| >I mean, DO does provide an out of the box WordPress installation. Just click "create droplet" and you have a WordPress site ready to go. I have no sysadmin/web experience, but do understand the terminal reasonably well enough from my old job as a SWE. I currently manage a Wordpress installation on a ridiculously performant [1] $6/mo DigtalOcean droplet without issue. For me, I struggled a bit with their default Wordpress plugin, but there's this fantastic (also free) droplet called Cyberpanel. It's basically an open-source alternative to CPanel, and offers a graphical frontend for lots of common tasks (domain management, auto-renewing SSL, PHP settings, deployment of WordPress and other sites). Migrating from my old host was as easy as installing a plugin (All-in-One WP Migration, IIRC) on both the old server and the new DO droplet and then updating the domain records to point to DO. All in all, maybe a couple of afternoons of screwing around, but absolutely a worthwhile (and economically valuable!) skill to have. [1] I think I measured something like 1000 page loads per second (with WP Fastest Cache; crapped out at around 30 views/s without!) before CPU hit 100%. There are free stress test sites online that let you do this. |