What is up everyone! This is Ruben. I'm here to tell you everything about WordPress hosting:
what it is, how to pick the right one... the whole shebang.
And today I have a special guest that was super interested in learning more about this topic.
Welcome everyone, my alter ego Steve. Ruben: "What's up man?"
Steve: "Here's your coffee" Ruben: "Take a seat".
Umm, so yeah, I wanted to learn more about this
WordPress hosting you keep talking about. So I guess the first question would be:
"What is WordPress hosting. Okay, so think about it this way,
basically, your website is a bunch of code and a bunch of data that is sent to your visitors'
browsers to be parsed. And your hosting is where that data and code is stored. Basically like a
home for your website so your hosting provider is like a butler and a landlord at the same time.
So you partner with your hosting provider to get that storage space for your website,
and additional services that will help your visitors have access to it.
Actually, you know what, a butler would be more like managed hosting, because technically you can
manage your website without that whole area of services that hosting providers nowadays offer.
And, let's say, automated hosting would be more like having
a smart home system. But more on that later.
And then you have WordPress hosting plans,
which are just plans that are specifically tailored to WordPress
which is the most popular CMS in the world that powers a good big chunk of the internet.
Okay, okay, gotcha.
And what are the differences if any between wordpress hosting and general web hosting?
Okay so the main difference between WordPress hosting and general web hosting
is that wordpress hosting's configs and resources are better optimized for this specific platform.
This means that your server resources will be better allocated and your website will be
pre-configured for easily adding things this will definitely give your website an edge when it comes
to speed and functionality. Plus you will get better security because your hosting provider
will focus on WordPress-specific threats and protect you better.
Okay, next question: What are some of the features that your WordPress hosting should have.
Actually, this is a very crucial question because a whole lot about your website
depends on your hosting provider. And if you ever run into any issues your
hosting provider is the single authority you will have to contact to solve those issues.
And actually, you know what, I would need some more space to show the visuals here, so
yeah, if you don't mind could you... Steve: "Oh yeah yeah sure okay".
Ruben: "Sorry about that" Now let's briefly go over the essential
features here. And the first feature is speed. Speed is super important for site visitors,
and what is important for user experience is also important for Google's algorithm.
You will never be able to achieve a fast website if your hosting provider sucks
Hosting infrastructure is the number one thing that can make or break your website speed.
The next point is security. Lots of hosting providers do offer their clients
automatic backups, security checks, free ssl certificates, and firewalls.
So do make sure that your hosting provider does its part in protecting your website
via network monitoring and malware detection and removal.
The third most important feature here is the ease of management. Your WordPress hosting
provider needs to facilitate site management for you as much as possible, so if you ever need to
scale your business, and add new websites you can manage them more or less smoothly.
The next feature to look for is compatibility.
Your hosting should be compatible with all the additional features,
software, and services you're going to be using, so definitely check out some reviews before
committing to a hosting provider to make sure that other users don't run into similar issues.
Then there's caching - the process of saving your website's data the first
time the visitor opens your website, so the next time they open your website
it loads faster. No need for additional caching plugins here. Most hosting providers do include
caching services in their plans, so all you need to do is activate them.
You should also be looking for a hosting provider that auto-installs newer versions of WordPress
because after all it's the 21st century and why bother updating WordPress manually.
And last but not least, make sure to pick a host that has stellar customer support.
I can't stress this enough, your customer support people will be like your guardian angels whenever
you run into an issue with your website. And it's best if they're available via live chat 24/7.
Look, you can't make the right decision about your WordPress hosting
without knowing all of its different types. And the classical four types of hosting
are shared, managed, dedicated, and VPS hosting. But there's also this brand new disruptive
hosting type that you haven't probably heard of yet. That's automated hosting.
Now the cheapest and, quite frankly, the worst type of hosting you can get for your website is
shared hosting is basically like a big noisy commune.
There's never enough space to share between large numbers of websites,
so your neighbors will always make your website crash or make it vulnerable to hacker attacks.
Plus, shared hosting will almost always make your website slower,
which is frustrating and never helps anyone. Essentially, the world has evolved past shared
hosting so you definitely can do much better at the same low price point.
Then there's managed hosting. It's that hosting tab with the butler where configuring
and maintaining your server guaranteeing high uptime and security as well as providing reliable
customer support is all on the host. And this option can definitely save you lots of time and
effort, but it also means that you're giving away lots of control over your server infrastructure.
Now let's talk more about the disruptive newcomer - automated hosting is like managed hosting,
but it automates everything, even what a customer would usually do - migrating, building,
hosting, speed optimizing, and managing a website. It's basically like a butler feeding
you a panna cotta with a spoon. What used to take days and months now is a click away.
Let's go over the five pillars of automated hosting and particularly
10web's automated WordPress platform in more detail.
Number one pillar is automated migration. While most providers will charge a fee and take at
least 24 hours to migrate your website. 10web will migrate your website automatically and for free,
even if you're migrating from a different CMS. Your site will
be up and running on WordPress in just a click.
Secondly, we have automated hosting. 10Web's hosting on Google Cloud is
equipped with all of the features we discussed in the video previously.
You get everything taken care of from security and automatic backups to high speed and caching.
Automated hosting will get you a 99.9% uptime and lighting fast website automatically.
Also thanks to elastic scaling your site will automatically access more resources if needed.
Number 3 is automated page speed optimization. Imagine, instead of spending months optimizing
your website to please your visitors and boost your conversions, you obtain 90% page speed
score automatically. This is excellent for SEO, and will really help your website grow.
No need to configure caching or install optimization plugins. Just enable it - and
it's fast. Disable it - slow. You get the gist. And lastly, your host also provides a beautiful
dashboard with which you can automate almost all processes that come with having a website.
Image optimization, security checks, backups, analytics, updates of plugins, and WordPress.
Everything you can think of can be managed automatically from one place.
Next up is the luxurious and expensive option of dedicated hosting, where you get a full physical
server for yourself. Dedicated hosting means a lot of freedom but also a lot of responsibility
because you are the one to take care of all the technicalities of your server, which can be
problematic for a lot of inexperienced users. And the final hosting type is VPS
(virtual private server). This is like a middle ground
between dedicated and shared hosting where you get your own space within shared architecture.
And while VPS hosting is better than shared hosting, you still need to know how to configure
maintain and secure your server which can be a bummer for a lot of non-tech people.
That's it, people! I hope you liked learning more about WordPress hosting,
its types, and the innovations in the field. And did you like it, Steve?
Steve: "Oh yeah yeah, sure. I did. Now I know better, and I can make an educated choice
whenever I need to choose a hosting provider. And you give this guy a like a sub and a
comment for more updates on what you can do to grow your online agency. Toodles!
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