A website is an investment. Like any investment, you need to keep your website secure and maximize its value. If your site is built using WordPress, choosing the right hosting provider is crucial to your site’s security and performance. The options can be overwhelming, which is why our team of expert WordPress website developers use WP Engine for managed hosting to make things easier for our clients.
About vitals
important has been building websites and creating successful digital marketing strategies for over 20 years. We have worked with hundreds of brands across industries such as B2B manufacturing, higher education, and fintech to build online presences that help them achieve their business goals. I want to share my knowledge on how WordPress can be leveraged to build a site that not only looks great, but acts as a foundation for digital marketing with a dramatic return on investment (ROI).
Why Vital Uses WordPress
At Vital, virtually all client sites are WordPress block editor Because it combines power and flexibility with an intuitive backend. Our clients love WordPress. This is because new pages can be easily added and edited long after launch without the need for technical development expertise. This allows you to scale your site while lowering your lifetime cost of ownership.
About WP Engine
Vital has been using WP Engine for seven years for their managed hosting needs. WP Engine from a personal blog Enterprise-level Fortune 500 companyWe recommend our customers managed hosting to help keep your site fast, secure and technically up to date. As a WordPress managed hosting provider, WP Engine handles everything from the server infrastructure to the WordPress application itself.
Why Vital Uses WP Engine for Managed Hosting
At Vital, we build sites that are flexible, scalable, easy to use, and secure. We use WP Engine for our managed hosting because it helps us ensure that every site we build meets these standards, both on launch day and in the future. Method is as follows.
WP Engine maximizes site performance.
WP Engine’s sophisticated front-end system for handling web traffic means pages load faster, and the Advanced Network further improves speed and security. Site speed and performance For clients focused on attracting traffic, driving online conversions, generating leads, and increasing revenue using their sites through search engine optimization (SEO), as it directly impacts SEO and user experience. This is a big deal.
Top-notch technology for top-notch websites
With WP Engine, Vital gets dedicated servers running HTTP/2, PHP 7, optimized to run highly dynamic sites as fast as possible. Both premium and enterprise solutions are dedicated virtual environments with provisioned processing power, memory, disk space, and system resources. This allows clients to get the most out of your site without sacrificing site performance.
Keep up with WordPress updates
One of my favorite things about WordPress is that it’s constantly getting better with core updates.In addition, abundant native and third party plugins We provide extensions and these plugins are also updated frequently. Managing all these updates can be difficult and delays can lead to bugs and broken sites.WP Engine proactively manages all WordPress core updates and security patches. Keep things running smoothly and the smart plugin manager ensures that plugin updates don’t break your site.
Secure your site
This is easy. Security is a concern for all websites in today’s world. No one wants their site hacked or attacked. We chose WP Engine because it has a proven track record of being the most secure and professionally managed WordPress hosting.
Failsafe backup
If you’ve ever had your computer crash before you hit “Save”, you know how important backups are. With WP Engine, you get a fully automated set-and-forget backup system in case something goes wrong with your site.
best customer service and support
Even with the most advanced technology, there comes a time when you need instant contact with a real person. Over the course of his seven-year partnership with WP Engine, has consistently provided excellent and responsive customer service. This is one of the big reasons we stick with them for our clients’ managed hosting needs.
How WP Engine Improved Website Performance: A Success Story
Nine years ago, Vital used their website as a guinea pig to evaluate WP Engine as their new WordPress hosting service. Our site was old and was running very slowly on a competitor’s hosting server. I moved my Vital site to WP Engine and immediately saw a huge performance boost without changing any code. WP Engine’s performance features solved many of our site’s problems without further work.
How WP Engine Saved a Client’s Site: A Christmas Eve Miracle
A few days before Christmas 2015, I asked one of my hosts to cancel one of their VPS servers as they were no longer in use. On Christmas Eve, some of our clients’ sites suddenly went down. It turns out that the host “accidentally” canceled all VPS servers in the account, not just the one we requested.
The server could not be restored because the host did not have a backup system in place. Everything was lost and the host could not help us at all. The Vital Dev Team spent the Christmas holidays looking for a lost copy of the website. They were obtained from our local development system and our own manual archival backups. Git version control also saved a lot of code for the site.
We migrated most of these clients to WP Engine. WP Engine keeps you safe and healthy thanks to infinitely competent support, a significantly more robust infrastructure, and daily offsite backups of all your websites in the event of a disaster. The incident also prompted the client to start offering a “secondary backup” service that makes daily backups of the site in addition to the backups provided by his web host, just in case the worst happens again. Spurred Vital.
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About the author
Melissa Lore is Director of Brand Strategy. importantShe works with start-ups and established companies to help drive brand awareness, tell compelling stories and connect with ideal audiences. She has been creating search-optimized content for over 20 years and has worked with her SEO strategists at Vital to drive quality traffic to her client sites.