Once you decide to launch a new website, you will need a CMS(Content Management System) to operate and manage. WordPress being the most popular is the first choice for most of the people. After selecting WordPress as your CMS, most critical decision making is based on the hosting. Hosting provides the server package to make your website accessible to the world.
Simply put WordPress hosting means just a hosting that has been optimized to meet the performance and security needs. WordPress is typically one-click install with plug and play installation facility. Some WordPress hosting provider will automatically assist you in managing your WordPress hosting.
Before moving forward let us learn more about WordPress.
What is WordPress?
WordPress is a most common content management system: an application that helps in managing, styling and publishing the content on the web. WordPress is written in programming language PHP. PHP scripts, combined with the traditional languages of the web platform- HTML, JavaScript, and CSS- are combined to create the application that is called as WordPress. It depends on the components to make it as a complete application. It has PHP interpreter, Web Servers like Apache and a database to store information and many other components like image manipulation library. All these components run on an operating system- Linux. Web hosting company usually helps you in managing all the operational part of the WordPress. Users just have to deploy the WordPress on a web hosting account and manage it via its built-in interface.
There are mainly two main types of WordPress Hosting- Shared WordPress Hosting and Managed WordPress Hosting.
Shared WordPress Hosting- With Shared WordPress Hosting your site will share the server’s resources with other websites. Although your server will be performance- optimized and will be fully supported by the Web Hosting service provider. You will also have access to the one-click WordPress installer.
Managed WordPress Hosting: In addition to Shared WordPress Hosting, managed WordPress hosting offers the below mentioned hosting perks.
- Faster Speed- higher specification gives a higher speed.
- Server-side Caching- It helps speed up the website performance.
- Better Security- WordPress specific Firewalls, along with regular malware scans and intrusion detection gives better security.
A non-specialized web host will optimize their servers for the general hosting purpose. But a WordPress host will optimize server specifically for WordPress. It gives a higher degree of security and performance to the users.