I am on a self-hosted WordPress blog for the last 7 years. More recently, I decided to use Digital Ocean for WordPress Hosting. It’s been over a year since I’m using Digital Ocean WordPress hosting. And in this blog post, I’ll share my experience with Digital Ocean for WordPress hosting. …
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Web Hosting and domain name are the two major cost items when it comes to self-hosting websites/blogs. You pay for the hosting service you use and for the domain name. Both these costs are yearly payments, usually. Apart from these, if someone is using extra services like emails, backups, support, …
Read More »4 Performance tips for 1 GB VPS – run high traffic websites
The notion that the more the RAM, the better the performance is quite common in the smartphone industry. Every day we are seeing smartphones being launched with higher and higher RAMs for better performance. From a few KBs of RAM a decade ago, we are talking about 12GB RAM on …
Read More »Managing VPS for beginners – The Ultimate Guide
When I decided to move from shared hosting to cloud hosting, there was a lot of thought put behind that decision. As they say, with great power comes great responsibility. That’s almost the case while moving from shared hosting to cloud hosting. You gain more control over your server which …
Read More »Migrate WordPress from Siteground to Digital Ocean – Complete Guide
Ever since Siteground moved to Google there was an uproar on the internet from what I observed. There were many who were against the move and felt cheated as their data would be shared with Google. While Siteground did mention that nobody can access their customer’s data, the damage was …
Read More »Cloud Hosting for Bloggers – Do you need it?
If I were to ask the tech buzzwords to anyone, Cloud Computing would surely find a place in their answer. Over the years, the industry has largely shifted its base to the cloud. Even if I have to talk about web hosting, the trend is moving towards cloud hosting. With …
Read More »Shockingly high Siteground renewal charges !
Rs 1500 is the amount that I had paid for a year of hosting for my first website atulmaharaj.com in 2007. Having no clue about it but just one that I wanted my own website. My school New Era High School Panchgani, did the rest of getting the domain name and web hosting. …
Read More »What is Self Hosting ? Do you really need it ? Expert Opinion
I setup my first website in 2007 and it was a self hosted one. Back then I was in class 7th and had absolutely no idea of what this was. My only joy was that I had my own website atulmaharaj.com and the fact that I was giving back to …
Read More »Moving from HTTP to HTTPS ? Here’s a list of problems with solutions
Anyone who’s running a website should/would be aware of the announcement by Google. The search giant has decided to flag the websites that are not secured – served over HTTPS. Some of you might be wondering (like I did some time back) that my website doesn’t store any private information …
Read More »5 Reasons Why Self Hosted Blog is Not for you
So here’s another post that will talk about Blogging. In the recent times I’ve many people making a move to Self Hosting. For those of you don’t know, by moving to a self hosted blog, the blogger is no more related to the the service provider they were blogging with …
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