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Congratulations on moving away from WordPress - but it sounds like the decision was made a little oddly. Taking a working WordPress install and a) moving it to

by e12e 4y ago

Congratulations on moving away from WordPress - but it sounds like the decision was made a little oddly. Taking a working WordPress install and a) moving it to a hosting provider (like WordPress.com), b) installing a modern theme - should be enough to solve most of the problems without the incidental complexity of changing to a new system? Any modern wp set-up should have great caching and performance? Of course, there are issues with wp that may make it worthwhile to move away - but costly hosting, outdated design or low performance shouldn't be among them?

mkysel 4y ago
Anecdotally, I can tell you that migrating to a new WP hosting provider takes more than 4 hours :). And at the end of the day, you still have to deal with WP. I would argue that if you want to make changes to a system, such as a migration, its the perfect time to rethink it.
- e12e 4y ago
  Actually I've seen cases where migrating was just backup-restore, change dns. Still doing that, and testing/verifying everything can certainly eat half a day. [ed: and note that dump>convert>manually fix>build as done here should be strictly more work than backup/restore - assuming little in the way of nearly plug-ins..]. > And at the end of the day, you still have to deal with WP. Certainly - I'm not saying one should not migrate away from wp - just be sure you make an informed choice... I just now saw this bit in the original article: > The cost of a properly hosted server, combined with the need for a distributed database (...) I'm not sure what "distributed database" means here - but I'm quite certain wp and mariadb/postgres will run fine together on a 5 dollar vps - if something like Dreamhost isn't attractive for some reason. That said - i too would much prefer something like github pages for a blog.

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Congratulations on moving away from WordPress - but it sounds like the decision was made a little oddly. Taking a working WordPress install and a) moving it to

by e12e 4y ago

mkysel 4y ago
Anecdotally, I can tell you that migrating to a new WP hosting provider takes more than 4 hours :). And at the end of the day, you still have to deal with WP. I would argue that if you want to make changes to a system, such as a migration, its the perfect time to rethink it.
- e12e 4y ago
  Actually I've seen cases where migrating was just backup-restore, change dns. Still doing that, and testing/verifying everything can certainly eat half a day. [ed: and note that dump>convert>manually fix>build as done here should be strictly more work than backup/restore - assuming little in the way of nearly plug-ins..]. > And at the end of the day, you still have to deal with WP. Certainly - I'm not saying one should not migrate away from wp - just be sure you make an informed choice... I just now saw this bit in the original article: > The cost of a properly hosted server, combined with the need for a distributed database (...) I'm not sure what "distributed database" means here - but I'm quite certain wp and mariadb/postgres will run fine together on a 5 dollar vps - if something like Dreamhost isn't attractive for some reason. That said - i too would much prefer something like github pages for a blog.