We’ve Moved To Our Own VPS - Want One?
VPS Aren’t Expensive I just noticed that it has been quite a while since our last blog post so sorry about that. One of the tasks we’ve always wanted to look into (and actually do) was moving our sites over to a private VPS server and away from the perils of Hostgator shared hosting. In the past though, a dedicated server or VPS was restrictive to most people due to price and also expertise. The downfall of shared hosting is that the hosting company make the rules so if you get a rogue WordPress plugin that consumes above their secret thresholds then they’ll simply take you offline until they deem you’ve jumped through all their hoops. That has taken a few days for us, in the past because we love playing with new and interesting plugins, to give you some inside scoop :) So we took a big plunge, after quite a deal of VPS research and came up with DigitalOcean as the VPS provider, of choice. Wow, these guys get kudos from everywhere. A digital ocean droplet is a...