Managed Hosting

Video Transcript

In this class, we’re going to take a closer look into managed WordPress hosting.

Now in a previous class, I briefly mentioned WordPress managed hosting services. And while they offer a great service, there’s a premium cost for that great service. Like many services, different companies offer different features, with their version of managed WordPress hosting. Regarding security, whenever you review the advertised features of the various plans offered by the different companies, a few things to look for.

And if you cannot locate, contact the company with your pre sales questions and consider this as well. Are these offered at additional cost? Or are they included in the advertised cost? But number one, backups? If they are offered? How often? Is it daily, once a month, once a week? Or is it up to me to schedule? Number two firewalled from other accounts on the server? Like if my site is on the same server as other WordPress sites? Is there a firewall or some kind of a security barrier between their sites and my site? Number Three malware scans? Is this offered enough? So if malware is detected on my site, does the service automatically remove it? Or is there an additional fee? Number four, if I’m hacked?

Is there a fix and restore included? Or is that an additional fee? Number five, how many sites can I have on this plan? Number six, monthly bandwidth or visitor count? And what happens if that is exceeded? Number seven? Are there limits on what plugins can be used? For example, can I use such and such plugin? Now these plus any other questions you can think of should be provided to those services if you can’t find the answers to them on their advertise features. And this should be done before you make any payments.

So let’s go and have a quick look at a few of the managed WordPress hosting services, just to give you an idea of what they offer and where to look on their sites. So to begin with, I’m going to start off with Bluehost. It is highly recommended by wordpress.org. So let’s go and start there. Now Bluehost has various different hosting services. But the one I’m talking about here is their managed WordPress hosting. And that holds true with a few different companies. Some of these companies offer various types of hosting, managed WordPress hosting is just one of them.

Some of these companies do not even offer managed WordPress hosting, but they do offer other types of hosting. So again, just be aware that so Bluehost, starting at 1995 a month, words like starting out in the asterik. These are telltale signs that this is probably going to be some kind of a teaser rate. And when it says starting up, and just coming they’ve got different plans. And based on those plans will determine what you’re paying per month. Let’s scroll on down here a bit. Like for example, the starting app part that 9095 a month. That’s the smaller package. And you see here they’ve got a limit to the number of visitors per month. And that’s one of those questions I had mentioned.
What happens whenever you approach or exceed that visitor number? Do they automatically bump you to the next package? Do they email you beforehand to let you know you’re approaching that threshold? Again, these are questions you should be asking. Next up siteground. Again, their managed WordPress hosting, not talking about the other hosting packages, you can see the price is significantly less than what Bluehost offers. But here we’re talking about around 10,000 visits per month, not the 50,000 that Bluehost was talking about. But there’s other options that siteground offers that Bluehost does not offer daily backup, I’m not sure if Bluehost offered that or not another one aid to hosting. Right here, again, we’re only talking about their managed WordPress hosting.

They’ve got a shared WordPress package and a managed WordPress package for one site starting at 1299 a month. And that’s if you tie yourself into a three year package. If you only want a one year package, it goes to 1599 a month. At the end of that time, he goes back to the regular price of whatever is going to be at that time. Currently, it’s 30 to 59. Now, one thing to keep in mind is the amount of storage don’t let that be a determining factor for you. Because most of the stores that you’re going to be taking up should be off site should not be on the same server. For example, if you’re going to store videos, audio files, PDF files, a lot of your image files, those should be stored elsewhere, like in the cloud on Google Cloud or Amazon s3. Now there are some exceptions to that. But whenever we’re talking about larger file sizes, like videos, those should definitely not be on the same server as your website, liquid web and we scroll down a bit

When you see they’re managed WordPress starts at 19 a month and we go to annual, you’re going to save a few bucks. That’s if you make the single payment of 190 a year. They have some awesome services that they provide. Because a lot of these they own. They recently purchased I themes, and there’s a couple of other WordPress related products that they now own as well. So they definitely know WordPress. And as I mentioned in a prior class kinsta.com and WP Engine comm are solely managed WordPress services and definitely worth you looking into. Now these are by all means not the entire list of WordPress managed hosting services. But definitely those you should consider in your search. Now it’s unlikely that you’re going to find a managed WordPress hosting service that provides all the features that you’re looking for at a reasonable price. But at least you will have enough information on each servers to make a more informed buying decision.

So if you’re just starting and have the money, or if you have a popular money making site, and your time is best spent elsewhere, instead of monitoring and addressing possible security issues. In managed WordPress hosting might be a good fit for you otherwise, spend the extra time it’ll take to learn and apply those layers of securities that you learn in the classes within this WordPress security course. That’s going to bring us to the end of this class on a look at managed WordPress hosting. Thanks for checking it out and you have a great day.