I built a website for a friend a few years ago called chicagoganghistory.com and hosted it on Pantheon. During that time they increased hosting costs once from $25 to $40 which – okay – but today I learned they want to bump his website from $40 to $450 per month or about 4x the ad revenue. I'm noting this here because I'm curious what alternatives people might suggest for hosting a one-man WordPress site with traffic in the 70-80K range. Suggestions?
It looks it could be served pretty easily as a static site for very little cost. I try to use WP2Static whenever possible. It's a plugin that crawls the WordPress site and deploys a static version to a server of your choice, like S3/CloudFront or Netlify.<p>If you're the only person who accesses it, you can run the WordPress instance locally in Docker via <a href="https://lokl.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://lokl.dev/</a> and pay only for the static site costs, which are usually laughably small. If you want managed hosting, there are proprietary options like HardyPess and Strattic. Or you can use any commodity host and install WP2Static. I'm developing a low-cost ($10-15/mo) WP2Static-based hosting service at <a href="https://app.staticweb.io" rel="nofollow">https://app.staticweb.io</a> that should be very easy to get started with, but we haven't quite gotten ready to launch yet. The servers work great, but we don't yet have a support ticket system set up. If you want to try it and need support, you can just email me at john@app.staticweb.io without the "app.". Even if you don't try it, feel free to email with any questions about WP2Static.<p>The only hitch is that the site seems very large. Some people report slowness with WP2Static crawls, but all the sites I've tried have been fine, so YMMV. I've done some work in an addon[0] to support incremental crawling, but it needs a bit more love to make sure it's reliable. I lack a slow site to test it on and fine-tune it.<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/leonstafford/wp2static-addon-advanced-crawling" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/leonstafford/wp2static-addon-advanced-cra...</a>
If I were in your shoes, I'd move to Kinsta[0], Pressable[1], or some other reputable managed WordPress host. Most hosting providers should have pricing between $50 and $100/month for a site with that amount of traffic.<p>If you want to save some money, you might go with SpinupWP[2] and hook that up to a VPS. It's a bit more sysadmin-ish than managed hosting, but performs very well.<p>[0] <a href="https://kinsta.com/" rel="nofollow">https://kinsta.com/</a><p>[1] <a href="https://pressable.com/" rel="nofollow">https://pressable.com/</a> Disclosure: I work for their parent company, Automattic.<p>[2] <a href="https://spinupwp.com/" rel="nofollow">https://spinupwp.com/</a>
that is really greedy of Pantheon, how to escape Pantheon.<p>i would run it like this, WP2static, generate the blog,<p>upload to a free ipfs, unlimited bandwidth , these days they provide upto 2gb free hosting, for static files this is lots of power. upload and hook the ipfs hash to your domain.<p>ipfs could be used with many public gateways, so you could make a forward the user to another cdn.yourdomain.com easily<p>alternatives is to use, the sia > skynet hosting which is free. and is extremely fast