Maintaining a website requires appetite and man-hours, not to mention expenses. WordPress is supposed to be one platform which offers it all ready, but it is not exactly so.
If you choose to host WordPress yourself and do not use the free platform WordPress.com things are not so simple.
They need unlimited hours to deal with server, the software of WordPress, plugins, DNS, security, updates, custom changes, custom plugins, and of course all of this costs money.
At iGuRu.gr we did not choose a managed server because we consider the prices for the product they offer to be excessive. Let the clicks count. For example a managed hosting plan from Kinsta that would serve the audience of iGuRu.gr costs 200 dollars per month.
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So at the moment the page is hosted on a Dedicated VPS with 16 vCore and 64GB RAM. The server is in Europe for the better TTFB extension in Greece.
We use Cloudflare DNS and caching.
Lately all the images of the website are served by a bucket of it Digital ocean with CDN from BunnyCDN.
BunnyCDN, in addition to serving the images, has also undertaken their optimization for display on the Web, as well as their conversion to webp.
Her bucket Digital ocean in addition to hosting all the images of the site, it also serves all the css / js used by WordPress and Theme.
So while the site at one time exceeded 8GB now it is at 279MB.
Almost all domains (iguru.blog, iguru.cloud, iguru.dev, iguru.news, rss.tips, wpress.gr) that we have for our own use lead to the central iguru.gr.
We have also started to transfer as many domains as possible to Cloudflare, as the prices it offers are out of competition. But we are waiting because at the moment Cloudflare does not support all the extensions.
Finally, as we mentioned in a previous post we flew the Yoast SEO plugin because the devs seem to have completely lost it.
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