That list should get any business going…
Fair warning: the more plugins you stack, the better hosting and security practices are needed.
You’ll probably need someone full time/on-call to manage a site with that many plugins.
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Get a $1-2 VPS and host everything yourself.
Domain registration and domain hosting are two different things.
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The only issue with hosting things cheap: you don’t have someone on-call 24/7 that can answer questions.
One of the major reasons to stick with Godaddy until you understand self hosted environments is that you can call their reseller hotline 480-624-2500 and get someone able to solve issues with plugins / hosting / FTP / Restoring.
If you can find a hosting company that offers solid customer service like that reseller team. I’m open to bringing a portfolio of budget clients. Siteground is a decent Wordpress host. Dreamhost ain’t bad.
But they don’t compare to having an army of on-call $15hr employees speaking English 24/7 that can tackle issues. From my experience. Inmotion hosting /namecheap even offers nice reseller packages but are heavily reliant on your own talent and problem solving.
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One final goodie if you follow this thread as a guide. When you purchase a Godaddy reseller plan. They also provide you a White Label of Godaddy itself for you to brand and tell your friends about and they get the same 24/7 service and you score commissions…
So if you go the DIY route, you can also pickup side money for helping your friends.
Teach a man to fish.
Get one person to purchase domains, hosting etc from you. You paid for your hosting too.
If you have issues with your Godaddy experience you need to work with their reseller team for a better overall customer experience. They are a different entity.
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yes! that’s exactly what I did to develop my first company!! US Web Developers was how I got started in web dev. I quickly learned I couldn’t trust dreamhost, bluehost, gatorhost, or any other host to stay online 99% (or answer every call with 5/5 english). Godaddy filled that void and never let me down once in all these years. they are cannabis friendly, give great discounts (use honey and wikibuy chrome extensions and save money), and they are all around good at what they do. As mentioned, they offer private hosting (which is one step above managed, and you’re pretty much on your own at that point, but you have so so much more control of everything). I’m hosting 50+ sites on our VPS and it chugs along no problem, had to upgrade a few times, but the capacity is definitely there… and unless you’re ready to step into Amazon AWS for the serious installations, godaddy/wordpress/woocommerce/square seems to be generally accepted as the winning combination. I embrace it for every ecommerce store we operate, and I cannot say enough positive things about it. I will commit to doing a video series on how to do it yourself, because it sounds hard and confusing, but it will be shockingly easy once you get up and running… @moveweight is on point.
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It’s nice to see someone with a client base deserving of upgraded hosting. Godaddy had a $100mo server manager that I feel becomes worth it when you create the savings on a VPS or dedicated.
Are you running WHMCS?
Mostly I just push AWS builds for major clients.
Nice to find talent that shares common interests. Big fan of knowing I’m not alone in the Hash Scene as a computer nerd.
I appreciate the validation of my experience.
To score big. Just google: 99 cent GoDaddy .com and a coupon will appear. Then apply wikibuy/honey on reseller purchase. Should be 30% off coupons around.
I’d be happy to contribute to that series. It’s truly needed.
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Who can give me seo tips for a big commerce hosted site and does the information above in terms of plugins matter for big commerce? I’m assuming that since they are on the wordpress store some may also be designed for big commerce? I have a site but its pretty basic in terms of functionality and idk how to approach it…I am also marketing on the ground but any insight to help my online presence is much appreciated…I dont have much $$$ but im willing to pay for at least $50 but good advice and consult
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You may find your $50 best served on Fiverr.com searching and finding a reputable person is a few clicks away.
I also recommend if not finding anything creating an account and making a request for others to see.
You’ll find this can be sensational if you know exactly what you’re looking for.
I’m happy to review your site and maybe your Fiverr purchase decision.
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I can be found at bigtreecbd.net and the site is built on a free theme but thankfully has SSL so far but has not been seo optimized
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SEO is simple. More is more.
More pages+ More products+ More articles+ More ways to interact= More pages loads.
Meta data areas of each page and product need filled. I’m sure big commerce has a popular SEO plugins you can Google. Find the best plugin or extension or whatever synonym they use and then go to Fiverr and search for someone and that exact subject.
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GoDaddy reseller team will help you with Wordpress development?
We provide 24/7 service for our systems, but we don’t do webdev consults as they aren’t usually the responsibility of a hosting provider.
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Godaddy is heavily invested in Wordpress to the point of owning several Wordpress plugins and products/services.
They will always pitch they’re unable if you have a rookie on the phone who tries to sell you working hours. They won’t install themes for you, but will restore, fix SSL, walk through text editing in FTP.
Your way with words and ability to refund your remaining business with the same person can make them go the extra mile for you.
Reseller team is trained to problem solve hosting/sales/most issues.
Getting them to develop custom work won’t happen, but getting something to work that isn’t will.
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godaddy VPS is my favorite, by far. it just works, and I’ve learned that is so important… to have something turnkey, without requiring modifications or upgrades. never used WHMCS, but might try it out, looks like it could save time for sure.
thank for you the compliment! I very much admire and appreciate your work, would love to see an AWS rollout sometime! definitely not alone out there… I live for exactly this.
VALIDATED for sure 
I should have some time this weekend for the first video, fingers crossed. it will either be easy to follow and everyone will love it, or it will crash and burn and I’ll try again lol. I’ll start thinking of how we could tie in on something together, thanks for the offer!
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This is seriously slick as fk. Nice presentation with the site, excellent presentation with the product
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God I hope this isn’t true. After a year of trial and error I finally got my site up yesterday.
Has anyone else received this message?
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I assume they are going to warn the bigger sites first.
Just so you know, it does not matter a lot you just need to change hosts. There’s been a number of good hosting services mentioned already, I would just confirm they are still okay with CBD/hemp. I’m curious what changed that would instigate Wordpress to change their stance on this. This is just going to push more hemp sellers on to Shopify/EMB since it’s another hurdle
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why don’t people self host on a vps? getting apache running isn’t rocket science.
nor is bootstrap for that matter
ovh boxes are like 3.50 a month
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Honestly, so you don’t have to fix your website when it goes down.
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Friend, I do not think you understand what is happening, but websites and hosts and domains can be confusing, so let me help you
First, ToknCBD is hosting their website with wordpress.
Yes, wordpress is a platform, but wordpress is also a host…
No, websites that use the wordpress platform are not required to use the wordpress hosting.
ToknCBD can fix this by migrating to godaddy in <1 hour… and those of us that are using the wordpress platform DO NOT NEED TO WORRY ABOUT GETTING SHUTDOWN…
It is not possible. It will not happen. Do not worry friend, I can assure you, ToknCBD just needs to get their act together and move to any of the hosts we talked about in this thread… godaddy is still number 1 imho.
No worries! It’s all good.
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