WordPress among the most famous and used CMS, there is no web master who does not know it and a person who has not heard of it.
Yet you know, the more famous something is, the more false beliefs about it circulate. Here are some myths to dispel that will help you in choosing your WordPress hosting .
Shared Hosting
Suitable for any beginning and for amateur projects
WordPress works excellently on shared web hosting plans. The offers that are generally proposed include plans that always guarantee greater performance, accompanied by additional services that improve their speed. For example SSD disks that significantly increase caching performance by implementing page view speed.
Shared hosting plans are the best alternative for cheap hosting that supports WordPress and its components, but does not guarantee an optimal solution for those who do their job with WordPress.
Shared plans are suitable for running small corporate websites and blogs. The more traffic increases, the more profitable your portal is, the more it is necessary to use tools that guarantee performance and stability. Shared hosting for WorPress are always used at the beginning of each project and guarantee the ideal solution for those who are approaching the web.
Dedicated Hosting
For those who make WordPress their profession
A preferable solution to shared hosting is dedicated hosting.
Let’s talk about Dedicated Servers or Cloud Servers.
These servers are created specifically to manage one or more projects, but have guaranteed resources to host the client’s project. Thanks to the flexibility of the resources, these can be increased and increased during use, so as not to incur application downtime.
Each server is automatically configured and updated thus ensuring all WordPress features such as automatic updates. This type of hosting also includes greater security such as daily antivirus scanning, therefore certainly more suitable for those who want to have a significant economic return.
Speed
What does it depend on and how important is it?
Speed, unlike what many write, does not represent a dominant factor for the use of WordPress but it certainly guarantees users who view your blog, a lower loading time, thus making navigation more pleasant.
Always remember that the speed is mostly dictated by the internet connection of the user viewing the page. In fact, all the solutions proposed as Shared Hosting or Dedicated Hosting use a 100Mbit connection on a backbone of about 190Gbit which is far superior to a 10Mbit ADSL line.
The response speed of the server, thanks to high-performance lines, is always guaranteed. In addition, if you add dedicated configurations and adequate resources, it is possible to have a web page, even a very heavy one, delivered quickly thanks to the gzip compression of apache.
Stability
When is web hosting reliable?
Stability is the key feature that distinguishes one hosting plan from the other. It is desirable that a web hosting service never falls below a reliability level of 99.0% per annum (SLA). This figure, although it seems very high, spread over 365 days is not at all.
This data means that our service may suffer a “downtime” of more than 3 days, which may or may not be consecutive.
The penalization of search engines, in fact, comes into play not on small “holes” of connectivity but on long periods such as 24 hours.
Google Bot and Bing crawl multiple times in case they fail and have been programmed with conscience. In this way a hardware failure of an unavailable server is considered a completely foreseeable event by them.
Uptime
Another synonym for reliability
Uptime is a concept that very precisely incorporates that of stability, in fact we define it as the time in which our website is perfectly reachable by our users.
This concept is minimized on shared hosting while it is maximized on dedicated hosting. Generally, the higher the uptime that is guaranteed to the customer, the higher the cost of the service. To date, there are many redundancy techniques that make it possible to achieve an uptime approaching 100%.
Web space
What does unlimited space mean? Is it really beneficial?
The web space is very important. Blogs, ecommerce portals and even institutional sites must have many Gigabytes of space available to host the content that users must view.
In fact, shared hosting plans come with unlimited space so that no user has to worry about the material that can be uploaded. Dedicated hosting, on the other hand, always guarantee a well-defined space so as to make the user already known what the potential of the purchased service is. Today the storage space has a very low cost and for this you can find very “abundant” offers.
IP address Is
geolocation important?
IP addresses are a feature that is often ignored by those choosing a web hosting solution. It is good that every website that is created for a specific geographic area is within the same. So if a site is produced to sell in Italy it must necessarily have an Italian IP address in order to improve the speed of reaching the server and therefore load the pages more quickly. On all Web hosting packages it is possible to combine a dedicated IP address that is already included in the server offers, this address can be geolocated anywhere in the world, so as to make your project localized in the area of interest.
SEO
Contrary to what everyone says …
The best WordPress web hosting will never replace good SEO.
This means that although the best hosting solution on the planet is chosen, indexing on search engines and first page climb will not be a factor that will come by itself, but one will have to work and invest in it.
It is of fundamental importance to optimize your contents and make them web friendly, so that the engines can index them and bring them to the attention of all users. The websites that are created all over the world are continuously checked by search engines, which certainly cannot predict the location of the server or determine with certainty the speed of response.
Just imagine a server that is hosted in South Africa and a Google search engine crawl that comes from America. It will inevitably be slower than a connection from Egypt or Tunisia.
Another factor that is absolutely not negligible is giving a user a slow navigation that would push anyone to change website and visit another portal. Whenever a user fails to load your page they may change their mind and view a competitor’s site.
We must keep in mind that hosting is the basis on which your project is supported and the investment must be proportional to the type of business we decide to deal with.
It is unthinkable to have an ecommerce store that produces 1000 euros per month supported on a platform at 29 euros. Thanks to new technologies it is possible to push more and more extreme towards the quality of hosting and performance but having a customized and adaptable solution to your project is always the best solution that a user can choose.
Why can we define our hosting plans among the best for WordPress?
Here are some reasons
A self-respecting web hosting plan must be compatible with most of the CMS that the web offers today.
WordPress is one of the most popular applications, it is used by millions of people who thanks to this powerful software create websites, blogs, portals and even ecommerce thanks to modules and plugins such as Woocommerce.
Shellrent Web Hosting plans have also been optimized specifically for WordPress, improving the response times of the MySQL database and using the PHP-FPM (FastCGI Process Manager) technology that helps to increase the speed of execution of the PHP pages of which WordPress is composed .
WordPress manages to work in a very complete way both on Linux Web Hosting and on Web Hosting based on the Windows operating system, although most of the plugins, themes and modules that are offered for this platform explicitly require libraries that we find only in the operating systems of the Penguin.
Thanks to Linux Web Hosting products it is possible to host WordPress-based content that captures modest traffic. Each hosting plan is continuously updated and offers users the best user experience they could wish for. For example, PHP is constantly updated, guaranteeing all the functions of the CMS. The same is true for the MySQL database engine which follows the same path.
Why can’t all hosting plans meet WP’s needs?
To understand it, it is necessary to go back to the dawn of this CMS.
WordPress, in fact, was born with full support for PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5 which today are decidedly obsolete components. Over time, support has been extended to Ngnix as well as the Apache 2 web server, although it also works well with lesser known daemons such as lighthttpd.
How to solve the slowness problems that keep coming up?
To increase the speed of WordPress, new SSD- based technologies are available that replace the normal SATA or SAS disks often found on servers. Thanks to the solid state drives WordPress is able to work much faster thanks to the speed of access to the memory, which is required every time you go to operate on the MySQL database.
This allows the hosting plan to serve pages much faster and more effectively by also preloading cached information that will be used for future page views.
The WordPress hosting in addition to being improved thanks to hardware innovation has also undergone enormous changes from the point of view of the software side management of the servers. The best PHP accelerators like memcached and apc have been implemented. These components that work closely with PHP and apache allow you to manage the caching of the contents that are provided by WordPress in an advanced way, increasing even more the speed with which the web page is served.
Thanks to the use of these accelerators we can connect to the necessary content without going through the MYSQL database.
