Shared Hosting VS Managed WordPress Hosting

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Table of content

• Introduction
• What is Shared and Managed WordPress Hosting?
• The Disadvantages of Shared Hosting.
• The Advantages of Managed WordPress Hosting.
• Disadvantages of Managed WordPress Hosting.
• Conclusion.

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Shared vs Managed WordPress Hosting1.Introduction

• Hosting is an indispensable part of any website.
  Choosing a plan thats ideally suited to your
  needs is crucial to serving a fast, secure
  website to your visitors. As such, the hosting
  plan you choose can often directly influence your
  websites earnings!
• The aim of this presentation is to compare shared
  (shared hosting in this sense means hosting a
  website on any general shared web server) and
  managed WordPress hosting. Perhaps youve come
  across these terms before, but arent yet clear
  on a few things, like What are the benefits of
  managed WordPress hosting? Is it worth the added
  cost? Is it worth switching from shared to
  managed? If so, read on!

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Web hosting
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2. What is Shared and Managed WordPress Hosting?

• Before we go further, lets have a clear view at
  the two services, i.e. shared hosting and managed
  hosting.
• Shared (shared hosting in this sense means
  hosting a website on any general shared web
  server) hosting is the cheapest means of hosting
  a website. It caters to the most common needs of
  a huge variety of websites for a very low price
  whether theyre powered by WordPress or not.
• Managed WordPress hosting, on the other hand,
  caters to a very specific market (more on this
  below) by offering both highly-tuned,
  WordPress-optimized servers and a number of
  advanced services.
• This means in essence that managed WordPress
  hosting is a technically superior form of hosting
  in almost every way.

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3. The Disadvantages of Shared Hosting

• There are a number of issues with shared hosting,
  most of which stem from its business model.
  Although the accounts are cheap, theyre cheap
  because hundreds (sometimes thousands) of users
  are put on the same server. This leads to the
  so-called bad neighbor effect.
• The server, which houses hundreds of accounts,
  has a fixed amount of memory. If one website
  exploits more than its fair share of the
  available memory, all the other sites housed on
  the same server will experience issues because of
  this one bad neighbor. This essentially means
  that one troubled website has the potential to
  cause thousands of unrelated sites to load
  slowly, or even in the worst case scenario
  not at all.
• On top of that, memory isnt the only resource
  that gets divided up on a shared server.
  Bandwidth, processing power, storage everything
  has to be shared between these accounts.
• In actual fact Websites on shared hosting are
  not dependable. Whats more, due to both resource
  restrictions (remember resources must be shared)
  and the fact that shared-hosting environments
  must, generally speaking, be able to run a large
  variety of applications (i.e. not only
  WordPress), theyre very often much slower than
  their managed WordPress hosting counterparts.

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4. The Advantages of Managed WordPress Hosting

• By choosing a managed WordPress host over a
  shared host, youll not only be able to
  effectively sidestep the bad neighbor problem
  altogether (more on this below), but also reap a
  number of very significant added benefits, such
  as

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Blazing Fast Speeds

• Everything about managed hosting servers is
  optimized to run WordPress. In contrast, shared
  hosts need to be able to run any kind of
  platform/application, so they have to forfeit all
  the WordPress-specific tweaking and fine-tuning
  that managed WordPress hosts are able to do.
• On managed hosting, everything from the hardware
  to the software is built for WordPress websites.
  Theyll have server-level caching in place and
  will likely be running the most optimal version
  of PHP, MySQL and Apache all of which will be
  individually configured to give the best
  performance possible.
• In short, running a website on managed WordPress
  hosting can often reduce a sites page-load speed
  by somewhere in the region of 1-2 seconds or
  more! Theres no doubt that your websites speed
  is going to be critical to its success. In short
  The faster it is, the better. This is important
  not only for better customer experience, but also
  because Google takes a webpages speed into
  account (amongst a whole heap of other factors)
  when determining where to rank it in search
  results.

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Enhanced Security

• Basic security sweeps are likely performed by
  shared hosts to ensure that their hundreds of
  users on each server arent hit by all sorts of
  threats. Managed WP hosting however, takes
  security to a whole other level.
• Increased security protocols, daily malware scans
  and the ability to ward off all kinds of cyber
  threats (such as DDoS attacks) are features
  youll find pretty much as-standard on most
  managed WordPress hosting plans.
• At the end of the day, however no matter how
  secure your servers are websites (especially
  popular ones) still occasionally end up being
  attacked. If your site is unfortunate enough to
  get hacked on managed WordPress hosting, youll
  almost certainly be better off since your hosts
  will likely have both more WordPress-specific
  know-how and be willing to apply it to get you
  out of a fix than a general shared host (a little
  bit more about this further down) will.

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Automated Backups

• I simply cant emphasize enough how important it
  is to make regular backups of your site! Luckily,
  most (if not all) managed WordPress hosting plans
  include not only automated daily backups, but
  also features that let you quickly and easily
  restore to your backups should you ever need to.
• Many shared hosting services do offer automatic
  backups via cPanel. However, these are almost
  always stored on the same server meaning theyre
  just as susceptible to damage as the original
  data. In addition, restoring to one of these
  backups is usually no trivial task.
• In contrast, managed WordPress hosting usually
  offers one-click restores that will bring your
  whole site back online within minutes, if not
  seconds!

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Automatic Updates

• With managed WordPress hosting, your web server
  will be managed by professionals whose goal is to
  ensure things are performing at peak efficiency.
  Automatic updates cover not only everything from
  the operating system on the server to PHP and
  MySQL etc., but also WordPress itself!
• This means that you will always be running the
  latest, most stable and most secure versions of
  just about everything.
• Shared hosting sometimes offers something
  similar, but with a slight twist. Shared hosting
  operators will also take care of maintaining your
  server essentials, however, this will be done far
  less proactively and primarily include only the
  operating system, control panel, PHP, MySQL and
  Apache at best. It will not, generally, include
  WordPress which you will need to maintain
  yourself.
• In short A shared hosts goal is not to keep you
  happy. Instead, its to keep the maximum number
  of people on a server happy. Your server will
  always be optimized to run every possible
  combination of applications, and not to run one
  specific platform at peak efficiency.

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Better Support

• Support personnel at your shared host may be
  extremely friendly, but theyre unlikely to be
  WordPress experts.
• Have you ever had issues where the standard
  response was Make sure WordPress is updated and
  make sure you arent using bad plugins? Or that
  old classic Try deactivating your plugins one
  by one to see if one of those is the problem?
• Managed WordPress hosts know exactly what version
  of WordPress youre running (since they
  themselves are the ones maintaining it) and what
  plugins you have installed. They will usually be
  able to home in on your problem much more quickly
  and will, generally speaking, be able to solve
  issues that shared hosts wont even get into.

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Better Uptime Scalability

• Due to the highly-tuned nature of the setup, your
  website will be able to handle a much higher
  number of viewers with a managed WordPress host
  than it would be able to when running on shared
  hosting although keep in mind that many leading
  hosts will have predefined limits on the number
  of monthly visitors your site will be able to
  accommodate before being subject to additional
  charges.
• Its worth mentioning though, that in actual
  fact, some managed WordPress hosts do, in fact,
  run their services on shared servers i.e. some
  will actually share a portion of the servers
  resources with other users. However, if resources
  are shared, they will be both much, much better
  allocated between fewer users meaning that the
  bad neighbor effect is usually all but
  completely negated. In short, even if you
  purchase only an entry level managed WordPress
  hosting account, you will almost certainly still
  receive a vastly superior level of uptime.
• Furthermore, if your site does start to outgrow
  the particular managed WordPress plan youve
  chosen, technicians will usually soon let you
  know that youll need to consider upgrading to a
  higher-level of service.
• The real benefit here is that since your website
  is on a standard platform, there will be no
  migration hassle unlike when having to move
  from a shared to a VPS (Virtual Private Server)
  or dedicated server.

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5. Disadvantages of Managed WordPress Hosting

• Based on all of the above, Im sure the prospect
  of a managed WP environment is beginning to sound
  pretty great as indeed it should! However,
  before you decide, there are some downsides of
  which you should be aware.

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A Higher Price Tag

• Theres no getting away from it Managed
  WordPress hosting has a higher price tag than
  shared hosting. If youre running a serious
  online business/endeavor, then of course the
  additional cost will almost certainly be more
  than justified. If, however, youre simply
  running a personal or non-profitable blog, then
  it may be worth sacrificing all the
  above-mentioned potential benefits and sticking
  with shared hosting in order to keep costs to a
  minimum instead.
• Entry-level managed WP hosting plans tend to
  start at an absolute minimum of around 30 a
  month. This will usually get you a managed
  WordPress server on a shared environment. The
  bad neighbor effect still technically exists on
  such plans. However its almost completely
  canceled out by the optimizations put in place
  (as mentioned above).
• The more expensive managed WordPress hosting
  plans will generally allow for significantly
  higher levels of traffic, even higher levels of
  performance, and entirely eliminate the bad
  neighbor problem by running on virtual private
  servers that share even less resources. However,
  these tend to start at about 160-250 a month.
• If youre upgrading from a general shared hosting
  plan, your website will likely be all set for
  quite some time with an entry level managed
  WordPress plan of course dont go spending more
  than you need to by pre-empting the future before
  it happens! As your website grows you can keep in
  touch with technicians about upgrades which can
  then be applied to your account as and when
  theyre necessary.
• On the surface, the price comparison doesnt look
  all that fair. Yes, 30 a month is more than the
  4-5 a month a shared hosting plan will cost
  you, but it contains so many additional services
  not to mention much, much better performance
  that, in many cases trying to save the difference
  in price is really just a false economy!

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Limitations on Plugins

• Many managed WordPress hosting companies will
  often put certain restrictions on usable themes
  and plugins. They may disable some plugins
  because the task they perform is handled on the
  server level (like caching), or they may disable
  them for security reasons, for example.
• Whilst this limits your options, its often done
  for your own benefit (as hard as that may be to
  swallow). One of the plugins usually not allowed
  on managed WordPress hosting platforms, for
  example, is the ever-popular WP Total Cache, with
  the reason being that managed WordPress hosting
  services usually handle caching on a server-level
  which is actually a far superior way to go
  about doing it!

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Inflexible Infrastructure

• This one almost goes without saying You can only
  use WordPress on managed WordPress hosts. You
  wont be able to run other systems such as
  Joomla, Drupal or Magento on the same server.
• This is, of course, an absolute deal-breaker if
  you need to run something other than just
  WordPress!

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6. Conclusion

• You hopefully now have a good overall
  understanding of the differences between shared
  and managed WordPress hosting. In short If
  youre running a WordPress-powered website and
  have 30 a month to spare, you should almost
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  host.
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