About 6 years ago I purchased a hosting account with a company called host4asp.net. I was looking for a place I could host some NODE applications on as well as C# .NET applications. I do a lot of custom software at work and we’ve hosted sites before. My boss was the hosting guru, I just helped write the code for the sites. He did all the work to get it setup. I wanted to learn the magic, so this was my chance. Hosting with them has been the worst experience so far. They work, but they are super slow and have switched companies a couple times since host4asp.net.
I’ve had a lot of troubles with them, but lately it has been the super slow response times with WordPress and various other issues. My coworker told me about this cool company he uses called Vultr. They have super cheap plans, so I wanted to give it a try. I setup a super small machine, hosted in NJ (Furthest away from my home) that is $3.50 a month. He also mentioned a site called Ploi.io that is super easy to setup and deploy your machine. I was able to setup my machine with MySQL, WordPress, ssh, etc really quick. When I say really quick…I mean it was fast, but I did have a bit of a learning curve. I accidentally setup a new beefy server that probably cost me $0.03 to run for an hour before I realized my mistake. Super easy though.
I’ve spent the last week moving this site over from host4asp.net to https://blog.iwatson.net – It’s been an interesting adventure. My domain is hosted somewhere in an old account and I’m working on moving it over with my other domains. I had a heck of a time trying to figure out how to create a new A record for the domain. Forwarding my old site to this new url.
I’m sitting in a condo in San Diego, family vacation, at 12am and I’ve finally figured it all out. Vultr has sped up my WordPress site a good deal. I’m super excited! I have everything forwarded over and hopefully everything is setup correctly.
I can’t wait to start migrating over some of my other sites to Vultr. My next adventure is to try and get the mail server setup, so I can completely remove this domain off the old hosting company. I’ve prepaid for their service, and I’ll continue to use it until I can close the account. I will keep you updated on how Vultr is going, so far so good! I’m pretty happy!