Date: Monday – July 15, 2024
Time: 6pm – 8pm PDT

This will be a panel discussion about hosting providers from Shared Hosting to VPS (Virtual Private Server) and what that could mean for support, performance, and price. We’ll talk about un-managed hosting, managed hosting, and WordPress managed hosting and why that matters to you. We share a broad perspective in the hosting world and look forward to helping everyone in their journey to publishing their websites.

You can add your hosting questions in the comments before the meetup. That will help us to gather and understand some of the issues you’re having.

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Speakers: Doug Knoyle (DK), Eric D. Leuthardt, Eagle, Mary Ann Aschenbrenner, & Doug Rider

All of us host websites for ourselves and our clients. We’ve come from a long perspective in the hosting world. Hopefully we can help you to prevent some of the mistakes that we’ve made (except Eric:) in our website hosting journey.

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Note: This will be an online event using Zoom. If you don’t already have an account, you can sign up for free at https://zoom.us. You can download the desktop software, use a browser extension, or download the mobile app. If you haven’t used Zoom before, please get set up and familiar with it in advance. We recommend you upgrade to the latest version. If you’re using the desktop software, you may need to check for upgrades manually.

For added security, the Zoom link will not be public. You must RSVP to see it.

Along the bottom of the Zoom window are buttons to mute/unmute your microphone, enable/disable your video, and access the Participants, Chat, and Reactions panels.

Everyone else will be prevented from screen sharing during the meetup for security and to prevent interruptions. Your audio and video should be off by default when you join the call, but you may want to double-check when you join. You can unmute yourself and turn on your video, but please note that you may be included in the recording. If you unmute yourself, please only do so temporarily while you’re asking your question, which helps reduce background noise in the recording.

If you have a question, please click the button to “raise your hand.” Depending on your version of Zoom, this will be located in the Reactions panel. Our presenter will take breaks to answer questions, and our moderator will call on whoever has their hand raised. You can unmute yourself while you ask your question and then mute yourself and lower your hand after you’re done.

You can use the Chat panel to introduce yourself and converse with others, but if you have a question for the presenter, remember to “raise your hand.” We won’t monitor the chat as frequently, so questions may be overlooked.

Once it’s been processed, we’ll record the presentation and link to the video in the comments.

If time permits, we’ll open up the conversation after the presentation. We encourage people to converse in our Portland Slack group for general WordPress discussion at any time. You can join our Portland Slack Group.