Re: [PLUG] WordPress Hosting Question

[Tom Diehl via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On Tue, 15 Sep 2020, Thomas Delrue via plug wrote:

> I know this isn't purely Linux related, but I figured I'd run this
> question past the collective mind here anyway:
>
> Does anyone have any solid recommendations and good experiences for
> managed wordpress hosting? The requirements are:
> - high availability (obviously)
> - Ability to talk to the backing database directly as well (in order to
> migrate content from other, non-wordpress site into the new wordpress site)
> - Lack of the need to host the full domain with them as well
>
> I'm eager to hear the recommendations!

I have a customer that we migrated to wpengine a couple of years ago.

There were some initial problems with the migration but their tech support
was able to fix the problems in a few minutes.

They have English speaking tech support and will actually answer the phone
if you call them. In addition they seem to have things well documented on
line.

Once I did the initial setup with them, it has been mostly hands off. They take
care of wordpress upgrades automagically. I get an email when the upgrades
take place. Other than that my customer handles the content.

I think you can access the backend db but I am not 100% sure. Ask them, I
am sure they will answer any questions you have.

As to dns they recommend using a free Cloudflare account but it is not a
requirement.

HTH.

Regards,

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Tom			me@tdiehl.org
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