Webserver/Wordpress - what hardware?

[satanicguardian]

Hi guys, I have been looking for the last few weeks to move my website, currently hosted on office 365/sharepoint online, to a proper wordpress version.

I would preferably like to host it myself because, alongside this I have a few other sites that need hosting and my misses needs a place for her art website.

I'm guessing I'll need a microserver of some description (if someone could suggest what I may need that would be great).

Also, how would I go about setting this server up to run as FTP and host a website, I've seen various guides but a lot are fairly outdated, I'd probably run server as server 2008 r2 as I already have the software.

I am totally new to this kind of venture, but if anyone knows how I get started with this kind of project, I would be very appreciative of the assistance!

 

[satanicguardian]

Ahh that Vidahost looks handy and easier can I still install wordpress onto it? If so, any idea how?

 

[satanicguardian]

Once you get into cpanel scroll to the plugins (normally at the bottom) click wordpress and then restore your current site to it.

However just to throw another idea out there. Have a look athttp://www.eleven2.com/

Been using them for just under a year very solid had, 5 minutes downtime in total. O and should add their customer service is brilliant!

I have to recreate my site from scratch probably, it's really terrible anyway!
Am I right in saying WP has templates I can build from? I'm currently playing with WP maintaining my day job coimpanies' website

 

[satanicguardian]

Wordpress has thousands of them.

After you've installed the plugin (if it doesn't contain a template you like already) just find one you like download it and then upload it (or ftp) to the wordpress templates directory on your server "/wp-content/themes/".

Easy as pie.

Sounds easy enough, but I'll probably end up flailing around and screwing it up for a while, I'm pretty rubbish with webservers and ftp

Thanks for the help guys!

 

[satanicguardian]

I use a VPS from Linode. Having complete control over the box means I can use it for other stuff like Vent etc...

That's a pretty good idea, what kinda costing is that compared to just vidahost?