Ask HN: cheap reliable host for Wordpress blog

[sergioschuler]

I had a post at the top of HN earlier today (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6989971) but Bluehost went belly up and is down for some hours. Any reliable (no downtime) and cheap WP host you can recommend?

[flavmartins]

Webfaction! You can't go wrong. It's screaming fast with it's fine tuned nginx servers, 512MB so it's more than most shared hosting environments will give you for applications.

I'm a big Wordpress blogger and run http://winthecustomer.com. I've been offered several free VPS accounts from various hosting companies in exchange for a plug for their services but after testing them out, I end up sticking with my PAID shared hosting account with Webfaction.

I've been a HUGE fan for 4+ years now. $7 mo. is the best $7 of hosting you can buy and better than others that cost $20+ per month.

NOTE: Webfaction doesn't gimmick you with "unlimited" crap with their hosting accounts. When others offer "unlimited" they really should included about a million * next to that. I used to work in Web hosting and know for a fact that after several gigs of space or bandwidth usage, they'll kick you out and force you to upgrade or find another host.

[bliti]

Another vote for Webfaction from me. Their support is excellent.

[rb2e]

In the past for WordPress, I've found TigerTech.net quite good for reliable, shared hosting. They are helpful too if you have problems.

[t0]

AWS (or similar) so you can switch to a bigger instance when you have a traffic spike.

Or just use Cloudflare.