They are a top notch group and are running a great company with excellent services. The company has its roots in #ds106 and with the amazing Jim Groom ( among a host of others. If you are an educator and just have one or a few websites to host, however, I’d definitely encourage you to consider them. Based on his encouragement, I considered switching my sites over to Reclaim Hosting ( but it turns out the number of sites I’m running and my need for a VPS put me out of their target market. While hosting costs haven’t declined precipitously, they HAVE gone down while provided hosting specs for comparable prices have improved.Īlan Levine ( is a friend and another trusted source of WordPress advice. If you want a better deal, you have to shop around. This definitely isn’t something you want to change frequently, but I’ve noticed that pricing for existing accounts and services seems to stagnate when you stay with your same web host.
I think it also pays to shop around for a new web host every few years. (Of course I did my own research and checking around, and LiquidWeb’s pricing and feature tiers are very competitive with others.) I chose on the advice of iThemes back in 2014, and since LiquidWeb is iThemes’ recommendation for fully managed VPS hosting now, that’s who I’m switching to. (Full disclosure: I did some contract work for iThemes for a couple years around 2012-13). Our local Oklahoma City WordPress Users Group ( has been a great place for me to get WordPress recommendations from others through the years, but my number one “trusted WordPress” organization since the late 2000s has been iThemes ( a WordPress plugin, theme, and services company based in Edmond, Oklahoma. How do you decide which web host to use? Since web hosting is generally going to involve a long term business relationship, you definitely want to choose carefully. “ 10+ Years of Web Hosting Changes Continued” ( CC BY 2.0) by Wesley Fryer Choose Your Web Host Carefully In this post, I’ll share some of my lessons learned from the painful but necessary web host migration “this time around.” I updated the graphic below which I originally created in January 2014 for the post, “Why I Switched My WordPress Web Host from WP Engine to Site5.” I’m not done with this migration process, but I’m about halfway finished, and have reached some notable personal milestones. With this changover to Liquid Web, my disk space has gone up from 75 to 100 GB. My use of a WordPress caching plugin ( Comet Cache) on most of my sites also contributes to their responsiveness. My server RAM has gone down from 3 GB to 2 GB, but because the provided disk storage is on a SSD (solid state drive) it seems faster and snappier to load. My monthly costs are doing down by $31, while my monthly allowed transfer is increasing from 1.5 TB (terabits) to a whopping 10 TB. This time, I’m moving from a VPS (virtual private server) with to a VPS with LiquidWeb. This past December, I started the laborious and often stressful process of migrating my 40+ websites (mostly running WordPress) to a new web host.