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New to VPS - Would this plan suffice?
MisterChew
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I'm thinking of getting this plan from Racknerd.
Would this suffice to run a new Wordpress website?
I am currently on shared hosting. My current provider is incredibly slow.
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Who's your current shared hosting provider? There's a chance their servers might be overloaded, and you don't actually need a VPS. Keep in mind that there's extra management required for VPS hosting.
Here's a link to my current provider.
https://buywebhosting.ca/#pricing
I have their BHW3 plan.
The admin dashboard is so slow that it's difficult for me to even work on my site. I have about 12 plugins active currently.
I am on PHP 7.4
How many visitors a month, and what theme are you using? That doesn't seem crazy, just looking at plugins alone.
New site. No traffic. GeneratePress.
Your host is the problem, not shared hosting. I'm more expensive then a lot of the providers here, but I not only own my hardware, but keep a very close eye on server performance, and upgrade hardware as needed. https://spearwarenetworks.com/web-hosting/
Whilst the host might be the problem, I've seen new WordPress sites (ie, no visitors) be slow on dedicated hardware due to poor theme coding/plugins. Unfortunately it doesn't take much to slow wordpress down, and while moving hosts might help slightly, ultimately with the right theme and plugin setup wordpress can be fast.
I can't comment on each specific plugin youve listed but without turning this into a "how to speed up wordpress" thread, there's more to wordpress speed than just who you choose as a host.
His plugin loadout isn't crazy, nor is that a poorly coded theme, so I doubt it's wordpress.
Yeah it doesn't look too bad but I've not got experience with each plugin - my point was more along the lines of "if the default wp install before any plugins/themes was slow, it's the host - if it was fast before adding theme/plugins then it needs optimisation anyway" - even if you move.
Gotcha. I see what you're saying now.
Not here to hawk my service.
That’s a pretty solid spec. You will benefit from having access to multiple cores/thread and decent memory.
Take a look into centminmod fit simple and effortless server setup. Default setups are good and tweak as you need. No such thing as perfect configuration.
Take a look into csf for firewall.
Be good with google.
Keep backup. Always keep backup.
All the best
If you do go with a VPS, make sure to lock it down and ensure it's secure. Look at centminmod or Keyhelp to help manage it.
Depends on how big your traffic is and what plugins are installed. But for a small to moderate site, this plan should be more than enough.
link?
I don't know how slow you mean by "slow", but from my experience wordpress backend is always somewhat slow on shared hosting. Page builders like elementor make this problem a lot worse too. That racknerd plan is more than enough to run a wordpress site. However, it is 2021 and the plan you mentioned run on HDDs. You may want to consider choosing another location if possible to get SSD (maybe san jose?).
Only issue you might hit is that it's on HDDs, SSD cache is all good and well but will make very little difference in reality on large nodes shared with lots of other VMs, depending on the size of the SSD cache of course.
Take into account any extras you want/need as well including DA licensing, if you want to benefit from things you have currently such as LiteSpeed/LSCache you need that licensed too - Costs all add up and will soon go over what you're probably paying for web hosting.
Then consider you need to manage/secure/maintain the VPS yourself as well.
If it's a new site that's not working straight away contact your provider for support before you make the jump to a VPS, or even try out other providers if you can as well.
2GB RAM is ok .