Re: Canadian WordPress Hosting

From: Riley Childs <riley_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 20:38:43 -0500
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Why in Canada? You will be hard pressed to find that

Riley Childs
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> On Nov 7, 2013, at 4:48 PM, Cynthia Ng <cynthia.s.ng_at_GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Kevin. Servers need to be in Canada, preferably paid in Canadian but
> I don't think that's necessary. I'll looking your recommendation.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Kevin Hawkins <
> kevin.s.hawkins_at_ultraslavonic.info> wrote:
> 
>> Does the entity you pay need to be in Canada (that is, accept payment in
>> Canadian dollars), or do the servers need to be there?  Or both?
>> 
>> I use http://www.csoft.net/ for my personal hosting.  Their business
>> office is in Canada, but I'm unclear on where their servers are.  Their
>> documentation is written assuming you have strong technical skills, but
>> they respond quickly (and tersely) whenever I've needed help to address
>> gaps in my skills.  They have some specific instructions for installation
>> of WordPress once you've connected to them through SSH:
>> 
>> http://www.csoft.net/docs/wordpress.html.en
>> 
>> They also have documentation in French in case that's helpful.
>> 
>> --Kevin
>> 
>> 
>>> On 2:59 PM, Cynthia Ng wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>> 
>>> Apologies for cross-posting, but code4lib is much more active, and has
>>> more
>>> Canadians that I've seen.
>>> 
>>> I was wondering if anyone had recommendations for a WordPress hosting
>>> solution? And yes, it needs to be in Canada. I can do most of my own
>>> dev-type work, so really it just needs to be setup to run WordPress
>>> (preferably with 1-click install), and most of all, reliable, hopefully
>>> with good customer service for when we need to contact the company.
>>> 
>>> Okay, also preferable is that they do daily backups for us and has
>>> excellent security (considering it's WordPress).
>>> 
>>> Too many hosting solutions include email and a bunch of other stuff, and I
>>> need it only for WordPress and nothing else.
>>> 
>>> A name, plus at least 1-2 reasons on the recommendation would be great!
>>> 
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Cynthia
>> 
Received on Thu Nov 07 2013 - 20:39:34 EST