Managed WordPress Hosting

A2 Hosting's Managed WordPress Hosting is our optimized platform built on our Cloud Container Technology specifically designed for WordPress sites. This specially tuned hosting environment is designed to allow you to deploy WordPress websites faster with less advanced configuration out of the box. We've redefined the “managed” WordPress Hosting industry. Our support team embodies the “Can Do” mentality. We see complex technical issues as opportunities to learn something new and impress our valued clients. 

WordPress Managed Hosting Features

Your Managed WordPress Web Hosting account comes loaded with innovative features. Here are just a few of the features that you'll enjoy:

• Auto WordPress installation and pre-configuration (based on best practices on over 100,000 WordPress sites)
• Easy-To-Use Staging - quickly and easily deploy a development copy of your site to test on
• A2 Optimized - performance caching on both server side and on the WordPress application level
• Easy WordPress Backups - automated and provides daily backup protection for ultimate peace of mind
• Automatic WordPress core updates & patches - Stay focused on building your site. Our team of WordPress experts will ensure you have the best WordPress version and patches.
• Enhanced security both at the WordPress application side and server side
• Free SSL certificate
• Developer friendly features including WP-CLI, SSH, GIT, and more!

Although we do not debug core WordPress functionality or maintain third party plugins, rest assured we do have resident WordPress experts on staff that can work with you or your developer to troubleshoot issues. 

Our Managed WordPress solutions are great whether you are a brand new WordPress user or an experienced, technical user who has run a number of sites. All users will appreciate our Managed WordPress environment loaded with features and optimizations designed to make your life easier, have your site perform faster and offer enhanced security. More experienced users will also love features like Git, site staging and WP-CLI. Whatever your experience level, you won't find a better WordPress Hosting experience anywhere!

You get pre-configured security and performance right out of the box! We give you the tools you need to make it easier than ever to run your sites ranging from Git to staging to CloudFlare ServerShield. We’ve tested a number of WordPress configurations to offer you an optimized environment complete with our A2 Optimized plugin. Our team will also ensure that both your software and A2 Optimized plugins are updated. Although we don’t debug core WordPress functionality or maintain third party plugins, rest assured we do have a team of WordPress experts available to work with you and your development team to troubleshoot issues. Our team has a “Can Do” attitude! They’ll dive right into complex technical issues looking to offer you the best Managed WordPress Hosting service and support anywhere.

That’s a loaded question! In short, the backbone of our solutions is our fine-tuned SwiftServer platform complete with speed enhancing features like our solid state drives (SSDs), CloudFlare Servershield CDN and LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress. Built on top of our SwiftServers is our speed-enhanced web server Turbo featuring up to 20X faster page loads compared to competing Managed WordPress Hosting providers. Your WordPress install is also A2 Optimized meaning it’s heavily integrated at the server level pre-configured with the best speed optimizations out of the box (up to 6X faster than standard WordPress installs).

Even though our team manages your WordPress setup, you still have complete access to the WordPress admin panel. You’ll also have the Plesk control panel where you’ll have access to your websites, email, website files, databases and statistics! You’ll also have access to the WordPress toolkit making it easy for you to add plugins, change your site’s theme and more! You'll also have access to our easy WordPress staging allowing you to test changes and updates before you take them live. WP-CLI even comes pre-installed so you can manage your WordPress sites with command line.

Your Managed WordPress account from A2 Hosting includes a free, 1-domain Jetpack Personal license! Jetpack is a powerful toolkit/plugin loaded with resources to enhance your WordPress account and site. It bundles a number of fantastic tools to help you design, secure, and grow your site including:

• Automated Backups - Daily & Easy-To-Use 
• Photon Unlimited Image CDN
• Lazy Loading Images
• Brute Force Protection
• Automated Spam Filtering
• Website Stats
• 100’s of Free WordPress Templates
   

The backbone of all of our services at A2 Hosting is our lightning fast performance. Our Managed WordPress Web Hosting solution isn't any different. That's because at A2 Hosting, we understand that your page load speed has a direct impact on your visitor satisfaction, bounce rate and most importantly your conversion rate. That's why each of your WordPress sites come hosted on our Turbo Servers featuring up to 20X faster page loads compared to competing Managed WordPress Hosting providers.

Your WordPress site also comes A2 Optimized. Our exclusive A2 Optimized configuration is a result of our optimization experts testing WordPress configuration combinations to determine the one that provides the fastest page load speeds. You get that configuration meaning your WordPress site automatically comes with the best speed settings out of the box.  

Free WordPress Managed Site Backups

Mistakes happen. This is true even if you've taken all of the necessary precautions including testing your site updates with our WordPress staging tool. If you make a mistake, don't panic. They can easily be reverted with the backup tool featured with your free Personal, 1-Domain Jetpack license.

Serious Managed WordPress Hosting require serious backup tools. That's exactly what you get from A2 Hosting! Our backup solution is:

• Flexible – Your content, themes, plugins and more are all backed up.
• Convenient – Not only are the backups automatic, but you can restore whatever you need with a single click.
• Scheduled – Is there a specific time that you want your backups to run? Schedule daily, bi-weekly, weekly or monthly backups.

WordPress site staging is an easy and efficient way for you to test changes and updates to your site before you take them live for your audience.

Site staging is one of the most popular features of our Managed WordPress Hosting environment. Just as you would proofread an article or blog post before publishing it to your site, you should test your site's code, plugins, themes and content as well. The A2 Hosting staging environment provides you with the easiest way to do just that. Our staging tool makes it easy for you to create an environment specifically designed to test your changes before you make them live to your audience. There's no more worrying about whether a change will break your site and having to scramble to revert those changes. Staging helps you know exactly how an update will impact your site before you do it for complete peace of mind.

Creating a staging environment is as easy as just adding a new subdomain or domain to your site. Use our staging tool to make a copy of your existing live website to your new subdomain or domain. This staging environment is where you can do all of your testing whether you want to check a plugin or theme to see how it will impact your site. Once your testing has been completed in your staging environment and you want to take all of your edits live, you can easily do just that within your control panel.