Managed WordPress Websites
| Website size | Hosting fee | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 150MB | $ |
More than enough for most websites |
| 500MB | $ |
If your website contains lots of photos, videos, audios or large documents |
| What you get | Annual Value |
|---|---|
| WordPress updates applied daily to keep your website secure, fast, and up-to-date with new browser versions and new mobile devices. Read WPMUDev’s article on the importance of updates. | $499. Bet you have better things to do than update WordPress every day! |
| Updates are essential to avoid spamming, rogue content, blacklisting and hijacking but sometimes an update breaks your website. We often fix these problems centrally. | $550 |
| Protection with premium security software, fending off several thousand login attacks a day | $99 |
| A specialist server support team in the background, keeping things running | $1080 |
| Weekly monitoring of logs and backups | $1300 |
| Security monitoring and manual blocking of attackers | $1000 |
| Total benefit to you | $4528 |
| NOTE: You might think we plucked these figures out of the air! But this is actually what it costs to provide you with secure hosting. We can keep the price much lower by sharing the load. For example, one security software license covers all our managed WordPress websites, and we can monitor one set of logs for all websites. With an independent WordPress website on web hosting, these services would be charged individually. |
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Pros and Cons – Managed WordPress Websites vs Web Hosting
Managed WordPress Websites
| Feature | Pros | Cons |
|---|---|---|
| Daily updates | Daily plugin and theme updates help your website to remain secure, and to display well on new browsers and devices. Read WPMUDev’s article on the importance of updates. | Updates occasionally affect layout or functionality. You may wish to check your website regularly or take out a service agreement and ask us to check for you. |
| Security | Our specialist security software and monitoring fend off several thousand login attacks per day | |
| Uptime | If the managed WordPress websites become unavailable, we notice quickly and fix them! | |
| Functionality | We’ve already installed the Wordpress plugins that we’ve found most useful. For example, contact forms, Paypal buttons, and search engine optimisation aids. We only install well-reviewed, well-supported plugins. | More plugins mean more complexity. Occasionally a plugin causes a problem and we need to remove it. |
| Portability | To switch hosting providers you’ll probably need 2-3 hours of technical support |
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| Feature | Pros | Cons |
|---|---|---|
| Updates | You control updates. You’re aware of all changes on your website. | Updates aren’t applied unless you log in regularly to run them or create measures to make sure this happens. In the meantime, your website is vulnerable to known security problems and bugs that have since been fixed. If this concerns you, consider taking out a service agreement so that we can do this for you. |
| Security | Your website may be vulnerable to login attacks. If you’re concerned, we can advise you on specialist security software. | |
| Independence | Your website is independent of all other websites. For complex websites, this is essential. We recommend that you use web hosting if you’re planning an online store, member site, forum or anything else with high traffic and complex elements. | |
| Portability | You can easily switch hosting providers, although you may still need an hour or so of technical help to do this. |