What Is WordPress Hosting
After listing all the popular CMS platform that you can use in building your website, you’ve made the choice to use WordPress. Being known as the most popular CMS platform on the web, WordPress does not require you any technical skills or coding knowledge in building your website.
But, the next important decision for you to make is — hosting. Which platform should you choose to host your WordPress website in? You’ve heard or may have come across Linux Hosting, Windows Hosting, and now — WordPress Hosting. So, what is WordPress Hosting?
This article will help you better understand what is WordPress Hosting, and do you need one for your website?
What You'll Learn in This Guide:
What Is WordPress Hosting
WordPress Hosting is a type of web hosting that is specifically configured to host WordPress sites. Essentially, you will have the convenience to make all the necessary updates as well as certain technical adjustments. This also means that you can easily install, manage, and optimise WordPress sites.
Why Choose WordPress Hosting
When choosing a hosting provider, you should not only look at the price, but also at the features that you may utilise to help you create the best optimised website possible based on the WordPress CMS.
Below are some of the awesome WordPress tools that come with WordPress Hosting:
| WordPress core updates | automatic updates that ensure your website is utilising the latest software version so your website is more secure and runs more efficiently |
| Free Transfer Migration Tool | a tool that already helps you safely migrate your WordPress site from one hosting to another with just a single click. This is an ideal tool to use for small to medium sites. |
| Permanent Protection | a layer of special software that improves security of your website and prevents the hackers' attacks. |
| DDoS | a kind of protection that defends your site from harmful external attacks that may cause site and email outages. This monitors your site 24/7 and apply necessary counter measures before they reach your website |
| WordPress Staging | a tool that enables you to preview changes or customisations in your WordPress site without affecting your live site |
| Free weekly backup | system automatically creates and saves at least the 4 most recent backups of your website every week. |
| One-Click Installation | a feature that comes when you create your own account that allows you to install WordPress with just a single click. |
These tools will help you optimise your WordPress site's performance and security.
Important: WordPress Hosting can only host sites that use the WordPress CMS. If you plan to create or develop sites using other CMS, you need to get our Economy, Premium, or Unlimited Web Hosting package.
In addition to that, with Crazy Domains WordPress Hosting you get the following benefits:
| Website Management | Crazy Domains will handle the technical side of website maintenance so you don’t have to. You focus on your site’s content and Crazy Domains will handle the account setup, core updates, backup and recovery, DDoS protection, server optimisation, etc. |
| Optimised Speed | Servers are built on the latest SSD (solid-state drive) hardware that use fast web server and support PHP7 and HTTP/2. Each server also comes with Smart Cache Technology, a cache technology that significantly boosts your website's loading time. |
| Expert Support | If you have any website or hosting concerns, you can easily contact our 24/7 technical support. |
WordPress Installation
Automatic installation of WordPress already comes when you create your own account.
Moreover, you can install your own plugins and themes and can change your site configurations without any restrictions. Here are some of the plugins that you can easily install:
- Limit Login Attempts – a plugin that sets a limit to logins and visitors rather than measuring your bandwidth
- Akismet – a plugin that protects your WordPress blog from spam.
- Ninja Forms – a plugin that provides Webform builder.
- WooCommerce – an eCommerce plugin that allows you to sell anything.
Note: WooCommerce, by default, is disabled. if you wish to use it, you can just enable it.
All updates for these plugins will be supported.
Crazy Domains WordPress Hosting allows you to install up to five (5) WordPress sites for one user account. You will get an automatic migration script per new WordPress site installed. Just make sure that you have developed a plugin for WordPress and scripts on your Linux server.
Do you already have a WordPress Hosting with us, and needs further assistance with the service? Please contact our support team, we'd love to hear from you.