Post #982174

2026-04-07 18:10 UTC

I need to find somebody in Canada who sets up Wordpress websites at a reasonable price, hosted on a Canadian server. I want a person who can arrange for webhosting and a security certificate, install Wordpress, add a few plugins and themes, set up a contact form, and provide some help for a new user. This is because I don&#39;t want to be this person. When friends ask for help getting started, I want to provide a name and URL. I&#39;d like to say hey, go over there and think about hiring this person, I will be at the beach and I do not help with websites anymore. If you do this kind of WordPress thing, please let me know. #Wordpress

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@StaceyCornelius@zeroes.ca 2026-04-07 18:37

@KolokokoBird@social.chinwag.org I've built a bunch of WordPress sites and host mine on a good Canadian server. Feel free to message me if you'd like to talk more.

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@nigelharpur@musicians.today 2026-04-07 20:46

@KolokokoBird@social.chinwag.org Hope you get something from this toot. It can be really hard to make people you know accept that just because 'you can' do stuff doesn't mean you ever 'want to' anymore 😉

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@omerida@phpc.social 2026-04-07 20:47

@KolokokoBird@social.chinwag.org @syntaxseed@phpc.social

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@ar1@mastodon.social 2026-04-07 20:51

@KolokokoBird@social.chinwag.org doing this from Germany. And much more. DM for details

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@ml@social.mitexleo.one 2026-04-07 21:04

@KolokokoBird@social.chinwag.org I could help. Unfortunately, I'm not in Canada.

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@MrDOS@hachyderm.io 2026-04-07 21:11

@KolokokoBird@social.chinwag.org What even are the options for boring, cost-effective Canadian shared hosting these days? Last time I looked (some time last year), I found a handful of options which were pretty expensive (well over CA$10/mo for their entry-level package), and another handful which purported to be Canadian but actually quietly operated out of US datacentres. I know there's OVH, but I've had technical issues with their billing system in the past that make me leery of recommending them as a set-it-and-forget-it option. (Specifically, I'm worried that the recurring billing will stop recurring, or set off fraud alarms, and intervention by a suitably technical person will be required to navigate the control panel to set things right again.)

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@gumshoe@hamont.social 2026-04-07 22:57

@KolokokoBird@social.chinwag.org I do this kind of thing. Hosted on my servers at 151 Front. DM for more details.

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@beandreams@friendhole.social 2026-04-08 22:03

@KolokokoBird@social.chinwag.org @echanda@mstdn.ca I call @sherwin@mastodon.social for this kind of thing :)

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