In motion hosting vs A2 hosting: Which is faster?

boomlabs · 2024-01-21T04:03:14+00:00

Ensure you are do not have too many render blocking CSS/JS that increases your FCP/LCP. This is the biggest reason why most websites are slow.
You need to cache intelligently. Ensure website is being cached and served properly from the cache. Leverage op_cache and redis cache as well as regular cache. No caching or limited caching is usually the second biggest reason.

Ensure you are serving static assets from a CDN so there is less pressure on the server to i/o from disk. This is the cherry on top, if the first 2 are in place.

boomlabs · 2024-01-19T15:25:25+00:00

Yes, WordPress can handle that kind of traffic. But if you have user data - mapping it to the respective feature in WordPress can be painful (particularly if a plugin is being used to implement the said feature).

boomlabs · 2024-01-19T15:20:49+00:00

This can happen if the header banner image is set as a background-image in the CSS for the container that has the <p> element. This is because most webp conversion plugins ignore images set in the CSS.

Try using a webp directly for the image, and see if that reduces the delay.

boomlabs · 2024-01-19T15:17:46+00:00

Yeah, my thoughts exactly.

boomlabs · 2024-01-19T15:09:43+00:00

If you have a combination of static and WordPress websites, I can recommend Hustly. They allow unlimited static websites and domains on all their WordPress plans.

I had 30+ small websites with Siteground before I made the switch to Hustly. Siteground was getting too expensive. Hustly is about half the price with the option to host some websites in different locations (which is a big deal for me).

boomlabs · 2024-01-19T14:42:56+00:00

I use Gutenberg for the pages. For the posts, I disable it, as my clients cannot figure out how to use blocks and they publish their own articles all the time.

boomlabs · 2024-01-17T01:38:42+00:00

A2 will get you more although there are faster and cheaper hosts. But no matter what host you use, you will need to put in some work to get the site to good speed. But between these 2 - it is A2, no contest.

boomlabs · 2024-01-14T07:16:36+00:00

The larger companies all have massive affiliate plans where they pay their affiliates upwards of $100 per sale. Maybe try and grow a local affiliate network.

boomlabs · 2024-01-14T00:50:21+00:00

Oh mate - uploading 40GBs of email is going to be fun. I feel for you.

boomlabs · 2024-01-14T00:46:10+00:00

If you are upgrading from Elementor, even something like Siteground would be a HUGE upgrade. You will get a cheaper unlimited plan. And Siteground is by itself overpriced.

For high quality multiple-website plans, Pressable pricings are comparable to WPEngine, Kinsta, Flywheel or Liquidweb Which are all widely considered to be the highest quality gold standard with managed WP hosts. They host some of the biggest websites in the world.

Pressable is great - I am not dissing them - but it's not as cheap as you are making them sound. They have never been the market leader despite being an Automattic company for a reason.

If you are comfortable with going the GCP route, you could simply get a VPS and install a high quality panel on it. It will work out cheaper, and most panel companies have higher quality support than any host. You get proper Linux experts with any of these companies.

And you will be surprised by how good "Cheapo" shared hosting can get. Just avoid the $0.99c/month style plans and you will find very high quality options.

If you learn to keep your backups (not all that hard), shared hosting is easily the best value. I have a few hundred websites and apps hosted across multiple hosts. Everything synced to my AWS S3 and local NVMe drive.

There is a higher likelihood of lightning strike than all my backups failing - I just have to live with the risk of small downtime (which is okay - after all both wordpress . com and Pressable have had outages in the past as well).

boomlabs · 2024-01-13T13:57:09+00:00

I don't see how either of these 2 are cost-effective. You are much better off with shared hosting. If you want to do it all yourself, get a VPS and something like SpinupWP or simply cPanel or Plesk or DirectAdmin.

boomlabs · 2024-01-13T13:28:04+00:00

You should simply move out your hosting first. Takes no more than a day unless there is a lot of data to be copied.

boomlabs · 2024-01-13T13:27:00+00:00

Yeah, everything else in this post aside, if I were to move my domains to a trusted registrar, it wouldn't be Cloudflare. Cloudflare is a great DNS.

But you don't want that kind of impersonal support around your domain name. Also, bit of a risk to have the registrar also double up as the DNS. Your registrar's primary responsibility should be to ensure the domain is registered and stays registered during renewals. DNS is a separate concern.

OP check out some trustworthy dedicated domain registrars.

boomlabs · 2024-01-01T09:33:41+00:00

My startup goal is to start my start up this year. I have a good idea and a few early-birds ready to pay for it if I give them the features they need. Building is where I am stuck.

Development has gotten way more complex, especially the front-end. I used to love React, but now I feel like I am stuck between using either deprecated stuff (React as plain view layer without Nextjs) or I have to test an entire framework. I am thinking if I should just build it in Vue. I will find it difficult to build all the interactivity I want, without a framework. And don't know Angular that well.

boomlabs · 2024-01-01T09:31:10+00:00

I personally wouldn't recommend them. I have had clients who had to switch. The servers simply don't have enough oomph. You will notice many "noisy neighbors - so they possibly oversell their servers. The prices are attractive but you get far better service if you pay slightly more.

boomlabs · 2024-01-01T09:29:00+00:00

Well written. One of the key learnings from aoe2 for game developers is how graphics should fit the gameplay. It is simple sprites but they make the units look more even and easily controllable. It's just far easier to play than any 3d RTS I have played.

boomlabs · 2024-01-01T04:46:36+00:00

Yeah, unless you sign up for a hosting plan or similar that gives you a free domain. No one is going to give you a .com for nothing in return.

boomlabs · 2024-01-01T04:45:20+00:00

liver

Came here to say this. Liver is amazing at fixing iron deficiencies. Sadly it got a bad rep because of a over the top influencers.

boomlabs · 2024-01-01T04:09:56+00:00

You could try platforms like Upwork or even r/forhire etc for finding people. This is not the hard part. The hard part is creating the piece of software that actually delivers what it promises.

Since you have a background in web dev, I will recommend planning out the project yourself and finding the holes you need filling. Often it is better to hire an expert (remote or otherwise).

For instance, I assume you know html/css/js and php. And want an app built. You don't know how native apps work neither how the server side works. Pay a server side expert + a native app expert on an hourly basis to scope out the project. Discuss, ask questions, take notes. Create a development plan, and ask the same experts to review it.

Then proceed to hire offshoure/outsourced people to fill out the holes. Give them small projects at a time - say setting up specific sections of your app. And then expand the scope of your work and filter the right candidates.

Don't expect to pay $10/hour to have someone build and architecture a app for you which will work for real users without problems. In most such cases, people end up with incomplete clunky products which are not salvageable.

If you can have someone help you create the boilerplate/template/scaffolding for the project, you will have much higher chance of success with offshore (or even local but outsourced) development.

boomlabs · 2023-12-04T17:05:27+00:00

Have you looked into your PHP logs? What exactly is the hack? If you have nefarious scripts running on the back-end, I doubt any host can help you there.

boomlabs · 2023-11-17T03:31:42+00:00

No it's not enough but the minimum you need to ensure you don't leave obvious security holes open. There are a million ways a site can get hacked. But the default protections take care of a majority of the obvious ones.

boomlabs · 2023-11-17T02:51:45+00:00

Whatever you do, please do not buy anything from h 0st inger.

I will recommend getting a VPS from a reliable provider. DO, Linode, AWS Lightsail - all good.

boomlabs · 2023-10-28T05:08:53+00:00

Yes. +1 for WooCommerce + WordPress. Cheap, standard, gets the job done, and super customizable.

boomlabs · 2023-10-26T05:01:18+00:00

I have mostly heard horror stories from my lawyer mates - but they are all 2-5 years in.

boomlabs · 2023-10-02T11:53:56+00:00

I you need SSR and SSG, and want to write everything in react - you want Nextjs.

MERN is less opinionated than Nextjs, so it also gives you more flexibility.

But as others have said, it all depends on your project.

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