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Originally Posted by balinor
True, the host is priority #1  |
The good news is that high-quality low-cost hosting has become a commodity because of cloud providers, such as Amazon EC2. Using Amazon's EC2 free tier, over the weekend I was able to build a screaming fast CentOS + cPanel host for my x-cart. If people come to these forums here, they can do it themselves too and liberate themselves from other hosting providers.
I am a complete newbie, yet I was able to build the OS, install cPanel, replace Apache with Nginx, secure the host, install x-cart, and install Amazon's CDN solution over a few hours on Sat and Sun. On a fresh x-cart 4.4.4 install I get well under 2 sec complete site render on first visit and under 0.5 sec after that. I get all As from the site tester at
http://www.webpagetest.org All that for $15/mo, which is the cPanel rental cost. Who needs a hosting company anymore?