Pros and Cons of hosting WordPress on your Own Server
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Did you check out the Please Read Me First at the head of these forums? :)
I guess not. At least not today… What exactly did I miss?
A number of your pros are cons and a number of your cons are pros.
Please tell me more… Which are which?
I understand with the freedom to add/change the code… comes the responsibility for your own security issues…. and your own version control issues (making copies of every new revision so you don’t lose everything if you have to go back one or two generations in your changes…)
As for that particular hosting service’s email servers, I’ve been using them for about 8 years now, and I’ve never had such a problem.
Same for the slashdot effect. Granted, we’ve not yet been hit with 100,000 hits in one day…
BUT… It WILL happen… when our plans launch as expected.
I wonder what the effects of 100,000 hits in one day — on a godaddy shared hosting account — will be… I wonder if there is any way to verify that there would be no problem. I guess I could/should email this question to their support team…
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The effect of 100,000 hits on a godaddy account will be unpleasant. You can probably refer to your terms of service and you may find that over a certain bandwidth there are charges and they are not cheap. You may also find that your site simply goes poof, as happens with quite a lot of Fark threads.
Thanks for fixing the tag issue. It was very difficult to read the other way.
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Ok. I read it. Yes… I had read that before…
If I understand the Google PageRank, SEO, etc., stuff correctly…
WordPress.com has a PR9… which means that OUTGOING links, from my blog, are weighed more heavily by Google… However, INCOMING links, to my blog, do not benefit me at all… they only benefit the domain, wordpress.com.
On the other hand, if I were to host my own blog, on my own domain… OUTGOING links would be weighted only by my measly PR3 (or whatever it will be at that time)… However, INCOMING links to my blog would benefit me greatly… Each one would count as a link TO brucewagner.com. Thereby INCREASING the PageRank of brucewagner.com tremendously.
And, of course, the cycle would continue… If the PageRank of brucewagner.com goes up… then so the power (or weight) of my OUTGOING links would go up too.
Naturally, the PageRank of my own domain is MUCH more important to me than the “power” of my outgoing links…
Correct?
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You’re not counting Technorati at all. Incoming links to the URL of your blog, whatever its domain, are what counts.
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Yes, you’re right.
I was only talking about one search engine — the most important search engine of them all — Google.
All links to your blog help out in your rankings on BLOG-ONLY SEARCH ENGINES like Technorati and Google Blog Search (blogsearch.google.com)…
But incoming links to your OWN domain… (a blog hosted on your own domain)… (i.e. brucewagner.com/blog) will boost the rankings of your entire web site (i.e. brucewagner.com)… on the most important search engine of them all… the generic Google (google.com).
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wordpress.com and your blog have seperate PRs since you have a subdomain. There’s no weight passed between the two unless they were linking to each one. Google considers them to be seperate sites.
Also bw.com and bw.com/blog are going to have different PRs as well.
We went through this a couple days ago when we went looking for blogs that have never been used. They still have PR0’s. At least the ones someone found.
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Page ranking = 3
Importing your wordpress.com content to a wordpress.org blog and losing your page rank and accumulated links will not be a big deal for you.http://brucewagner.wordpress.com Technorati # Rank: 649,888 (8 links from 6 blogs) sorted by freshness
4 of those links come from sites that lack any authority or ranking at all and strongly resemble blog scraper sites
1 days ago in Famine Blog Digest – Merry Chr… · No blogs link here yet
53 days ago in Skype Blog Digest – Friday rou… · No blogs link here yet
53 days ago in Skype Blog Digest – Friday rou… · No blogs link here yet
54 days ago in Disease Blog Digest – Merry Ch… · No blogs link here yetAnd these others come from sites that are also lacking in authority and links
15 days ago in El Diario de Edward by edwardgel · 1 blog links here
26 days ago in Soliloquies of A Stranger · 10 blogs link here
28 days ago in EntreGeeks by jota2c · 31 blogs link hereThe only two links to your blog sorted by authority (as opposed to sorted by freshness) are from your own website:
Permanent Link to The Bruce Wagner Show a…
Bruce’s Journal by brucewagner · 41 days ago · 6 blogs link here
The Bruce Wagner Show – a Status Update December 23rd, … and functional… … Subscribe, Podcast, Skypecast, Download, SearchPermanent Link to My Love/Hate Relationship with…
Bruce’s Journal by brucewagner · 64 days ago · 6 blogs link here
My Love/Hate Relationship with Google Alerts November 29th, 2006 … It’s crazy how powerful … through… Posted in Internet, Google, News, Research, Search, Google Alerts -
The effect of 100,000 hits on a godaddy account will be unpleasant.
I just spoke with some of the top techies at godaddy. They assure me that if a shared-hosting site were to suddenly, unexpectedly, receive 100,000 hits in one day… the site would NOT go down. They have the technology to deal with such a demand.
They are one of the largest hosting providers in this country (if not the largest), and have consistently been Ranked in the Top 10 by Host Review… (see http://www.hostreview.com/webhostaward/200605top10webhostingcompany.html )
They are also the number one Domain Name Registrar in the entire World…
They do have the very latest in load-balancing via their many data centers worldwide…
The hosting plan I am on… provides 2,000 GB of transfer, and 200GB of storage space.
How many hits does that translate into?
Also, how much storage space would I expect to need to host my own fully-loaded copy of WordPress (blog), and Joomla (content management), and Simplemachines (forums)…?
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Importing your wordpress.com content to a wordpress.org blog and losing your page rank and accumulated links will not be a big deal for you.
As I said earlier, I have a low PageRank now. Losing it is not the issue. The point is… the best way to INCREASE it…
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Google search results GoDaddy
Godaddy abuse department strikes again
http://www.threadwatch.org/node/5167
http://www.auctionswatchers.com/auctionblog/index.php
http://www.threadwatch.org/node/3785
http://www.threadwatch.org/node/3785#comment-23295
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wordpress.com and your blog have seperate PRs since you have a subdomain. There’s no weight passed between the two unless they were linking to each one. Google considers them to be separate sites.
Actually, that is not so.
Every single PAGE, on every single domain, does have its own separate PageRank… That much is true.
However… The TOP LEVEL domain is attributed importance (PageRank) based on the total number of links to ALL pages contained within that domain.
I have been studying SEO for several years now… so please correct me if you are sure I am wrong about how this works.
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Timetheif, are you going to post a link to EVERY single comment on that one site?
If I want the search results for something, I do know how to use Google myself.
But thanks…
: )
PS – Where did you get your nickname on here?
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Um hostreview?
As in hostreview.com?
Not sure where on the site you’re looking but a quick look at their Home Page -> Recommended Sites -> Recommended Unix Web hosting shows all those hosts as ones that pay out about $80-$125 for a new client in affliate fees.
I’d provide links to their affliate programs but I only have about 20 minutes before the library closes for the evening.
However… The TOP LEVEL domain is attributed importance (PageRank) based on the total number of links to ALL pages contained within that domain.
Agreed but bw.wp.com and wp.com are seen by Google as seperate domains. Also last time through kpremixed had a PR of 5 and while my main blog at tdjc.be had a PR of 4.
I know what you’re sayinbg in that statement and Google agrees with you as That’s why they suggest doing subdirectories over subdomains in their webmaster help pages. But Google does see them as two seperate sites.
Also remember that every single page here at wp.com includes a link back to the main page of wp.com. :)
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Excuse the typoes by the way. 12 minutes. :)
As to increasing your PR, you can also empty out your sidebar when you move but place a single link to your new blog when you move. That way you get the credit as well as when folks find your old blog, they’ll have a link to your new one and it won’t be buried anywhere within the blog.
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I have been studying SEO for several years now… so please correct me if you are sure I am wrong about how this works.
I’ll leave that to drmike.
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It is my understanding that it is the TOP LEVEL domain that benefits most (i.e. wordpress.com)…. Not a SUB-DOMAIN (i.e. brucewagner.wordpress.com)….
Both are separate pages.. as ALL pages are separate pages…. and, thus, both have separate PR’s….
However, Google does NOT view brucewagner.wordpress.com as it own domain…. No… the TOP LEVEL domain of brucewagner.wordpress.com will always be… wordpress.com
Mind you, what we are talking about here… is Google’s internal search engine algorithms… which are confidential… and highly guarded secrets, in fact… On top of that, they are ever-changing…
But some information about them does leak out… and shared experiences also lead experts to an understanding of how they work — or at least, how they work TODAY.
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We have a very low tolerance for blogs created purely for search engine optimization or commercial purposes, machine-generated blogs, and will continue to nuke them, so if that’s what you’re interested in WordPress.com is not for you.
It’s VERY Very very obvious…. to anyone who reads my blog… that it was not created “purely for search engine optimization”…
But thanks.
: )
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Not sure where on the site you’re looking but a quick look at their Home Page -> Recommended Sites -> Recommended Unix Web hosting shows all those hosts as ones that pay out about $80-$125 for a new client in affiliate fees.
I would assume that “Recommended” is an ADVERTISING section….
But… If you click on “Web Host Awards” and “Best Hosting Company”, you’ll be taken to the list…
Or, start here: http://www.hostreview.com/webhostaward/200605top10webhostingcompany.html
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