is $230 a fair price to upgrade wordpress?

Because managed means "we will watch your server" and your paying for the privilege. They will charge you an incident fee if you are running unmanaged servers.

lol.. charging that for something that can be done with one click and takes just 5 secs...

That was what I was thinking. 1.5 to 2.8 or something. With all the plugins a person can have and they may have other customizations. 1.5 is not a just click to upgrade version of wordpress. It is nice to see GFY still has a ton of Newbies that don't think before they make smart ass comments.

I will pay you $50 if you give me the honors of upgrading your wordpress!

way too high, i wouldnt even bother with upgrades myself because its too low of a job to be worth while

I wouldn't think the extreme is true. Someone that actually has a 1.5 installed, that isn't hacked to death, that simply needs an upgrade... Probably not. And if it is the extreme, the host should probably know about it, as the Wordpress install is more than likely hacked and your db is trashed. Prob going to need a tad more than an upgrade.

... anyway, just making sure your thinking before you speak.

Even if its from an older version, unless he has some very weird plugins running, or major mods done at most it would be 70.00 labor wise to do an upgrade. I've done lots of 1.5 to newest versions without any real issues.

dragging that stuff into a folder on your server... for $230? That bastard! Undercutting everyone!

Skipped reading entire thread but thread starters post.

All I can say is its simple, have your host do it. If your not on a fully managed box and you dont know how to upgrade WP yourself your pissing up a down spout.

Bottom line, Mojo Host TODAY upgraded no less then 10 WP installs for me and took not too long at all. Get in the game mate, get with mojo.

hey im back. I had my host upgrade it for me once and there were a lot of php errors in the headers when they were done and it was bad. My blog is bigger now and makes more money so I dont want to fuck it up

exactly. its a big difference and theres so many little things that can fuck up. But when i offered $150 he didnt respond lol.

I dont even want to upgrade but it got hacked from a worm and now I have to. I hate upgraading, iIlove older simpler versions of things.

I can do it for $20.

see, the problem here is that based on the answers I saw in this thread most people that posted smart ass comments have no clue about what they're talking about. It's not a coincidence that Grouchy Admin and Woj gave the most valuable input so far: they know their shit.

If you're upgrading from 1.5 to 2.8 there are many variables that can go wrong. Non working plugins is the easiest one. Let's follow with database issues, database tables left by plugins that won't work, themes with deprecated tags (hello!!! 1.5 and 2.8 tags are quite different!!!!), possible javascript issues and so on. It's evident most people here thinks they just need to upgrade automatically (which, of course, won't work) and that all versions between 1.5 and 2.8 didn't even exist. Let alone if you were already attacked and you still have vulnerabilities in your server.

In short, the question is: can you pay it? if answer is yes: will it save you a headache? will you continue to make money? is it worth the time you'll save instead of having to learn things you'll ever need in the future? can you afford to let newbies handle a site that makes you money? Consider all that, ask for guarantees and references and then act accordingly. And don't pay attention to GFY funny guys, they won't save your business, they can't even save theirs!

PS: the above being said, unless your site is a real mess, the price is a little high. If your site is a mess (which is quite possible since you were attacked and already had a failed install by your server guys), and they can guarantee results, the price is really low

PS2: see a list of deprecated tags at http://core.trac.wordpress.org/brows...deprecated.php

PS3: see what it takes to upgrade 1.5 to 2.0 at http://tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/upgrade2two/ Then think this is the easiest one (1.5 to 2.0) 2.8 has even more changes

It is very fair for the seller.