If you’re a developer working with WordPress, choosing the right hosting platform can help you speed up deployment, reduce risk and streamline site management. Webhosting UK’s WordPress Hosting is a developer-ready solution that includes the tools and infrastructure needed for professional workflows. In this post, we examine the specific features that support developers working with WordPress and explain how they improve day-to-day operations, testing and the delivery of long-term projects.
Version control and deployment
Webhosting UK’s WP Shared Pro and WP Dedicated plans all come with SSH and Git access as standard. SSH gives you secure terminal access for tasks such as running WP-CLI commands, performing database operations or scripting repeatable deployments. If you prefer working from the command line or integrating deployment pipelines, then SSH is essential.
Git integration, meanwhile, provides proper version control of a project’s themes, plugins and core modifications. Rather than having to upload files via FTP or the dashboard, you can commit and push changes directly. This enables faster rollbacks and branch testing, while offering better ways for teams to collaborate.
Git also reduces the risk of configuration drift between development, staging and production environments. This helps prevent inconsistencies that can lead to deployment risks, vulnerabilities and the need for troubleshooting.
If you’re an agency or freelancer who works on multiple sites, SSH and GIT access bring your WordPress workflows closer to standard DevOps practices, which is something most entry-level hosting solutions don’t support.
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Advanced site management with WP Toolkit
WP Toolkit is one of the most valuable features in Webhosting UK’s WordPress plans as it provides a single dashboard from which you can manage multiple installations, environments and updates. Moreover, the features available within the Toolkit mean you won’t need to install a range of other plugins to achieve the same level of functionality.
The integrated cloning tool allows you to create identical copies of a live site for testing, which is particularly useful for verifying that plugin updates or core changes will not cause problems. The staging feature creates isolated test environments, which, after validation, can be synced back to the live site with a single command, preserving any changes to the content and database.
Other useful features of the Toolkit include a maintenance mode, a plugin and theme manager, and a dashboard that provides a detailed oversight of each site’s configuration. You can also use this to apply updates and implement security settings across all your sites.
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Performance tools that help you optimise and troubleshoot
While speed and reliability are vital for user experience, they can also affect a developer’s ability to work efficiently, especially if you are dealing with large WooCommerce sites or dynamic content.
At Webhosting UK, all our WordPress plans come with AccelerateWP, a suite of server-level performance tools, including static full-page caching, mobile-optimised caching, pre-caching, HTTP/2 push, script minification and lazy loading.
AccelerateWP also includes database cleanup and cron job optimisation tools that can help create a cleaner and more reliable test environment. For instance, if you are testing a theme or loading times, background tasks like scheduled emails or plugin updates can impact site performance. By controlling scheduled tasks and cleaning up old data, you get faster results and can avoid surprises during testing.
With these features included with your hosting, you keep control over performance tuning without having to rely on plugins. Moreover, they ensure that performance testing in staging environments will accurately reflect how the site will behave when live.
Infrastructure that supports workflows
Webhosting UK WordPress plans are hosted on advanced, high-performance infrastructure, including high-frequency Intel Xeon CPUs and SATA SSD or NVMe SSD storage. For developers working with large databases or regularly deploying code, this hardware ensures speedier admin performance, faster deployments and more responsive testing environments.
The platform also supports PHP Smart Updates and PHP version switching. PHP Smart Updates clones the site to let you see how it behaves on a different PHP version, while version switching lets you change PHP versions manually for testing compatibility with older code or when preparing for future updates.
Secure environments
The WP Shared Pro and WP Dedicated plans include a host of security features to help you develop projects with confidence. These include the Imunify360 application firewall, malware scanning, vulnerability checking, 2FA and brute force protection. In addition, we provide free daily encrypted backups with 30-day retention, ensuring you have a reliable recovery point during development, testing and deployment.
Plan options
There are three WP Shared Pro plans offering developers the opportunity to work on up to 8 separate domains at the same time. Upgrading to either of the WP Dedicated plans increases this to 30 domains.
Storage on WP Shared Pro ranges from 25 to 100GB NVMe, 3 to 5 high-frequency cores, and 3 to 6GB of RAM. WP Dedicated offers 6 or 8 core CPUs, 32 or 64GB of RAM, and 2 x 960GB SSD storage. While WP Shared Pro includes the Imunify360 firewall, users who opt for the WP Dedicated plans receive the full Imunify360 suite.
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Conclusion
If you are a developer, you will need more from your WordPress hosting than just reliability and speed; you’ll also want access, control and built-in tools that support versioning, staging, testing and deployment. Our WP Shared Pro and WP Dedicated WordPress hosting plans are designed with developers in mind by providing SSH, Git, the WP Toolkit and AccelerateWP. This is combined with state-of-the-art infrastructure, 24/7 technical support and daily backups.
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