Hosting

How to Host Your Own Blog in 5 Minutes for $10 a Year

Published February 1, 2010 | By admin

A few weeks ago, I just happened on a really cheap hosting company called NearlyFreeSpeech and nearly free is right. To host the average WordPress blog, it will cost you about 2 cents a day. Beat that GoDaddy. There is no billing. You fill your account up and you get that amount of hosting. $10 may last you longer than a year. I threw $5 in my account just to play around. It should last me until the end of summer and I have 8 domains there I am setting up. As they get traffic, I will move them away to VPS hosting for more power, but for now it works and it is very low cost.

NearlyFreeSpeech has some idiosyncrasies like you can’t set up cron jobs. But you do get SSH access to your accounts and that is about all you get. No Fantastico. No One Click Installs.

I had been doing a lot of SSH work lately installing Magento sites, so I figured I could find out a way to speed up the process for WordPress. I made a video which I will break down here first because it does not have the first three steps:

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Posted in Blogging, Software, Wordpress | Tagged Hosting, install, NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, Wordpress | 7 Comments

Dreamhost is a dream host

Published December 7, 2006 | By admin

Killed one of my databases today. Tried to migrate it to my home computer. Crashed the sucker. Boom, site gone, over 100,000 entries.

I had backups from over a week ago. But just to check, I went to the Dreamhost MySql control panel and found a choice of database backups I could restore. One was from 14 hours ago. Good enough. 5 minutes later and my site is back.

And you can get up to $80 off of any hosting plan by entering HALFOFFNOWPLEASE in the promo code field. That means you can get a year of hosting, unlimited domains for less than $60 at Dreamhost. Read more... (108 words, estimated 26 secs reading time)