Anyone Using Ipower for web site hosting?

[paulraphael]

My wordpress install keeps complaining that I don't have caching - then it says "but site response and page delivery times are all good"!

I'm a bit over-obsessed with site speed. I think it's trauma from the early days of the web in the 90s. Photo sites took so long to load and move through. Before clicking any link, I'd hesitate and think, "is it really worth it??" So now I try to make everything instant.

I use multisite: I currently have two live sites plus a couple of test sites. Because my sites are small, I update the live site directly. I used to have a local XAMP environment as well, probably should set up a new one and use it for dev/staging/backup, but I'm too lazy

No experience with this, but I've been told that multisite installs are challenging to manage.

My recollection of the free SSL certs is that you have to keep renewing them quarterly - which is why I switched to a paid one. Now my site goes down only annually,rather than 4 times a year

I believe mine renew annually, but not sure. It happens automatically. Might be a feature with my host.

ps

Your site is very elegant. Mine isn't, but I wrote my own theme from scratch which probably wasn't the best plan.

Thank you. I left the theme to the experts, because I'd never pull that off on my own. I pay a bit too much for mine. It's also pretty heavily customized. My girlfriend is a designer and developer. When I get in over my head with something like CSS I just go to her and start crying.

 

[Gandolphi]

At the end of the day, you can’t beat technique………

Thank you. I left the theme to the experts, because I'd never pull that off on my own. I pay a bit too much for mine. It's also pretty heavily customized. My girlfriend is a designer and developer. When I get in over my head with something like CSS I just go to her and start crying.

 

[DavidMillier]

My wordpress install keeps complaining that I don't have caching - then it says "but site response and page delivery times are all good"!

I'm a bit over-obsessed with site speed. I think it's trauma from the early days of the web in the 90s. Photo sites took so long to load and move through. Before clicking any link, I'd hesitate and think, "is it really worth it??" So now I try to make everything instant.

I use multisite: I currently have two live sites plus a couple of test sites. Because my sites are small, I update the live site directly. I used to have a local XAMP environment as well, probably should set up a new one and use it for dev/staging/backup, but I'm too lazy

No experience with this, but I've been told that multisite installs are challenging to manage.

My recollection of the free SSL certs is that you have to keep renewing them quarterly - which is why I switched to a paid one. Now my site goes down only annually,rather than 4 times a year

I believe mine renew annually, but not sure. It happens automatically. Might be a feature with my host.

ps

Your site is very elegant. Mine isn't, but I wrote my own theme from scratch which probably wasn't the best plan.

Thank you. I left the theme to the experts, because I'd never pull that off on my own. I pay a bit too much for mine. It's also pretty heavily customized. My girlfriend is a designer and developer. When I get in over my head with something like CSS I just go to her and start crying.

I've always used multisite. It's the same as single site except for a line or two of code in the setup file which delivers an extra drop down menu on the admin bar. Spinning off an additional site is a matter of seconds and once you have created the site, each extra site is administered the same as a single site.

The only real thing to watch out for in my experience is occasional subtle differences in behaviour compared to the documentation which is almost always written with single site installs in mind. But as long as you remember to google for WordPress multisite, you'll get the necessary documentation. If you use multisite you get an extra level of privileges called SuperAdmin, which gives you the power to administer any of the sites.