BRap Hosting for WordPress Blogs
Recently I have been asked “if I offer” / “why don’t I offer” a hosting package on BRap Hosting for WordPress Blogs only.
Cheap Website Hosting
At BRap Hosting we specialize in excellent but cheap website hosting. We have one main hosting package, and it is unlimited hosting. Meaning that there are no limits for disk usage nor for bandwidth, as long as the usage is appropriate for a shared hosting environment. I explain this better in my Knowledgebase article HERE. We also have a special package which allows Streaming. This is also at the low price of $35 per year.
A Simple WordPress Blog
The question goes like this: I don’t know computers so well, I don’t care for the access nor the hassle nor the responsibility of cpanel, nor ftp, nor fantastico. All I want is one thing – to host a simple WordPress blog in my own domain under my own control. I don’t need any access except to my dashboard. Can I get such a package for less than $35 per year?
The truth is that I thought it was a great idea, and I started thinking immediately to implement it. A brand new WordPress blog installed by yours truly on your domain name, for half price, say, something like that.
But then like a flash I realized the pitfall, which makes implemention of such a package impossible. This issue of upgrades. OK, the WordPress upgrades which also come too frequently, this I don’t mind, I’ve done it a million times, and I don’t mind taking it upon myself. However, many bloggers don’t suffice with just a plain blog – they add plugins for all kinds of reasons – features, convenience, esthetics, ecommerce. These also get updates every Monday and Thursday. And for many of these updates you have to have ftp access, which they don’t have. So imagine, I’m making, whatever, a dollar or a dollar and a half per month for such a package, and I am tying myself to it by spending the whole day installing updates. It’s not logical, and it risks not leaving me time to serve my full-service customers with their needs.
So I came up with a compromise: If you take the regular unlimited package for $35/year, with only access to the dashboard of the blog, but not cpanel and ftp access, then I’ll take care of updating the WordPress versions and all the plugins for you. Otherwise I would have to charge for each update, something I don’t want to do, both intrinsically, and also because of other complications from Paypal, which I talked about on a different post.
This is now an article in the Knowledgebase.
