I have worked with several dedicated servers at Rackspace and the experience was a joy. The servers perform very well and the Rackspace managed support was great. So when I learned of Cloudsites which appeared to bundle the great support I had grown to love with a package that seemed great for hosting our sites that didn’t require their own dedicated server I was very excited. Unfortunately, it turns out the Rackspace Cloudsites is unstable, unreliable, and slow. The support is still good, at least in terms of being available, but all they can say is “I’m sorry all your sites are down.”

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We’ve been asked what WordPress plugins we use most often and what we recommend that other people use on their sites. There are quite a few great plugins out there, but here is our top 10 list of WordPress plugins that we have found the most useful and that we use the most often.

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