After reading Matt Mullenweg’s posts about WP Engine, I looked into pricing for WP Engine and a few other popular WordPress hosting services. Most are really scammy, with deceptive intro prices and lots of upsells. Haven’t found any that are as simple and transparent as Micro.blog: $5 or $10. Easy.
@manton I'm still here for a reason lol. Even self hosting WP can get costly in comparison to MB depending on what you're doing. I think on Oracle Cloud I was spending something like $7/mo.
@manton I was a Wordpress peep for a very, VERY long time. Now they're just gross. Up to their necks in corrosive capitalism. Simply charging a reasonable rate for a reasonable service, like MB, just seems to be a bridge too far for some people, regardless of the honorable intentions they had when they started. Make mine Micro.blog!
@jmanes Thanks! $7 is not bad. I'm remembering now that DreamHost is another one with fairly straightforward pricing.
@manton Dreamhost also has generous programs for non-profits. We have hosted squarepegfoundation.org there for many years. I’ve found them to be good people.
@manton I've been really happy with micro.blog as my hosting! I found it through Ulysses, and the ease of writing in Ulysses and publishing to micro.blog is fantastic. Just upgraded to $10 to host a second site on it, after evaluating a bunch of other options and missing the micro.blog simplicity
@manton I am hosting my WordPress websites on Kualo (http://my.kualo.com/usa/go/50495), as their infrastructure is fully built to run on renewable energy. It doesn't hurt that they have stellar costumer support.
I have recently deployed an app (https://openingquot.es) to render.com, on their free tier, and it's working well for me. It's a small personal project.
