{"id":666,"date":"2015-09-21T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2015.raleigh.wordcamp.org\/?p=666"},"modified":"2015-09-22T09:19:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T13:19:13","slug":"sharing-is-for-kindergarteners-setting-up-good-wordpress-hosting-for-5-per-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2015\/sharing-is-for-kindergarteners-setting-up-good-wordpress-hosting-for-5-per-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing Is For Kindergarteners: Setting up (Good) WordPress Hosting for $5 per month."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_668\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-668\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-668\" src=\"https:\/\/2015.raleigh.wordcamp.org\/files\/2015\/09\/2300190277_360853ae0d_z-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"How's about a speed boost on your hosting, without breaking the bank? 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He&#8217;s joining our Power User track this year, and we are excited to have him.<\/p>\n<p>Adam will help to demystify what is going on behind the scenes at the server level, and show you how you can set up your own blazing-fast DigitalOcean\u00a0VPS\u00a0to host WordPress for just $5 per month.<\/p>\n<p>While this talk is directed at Power Users, note that a bit of Linux command line knowledge will be useful to get the most out of this session. Don&#8217;t be scared of the command line. Read up on it before you come!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2015.raleigh.wordcamp.org\/tickets\/\">Grab your ticket<\/a> today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is most certainly not to disparage hosting companies who offer shared hosting plans for WordPress (they&#8217;re paying some bills around here, and we really do love them), but if you are ready to take your hosting to the next level, often the options are to pay a hefty fee, or to completely surrender control &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2015\/sharing-is-for-kindergarteners-setting-up-good-wordpress-hosting-for-5-per-month\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sharing Is For Kindergarteners: Setting up (Good) WordPress Hosting for $5 per month.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8613180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6nx1Y-aK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8613180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}