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Would you recommend WordPress as a hosting service? I'm not able to understand the structure of it all to figure out if it:'s ethical and what with the recent fights with WP Engine and stuff, I'm unsure how it all actually works.
enhance is fire because its easy to connect multiple servers so you can buy the cheapest deals you find, then migration is easy and backups work well, are automated and easy. Next update this week or next week will make the backuprole installation easy, for now it requires having some unmounted volume (which is easy to setup at hetzner but id just wait 2 weeks for that)
any cheap vps, I like racknerd newyear deal 60$ a year for 4 core 6gb and 160gb ssd is solid, then grab any free panel like cloudpanel and follow the short tutorial to install, now you have an easy way to install wordpress and manage domains (I prefer enhance for wordpress but its 5$ a month up to 30 sites unlimited servers then price increases)
Not as a hosting service, no. But at wordpress.org you can download the software and install it on any web server. A lot of web hosting companies offer a 1-click process of setting up wordpress on their servers, too.
Honestly I’d not recommend Wordpress at all. It’s quite outdated and therefore a pain in the ass to extend. There are more modern solutions like Craft CMS, Kirby CMS or Laravel with Filament, though ActivityPub support might differ depending on the platform.
I don’t think this person is looking to hack on, or even host their own service. I think they’re looking for a not very expensive turnkey SaaS.
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Wordpress the software has one of the best extension frameworks of anything I'm aware of. It's old, but it's also well-structured, mature, and has a ton of support. There's a reason it got ActivityPub support so early (in comparison to other similar outside-the-Fediverse platforms).
The leader of the company behind it seems to have lost his mind, but that's not anything against the software. Maybe don't get hosting through Automattic. The software as far as I know is still pretty good.
wordpress.com, the hosted wp service, is a pretty solid. still comes with matt, though, but that drama doesn't really affect you as a wp.com user.
anyone who comes to me about hosting wordpress, i send there. i don't wanna deal with it, nor do i really want that hackerbot magnet on my boxes.