See ##Vendors
WPCH means “wordpress commercial hosting” which includes two categories
1) wphp i.e. “wordpress hosting plan”
2) VPS
— Thanksgiving plan:
- Within 97 days, migrate drive (slow-moving target)
- start editing blogposts on dhost and decommission the wp.com site
- LG2: check out automated backup
- LG2: consider grep-update of hyperlinks. Consider the search_replace plugin
— automated migration .. is valuable when I maintain both new clone + existing free blog of the same content. Such a parallel set-up requires repeated migrations, ideally without vendor help.
— $budget: $1200~2400 for 5Y(60M) but I can allocate additional $600 for first year. Once I’m confident I could migrate to a cheaper vendor
- J4: Nowadays I spend 1-3 hr/day using wordpress…
- xp: paid for tanbin.com for 10Y? Useful for the first 3-8 years.
- xp: paid Andrew Yap $75 to put together my php listing? This time my cost won’t be abandoned.
- xp: I bought UltraEdit and EditPlus but didn’t use for a year. Painful experience that I try to forget
- similar to my purchase of faster home broadband
- similar to my aircon usage
- similar to my yoga membership .. dirt cheap at USD 33/mo in Bayonne. My Barclays gym membership was $95/mo.
- similar to my weekend spend on train commute to office
- similar to my current collection of 5 laptops, though I don’t absolutely need so many
— tcost: need to watch out as the cumulative tcost would generate growing guilt and self-hate.
- — the least-tcost route:
- If good subdomains unavailable …. no domain name. Just use IP. Perhaps borrow a subdomain name from XingHe.
- put one site (tanbinvest) on exabytes for a few months without haste. Exabyte offers phone support 🙂
- If everything fine and I gain enough confidence, then sign up with a U.S. wpch.
— gradual, no-hurry but high-tcost plan of action. I might have a fear of unknown and an inertia.
- set up vultr and slowly play with install, migration. Destroy the host each time 🙂
Paying Xinghe a decent fee is possibly good income for him and saves me initial legwork. How about $200-500 as payment for effort + domain parking. “No urgency.” If he sees it as a tough job, then engage him as a consultant with a token of appreciation.
— Q: start with a wphp first or vultr first?
if I start with wphp first, i will feel the 97D deadline to finish vultr experiment and come to a decision.
Deadline? After the 97D, best possible refund would require good will. I don’t want to abuse the good will.
Vultr has no deadline, so I can experiment without haste. I can also (start vultr experiment by the 3rd year and then) relocate to vultr after 3Y.
— self-install experiment:
need lots of quiet time to settle down and focus
need lots of food to strengthen the absorbency.
- official guide: https://wordpress.org/support/article/installing-wordpress-on-your-own-computer/
- — many windows tutorials 🙂
- https://themeisle.com/blog/install-xampp-and-wordpress-locally/
==== goals of xampp self-learning as compared to piano, yoga, workout..
Here’s an immediate, measurable goal — set up a windows wordpress site
- to re-build confidence about linux self-install. Self-install in VPS is uncertain and could cost days. This is 99% of the payout.
- .. This fear is also the invisible shackle and the mountain on my shoulder.
- to find out how to simplify the UI of admin interface
- — Key findings
- considering my wishlist, no hacking needed in the foreseeable future (2Y?). Therefore, Wphp suitability is improving.
- in conclusion, WPHp costs more than VPS but saves time, legwork and stress in the long run, and initial set-up effort