What Is Managed WordPress Hosting
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Managed WordPress Hosting - What is it?
One question I get asked more often than any other is "Is WordPress secure?"...to which I answer - Absolutely.
WordPress security is taken very seriously at Automattic, the developers of WordPress - the problem is with everything else, outdated themes, poorly coded plugins, security holes in your hosting, the list goes on. And the fact that 25% of the worlds websites are now run on WordPress,
makes WordPress sites easy pickings for automated attacks.
Managed WordPress hosting is a service where all the technical aspects of running a WordPress website are managed by a hosting company.
These include:
Site Speed
Security
Off-site backups
Website Uptime monitoring
Theme and Plugin updates.
and the Servers should be configured for WordPress and its unique demands.
So...What you should expect from your Managed WordPress hosting.
Definitely your Basic Site Speed should be up in the top 20% of all tested websites.
Sites using a CDN (cached delivery network) should be in the top 1% of all tested websites...
This doesn't only give your visitors a great user experience, but Google will appreciate your site speed and may give you a nice little bump in you page rank.
As a minimum, Managed WordPress Hosting should offer the following front line defenses to protect against:
Brute Force Attacks by limiting the number of failed login attempts.
There is a list in the description below with links that explain many of the different features you should be looking for.
Managed WordPress Hosting - http://biteproof.com
Automatic Theme and plugin updates - http://biteproof.com/wordpress-theme-...
Malware Protection - http://biteproof.com/malicious-softwa...
Brute Force Attacks - http://biteproof.com/block-brute-forc...
Site Speed and SEO - http://biteproof.com/site-speed-is-it...
Attack detection (404) errors - http://biteproof.com/404-error-detect...
Automatic Blacklist of known IP addresses - http://biteproof.com/automatic-blackl...
Strong Passwords - http://biteproof.com/do-we-need-a-str...
Catcha - http://biteproof.com/captcha/
Hiding your admin and login - http://biteproof.com/hiding-your-admi...
Away Mode - http://biteproof.com/away-mode/
Automatic lockout of bad users(too many login failures) - http://biteproof.com/auto-lockout/
Off Site Back ups - http://biteproof.com/back-ups/
Dedicated WordPress Servers - http://biteproof.com/servers/
What is a DDos Attack - http://biteproof.com/what-is-a-ddos-d...
Are there any guarantees with Managed WordPress Hosting?
Generally not unless you are forking our hundreds of pounds a month, and the reason is that there are factors outside of the host companies control that can take your site offline for a period of time.
For instance, your broadband connection. Other factors are when your website updates...
Updating a WordPress website puts it into maintenance mode, you'll see something like this
Other times servers need updating (this is often done during the middle of the night, but for a short while your site might be unavailable.)
Lastly, but not finally, a malicious attack by an employee, a colleague, friend or acquaintance can't ever be ruled out, in our experience this is one the regular reasons a site goes down, someone is upset with you, they have your password and they want to vent.
That's also a great reason why you need scheduled offsite backups.
Offsite because if your site goes down, the one place you don't want your backups in your dashboard.
If your site is busy, backups can be scheduled hourly, for a less busy site daily, other sites only need to be fully backed up weekly, but the database needs backing up daily or hourly, this should be a bespoke schedule, just for your site.
And if your site does go down, with a good offsite backup solution it should only take a short while to reinstall it.