If you are an educator and just have one or a few websites to host, however, IвЂ™d definitely encourage you to consider them. Based on his encouragement, I considered switching my sites over to Reclaim Hosting ( but it turns out the number of sites IвЂ™m running and my need for a VPS put me out of their target market. While hosting costs havenвЂ™t declined precipitously, they HAVE gone down while provided hosting specs for comparable prices have improved.ДЄlan Levine ( is a friend and another trusted source of WordPress advice. If you want a better deal, you have to shop around. This definitely isnвЂ™t something you want to change frequently, but IвЂ™ve noticed that pricing for existing accounts and services seems to stagnate when you stay with your same web host. I think it also pays to shop around for a new web host every few years. (Of course I did my own research and checking around, and LiquidWebвЂ™s pricing and feature tiers are very competitive with others.) I chose on the advice of iThemes back in 2014, and since LiquidWeb is iThemesвЂ™ recommendation for fully managed VPS hostingВ now, thatвЂ™s who IвЂ™m switching to. (Full disclosure: I did some contract work for iThemes for a couple years around 2012-13). Our local Oklahoma City WordPress Users Group ( has been a great place for me to get WordPress recommendations from others through the years, but my number one вЂњtrusted WordPressвЂќ organization since the late 2000s has been iThemes ( a WordPress plugin, theme, and services company based in Edmond, Oklahoma. How do you decide which web host to use? Since web hosting is generally going to involve a long term business relationship, you definitely want to choose carefully. вЂњ 10+ Years of Web Hosting Changes ContinuedвЂќВ ( CC BY 2.0)В by Wesley Fryer Choose Your Web Host Carefully In this post, IвЂ™ll share some of my lessons learned from the painful but necessary web host migration вЂњthis time around.вЂќ

I updated the graphic below which I originally created in January 2014 for the post, вЂњWhy I Switched My WordPress Web Host from WP Engine to Site5.вЂќВ IвЂ™m not done with this migration process, but IвЂ™m about halfway finished, and have reached some notable personal milestones. With this changover to Liquid Web, my disk space has gone up from 75 to 100 GB. My use of a WordPress caching plugin ( Comet Cache) on most of my sites also contributes to their responsiveness. My server RAM has gone down from 3 GB to 2 GB, but because the provided disk storage is on a SSD (solid state drive) it seems faster and snappier to load. My monthly costs are doing down by $31, while my monthly allowed transfer is increasing from 1.5 TB (terabits) to a whopping 10 TB. This time, IвЂ™m moving from a VPS (virtual private server) with to a VPS with LiquidWeb. This past December, I started the laborious and often stressful process of migrating my 40+ websites (mostly running WordPress) to a new web host.

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