Managed WordPress Hosting

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manage wordopress hosting


What is managed WordPress hosting?

 In a nutshell, its WordPress-specific hosting that adds a number of convenient features to make it easier to manage, secure, and speed up your WordPress site.

Managed hosting isn’t so much a type of plan as it is a description of the service you’ll receive. While most hosting plans leave the majority of the work up to you, managed hosting takes some of the responsibility for keeping your site going off your shoulders. This makes it an intriguing option for many website owners.

In the past, we’ve discussed the different types of available hosting plans. Shared hosting, for example, is a cheap entry-level option that sees you splitting a server with many other users. On the other hand, a Virtual Private Server (VPS) plan provides you with your own private space on a server, and more resources. At the top tier, you’ll find dedicated hosting, which is expensive but provides you with an entire physical server just for your site.

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All these types of hosting plans can also be either ‘managed’ or ‘unmanaged’. Most hosting is unmanaged, which means once you purchase space on a server, you’re largely on your own. Your hosting provider will probably give you a few tools to play with, but the responsibility for maintaining your site’s performance and security (and customizing your server on some plans) is up to you.

So, just what is managed WordPress hosting? As the name suggests, it’s a plan where your provider ‘manages’ your site and server for you. This means it will take care of various key tasks, like updating your site, so you don’t have to. Let’s look more closely at what this might include.

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The pros and cons of managed WordPress hosting

As we’ve alluded to, the primary benefit of managed hosting is that it’s a more hands-off option. It also requires less technical know-how. Your hosting provider will help you keep your site in top form, so you can focus your attention on creating content, promoting your business, and other tasks only you can do.

Pros of managed WordPress hosting

There are no set criteria for what a managed plan should look like, so what you’ll get varies from provider to provider. However, most managed hosting options will:

  • Take care of updates for you, and create frequent backups of your site for safekeeping.
  • Scan your site for security threats, and react quickly to deal with any issues that arise.
  • Handle performance optimization, to keep your site running fast at all times.
  • Configure your server to meet your needs, if you’re on a VPS or dedicated plan.
  • Offer staging sites to help you safely test changes and updates.
  • Provide lots of support options to answer your questions.

Primarily, we’re talking about managed WordPress hosting in particular here. This means your provider will also know the platform inside and out. This can be invaluable, especially if you’re new to WordPress and don’t know much about how to optimize your site.

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Cons of managed WordPress hosting

So far, all of this sounds pretty great, which may leave you wondering what the catch is. The simple answer is that managed plans are more expensive than their unmanaged variants. Just how much a managed plan will cost you depends heavily on where you get it.

While most entry-level shared hosting costs $5 per month or less, managed hosting tends to cost between $10 and $30 per month on the lowest tiers of a shared or VPS plan:

Managed dedicated plans are far more expensive, although few first-time website owners need that kind of power. In any case, the extra costs will add up over time.

There’s another potential downside to managed hosting. If you’re a more technically-savvy user, you may prefer to configure your server and optimize your site’s performance and security on your own. Managed hosting takes away this option, and has you rely on your provider instead. Whether or not this loss of control is a relief or a problem entirely depends on your pre-existing knowledge and needs.

Additionally, some managed WordPress hosts block certain plugins, like database-intensive related posts plugins.