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In case other people with similar requirements look at this, I looked at a few of them, and found a few things that may be useful to know. Vultr currently has a $5 signup credit which means you can try a bottom end VPS free for a month. It also has free snapshot storage and nice UI. Very easy...

Just to clarify my opinion of Wordpress: Wordpress for blogs, or as a small site CMS, relying on WP core and themes that are themes, not plugins in disguise: good Wordpress with well known and well developed plugins, OK, but there is often/usually a better way of doing it. Wordpress with...

The claim I was responding to was "it runs most of the top sites in the world". The evidence so far is that it is not true. Wordpress is used by a small minority of the top 250 sites, and of those only wordpress.com and wordpress.org use it as their main platform. wordpress.com is not so much...

WHMCS is not one of the"top sites in the world", nor are the others.

@drmike I once once asked to add an enhancement to a website. I took one look at the code, and apart from the fact it was impossible to work with (I suspect a code generator had been used - or a LOT of copy and paste) it was full of security holes: Raw input used in SQL queries for every form on...

Can you name some of them? I have not heard of any real large sites run primarily on Wordpress (quite a few sites use it just for the blog). How many of these run on Wordpress http://www.alexa.com/topsites/global;0 ? The ones I have read about mostly use an in house developed platform or...

Perception, not reality. Not my experience. I do send documents that do not need editing as PDFs though - it looks more professional as well (I realised this when a broker used to send me their morning note as a PDF most days, but as a .doc when they were in a hurry, and the contrast made me...

The Knowhost package is a manage VPS, which makes AWS look even more expensive. AWS looks cheap at first glance, but it always turns out to be expensive by the time you pay the bills.

This is a bit off topic, but I cannot let this go with out replying Considered incorrectly. For one thing, Linux is a lot easier to keep secure. It also had a lot of user friendly features that Windows and MacOS later copied (such as "App stores") and most Linxux package managers are still...

@HalfEatenPie I have been using Wordpress for 10 years - as a blogging platform. I used to like it and wrote themes and plugins for it (even some other people use). I am now happy to use it for blogging but I no longer customise it or develop on it. I also harden it. My point is that the main...

The main reason people use Wordpress is because it has all those themes and plugins. If you limit yourself to just the Wordpress and a handful of plugins and themes you  know are well coded then you cannot use it for a lot of the sites it is used for.   The Windows excuse. The number of...

An industry outsiders view, so based only looking at demand and techology, not the dynamics of the business: A lot more container hosting - Docker in the short run, probably more technologies in the long run. A lot more cloud hosting. Scalability in particular. Shut down, store at lower cost...

True high availability with no single point of failure will be out of that price range or a lot of work to set up. Have you looked at PHP cloud hosts? I think you are going to have to make some trade offs between cost, ease of set up and availability. If you can compromise to "better than the...

Yes, you can get servers at OVH prices, but there seems to be noone who offers a comparable product at the same price - a comment above said online.net suffers network congestion, hardly anyone else has DDOS protection, etc. Even if you ignore DDOS protection, there are few competitors and all...

Who competes with OVH on price? Online.net is also French which is a bit suspicious as far as the State aid goes unless. Hertzner is German and seems competitive BUT does not offer the DDOS protection (and from what I have read are not very helpful if you suffer a DDOS). Who else is there?

Why not use  multiple providers instead?

Thanks for the answers, just what I need to know. The context, in my case, is this. I am planning to get a low end dedicated server (or possibly a big VPS) to host my own sites, and some clients' sites. Those clients coming from shared hosting will need new email arrangements (and one who now...

Making comments like that would get you arrested in some places.....

@drmike just how much work is running a mail server? Web servers can pretty much be configured and then only touched when you change something. I assume mail servers need more than that? I am thinking of setting one up, but it would need to handle multiple domains and dozens of users (no mailing...

Have disallowed root logins over ssh? Some people advocate ssh key logins for security, but make sure private keys require a pass phrase to unlock because of the risk of someone stealing the keys from your PC. If you want to learn Linux, run it on your desktop as well, preferably the same...