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November 23rd 2022

WordPress Hosting

New to WHT, vintagebob has a WordPress site with relatively low traffic and hosted on a basic linux shared package, "nothing too fancy" as he puts it. He's been considering switching to a host that specifically offers "WordPress hosting" which allegedly is optimised for WordPress. He's hoping that such hosting would offer a little more in the way of a zippier website, although he's aware that CMS-based sites tend to be a little slower. He asks if these packages are worth bothering with or what else he could be considering in a shared package that can get the best out of his WordPress site. And, in terms of any recommendations, he's hoping to host in the UK or nearby such as the Netherlands. So, is WordPress hosting, as advertised by some hosts, really a thing, or is it a marketing ploy? What makes WordPress specific hosting different from regular shared hosting? Share your thoughts and experiences in the thread.

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November 2022 Server Parts Pricing Report

Hot off the press this month, Gabe's server parts pricing report for November 2022 is now available. Starting in 2019, he's been tracking and reporting on changing parts prices for RAM, SSDs, Hard Drives, CPUs, and various GPUs, and sharing it on WHT. He's continuing to gather all listed prices from eBay, prefering to focus on used hardware as these prices change more frequently and this gives a better feel for changes over time. Prices are as of 7th November 2022. Don't forget to check the "noteworthy changes" comments at the end of his report, which highlight variations that have been picked up on from the previous month, including in this month's report "noteworthy price drops among other parts, such as the Samsung PM863 1.92TB SATA, 14TB HDD, most DDR4 and DDR3 RAM types, and the Intel Xeon Platinum CPUs". If you want to see more parts added to the list, or have any feedback on how to make this report more useful, please let Gabe know in the thread!

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News from around the hosting industry

Our Industry News section is the place to find current headlines from around the world of hosting and infrastructure, but other general interest threads pop up in other sections of the forum, especially The Lounge. Here we we highlight just some of the interesting news items from around the forum:

• Prime Data Centers to build largest Chicago data center - The've broken ground on their $1B Chicago data center campus in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. Prime ORD will deliver more than 750,000 square feet and 175 megawatts of capacity at full build-out, creating the largest DC campus in Greater Chicago. ORD-01, the first of 3 planned, campus data centers, will be marketed to major cloud providers, global Internet businesses, colocation companies, and the Fortune 500 enterprise as a single-tenant, hyperscale data center.
• Iron Mountain to build another data center in Phoenix - They've announced the purchase a 10 acre land parcel in Phoenix, Arizona, along with a 50+ MVA (expandable to 100+ MVA) substation to develop a 36 megawatt, 230K square foot data center on the land adjacent to Iron Mountain’s existing 39-acre campus that houses its AZP1 (41 megawatt) and AZP2 (48 megawatt) data centers. Phase one of the AZP3 expansion is expected to be delivered in 2024.
• DigitalOcean opens new Sydney data center - This is the ninth global region for DigitalOcean and 15th facility overall. SYD1 is connected to DigitalOcean's private internet edge and backbone network, providing 400 Gbps of on-net access to Asia, North America, and Europe. It will also provide seamless peering with hyperscalers. The cloud computing market in Australia is expected to grow 12.5% by 2025, with cloud spending by SMBs expected to grow marginally faster than enterprise organizations.
• AWS launches Spanish cloud region - It becomes AWS' eighth infrastructure region in Europe, located in Aragón. It will have three data centers (or availability zones) as it does in other regions. Amazon previously stated it is investing €2.5 billion ($2.6bn) in Spain over the next 10 years, claiming to create around 1,300 full-time jobs. Existing AWS European Regions are located in Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Milan, Paris, Stockholm, and Zurich.

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The Black Friday sales have started!

Black Friday is almost here and, true to form, many hosts have already posted their once-in-a-year special offers in our advertising sections. If you're looking for a bargain and have been holding off waiting for this special time of the year, don't delay! It's time to grab a deal from the offer threads being posted daily, even hourly! Head on over to WHT's Advertising Forums and snap up a bargain! Good luck with your search! Click Here or scan the QR code

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