NoNewTaleToTell: Anybody have any experience hosting a Wordpress site? I'm having trouble making up my mind who I wanna go with, I'm leaning towards HostGator at the moment. I suppose the two big requirements are: Must be monthly/month to month and 2: Must be under $20 a month. I'm not setting up a store or anything like that so I don't need a SSL or anything that supports eCommerce.
Any ideas?
Can't really help you there, I only tried virtual servers (with plesk) and now a barebone server running freebsd, yet. With plesk it was all really easy and smooth sailing so I'd recommend that for starters (I was at strato, (for about $20) but I guess it's pretty much the same anywhere, just watch out that you get enough diskspace for what you wanna do and the traffic is unlimited (so there won't be any bad suprises)
As for SSL I do very much recommend you get a certificate (because you should encrypt any traffic always. As a habit)
And the best thing is there's about to be a
free service launched soon
letsencrypt.org. They'll start issuing certificates in october, and I'm so glad they do. Then this whole moneygrabbing on certs will stop. They are non-profit sponsored by mozilla, eff, cisco and the like and will finally solve this whole CA problem. I'm so looking forward to that ;D