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WordCamp Boston - 2013

WordCamp Boston - 2013

Do I Need Managed WordPress Hosting? A Tale of Two Servers

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

October 27, 2013
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  1. Mika “Ipstenu” Epstein WordPress.Org !   Support Forum Moderator !

      Plugin Reviewer !   Core Contributor !   Beta Tester !   Trainer !   …. Half Elf DreamHost ! WordPress Specialist !   … and Manager ! WordPress Trainer !   De-Hacker !   Dedicated WP Resource !   … Half Unicorn
  2. What Is Hosting? Shared Hosting !   Shared with lots

    of people !   Limited resources !   Hard to add features (PHP upgrades etc) VPS Hosting !   Just you! !   As many resources as you can afford !   You can add on any feature you want
  3. Managed Hosting !   Tuned for WordPress !   No

    ‘root’ (we manage the features) !   Not shared !   Faster than Shared, as fast as VPS
  4. It Was The Age Of Wisdom Surge in traffic Change

    in traffic type Server getting old
  5. It Was The Age of Foolishness Slow Performance Server Costs

    Increase Server Admin Busy Admin Skills Limited Poor social media choices…
  6. We Were All Going Direct The Other Way Proxy +

    Proxy + Proxy + Cache? It can work….
  7. … the period was so far like the present period,

    that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
  8. The End (Questions?) It is a far, far better thing

    that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.