Ideas for wordpress website hosting

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Hi
A NGO group I volunteer at as the ICT-person has currently a website. We currently have a website running using wordpress.
I was looking at some alternatives for our current hosting platform. Currently we are paying around 10e/month for the hosting plus the .fi domain on top of that.
Currently we have two websites in total, one of which isn’t managed by me. Since we are kinda somewhat two different organisations. That one is hosted on a free wordpress plan.
I was thinking of options which would make sense. I was thinking of both Linode and wordpress. Currently we are using about 14 megabytes of ram, so all the plans I have looked at are totally fine on that sense.

I was also thinking if it would be pheasable to also deploy a nextcloud instance if I end up going with linode. But I don’t think that would mkae much sense for us sadly, since that is the only value that we could actually use.

So, any suggestions? Hosting would have to be in the EU!
Good or bad experiences? For context we have been running wordpress since the beginning of the year 2021.
Edit: The reason I was talking about the second website was that I was thinking if it would be possible to simplify the management of events and news on those sites. And the montly visitor count won’t be even close to the thousands

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Web Hosting for your WordPress website - Gandi.net (France) done? :slight_smile:

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Perhaps instead of typical hosting, own dedicated server or some cheap vps…

https://eco.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/#filterType=range_element&filterValue=kimsufi

CPU : Intel ATOM N2800 - 2c/4t - 1.86 GHz/1.86 GHz
Memory : 4 GB DDR3
Storage : 1 x 1 TB HDD SATA none
Public bandwidth : 100 Mbps

e4.99 ex. VAT/month
Installation fees: €4.99 ex. VAT

vps
https://www.ovh.ie/order/vps/?v=3#/vps/build?selection=~(range~'Starter)

e5.80/m ex vat

Value
Processor 1 vCore
Memory 2 GB
Storage 40 GB SSD NVMe
Public bandwidth 250 Mbit/s
Locations France, Germany, Poland.

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Have fun keeping up with all wordpress vulns

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You’re saying being an admin yourself isn’t cool with WP? :wink:

And when we choose a ready-made hosting solution with WP, we are 100% sure that the company admins provide security on time? :wink:

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Yeah, luckily we aren’t using plugins, but I disabled everything I could. …
I need to really check our contract if I can scan our site with OWASP ZAP, since it was chosen before I came to run these things.

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I am not sure about our current provider :sweat_smile:
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But at least they managed to update the SQL from v.47

I am just stupid, or I cannot manually even install plugins or themes

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€32.32 incl. VAT /1st year

Personal Hosting technical specifications

Website

Domain name* free for the first year
Multisites
(recommended number of websites) 5
Disk space 100 GB
Disk technology Shared HDD
Recommended 1-click CMS WordPress
HTTP/2 included
Monthly traffic unlimited
Bandwidth shared
Datacentre Gravelines (France)
FTP access included
Access to logs included
Statistics included
IPv6 address included
IP geolocation included

Emails

Number of email accounts 10
Email account storage 5GB per account
Maximum size per email 100MB
Email redirections 1,000
Distribution lists x
Email aliases 1,000
Anti-virus and anti-spam included
Webmail included
SMTP included
POP/IMAP included
Automated emails included
Send emails via your website included

Development

HTML, CSS, JavaScript included
PHP PHP 7.x, PHP 8.1
IonCube included
PHP/FPM included
Scheduled jobs (Cron) included
Perl (CGI) included
C (CGI) included
Python (CGI) included

Databases

SQL databases 1 200MB database
MySQL 5.6
Private SQL server available as an option
Backup/restore on request included
Concurrent connections 30
phpMyAdmin included

Security

Backup/recovery D-1, D-2, D-3, D-7, D-14
Anti-DDoS protection included
Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate included
Sectigo DV/EV SSL certificate available as an option
.htaccess included
ModSecurity included
Web/FTP Explorer included
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Hey there! I’m not an expert in web hosting. But I recently stumbled upon some interesting tips about web hosting that might be helpful. Have you considered using a managed WordPress hosting service? They offer easy setup, security features, and automated backups.Another option is cloud hosting. They provide scalable resources and better control over your server. However, they require more technical knowledge. Just make sure to choose a hosting provider that offers EU data center locations to comply with your requirement. I hope this helps!

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