars yet but a nice concept for sure. Thanks for the knowledge drop John. If moving back to static is in the cards, I may take you up on your offer. Cheers.
- koreanguy 6y agoyou said " I'm developing a low-cost ($10-15/mo)" but on your website below the cost is insane. from your website $250 Per Month 1 Website Weekly Blog Posts Weekly Social Posts SEC Compliance Accessibility Compliance Privacy Compliance Annual Website Facelift 24/7 Support alternative to your website would be just to use HTTrack, and copy your site and host on skynet or pinata.cloud for completely $free
- john-shaffer 6y agoThat $250 plan is specifically for Registered Investment Advisor websites which are heavily regulated and have special requirements. We haven't officially launched yet and haven't published the final plans, but the basic plan for normal websites will be around $10-15/mo. You can certainly use HTTrack or just set up WP2Static yourself. https://statically.io/ https://statically.io/ is very nice too. If the website is managed by only a single person who has technical skills, then I would recommend WP2Static on https://lokl.dev https://lokl.dev. You can probably deploy for free to Netlify or AWS free tier. But if you need access by multiple people, convenience, or any kind of support, then our service can be very valuable. I would really like to have a stupidly low cost plan that would just be a no-brainer to use all the time, but unfortunately the way WordPress is designed makes it extraordinarily difficult to bring costs down enough. Each site has to be a separate WordPress instance, and we can't host WordPress instances for free. We are considering having a free deployment option for people that just want to run WordPress locally.