@wirestyle22 said in Web Hosting Options:

@scottalanmiller said in Web Hosting Options:

A Small Orange uses cPanel and has been very good.

I love a small orange. Have never had a bad experience with them.

It's been great here.

@Ambarishrh
First of all, I welcome you to Cloudways.com.
I'm Mustaasam, the WordPress Community Manager at Cloudways.

I've tested your site on Tools Pingdom, the first hit was about 2.6 seconds and in 5th attempt it was loaded in just 1.07s.

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Here is the URL:
https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/bNYY17/https://www.ambarishrh.com/

@scottalanmiller said:

@Ambarishrh said:

Wanted to setup Let's Encrypt for my blog which is now hosted on ASO but as per their tech agent, this is not possible! 😞

Is that because SSL is not offered at all?

As per them, its only on dedicated servers and not shared. But using https://gethttpsforfree.com/ i was able to generate certs and install 🙂

@art_of_shred said:

@johnhooks Zurmo is on our list to look at. What did you like about it? Anything specific?

I liked the interface a lot. It was pretty easy to use. I didn't use nearly all of the features. Mostly just to track possible website jobs and some other small stuff. It was one of the only free ones that had a nice mobile interface at the time.

Hard to post them because nearly everything has account info on the screen...

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Here is a list directly from Softaculous. Again, this has nothing to do with ASO almost all hosting companies use Softaculous

https://www.softaculous.com/software/

@JaredBusch said:

@tonyshowoff said:

Using anything but UTF-8 is a crime!

True, and even old WP installs used it without the actually making sure the DB was configured that way. So odd.

That kind of ineptitude seems par for the course for WordPress. UTF-8 issues can't be blamed just on them though, consider the absolutely bizarre issue of utf8 vs utf8mb4 for MySQL, why the hell wasn't it implemented completely the first time?