Connor Whitehall

Connor Whitehall writes about web hosting, WordPress infrastructure, and eCommerce platforms for BitsFromBytes from Edinburgh, where he runs a small DevOps consultancy that manages more than forty WordPress sites in production for clients across the UK and Europe. He has been deploying WordPress since 2014, has contributed patches to two open-source WordPress plugins, and maintains a personal test bench of seven different hosting providers that he uses as a controlled environment for reviews. Connor is AWS Certified Solutions Architect and has opinions about Cloudflare, Nginx caching, and SSL termination that he will share at dinner parties whether you ask or not. His hosting reviews are built from real production-grade load testing using tools he has built himself, not from the vendor-provided dashboards. He is allergic to affiliate-driven best-of lists that do not disclose methodology. In his free time he restores 1970s synthesizers and runs a small bandcamp electronic music label with three other Edinburgh-based producers.

Web hosting, WordPress infrastructure, eCommerce platforms (Shopify/Wix/Squarespace), SSL/CDN, domains, networking hardware