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Old BlogWordPress is pretty heavy on resources for my needs. Even if I tune Apache and MySQL it’s hard to get it to perform well on a 256MB machine. Why 256? That’s the lowest offered from Slicehost. By the way, I like them a lot. You get a great server in minutes. 256MB with 100MB in/100MB out for $20per month. Nice. RackSpace has a seemingly better deal – 512MB for $22. But you have to pay for bandwidth separately. The same deal (100MB in/100MB out) is $52. Not such a good deal. Slicehost is better.
But 256 is not really enough for WordPress. I went with WordPress since having the ability for folks to leave comments seemed like a good thing. But I really don’t get many comments. I turned off the Amazon stuff – it was generating no clicks at all and I didn’t like that I could not pick the products shown. Most of the plug ins for WordPress don’t solve any of my problems, really. It’s easy to post new stories, but really, I do HTML and CSS so I could just as easily make my own static pages… and then not need any silly database at all anyway.
So here’s a chance to prove me wrong – leave a comment. What should I do? Ditch the heavy WordPress stuff? Suck it up and pay for more memory? You tell me.
Greg, I may have a better hosting solution for you. Ping me.
Happy to hear it. Please send details.
Greg, Looks like your all over the map. I’m doing video or HIDTA in lake county. I’,m also suppose to be working on computer forensics. That seems like to much info….
Office number is 219-650-2470, if you get a chance.
Don (Atlantis)