Dreampress not running latest WP

  • I signed up for a Dreampress account yesterday and tried importing my site over. I ran into some issues and after some investigation realized that Dreampress is running mysql 5.1! The latest version requires 5.5+ because of changes to the encoding type (utf8mb4). It seems like the latest version of WP that Dreampress supports is 4.0, which doesn’t include the critical security update in 4.2+. I chatted with several members of their support team but they all seem to avoid the question (which is veerrryy frustrating!).

    Does anyone know of other “managed WP hosts” that stay up-to-date with the latest versions of WP? Performance is important but I would argue that staying up-to-date with the latest security updates is just as important? I’ve spent nearly a full day troubleshooting this and I’d like to avoid going down that rabbit hole with another host!

    Thanks!

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    Does anyone know of other “managed WP hosts” that stay up-to-date with the latest versions of WP?

    Per the Forum welcome, we close topics like this due to the amount of spam that they attract. The WordPress team has provided a list of a few recommended hosting providers. For more details and other recommendations, please search through the forums or via Google (or your preferred search engine).

    (Note: By closing this post I neither support nor condemn the use of the servers listed on the www.ads-software.com official hosting page, and encourage you to search around.)

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