Hosted Wordpress. Wordpress on a self-hosted server is a world of pain unless you're prepared to spend significant resources on optimising it and keeping it up

Hosted Wordpress. Wordpress on a self-hosted server is a world of pain unless you're prepared to spend significant resources on optimising it and keeping it up to date. And entertainingly, if you fail to keep it up to date the result is usually a rooted server, sooner or later. However, outsourcing the hosting to people who do WP and nothing else removes most of those headaches and makes it a very time-effective platform. Personally I use WP Engine for my hosting (I wrote about why over here: http://www.mmomeltingpot.com/2012/03/wpengine-review-after-1-month-and-250k-visitors-is-this-the-best-wordpress-hosting-money-can-buy/ http://www.mmomeltingpot.com/2012/03/wpengine-review-after-1...) but there's a lot of options out there.