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If I were in your shoes, I'd move to Kinsta[0], Pressable[1], or some other reputable managed WordPress host. Most hosting providers should have pricing between

If I were in your shoes, I'd move to Kinsta[0], Pressable[1], or some other reputable managed WordPress host. Most hosting providers should have pricing between $50 and $100/month for a site with that amount of traffic. If you want to save some money, you might go with SpinupWP[2] and hook that up to a VPS. It's a bit more sysadmin-ish than managed hosting, but performs very well. [0] https://kinsta.com/ https://kinsta.com/ [1] https://pressable.com/ https://pressable.com/ Disclosure: I work for their parent company, Automattic. [2] https://spinupwp.com/ https://spinupwp.com/

jhabdas 6y ago
I'll check these out but I disagree visitor count should have much bearing on cost for a mostly presentational site. Pantheon took away the Redis object cache I installed on that site when they bumped it from $25 to $40—like planned obsolescence. I'd rather self-host with Plesk or on K8s before ever paying $50–100 for something I know I could probably run myself on a $5–10 VPS.[0] [0]: https://habd.as/talk/screaming-fast-wordpress-sites/ https://habd.as/talk/screaming-fast-wordpress-sites/
- aheckler 6y ago
  > I disagree visitor count should have much bearing on cost for a mostly presentational site. Well, yes, I didn't say that it should. :) I just mentioned it because a lot of WordPress hosts (including Kinsta and Pressable) use monthly visitor count as a sort of proxy for resource usage, and therefore as a basis for your plan's monthly cost. If you want something super cheap and don't mind putting some time into the setup, I'd follow SpinupWP's setup guide[0]. It basically shows you how to manually do what their paid service does for you: configure a bare VPS to be a high-performance WordPress server. Your total cost would whatever VPS you need, plus additional time for maintenance, updates, etc. that a managed host would normally take care of. You might also need to pay for an external email service, e.g. Postmark or Amazon SES. [0] https://spinupwp.com/hosting-wordpress-setup-secure-virtual-server/ https://spinupwp.com/hosting-wordpress-setup-secure-virtual-...

jhabdas 6y ago

I'll check these out but I disagree visitor count should have much bearing on cost for a mostly presentational site. Pantheon took away the Redis object cache I installed on that site when they bumped it from $25 to $40—like planned obsolescence. I'd rather self-host with Plesk or on K8s before ever paying $50–100 for something I know I could probably run myself on a $5–10 VPS.[0] [0]: https://habd.as/talk/screaming-fast-wordpress-sites/ https://habd.as/talk/screaming-fast-wordpress-sites/

aheckler 6y ago
> I disagree visitor count should have much bearing on cost for a mostly presentational site. Well, yes, I didn't say that it should. :) I just mentioned it because a lot of WordPress hosts (including Kinsta and Pressable) use monthly visitor count as a sort of proxy for resource usage, and therefore as a basis for your plan's monthly cost. If you want something super cheap and don't mind putting some time into the setup, I'd follow SpinupWP's setup guide[0]. It basically shows you how to manually do what their paid service does for you: configure a bare VPS to be a high-performance WordPress server. Your total cost would whatever VPS you need, plus additional time for maintenance, updates, etc. that a managed host would normally take care of. You might also need to pay for an external email service, e.g. Postmark or Amazon SES. [0] https://spinupwp.com/hosting-wordpress-setup-secure-virtual-server/ https://spinupwp.com/hosting-wordpress-setup-secure-virtual-...