Managed Wordpress Hosting

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Managed WordPress hosting means that hosts handle basic hosting administrative tasks, such as installing WordPress, security, speed, WordPress updates, daily backups, website uptime, and scalability. For your business to succeed online today you have to juggle all sorts of things; everything from marketing, hosting, social media, advertising, content creation, etc. This can all become quickly overwhelming and very stressful. Your business deserves the best and a managed WordPress host can help give you that competitive edge.
 
What is Managed WordPress Hosting?
 
All web hosting company can handle WordPress, best managed WordPress hosting has been optimized for WordPress websites specifically.
 
More than that, it usually features some side-services revolving around things like expert support, automatic updates, backups, and so on. Think, a concierge WordPress hosting package, where you not only get the hosting, but also everything else that will enrich your experience further.
 
Essentially, having your website hosted on a managed WordPress hosting platform gives you the freedom of not having to worry about the technical stuff, and simply focus on what’s the true essence of your work online – running your business, publishing content, selling your products and etc.
 
Most importantly, with managed WordPress hosting, you get access to expert support that’s always ready to solve any issue you might have. With shared hosting plans, on the other hand, you have no certainty that the person on the other end will be knowledgeable about WordPress and/or able to solve a specific problem related to the platform.
 
Managed WordPress Hosting
 
The third crowd of people are typically small to medium-sized businesses, high traffic blogs, and companies looking for specialized enterprise WordPress hosting. This crowd realizes that a managed WordPress hosting is a good investment because it saves them manpower, time, and usually offers better performance since it is fine-tuned for the CMS. Plans for managed WordPress hosting typically range anywhere from $25 to $150 a month or more depending on the size of your site and needs. Large companies like jQuery, Plesk, Dyn, and NGINX are all using WordPress to host their website. Check out our in-depth post on 100+ top WordPress sites dominating the web to see more examples.
 
Why Would I Need Managed WordPress Hosting?
 
Many website owners wonder if managed hosting is worth the extra money, but if you’ve got big plans for your website, it makes a lot of sense. Here are the benefits in more detail:
 
# Specifically Optimized for WordPress The servers are fine-tuned and optimized for WordPress alone. A specialist service is always better than a general one.
# Auto-updates The software behind your site automatically updates to the latest version, so it’s always at the highest performance. There’s no need to check and install updates manually.
# Bulletproof Security Security is perhaps the biggest incentive to upgrade to a managed host. The auto-updates and specialist hosting environment means it’s better guarded against hackers and other security issues. As you’ll see, most hosting platforms run regular security checks, and may actively remove malware.
# Super Speed A slow website can negatively affect your sales, conversions, and user experience, but speeding things up manually takes a lot of effort and skill. The best hosting uses built-in caching and (often) provides a CDN to super-charge your website speed automatically.
# Auto-backups Managed WordPress hosting platforms typically offer daily backups. You can sleep soundly knowing you won’t lose your website if the worst happens!
# 24/7 Support It’s always good to know there’s an expert on the end of a phone if you start getting unexplained 505 errors. Managed hosting packages usually include access to a premium support service so you can skip the queue and speak to real developers.
# Flexible & Scalable for Huge Traffic Managed hosts can handle a lot more traffic and bandwidth than a shared host. If you get a sudden spike of traffic, your site won’t crash.
 
Bottom line: It’s always up to date, always fast, always backed up, always secure.
 
Is Managed WordPress hosting for me?
 
Whether you are small, medium or large websites or those that are just getting started, Managed WordPress hosting might be overkill. A simple shared host may be sufficient in this case. Having said that, I still recommend managed hosting for beginners and pros alike. Our managed wordpress hosting ideal for:
 
1. Support
 
The first one reason comes in mind you should choose managed WordPress hosting is the term support. Typically managed WordPress hosting providers only deal with the WordPress platform. Our support team here use WordPress on a daily basis. So when it comes to choosing a host with a reliable and knowledgeable support team, managed WordPress hosts typically will be a level above the rest, simply because they live and breathe WordPress on a daily basis.
 
2. Performance
 
The second reason to choose a managed WordPress hosting provider is that their environments are typically fine-tuned to work with WordPress. If you go with a shared host they will typically be on more barebone machines and you will need to spend time installing software and optimizing to obtain the same speeds that a managed WordPress host offers out the box.
 
For example, lots of managed WordPress hosts including us had implemented server-level caching and or full page caching. What that means is that caching is handled by us. There’s no need to hassle with figuring out what the fastest caching plugin is because you won’t need one. This alone can save you a lot of frustration as caching plugins are never fun to deal with. And in most scenarios, server-level caching is much faster than any plugin.
 
A high-performance managed WordPress host like us also provide you with the latest and greatest architecture. This includes utilizing technologies such as PHP 7, MariaDB, redis caching and NGINX with cloudflare plus free SSL which have all been proven to be one of the fastest combinations for WordPress.
 
3. Global Network
 
With Cloudflare network is powered by 149 data centers around the world. Every new Cloudflare data center improves the performance, security and reliability of millions of websites, as we expand our surface area to fight growing attacks and serve web requests even closer to the Internet user. Cloudflare global network is the backbone of our CDN and other services covering Australia, Asia, Africa, Middle east, Europe, North & South America.
 
4. Automatic Backups
 
What would you do if you suddenly lost everything? You should always be prepared for the worst-case scenario, and this includes always having backups of your WordPress site. A good managed WordPress hosting provider should always include automatic backups for no additional charge. With shared hosts typically backups are included, but in the higher cost plan. We include automatic backups of all WordPress sites for free, no additional setup is required. This is very handy if perhaps you are installing something new and want to ensure you don’t break anything.
 
5. Free SSL
 
It is proved that sites with SSL are friendly to search engines and the presence of SSL Certificate improves the positioning of your site, especially Google, which is very important. With SSL, you add a fat slice of consumers to your recipe, since this certificate protects your store against cyber assaults, assuring consumers the visibly of safe environment for shopping. The SSL certificate is a way to guarantee privacy on the web and most of the users already know it. In general, consumers who buy online recognize a secure site by checking signs like HTTPS in the address bar, the protective seal, among others. With this, a business website owner can build confidence in the brand. Also, to get the certificate that provides secure browsing, the identity of your website needs to be confirmed by a certificate authority, that is, you get the advantage of having your site legitimized as a representation of your brand.
 
6. Security
 
And security! Typically in shared hosting environments they don’t provide any assistance if you are hacked or if you encounter malware. If your site is hacked on a shared hosting, you are responsible. A lot of managed WordPress hosting providers include support if your site is hacked and they have systems in place to protect you from malware.
 
We take WordPress security very seriously here and have implemented active and passive measures to stop attacks and malicious intent in its tracks. We even offer free hack repair and malware removal. If your site is infected our support team is most likely already cleaning it up. We also have software in place to detect DDoS attacks as they happen. Hardware firewalls are in place and have very tight software-based restrictions and malware scanning daemons that run continuously in the background to protect your WordPress site.
 
If you pick a web hosting provider that offers the above features, not only will it save you time, but it will also give you peace of mind knowing that if anything ever happens that the host has your back! It’s important to invest in secure WordPress hosting.
 
As you can see there are a lot of benefits from choosing managed WordPress hosting over shared hosting or a VPS. Yes, managed hosting costs more money, but you should treat this as an investment in your business. How much is your time, peace of mind, and data integrity worth to you? If you have any questions regarding hosting for your business we are only one click away here. Let us help take you to the next level.
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