Luckily I didn't have to deal with any sites at the scale of yours. I had been using (mt) for roughly 15 years to host some small sites for myself, and friends and family. With all the changes I opted to move things over to vultr and didn't look back. It's more powerful than a shared host (like what you opted for with GoDaddy). But I'm still saving so much money. And I've never been a fan of GoDaddy, so jumping ship was, I guess, inevitable.
I had never heard of vultr, and it looks really great. The pricing is extremely reasonable and the features seem excellent. If I need to get back into using a more powerful web hosting server, vultr right now is at the top of my list! :P
Ohhh wow man! Not to offend, but you are running a PHP dinosaur? 😳 so much respect! But I can highly recommend using a headless CMS and a static site generator like Nuxt or Nextjs.
The benefit is that you can host it probably cheaper with Vercel or Netlify 👍, next the user has a super fast website because it’s completely static ☺️
If you need help please let me know! My blog and GeneratorXYZ are running on Nuxt at Vercel 👍
Believe me, if I could do this, I would. The challenge is that the site was built using FrontPage in the late 1990's to early 2000's, switched to Expression Web, and then Dreamweaver now. The templating solution is server-side includes (was FrontPage's "Include Page" and now Apache's standardized solution). Every new page I have created since the 1990's is a "Save As" of an older page. This means I have over 4000 pages of content that rely on server-side includes and have very subtle changes to the structure and layout - changes that creeped in over many redesigns in the past 25 years.
For these reasons, moving to a headless CMS or anything more modern would be complete rewrite and copy/paste. These benefits would largely be hidden from the site's visitors and my current workflow is very much the same as writing a rich text document. In other words, I don't mind the current workflow. If Dreamweaver ever gets discontinued and stops working on any modern OS, then I'll have to very strongly consider migrating to whatever is state-of-the-art.
I've been on domain.com. It's okay, not great. I moved almost everything to domain.com to save some money, but then they raised their prices. I've been a GoDaddy customer in one form or another for 21 years, so it makes sense to go back there. I've used a bunch of hosts, and they seem to have the right combination of ease-of-use for a good price.
I did much the same about a year ago. It was an odd feeling, had me thinking I was letting go of something that seemed more like Brick and Mortar and switching to something in the ether of the web. I Use Firebase, Firebase Functions, GitHub WorkFlow, and Google Docs as CMS... lots more perks than the Hosting solution I paid 💸💸💸 for with all its falling behind technologies - well, unless I upgraded. Now I just pay for my Domain name and the rest is literally free 😊
Luckily I didn't have to deal with any sites at the scale of yours. I had been using (mt) for roughly 15 years to host some small sites for myself, and friends and family. With all the changes I opted to move things over to vultr and didn't look back. It's more powerful than a shared host (like what you opted for with GoDaddy). But I'm still saving so much money. And I've never been a fan of GoDaddy, so jumping ship was, I guess, inevitable.
I had never heard of vultr, and it looks really great. The pricing is extremely reasonable and the features seem excellent. If I need to get back into using a more powerful web hosting server, vultr right now is at the top of my list! :P
Ohhh wow man! Not to offend, but you are running a PHP dinosaur? 😳 so much respect! But I can highly recommend using a headless CMS and a static site generator like Nuxt or Nextjs.
The benefit is that you can host it probably cheaper with Vercel or Netlify 👍, next the user has a super fast website because it’s completely static ☺️
If you need help please let me know! My blog and GeneratorXYZ are running on Nuxt at Vercel 👍
Believe me, if I could do this, I would. The challenge is that the site was built using FrontPage in the late 1990's to early 2000's, switched to Expression Web, and then Dreamweaver now. The templating solution is server-side includes (was FrontPage's "Include Page" and now Apache's standardized solution). Every new page I have created since the 1990's is a "Save As" of an older page. This means I have over 4000 pages of content that rely on server-side includes and have very subtle changes to the structure and layout - changes that creeped in over many redesigns in the past 25 years.
For these reasons, moving to a headless CMS or anything more modern would be complete rewrite and copy/paste. These benefits would largely be hidden from the site's visitors and my current workflow is very much the same as writing a rich text document. In other words, I don't mind the current workflow. If Dreamweaver ever gets discontinued and stops working on any modern OS, then I'll have to very strongly consider migrating to whatever is state-of-the-art.
Wow! FrontPage and Dreamweaver 😅 that’s oldskool! Well as long as it works for you and if the website is functioning optimal, let’s keep it 💪
I have to do this in a few months and I’ve been thinking of going back to GoDaddy. Thanks for the timely write up!
Hi Jim - glad this helped. Just out of curiosity, who are you hosting with today and why are you planning on going back to GoDaddy? 😀
I've been on domain.com. It's okay, not great. I moved almost everything to domain.com to save some money, but then they raised their prices. I've been a GoDaddy customer in one form or another for 21 years, so it makes sense to go back there. I've used a bunch of hosts, and they seem to have the right combination of ease-of-use for a good price.
I did much the same about a year ago. It was an odd feeling, had me thinking I was letting go of something that seemed more like Brick and Mortar and switching to something in the ether of the web. I Use Firebase, Firebase Functions, GitHub WorkFlow, and Google Docs as CMS... lots more perks than the Hosting solution I paid 💸💸💸 for with all its falling behind technologies - well, unless I upgraded. Now I just pay for my Domain name and the rest is literally free 😊
That is the way to do it, John! 😎