The Benefits of WordPress-Specific Web Hosting

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When choosing a web host for your clients’ WordPress sites, you often have to make compromises. Shared hosting providers support many kinds of web applications, and are very cheap, but are not optimized for WordPress. Speed and Security may suffer. A dedicated server can be tuned for your specific application, but requires IT support to maintain and update (which means much higher cost). A third alternative, WordPress-specific hosting providers, offer a happy middle ground. The environment is tuned for WordPress, and can provide the increased speed and security of a dedicated server option, without the big IT expense.

This talk covers the kinds of things a hosting provider can do when they focus on a single type of application (WordPress), in particular what can be done to improve speed, security, and ease of use.