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= Dedicated Hosting for 2 Large Wordpress Websites =

Hi All!
I've personally been with Inmotion for years on a dedicated box w/ Cpanel and pretty happy with them (esp on the customer services side) though sometimes I wish the speed was a bit better (I may need to have a new server built and may not want to host 20 Wordpress websites with them on the same box
That said, a client is looking for hosting for their two Wordpress websites the larger of which is about 6GB in file size, 55MB in DB and getting about 20K visits a month

I feel pretty comfortable recommending a dedicated box w/ Inmotion but I also know I haven't searched for a host in a long while. (Oh and we're done with WPEngine - It's nice but we need more access to the server, and not having post revisions is a big no can do)

Any +1s to any of the following for dedicated cpanel boxes? Inmotion? Liquidweb? Veerotech? Nixihost? Thx!
I can manage the server myself so really don't need any help there. The biggest problem with WPEngine was that they limited the Wordpress posts to 3 revisions so clients couldn't retrieve old versions of posts. But they also want to do some custom security stuff that is pushing them towards the dedicated path

I’ve used Liquid Web for years for my hosting business. Have about 20 servers with them now. Their customer service is worth every penny. Connected instantly, every time, to USA based human on live chat. Tickets for more technical things picked up within a few minutes. They’ve saved us on the tech side quite a few times with minimal downtime

I know you mentioned doing the management yourself and that’s great. However, LW’s fully managed plans offer great peace of mind. They literally detect and fix most problems before we even realized there was a problem

httpslinode.com is good, their cpu isnt the
*best* but theyre still a decent vps/dedi host

if you want it to be managed, they sell a managed service which has cpanel, backups, analytics im pretty sure, and more for $100/mo
their dedi plans start at $30/mo
so the total if you got a dedi and managed would be $130/mo
if you chose a vps though, it would be $110/mo 5 for every extra gb, $110 has 2gb as thats the minimum cpanel supports)
*prices are from the last time i checked*
It’s got almost nothing to do with how much hardware you can throw at it. The thing that’s gonna effect your performance more than anything else is the software used


CPanel is great, but doesn’t ship with performance tuning out of the box. For the absolute best of the best that you’ll get, you’ll want litespeed on top of that. Apache is great for static content, it’s absolutely terrible on dynamic content. A simple 4c 8gb vm can go from multiple seconds of loading(even up to 7-8s) down to 1 or less just by simply switching from apache to litespeed. Hardware isn’t everything. It’ll dramatically help with concurrent users, yes. But the software used is what’s gonna effect the usability

The solution to a problem isn’t always chuck more/better hardware at a problem. Using the existing hardware to its full potential is the key

I’m currently overcrowding the livingout my own personal infrastructure server with like 30 high powered vms on it doing wildly different things. I never notice anything being slow unless it just eats whatever resources I have thrown at the vm itself or unless I’m running all of my backup tasks off hours. But even then, depending on what the current load is, you wouldn’t even know it’s running all of my back up tasks through veeam and creating 2 backups of those while uploading to google drive at the same time. That server runs on 2c and 4gb

There’s a lot you can do with very minimal hardware

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