almost all shared hosting servers 99% hosts wordpress sites. but they may not optimized for WordPress. Some shared hosting providers like godaddy proclaims managed wordpress hosting but they provide same resources as shared servers. they may help you regarding wordpress site related issues that;s called managed wordpress hosting.
Checklist while choosing a Managed hosting
- Is it shared server or VPS or Dedicated – (almost wp managed hosting providers are shared providers that’s not problem but cpu limits)
- Pricing basically managed wordpress hosting Plans 3x on unmanaged servers 2x for managed servers.
- Is wordpress managed hosting limiting my site functionality – wpe they don;t allow some plugins due to high cpu usage.
- Visits vs bandwidth based pricing: WPE* charges 1$ for 1000 visits extra also according to bandwidth incase monthly visits reached.
managed wordpress vs shared hosting
if you manage server & resources limit, you can optimise whole server wordpress installs.
ex: read writes to database very less, when compared to user engaged content like forums.
so we optimize database for read efficient.
micro caching, if content changes frequently ecommerce sites we need to limit cache size increase frequency range,
so wordpress high cache size low expiry time.
memory limits, full page cache etc.
an optimised server for specific application like wordpress outperforms other.
shared hosting: hogged resources, no support for wp related errors.
Vps/dedicated server: need to optimise the server in case of mixed applications we have to compromise
Performance. No support for wp related errors
managed wordpress hosting: whole server optimized for wp, server level configuration rather than website level with php, cms level support, installing & updating plugins handling errors.
caching enabled at server level rather than plugin based.
All we have to pay per visitors (requests/bandwidth)
Kinsta hosting
20000 visits at 30$
10GB space
1 wordpress site.
we don’t need to worry about cpu cores, ram size.
lets calculate price for 1 visior
20000/30$= 666 /1$
$1 per 666 visits
20k₹/2k₹= 10 visits for 1₹. Ppc ads 1 click ₹1.
if more than 20k visits we have to pay extra money as per slab.
1$ per 1000 visits
we have to pay minimum monthly charge regardless of lower than 20k visits in the months,
Pricing based on Visits not bandwidth Model. (collects visits from sever access logs)
Wp engine managed hosting (bandwidth limit)*
$30
25000 visits
10gb storage
50GB bandwidth
1 website
page size 3MB , 25GB*3=75GB.
page size 2MB= 25000*2= 50GB
wp engine added another important trigger is bandwidth limit to save their business.
25000/30=833visits per $1
Wpx hosting – managed
$25
5 websites
10GB storage
100GB storage
visits estimation per month. 33000 -50,000 based on page size.
1MB = 100000 visits
2MB = 50K visits
3MB= 37K visits
NOTE: bandwidth estimations just for understanding
there is a upload bandwidth while downloading.
you may already saw these metrics in shared hosting cpanel software.
Tip: enable cloudflare to save upto 70%bandwidth
some push cdns like keycdn counts cloudflare cdn too.
Siteground wordpress Hosting
The wordpress & woocommerce and shared hosting plans are same, comes with same pricing bandwidth etc. so they are not managed wordpress hosting, they may optimized for wordpress performance, but they cannot support you at wordpress CMS level. there are limits like CPU limits
read more about siteground pricing and review.
wordpress requires more memory.
caching
Application level optimization is the key to super performance.
Which leads more sales.
Most people recommend ends bluehost for WordPress.
why?
every hosting company uses same infrastructure by dell or other.
the support,
the server optimization
The pricing
cloudways wordpress hosting – managed now
cloudways may don’t offer the fully managed wordpress hosting like support for themes and plugins site related issues. they only manages the servers from other providers like Digital ocean, vulr, Google cloud etc.
so as of now cloudways also launched managed wordpress hosting with same price as managed servers.
Managed wordpress hosting services
#wpengine at high cost visits/request based
Kinsta
Managed hosting by shared server hosting companies
GoDaddy, bluehost,. Hostgator
Problem is shared resources,
the poor performance leads to ranking & sales drops.
When to switch shared hosting to dedicated
check your average page response time tffb in Google.
or Google Chrome developer tool.
if ttfb high (read more here about ttfb).
optimize, enable caching if applicable.
Install a caching plugin super cache, w3tc.
uninstall the unnecessary plugins.
So we need pay extra penny for more resources.
dedicated cloud hosting is key to estimate the price.
managed hosting services vs hiring freelancer
paying extra cost to saas services.
iaas + freelancer = sass less cost.
if freelancer had to work few hours a week.
Managed hosting services from startups
they tend give more discount.
Limitation Of managed wordpress Hosting
Shared servers limits the CPU Resources by Limiting Php worker process. (ex: only 3 worker processors that handle limited connections /requests visitors simultaneously). you have to ask them.
