2. Types of Web Hosting
• Shared
• Dedicated
• VPS
• Managed WordPress Hosting
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3. Shared Web Hosting
• In Shared web hosting, hosting company hosts your website on its on web server for a fee.
• In this type of arrangement, hosting company would be providing services to other customers.
• It’s a relatively low cost web hosting.
• There are more chances of getting bad neighborhoods i.e. your site could be sharing IP address with the
spam sites or malware sites etc.
• It happens in this type of scheme because one physical server machine hosts websites from different
customers.
• This could be like compromising on the security of your website.
• This has adverse effect on the page load time which in turn directly affects Search rankings .
• It affects your cost to manage website.
• Your site could have user experience issues etc.
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4. Dedicated Web Hosting
• In Dedicated Web hosting, your web server has a dedicated physical server
machine.
• Multiple sites on the same server using different platforms
• Optimize the software and Server System
• Suitable for High Performance Websites only
• Specific Hardware requirements
• Require your own network and security infrastructure
• Experienced Staff required with expertise.
• It is an expensive solution
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5. VPS
• VPS or Virtual Private Server allows to run your web server in a virtual machine
operating on the same physical server.
• Web server runs on its separate copy of operating system.
• It is cheaper than dedicated web hosting
• gives customer greater control and access to the website.
• Multiple sites on the Server using different platforms.
• It is highly scalable.
• it requires experienced staff to manage.
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6. Comparison Table I
Feature Shared Dedicated VPS
Physical Resources Shared RAM, Disk space
and CPU
Dedicated RAM, Disk
space and CPU
Dedicated RAM , Disk
space and Shared CPU
Server level
Customization
No Server Level
Customization
Server Level
Customization Allowed
Server Level
Customization Allowed
Software
Installations
All Server Level Software
Preinstalled
Server Level Software
(OS, cPanel, LAMP) pre-
installation varies by
provider
Server Level Software
(OS, cPanel, LAMP) pre-
installation varies by
provider
Pricing $ $$$ $$
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7. Managed WordPress Hosting
• All the earlier mentioned hosting solutions like Shared, Dedicated, VPS are
unmanaged. i.e. the customer has to setup, manage website by himself.
• The need arises for a managed solution. Where the web host specializes in
giving platform level support for WordPress.
• Managed hosting for WordPress caters to only WordPress powered
Websites.
• This could be a definite choice for customers who want to go for
WordPress Sites as customers would not have to worry about upgrades
and compatibility issues as they are cared by the host .
• Also host provides all the maintenance.
• Some of the WordPress Managed Hosting are WPEngine, Page.ly, Zippykid,
Synthesis and WPOven.
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8. More about Managed WordPress Hosting
• Host manages the Optimization of the platform (including the Operating System, Server
Software and WordPress customization).
• Flexibility for quickly scaling up the resources up and down.
• No need of in-house experts on server-administration.
• There is platform level support.
• Single Platform (WordPress) Centric hosting.
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Level of Support Un-managed Semi Managed Fully Managed
Hardware and Network
Support
Hosting Company
handles hardware and
network support
Hosting Company
handles hardware,
network, and standard
software
Host handles all
hardware, network, and
software issues.
Software Support User responsible for ALL
software, performance
issues
User handles all custom
software
Host handles installation
of custom software.
9. Comparison Table II
Feature WPEngine Page.ly Synthesis ZippyKid WPOven
Number of Sites 1 Site 1 Site 1 Site 1 Site Unlimited
Number of Visitors ~25K/Mo ~25K/Mo 2500/Daily (Maximum
75K/Mo)
Limited by 100K Page
Views/Mo
Unlimited (Bandwidth
2TB)
Migration Varying Fee Not Available for its
Personal plan
Fixed Fee Not Available Free
Premium Plug-ins and
themes
Not Available Not Available Not Available Not Available Available with site
builder
Dedicated IP Not Available Not Available Not Available Not Available Available
Dedicated VPS No No No No Yes
Price $29/Mo $24/Mo $27/Mo $25/Mo $39.95/Mo
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Above only Basic Plans compared.
10. Conclusion
• All these Sites have basic plans which are good for putting up a WordPress
powered site with a fully managed hosting.
• WPEngine is currently the most popular.
• WPOven and Page.ly can be extended more easily.
• WPEngine and Page.ly are good if you want to have 1 Site.
• WPOven is better choice if you have more than 30,000/Mo Visitors.
• WPOven is obvious choice, if you want to have multiple sites.
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