Today at Wordpress Community of Practice meeting JB asked me to post in a slack channel my comments on hosting options for a CMS website and what criteria were imporatant to me. Here they are.
- Easy to setup, preferably one click :)
- Dev/stage/prod instances with easy workflow to move content and code between instances
- Easy to upgrade core
- Access to code to add plugins / themes or option to extend basic WordPress with via existing plugins, like Custom Types and Views, or Customize theme css
- Price
- Branded theme at the time of installation (Stanford, school level, department level)
I have used the following options
- Stanoford AFS Wordpress installer - https://tools.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/cgi-install
- Pantheon Hosting
- Dreamhost Hosting
- Stanford Law School IT hosting
| Stanoford AFS | Pantheon | Dreamhost | SLS IT hosting (only for Law School groups) | |
| Easy to setup, preferably one click :) | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Dev/stage/prod instances with easy workflow to move content and code between instances | no | yes | no | yes |
| Easy to upgrade core | no | yes | yes | yes |
| Access to code to add plugins / themes or option to extend basic WordPress with via existing plugins, like Custom Types and Views, or Customize theme css | no | yes | yes | yes |
| Price | free | $25 per month | $7.95 - 9.95 per month | free |
| Branded theme at the time of installation (Stanford, school level, department level) | yes | no | no | ? |