The Best WordPress Host For Speed And Security

The right WordPress host, one that’s actually optimised specifically for WordPress, can put you ahead of the game, improving your site for visitors (read: better conversion rates & more sales!), and search engines (read: potential for better rankings).

We fully recommend these guys for all WordPress hosting plans. They offer a very robust and well-optimised solution for WordPress sites, that surpasses all other WP hosts we’ve tried.

The reasons in short:

  • Their servers are set-up SPECIFICALLY for WordPress
  • This means better page speeds, database speeds, etc
  • EXCELLENT support
  • Backup facilities
  • Updating WP & plugins is easier

For mission critical sites, we’d still recommend OFFSITE backups (separate to the host) in addition to what they hosts provide, and regular manual security checks and page speed checks. Ask about our WP management services for this.

Check the host we recommend here – The smallest plan will suit for most small to medium ecommerce sites.

Here at The Alternative Agency we’ve tried more hosts for WordPress sites than we can remember. However there’s one that we’ve settled on for most of our clients… This host offers the perfect blend of super-fast speeds, a rock solid network, and excellent management.

A Host With Super-fast WordPress Speeds

Google now includes page load times as a ranking indicator, and users have a decreasingly high tolerance for websites that take a long time to load. Having a SOLID and FAST host is crucial, even though optimizing your website is crucial.

Enjoy the Benefits of a Fast Website

Liquid Web have created a platform that showcases theirs focus on performance, with  Nginx, PHP 7, SSL, image compression, and specific WordPress-focussed server environments.

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Plugin Performance Monitor

This is a handy tool that helps admins ensure a WordPress site is kept as efficient as possible. A great feature!

Maximum Security

Liquid Web work 24/7/365 to keep servers and their network clear of security threats, this benefits your site too, as a malware infected site on a server could potentially spread the infection across the server if it gains sufficient privileges, or your site could be tarred with the same brush if it shares an IP with an infected site.

Liquid web help address this concern with their security. However we’d always recommend you keep your site checked for security issues manually, too, or pay for a WordPress maintenance plan to take care of this for you.

Threat Intelligence and Vulnerability Management With ServerSecure

Liquid Web offer premium threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and network protection on all of devices. They identify and block cyber threat activity to provide advanced host and network protection.

Back-Up’s

Liquid Web take daily backups and store them offsite for 30 days. Again, we’d also recommend taking your own off-site backups independent of ANY hosting provider. This can also be covered in a WordPress maintenance plan.

Expertly Curated Hosting That Helps You Build, Optimize and Grow

Nexcess™, Our Digital Commerce Cloud

Nexcess’ high-performance Cloud platform now runs Liquid Web’s Managed WordPress & Managed WooCommerce plans, delivering exceptional speed, scale, and security – all with the same great support and expertise you love. Your project deserves the most reliable, high-performance cloud platform, backed by a support team that specializes in all things WordPress.  Liquid Web provide this.

No Caps on Pageviews or Traffic

Are you sick of paying for overage fees or pageview counts? Liquid Web never charge for pageview counts or overage fees.

Complete Server Access

Most hosts limit the type of access to the server. Instead, Liquid Web give full access to both the database and the server.

Staging Site

It is critical to test your site before it goes live. 

You are provided with the option of a staging site that is a duplicate of your site with identical hardware, software, and configurations that are concealed from the public.

This staging site serves as an excellent testing environment for any code modifications or site upgrades that must be implemented before going live in production.

All in all, we can’t recommend Liquid Web highly enough for WordPress hosting!

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