AWS, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, GCP, Azure, Hetzner for WordPress
Moving a live WordPress site from shared or managed hosting to a cloud provider like DigitalOcean, Vultr, or AWS Lightsail is one of those jobs where the failure mode is loud: broken checkout pages, missing images, or an hour of 502 errors while DNS catches up. It doesn’t have to be that way. A zero-downtime […]
Once a WordPress site has been running for a couple of years, the wp-content/uploads folder is usually the single biggest thing on the server — often bigger than the database, the theme, and every plugin combined. That’s the point at which moving media off local disk and onto object storage (Amazon S3, Cloudflare R2, DigitalOcean […]
Cloud compute providers almost always show you two prices for the same instance: a per-hour rate and a monthly-equivalent rate. The gap between them isn’t cosmetic — it reflects a real tradeoff between flexibility and cost, and picking the wrong one is one of the more common ways teams overspend on hosting without realizing it. […]
WordPress ships assuming one thing: a single MySQL or MariaDB server sitting next to PHP on the same box. That works fine until it doesn’t — usually right around the point where a site starts pulling serious traffic, running WooCommerce at volume, or serving multiple WordPress installs off a shared backend. At that point, moving […]
Managed WordPress hosts like WP Engine, Kinsta, and Cloudways exist to remove infrastructure decisions from your plate — server tuning, caching layers, and security patching are handled for you, at a price premium and with some hard limits. Most sites should stay on managed hosting for their entire life; it’s cheaper in engineering time than […]
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