WordPress Hosting Survival Guide
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The document is a guide to navigating the complexities of WordPress hosting, discussing essential aspects such as server architecture, uptime, security, and performance. It emphasizes the importance of SSL, regular backups, and maintaining updated software while also considering the budget and support needs. The guide concludes with a checklist of recommendations for effective website hosting management.
WordPress Hosting Survival Guide
- 1. The Hosting Survival Guide How to make sense of the WordPress hosting jungle! Ricky Blacker Sales Engineer
- 2. About Me ● Web Developer ● Co-organiser of WordPress Meetups and WordCamps ● Really bad at sports Ricky Blacker Pre-Sales Engineer & WordPress Evangelist
- 3. About Me
- 4. About Me
- 5. So Let’s Get Started!
- 6. In The Beginning And all was good in the hosting world :) There was static HTML & CSS
- 8. But things changed! Along came dynamic content, and of course the CMS.
- 9. The Fun Begins! Now we had to worry about more than just the server security, we have logins, updates, conflicts, stress.
- 10. What is Web Hosting? A web host, or web hosting service provider, is a business that provides the technologies and services needed for the website or webpage to be viewed in the Internet.
- 11. So What Do You Need From Hosting Today?
- 12. Infrastructure!
- 14. Server Architecture - VPS
- 18. Shared Hosting
- 22. Managed Hosting
- 23. Cloud Hosting
- 24. Location
- 25. 25 Where do you need to be?
- 26. Where do you need to be?
- 27. Where do you need to be?
- 28. Where do you need to be?
- 29. Availability
- 30. Uptime ● At least 3 9’s ● Monitoring ● Pingdom ● Uptime Robot
- 31. Uptime ● At least 3 9’s ● Monitoring ● Pingdom ● Uptime Robot SLA level of 99.9 % uptime/availability gives the following periods of potential downtime/unavailability: Daily: 1m 26.4s Weekly: 10m 4.8s Monthly: 43m 49.7s Yearly: 8h 45m 57.0s
- 32. Uptime ● At least 3 9’s ● Monitoring ● Pingdom ● Uptime Robot SLA level of 99.99 % uptime/availability gives the following periods of potential downtime/unavailability: Daily: 8.6s Weekly: 1m 0.5s Monthly: 4m 23.0s Yearly: 52m 35.7s
- 33. Uptime ● At least 3 9’s ● Monitoring ● Pingdom ● Uptime Robot 99.99 % Daily: 8.6s Weekly: 1m 0.5s Monthly: 4m 23.0s Yearly: 52m 35.7s 99.9 % Daily: 1m 26.4s Weekly: 10m 4.8s Monthly: 43m 49.7s Yearly: 8h 45m 57.0s
- 34. Security
- 35. Security ● Threat Detection And Blocking ● Proactive Security Maintenance ● Managed Patching And Updates Make sure all software is at least a supported version, latest stable is better. Source: https://sucuri.net/reports/2018-hacked-website-report/
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- 37. SSL SSL is now easier than ever with Let’s Encrypt open source certificates.
- 39. Maintenance
- 40. Backups ● Constant ● Reliable ● Offsite ● Easy Restore
- 41. Staging With constant updates to WordPress core and plugins, having a staging environment allows you to test away from your live site.
- 42. Support
- 43. Support ● 24/7 (if possible) ● Chat/Phone ● WordPress Knowledge ● Free
- 44. Budget
- 45. Budget You get what you pay for, but also make sure you get what you are paying for. ● How much $$$ is your site generating? ● What is the impact to you or your business if it goes down?
- 46. Performance
- 47. Drivers of Performance Which car is quickest - a 1.6 litre or a 4.5 litre ?
- 48. Drivers of Performance Which car is quickest - a 1.6 litre or a 4.5 litre ?
- 49. Get The Facts! Use tools to find out what you need to make your site performant
- 50. Update Your Software Make sure you have the latest version of WordPress, but also the LAMP stack! Linux Version 4+ Apache Version 2.4+ MySQL Version 5+ PHP Version 7+
- 51. PHP Version In upgrading a website from PHP 5.6 to 7.2 we saw speed improvements of up to 40%. Number of raw hits that could be handled
- 52. PHP Version From 7.2 to 7.3 we’ve seen as much as 15% faster page transaction times.
- 54. You cannot update because WordPress 5.2.2 requires PHP version 5.6.20 or higher
- 55. Database Optimisations InnoDB supports row- level locking which means inserting and updating is much faster as compared with MyISAM.
- 56. Cacheing Server side cacheing is much more efficient than cacheing plugins
- 57. Shopping and Membership sites! ● Mostly uncached ● Heavier on resources ● Is it capable of handling large spikes in traffic?
- 58. Shopping and Membership sites! Beware of seasonal and marketing spikes!
- 63. Summary
- 64. Summary ● Get SSL for Security and SEO ● Backup regularly ● Use staging to minimise impact on your live site ● Get good support ● Budget for what you need ● Anticipate and have resources to meet demand ● Keep all software up to date
- 66. Questions?