Is Premium WordPress Hosting Right For You?

You’ve heard lots of people say WordPress is the way to go when building a site. Heck, we’ve said it here. It’s a powerful content management system (CMS) that just about anyone can use. The back end interface is very user-friendly, and by choosing a theme and adding plugins, you can easily customize your site without writing a single line of code. Yes, WordPress can make life easier for any publisher.

If you have the time to build and manage a site.

Whether you’re building a blog as a hobby, or you’re an entrepreneur who needs an e-commerce site, your time may be limited, taken up by work, family, and other obligations. If you want a high-quality site, but you don’t have the time to dedicate to it, premium WordPress hosting may be the solution for you.

What is Managed WordPress Hosting?

It’s like regular hosting, and then some, meant to cater specifically to sites running on WordPress. In addition to offering a place for your site to live and thrive, premium WordPress hosts – like WP Engine, Kinsta and Page.ly – will essentially run your site for you—the back end, anyway. They won’t be writing any blog posts for you, or sharing your content on Twitter. That’s still up to you.

What they will do is make sure all your data is backed up, that all your plugins and WordPress itself are up to date, monitor security to help prevent hacking or virus attacks, and generally keep your site up and running, freeing you up to write those blog posts and engage your audience on Twitter.

Do You Need Managed WordPress Hosting?

That’s a question only you can answer. Do you have time to learn how to use WordPress? Even if you have the time, is it something you want to learn? Or would you rather focus on the more creative aspects of your website and business, and leave the technical stuff to the experts?

If you’re a do-it-yourself kind of person, you may want to dig in, and learn everything you can about running a site on WordPress. If that’s you, then more power to you. But if it’s not, that’s perfectly fine, too, and that’s when you may want to consider premium WordPress hosting.

The Benefits of Managed WordPress Hosting

Still wondering what’s in it for you? Plenty.

Performance

Most premium WordPress hosts, like WPEngine.com, offer superior performance benefits such as near-100% uptime, fast page loads, and the ability to handle traffic spikes that may crash other sites. Your readers and customers will never land on your site and find it down for repairs or maintenance.

Security

In addition to protecting your site from hackers, denial of service attacks, and many other insidious online dangers, most premium WordPress hosts, like Synthesis, will also repair your site should one of those hackers happen to somehow get through the protections put in place.

Support

Have questions? Need help to do something specific with your site? Having problems with your website? Rather than spending hours—maybe even days—reading help files and support forums to try to figure out how to fix your site yourself, when your site is run through a premium WordPress host, like Pagely, all it takes is one email, one support ticket, or one phone call, and someone will be there for you.

Peace of Mind

With premium WordPress hosting, you never have to worry about your site going down, causing you to possibly lose customers and revenue. Even if you’re on vacation, you can rest assured that your site will remain up and running because premium hosts, like Flywheel, monitor your site’s status. The minute something goes wrong, they’re there to fix it, keeping you—and your customers—happy.

Time

Quite possibly the business owner’s most precious resource, time cannot be replicated, extended, or expanded. If you’re talented or skilled, you can always make more money. But once your time is spent, that’s it—you never get it back.

You already put so much time into running your business, wouldn’t it make sense to spend a little of the money you earn to create more time for yourself and your family?

Regardless of how easy WordPress makes it to create and run a website, you still have to learn how to use it if you never have. But even once you know how to use it, just like anything worthwhile, running a website takes time. While you could build a site and then just add posts now and then, never making another tweak to the functionality or structure again, that’s not the best way to manage a website.

You must put time into it.

But if you can’t, there’s always premium WordPress hosting to take the burden off your shoulders, and give you back some of that precious time.

Resources

• For more info see:
• Our comparison of managed WordPress hosts.
• WPEngine.com – (also read our nerdy interview with founder Jason Cohen)
• Synthesis – Overview and pricing
• Tips on speeding up WordPress
• WordPress cache plugin resource

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