If you’re building a website with WordPress, your choice of hosting plays a crucial role in how your site performs, its security, and the effort required to manage it. Managed WordPress hosting is a solution specifically designed for WordPress, and in this post, we explore its features and examine whether it’s worth it when compared to traditional shared hosting.
A comprehensive WordPress platform
WordPress websites have unique hosting requirements. While you can run them on shared hosting plans, the general-purpose nature of shared hosting means it has to meet the needs of various platforms rather than being optimised for WordPress.
eukhost Managed WordPress hosting, on the other hand, is a purpose-built solution designed especially to meet the requirements of WordPress. This means it addresses issues and provides features that shared hosting does not. Here are the key benefits of eukhost’s Managed WordPress Hosting:
1. Built-in WordPress management tools
At eukhost, each plan comes with the WordPress Toolkit, a set of tools that provide full control over your websites from a single, centralised dashboard. Using the Toolkit, you can install WordPress with a single click, manage updates, and clone or stage your sites to test changes before they go live. Moreover, you won’t need to log into individual sites or rely on third-party plugins or tools, reducing the time and technical know-how needed to ensure everything is managed properly.
Features like smart updates ensure your website is free from vulnerabilities, while snapshot rollbacks mean that if an update causes issues, you can instantly restore your site to the previous error-free version. For website owners, this can be the difference between a quick and easy fix and hours of downtime.
For further details, read: WordPress Hosting – The Benefits of the WordPress Toolkit
2. Performance that delivers results
Speed is crucial for all websites; it enhances user experience, helps improve search engine rankings and, ultimately, leads to increased sales. WordPress’s combination of core software, plugins and themes, however, can make it data-heavy, increasing loading and response times.
WordPress Hosting from eukhost includes WP Accelerated, a suite of optimisation tools that are pre-configured to boost performance out of the box. These include:
- Full-page, mobile and pre-caching: loads static content instantly while reducing the burden on the server.
- Image compression: reduces image file sizes without compromising quality.
- Lazy loading: speeds up above-the-fold loading times.
- Code minification: Strips the bloat from scripts to reduce file sizes and accelerate delivery.
- Database tuning and cron optimisation: help keep performance stable by improving database performance and preventing scheduled tasks from interfering with web traffic.
- HTTP/2: enables multiple requests to be handled at once while also sending data in priority order.
In addition, our hosting plans also make use of high-performance infrastructure, including high-frequency CPUs and SSD or NVMe storage, which offer significantly quicker processing and read/write speeds. Together, these performance features provide fast, consistent delivery without the need for extra plugins or manual tweaks.
For more information, read: Why Website Performance Is Vital for Digital Storefront Success
3. Security designed to prevent disasters
As the world’s most popular website builder, WordPress is a major target for cyberattacks. Our solutions come with integrated security features that defend your site against a wide range of attacks. These include:
- Imunify360 firewall: A state-of-the-art firewall that blocks threats before they reach your site.
- Daily off-site backups: We make backups on your behalf, ensuring you can always recover data and get your site back online quickly.
- Vulnerability scanning: This checks for security issues with your plugins and themes.
- Two-factor authentication and smart PHP updates: These protect against brute force and code-level attacks.
Combined, this level of protection significantly reduces the chance of falling victim to a cyberattack, while ensuring that if the worst happens, you can recover quickly.
Keep attackers at bay, read: Essential Security Measures to Protect Your Digital Operations
4. Plans that grow with you
Our Managed WordPress Hosting is designed to grow with your business. We offer three tiers of hosting, WP Shared, WP Shared Pro and WP Dedicated, with multiple options within each tier.
From shared WordPress hosting plans designed for a single, small, low-traffic website to dedicated server solutions for hosting up to 30 sites, we provide all the storage, performance and processing power your websites will need as they grow.
5. A managed solution
Aside from the tools and features mentioned above, eukhost’s managed WordPress hosting also includes server management. We maintain, optimise and secure your hosting environment by carrying out server monitoring, regular OS and software updates, performance tuning and securing your hardware from threats. As a result, your WordPress site is expertly managed, around the clock, to ensure it remains online, is secure and performs optimally.
In addition, all plans come with 24/7 technical support. So, if there is an issue with your website or hosting, fully trained experts are always available to help you get things fixed as quickly as possible.
Conclusion
Is Managed WordPress Hosting worth it? We think so. While it may be slightly more expensive, the benefits are obvious. Our plans are built especially to tackle the unique needs of WordPress by delivering faster and more reliable performance, stronger security and easier site management. Moreover, many essential server admin tasks are taken care of on your behalf, and expert support is always there should you need it, saving you time and worry.
If you are looking for the ultimate in WordPress Hosting, find out more about our range of Managed WordPress Hosting Plans.
