{"id":3460,"date":"2016-12-10T08:01:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T08:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2024-11-12T09:15:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T09:15:31","slug":"understanding-managed-wordpress-hosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/wordpress\/understanding-managed-wordpress-hosting\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Managed WordPress Hosting and When do you need one?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wondering what is Managed WordPress Hosting? Let&#8217;s have a look at\u00a0it!<\/p>\n<h5>Managed WordPress Hosting:<\/h5>\n<p>As we all know how gradually WordPress gained its popularity. Due to its popularity, web hosting providers have specialized in WordPress to offer the services known as managed WordPress hosting. In this service, all the technical aspects of WordPress are managed by hosts. The idea behind managed WordPress hosting is to offer completely hassle-free experience, so you can focus on running your business.\u00a0 This includes security, speed, updates, daily backups, uptime, and scalability. One of the best parts about Managed WordPress hosting is the premium support. The support is provided by real WordPress experts with lots of experience rather than someone who is reading a support manual.<\/p>\n<h5>Pros &amp; Cons of Managed WordPress Hosting<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Pros:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scorching Fast \u2013 Servers are configured especially for WordPress so they are fast even when you are having\u00a0a large number of website visitors.<\/li>\n<li>Security \u2013 Getting on with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting\/wordpress-hosting\/\">WordPress hosting<\/a> mean you are now hacker proof. They have a very tight security layer to block hacking attempts.<\/li>\n<li>Expert Support \u2013 The staff is highly knowledgeable, they advise you best plugins and solve your problems faster.<\/li>\n<li>Daily Backups \u2013 They have daily backups so you can restore or revert anytime you want.<\/li>\n<li>Automatic Updates \u2013 Updates are carried out automatically, no manual effort required.<\/li>\n<li>No Downtime \u2013 Your server never gets down no matter how much traffic your site gets.<\/li>\n<li>Dev Tools &#8211; Although it varies by the host, you usually use dev tools such as staging area, version control, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Cons:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Price \u2013 Is expensive compared to shared hosting. But if you factor in the cost of running a large website and the salary of system admin, then this will sound like a pretty good option.<\/li>\n<li>Limits \u2013 Because the server architecture is specialized for WordPress, often you are limited to run only WordPress based sites. But that\u2019s what you were looking to do anyways. You also cannot run all WordPress plugins. Managed WordPress hosting providers block plugins that slow down your site.<\/li>\n<li>Less Control &#8211; Since someone else is managing all the technical aspects, you don\u2019t have nearly as much say as to what gets changed. But isn\u2019t that the point? You don\u2019t want the hassle of managing things yourself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>When do you need a managed WordPress hosting?<\/h5>\n<p>If you are a small business or have large traffic website, then it makes sense to get on with managed WordPress hosting. If you lack technical skills, as a business owner, you have two options. You could either hire a system admin to manage your website, or you can use a managed WordPress hosting provider.<\/p>\n<p>If you want something fast, secure and with awesome support then you have the answer. Now, that you have read all about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/hosting\/wordpress-hosting\/managed-wordpress-hosting\">Managed WordPress Hosting<\/a>, its time for you to make a decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wondering what is Managed WordPress Hosting? Let&#8217;s have a look at\u00a0it! Managed WordPress Hosting: As we all know how gradually WordPress gained its popularity. Due to its popularity, web hosting providers have specialized in WordPress to offer the services known as managed WordPress hosting. In this service, all the technical aspects of WordPress are managed&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/wordpress\/understanding-managed-wordpress-hosting\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":416,"featured_media":24292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18676,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions\/18676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.milesweb.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}