We just signed up with a $10 per month business plan with pSek to host our WordPress MU sites and so far, we’ve been impressed with their technical support. Over the past two weeks, we’ve placed a few support tickets to help us get our WordPress site up and running. (We set the priorities in […]
Classroom Blogs, Bluehost CPU Throttling and pSek Webhosting
Update: We’re no longer with pSek. We did set up a multi-user version of WordPress for our class blogs on pSek, but in the end, we found we needed more than shared hosting. Right now, we use BlueHost (shared hosting) for this classroom technology blog, but we use VPS.net (virtual private servers) for most of […]
Still using WordPress for our Classroom Website
We’re just creating our new classroom website for the 2009-2010 year. We had it up and running in about 15 minutes by setting up WordPress 2.8.4 (3 minutes to create the site; 12 minutes to cut and paste the content from our Meet the Teacher newsletter.) How to Make a Class Website Should I use […]
WordPress Roles and Capabilities: How to get Students and Teachers to Put Content on Your School or Class Website
We use WordPress as the engine behind our school website and classroom blogs. It’s great because you can log in to the class website online and use the web interface to add contest to your website. But WordPress also allows you to set up various levels of access to your site by changing the user […]
Why we chose Bluehost to run our Classroom Blogs
UPDATE (Dec 2009): Why we’re thinking of leaving Bluehost. Paying for a web host to run your own self-hosted WordPress blog is not for everybody. In fact, it’s for very few teachers out there. If you’re new to blogging, start out with a free WordPress blog, either at WordPress.com or Edublogs.org. Try it out, create […]