: Excellent WordPress unix hosts with SSH access? Possible Duplicate: How to find web hosting that meets my requirements? My boss is sick of DreamHost's excuses. We have a popular

@Kevin317

As much as I personally dislike Dreamhost and encourage you to leave anyway on principle, I'm not sure this is really a hosting issue. I see a few major options:


Dreamhost's VPS plans really, really suck.
Someone customized the VPS config and messed something up
Your WordPress templates are incredibly inefficient and/or something in the WP config(eg. inefficient plugins) is responsible.


I'm leaning toward the second two. That's just not enough traffic that the number in and of itself should be taking out a server; there has to be more going on.

If you still want a recommendation, I like WebFaction. I have a WordPress client on their cheap plan with easily 15x the traffic you're inquiring about and have never seen a significant problem. Technically it's shared hosting, but you have almost as much access as a full VPS, if you happen to need to compile stuff and whatnot. (You didn't say whether VPS was a requirement.)

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@Alves908

I would say that you should go for a VPS, it'll give you more control over things. I'm using Linode.com, they give 512 mb ram vps for just /month and that server will be able to handle the traffic easily.

Now, the issue is that you'd have to setup everything on your own - php, mysql, apache/nginx or whatever you want. Personally, I would suggest that if you want to install then use NGINX as it works flawlessly with WordPress and is lot better than apache in terms of performance.

You can install NGINX, PHP, MYSQL, APC [opcode caching] using this script. It'll install quickly and then you will have to configure a little and it'll be good to go!

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