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given that wordpress.com is just managed hosting i wonder if other providers can bring that cost down. installing it yourself is trivial though because of Softa
by pitchlatte 2mo ago
given that wordpress.com is just managed hosting i wonder if other providers can bring that cost down. installing it yourself is trivial though because of Softaculous, and web hosting is much cheaper.
- drdexebtjl 2mo agoNot much with Wordpress’s architecture, I would guess. But if you’re writing a blog + CMS from scratch focusing on minimizing costs, you can definitely do it. Serving static text from a CDN cache is essentially free until you’re suffering from success. If you need a CMS, it can scale to zero when you’re not editing, so your only cost scales with the number of edits, not page views, and starts at $0. If you don’t need to edit/publish posts across multiple devices or from different authors, you can make the entire publishing workflow run locally on your device.
- gertop 2mo ago> Not much with Wordpress’s architecture, I would guess. There are literally thousands of PHP hosting providers. There are also dozens, possibly hundreds of deviated wordpress hosting services, aside from WordPress.com.
- drdexebtjl 2mo agoYour point being? These thousands of hosting providers all charge around $5 or more to host your Wordpress instance, because that’s what it actually costs to run Wordpress. A more modern CMS can bring costs down by serving pages from a CDN cache and, most importantly, selectively re-rendering only pages that changed. This is hard to do with Wordpress because plugins can essentially render anything and depend on any data.