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WordPress is as easy as websites get. My 70 year old father runs a handful of them. They are 1 click to install, and have a built in plugin system to add extra
by jermaustin1 4y ago
WordPress is as easy as websites get. My 70 year old father runs a handful of them. They are 1 click to install, and have a built in plugin system to add extra features.
Running WP is easy for the majority of users.
- TylerE 4y agoYes. Until gramps forgets to update and he gets owned by scriptkiddies...usually via a hole in one of those plugins.
- jermaustin1 4y agoHe pays $40/mo for all of his sites, and included in that is hourly backups rolling for multiple days, security audits, automatic updates, and the ability to lock down logins to a specific IP. In the 8 years of hosting with wordpress, he's been under constant automated attack, and never once has a site been compromised. I doubt that is because he is some super computer genius, and more likely its just that his host has a decent offering. But point still stands, if a host allows you to click a button to launch a wordpress site, that is still easy to do.
- Fuzzwah 4y agoThe difference in what people think of as "running a website" is at play in this conversation. Administering a website hosted by WordPress.com isn't the same level of difficulty as being an admin of a LAMP based website on bare metal.
- TylerE 4y agoOr (from personal experience helping multiple friends) running Wordpress on a commodity cpanel host.