LWP's two recommended WordPress hosts: Hostinger the beginner-friendly value pick, SiteGround the more premium one — both with the free-subdomain feature the method leans on.
Pick this whenHosting WordPress with full plugin freedom at sane prices — against wordpress.com and Elementor Hosting, both refused by the course.
What makes it different
Free subdomains by the hundred: the staging-and-portfolio mechanism of the LWP workflow
WordPress-optimized packages under $10/mo (promo pricing)
What it does
Stores and serves site files; provides subdomains, email, WP-optimized stacks
What it does not do
Common wrong expectationsDoesn't lock your page builder (the Elementor Hosting objection) or limit plugins (the wordpress.com objection)
Where it sits in a stack
The bottom layer: files live here; WordPress manages them; domains point here.
ShelfBackend, hosting & code
Our status · watchCourse recommendation; Paul's hosting choices are his own.
For your projectsSubdomain-as-staging maps to any site migration Paul runs, including TanStack upgrades.
| Session | Coverage | Moment | What happened |
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| Session 29: Build Always-On Assistants — Autonomy Is Designed, Not Switched On (OpenClaw on a VPS, Hermes on the Desktop) | demonstrated | | hPanel, VPS KVM2 self-managed, Docker container management, gateway token. The managed one-click OpenClaw plan is shown and explicitly rejected. |
| Section 5: The Building Workflow — Starter Template, Build Order, and Delivery | demonstrated | | Subdomain creation + per-subdomain WordPress installs; staging tools; SiteGround Optimizer |
| Section 7+8: Speed, Security, and Fleet Management — plus the Course Close | demonstrated | | Cloud tiers, backup retention windows, security documentation, optimizer plugins — the chapter's spine |
| AI Sprint: OpenClaw — Session 1 (Infrastructure, Not Agent: the Seven Documents, 1-Click VPS, and Model Routing) | demonstrated | | 1-click managed OpenClaw (~$11/mo), Nexos credits, the dashboard walkthrough — the sprint's beginner rail |
| AI Sprint: OpenClaw — Session 2 (Token Anatomy, Claude Code Inside the Server, Skills, and Multi-Agent Workspaces) | demonstrated | | h-panel root access, Docker manager project name, browser terminal (not recommended for Claude Code) |
| Office Hours XII: Building Paul's Second Brain — the Full Project-Management System, Live | explained | 0:19 | The VM host for the co-located second brain |
| Session 27: Lead Magnets as Proof Artifacts — the Mega-Prompt Build, Four Live Magnets, and the Skill That Packages the Workflow | explained | | VPS hosting Jarvis |
| 24/7 Chief of Staff: Building 'Jarvis' - Hermes Agent as the Brain on an Azure VM, DeepSeek Harness as the Pluggable Face, Agent Client Protocol Instead of MCP, a Realtime Voice Orb, and Tailscale to Keep It Yours | explained | 0:43:00 | One-click alternative home |
| Bonus + Demo Day: Self-Hosting n8n with Docker (Cloud vs Local Decision, the n8n_data Volume, Credentials, ngrok) and How the Hackathon Was Judged | explained | | Managed n8n ~$5/month; the middle path |
| Chapter 1: The Mindset — Figma Is a Sandbox, and Your Brain Is the Obstacle | explained | | His hosting; Cloud Startup plan named, 'livingwithpixels' discount code as-heard |
| Section 1: Orientation — What Elementor Really Is (and What It Sits On) | explained | | The two recommended hosts; subdomain feature is load-bearing |
| AI Sprint: The Hermes Agent — Day 1 (Always-On Agents, the Employee-on-Day-One System, and the Self-Improving Ghostwriter) | explained | | 1-click Hermes/OpenClaw installs — the always-on hosting lane and 'safer sandbox' |
| AI Sprint: The Hermes Agent — Day 2 (Loop Engineering: the Scheduling Loop, the Delegation Loop, and the Skill Auditor) | explained | | The always-on host that makes crons trustworthy — 'your laptop is off at 7 AM' |
| Office Hours III: Backing Up Claude Chats with Obsidian, Bridging Chat and Cowork, What Fable Is For, and the Context-Rot Problem | mentioned | | VPS for Hermes |
| Office Hours V: Paul's Compliance Scanner Meets Firecrawl, Painkillers vs Vitamins, What a Real Second Brain Costs, and Why Selling Got Harder | mentioned | | Host the productised n8n workflow |
| Office Hours VI: Paul's SEO/AEO/GEO Question - Moving a Lovable Site into GitHub and Claude Code, the GEO Skill, llms.txt, and CLIs as the Glue | mentioned | | Preferred VPS |
| Office Hours XIV: Story Before Landing Page, Scoping an Agentic-Web Pitch, the Cost of Compute, Automating Past Google, and the Idea Bank | mentioned | 0:56 | Hourly GPU rental |
| How to Build Vertical Harnesses: The Car Analogy, a Reusable Folder Template, and Live Builds that Print a Keycap, Replace a TV's Bloatware, and Reach Physical Devices Over SSH and Tailscale | mentioned | 2:12:00 | |
| Day 13: Front End Meets Backend — Lovable to n8n by Webhook and .env, the Lovable<->n8n MCP Connector, Respond to Webhook, and GitHub for Teams | mentioned | | Self-hosting n8n ~$6-10/month |
| Section 4: The Design System — Figma Export, Clean WordPress, and the Class System | mentioned | | Hostinger Cloud's pre-installed plugins are the clutter the cleanup stage deletes |
| AI Masterclass: Exploring Antigravity 2 — Four Products, Four Slash Commands, and Two Live Builds | mentioned | | Named with Vercel as the hosting answer for Antigravity-built apps |