want hosts that offer one touch WP installs

[Ricks-Cams]

This is not new by now all hosts should have added it to their standard setup.

Best post for all hosts to read and act upon.

[jag]

What we can do if our current host does not have this feature, and I will today is email our current host point out this would be a good addition to their hosting packages.

[Sebs]

What we can do if our current host does not have this feature, and I will today is email our current host point out this would be a good addition to their hosting packages.

Good idea will write to my host today

[gotonudecom]

What we can do if our current host does not have this feature, and I will today is email our current host point out this would be a good addition to their hosting packages.

basic wordpress installs are so easy,
download WP from WP.org
unzip in your public_html or equivalent directory

create a database and a superuser for the database!
edit the config file with the database and superuser names and passwords.

Go to the directory in your web browser and follow the directions.

Move your hosting to one of my services, if you do not have one click or can not do this on your own.

[AlexO]

What we can do if our current host does not have this feature, and I will today is email our current host point out this would be a good addition to their hosting packages.

basic wordpress installs are so easy,
download WP from WP.org
unzip in your public_html or equivalent directory

create a database and a superuser for the database!
edit the config file with the database and superuser names and passwords.

Go to the directory in your web browser and follow the directions.

Move your hosting to one of my services, if you do not have one click or can not do this on your own.

You miss the point of why having a one touch WP install in your hosting admin panel is a positive. Any of us can do a WP install, having the function available is a plus. Just the same as any of us can do WP or plugin updates manually, but having them automatically update is a plus.

[gotonudecom]

What we can do if our current host does not have this feature, and I will today is email our current host point out this would be a good addition to their hosting packages.

basic wordpress installs are so easy,
download WP from WP.org
unzip in your public_html or equivalent directory

create a database and a superuser for the database!
edit the config file with the database and superuser names and passwords.

Go to the directory in your web browser and follow the directions.

Move your hosting to one of my services, if you do not have one click or can not do this on your own.

You miss the point of why having a one touch WP install in your hosting admin panel is a positive. Any of us can do a WP install, having the function available is a plus. Just the same as any of us can do WP or plugin updates manually, but having them automatically update is a plus.

I did not miss the point.
My servers have Automated WP installs,

You missed the point.
The Point is, I don't need Automated WP installs.

Automatic updates are for Noobs. If you do not know the cons of automated updates, then NOOB!

[greatpornlinks]

Automatic updates are for Noobs. If you do not know the cons of automated updates, then NOOB!

Care to explain why you feel that way?

[gotonudecom]

Automatic updates are for Noobs. If you do not know the cons of automated updates, then NOOB!

Care to explain why you feel that way?

yes!
Not a feeling, experience!

When you run currently and have manages in the past, as many sites that are generating hundreds of thousands of dollars per month or even millions per month in revenue, you learn many things.
number one is that down time costs this level of site a lot of money for every second the site is down.
One visitor rejected could be the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Depending on the site, of course.
Adult webmasters can lose, $0 nothing per visitors to a few hundred dollars( with recurring income) per visitor lost for down time. Thus most adult webmasters care very little for minor down time issues.
To use @tacnet as an example and maybe he can confirm.
Downtime for a membership site, can lead to thousands in recurring income loss. A few hundred visitors rejects and not allowed to sign up would cause this.

So Automated updated.
My control panel, by default, has a warning about using automated updates.
Google Search wordpress automatic updates cause sites to fail

Sure most of the time on simple web site the automated process goes perfect and the webmaster gets to continue doing whatever while not working responsibly on the site.

However,
what if you rely on contact form submission and a plugin updates and causes a conflict with v2 of your Google recaptcha.
now your contact form is not working.
and until the client or you notice there was an update and go physically check the functionality of the contact form you have no idea it is not working
you are now losing leads.
I can give you examples for a long time on where this has happened to me. I do manage HUNDREDS of sites.

Next how many times has an update been made available to find out it causes issues and needs to be updated itself and that takes hours or worse days.
Sure the fix for the fix is automated, but had you waited and manually clicked updated after a 7 day waiting period (for example) then you would have zero issues.

Furthermore, automated updates dictate when I will work. I do not want wordpress, themes, or plugins telling me that I must now go and manually verify that the updates did not cause issues on my sites.
I want to pick a site, update everything and test how it went. If it goes perfect, then I can go click update on each and every site. Being confident that the updates will go smooth, but still physically verifying that the site still works.

My clients do test purchases every time there is an update.
The last client found out that the update cause one of the payment options to be removed from the checkout.
Not a business stopper, but definitely additional friction in the checkout. Many people use that option and it was now to available.

Sure it was a simple click to activate, but had the site auto updated and we not been available for too long to find the issue, sales would have been lost. FYI, it was the financing checkout option. Used often and a large percentage of sales.

Basic wordpress sites/ blogs. Sure turn it on. At least security updates.

For complex updates, hell no!

For those of you that do not read my posts often, I am not a one pill person/ one solution person. I like to make sure people understand that Past performance is no guarantee of future results. because it works for some person on this forum does not mean it will work for you.
Because they say click that button does not mean you should blindly with out doing some research determine what that button actually does
pros and cons.
pro you get to play more
con your site could stop making you money, until you stop playing around and acknowledge your site is not making you money.

[gspotman]

Not one time has a plugin update crashed or messed up any of my sites & I use more than a few plugins per blog

[workman]

gotonudecom is right n theory but most of the time if you run 40,50 or 100 blogs you need auto-updates or your day will be spent updating plugins everyday and not working.

[gotonudecom]

gotonudecom is right n theory but most of the time if you run 40,50 or 100 blogs you need auto-updates or your day will be spent updating plugins everyday and not working.

Yes, I agree.
Not sure why you would be updating plugins everyday!
That was my point schedule the updates (Except security updates, those are either automated or soon as I see them type priority.)
If you have a site that works, technically you do not need the updates. Unless security or there is a bug affecting your site.
If the update does not affect your site or security, why do it at all?

I have clients running Wordpress 3 something. Cause they customized the shit out of their sites and then never updated.
There sites don't get hacked or have issues.

I have a single management area for all the Wordpress installs. After waiting for others to test with automatic updates, and solutions be presented, then I test on a few of my sites (client sites, cause then I get paid to test.) Then I can go and one click update on all the others.
That is, as long as the test was successful and the updates go without problem.
Does not hurt much to click 20 update buttons over an hour or two.
Then at least if there is a problem you are watching.

The management area keeps me informed on which sites need to be updated.

I guess it really depends on the level you want to be involved in your site/s.
You did say blogs, which are basically the simplest CMS sites there are. Blogs are what WordPress was made for.

Sure auto update a blog.

I have 68 active plugins on my main development site.
Shit goes wrong several times a month, with scheduled updates.
Forms stop working, etc.
I took over a site and during and update we had to disable all the plugins.
Ended up the developer needs to fix some thing.
However, in the process I determined that two plugins, installed by the site builder, not me. Well these two plugins were being activated alphabetically. You know as you go down the list activating as you are debugging and issue.

Long story short.
The second plugin was required to be activated before the first plugin. No warning, no instructions, no error messages. I had to figure out on my own that number 2 needed to be activated and then number 1.

This sites main services pages were created by using custom post types. When a third plugin was updated the custom post type pages ceased to function.
Over half the sites content vanished from the site, after an update.
Had I not had a procedure to verify every page (type) on the site we would have lost a lot of SEO value.

[bitini]

I am interested in this

[gotonudecom]

I am interested in this

I offer not cheap, but awesome hosting...

[GlennfromLA]

What we can do if our current host does not have this feature, and I will today is email our current host point out this would be a good addition to their hosting packages.

if depends how many blogs you have and plan on setting up per year. If it's a lot of them then get a new host that has the auto install WP function.