Unlimited or Dedicated Hosting? I co-founded WPMU DEV and here’s what I’m genuinely using them for…

As you can probably guess, we’ve been ‘staff testing’ the new Unlimited Hosting package behind the scenes for a while.

Which has been useful (we deal with any bugs so you don’t have to) and also super interesting!

But also, it means we’ve been using it for a while. So, given that, I’d like to share with you how I’ve been using Unlimited alongside Dedicated.

Important vs. test / playground

Now the first thing might sound obvious, but I’ve got a bunch of sites that I feel quite strongly about.

Like my own blog (allbeit not updated any more… it’s sentimental), or the sites I maintain for my mum and step-dad.

They are very much staying on Dedicated, although given the amount of traffic they get 😭 they are absolutely fine on Bronze, so I’m leaving them there.

However, there are many, many other sites that are essentially me playing with plugins and ideas and that have virtually zero traffic, and all of those are going onto Unlimited.

When the cost of a new site is basically… nothing

This is where things get really fun.

Now there are loads of great ‘test out WordPress’ sites that I’ve used over the year, I bet you have your favourites.

The old skool InstaWP was great until, um, I think they decided to become us (not awkward at all lol, flattered I guess).

These days TasteWP is pretty great (thanks guys :)

But now those days are gone! At least for me. Because I can just do it here with Unlimited… and it doesn’t expire or disappear in a few days and it has all the bells and whistles.

So I can even spin up sites, do some work on them and present them to clients – I have a few charity clients, besides my parents – and know they will be able to check them out at their leisure.

And given that I can fit at least 60 of them on one $15/m server this basically means that alongside the few small sites that are on there because they get very little traffic, all of these test and sandpit sites are, well, essentially free!

Which I know shouldn’t excite me as much as it does, but well, it still does.

And it takes less than a minute

I know, I know, it is not ‘instant’ but it might as well be.

In less than a minute you have the whole thing in place, it’s fast enough to just watch the progress bar, althoygh that could well just be me though, I mean I am pretty proud of it 😃.

So yep, that’s how I’m using Unlimited these days.

How are you going to use it? Let us know!