WordPress Hosting on High-Availability

WordPress Standalone Kit is a lightweight WordPress installation inside a standalone container. The packaged structure makes this solution more cost effective and suitable for running small and medium size projects. And the kit of built-in tools that can be enabled with a mouse click, ensures a considerably high level of security and performance.

WordPress Standalone package has an efficient single node topology based on Jelastic-certified LLSMP (Linux + LiteSpeed + MariaDB + PHP) or LEMP (Linux + NGINX + MariaDB + PHP) template with a set of built-in advanced features. Let’s walk through all the available components.

Let’s Encrypt SSL
Let’s Encrypt SSL Add-On does the routine but yet important system administration tasks for issuing trusted SSL certificates, integrating them into the application server, and enabling fully automated certificate renewal to stay secure over time.

LiteSpeed Web Server
LiteSpeed Web Server (LSWS) is a high-performance and low memory consuming web server. It includes ESI caching, browser, and object cache along with the support of HTTP/3, CDN, WAF, Geo-DNS, reCAPTCHA protection, cutting-edge anti-DDoS protection.

In Jelastic PaaS, LiteSpeed Web Server is provided to clients with a license of Site Owner Plus (5-Domains and 1-Worker) with PHP Process Mode: ProcessGroup Mode. Accordingly, the LSWS creates only one worker process, but multiple child processes may be forked from it. The maximum number is equal to the CPUs count for the container. Herewith, the CPU number may vary based on the cloudlets count and specifics of the particular hosting platform.

Web Application Firewall
The Web Application Firewall (WAF) is a built-in feature that is enabled by default in the LiteSpeed Web Server of the current application package. WAF supports ModSecurity rules and comes by default with Comodo ruleset configured. LiteSpeed WAF manages rules for dynamic requests, which allows significantly optimized computing power.

MariaDB Database
The popular MariaDB database server is employed as a storage for website content. The default values of configuration parameters were changed to ensure the highest possible performance. You may see these values in the sqldb config file.

Redis
Redis is a non-relational high-performance DBMS. Redis stores all the data in the RAM as key-value pairs. It is used as an object caching solution. This approach provides performance that is much higher than the performance of relational DBMSs.

This simplified architecture does not presuppose HA and failover capabilities, as well as horizontal scaling in case of high load as it can be done with a WordPress Enterprise Cluster. But it perfectly suits the websites with moderate load and can handle slight spikes using pre-configured automatic vertical scaling, while ensuring sustainable consumption and minimal hosting bill.

Cheap or even free WordPress Hosting is quite luring. Nothing is better than running your website for free, right? Well, cheap or free WordPress is not a synonym for low or no Cloud Hosting expenses, possibly the opposite is true.

It is quite frequent that hosting providers go to extreme measures to deal with intense competition. In their struggle to secure a good market share they provide cheap services, the cost of which has been lowered due to intense budget cutting on their IT departments.

This results to increased costs for the clients in the form of increased downtime and lost business because of it. Additionally, clients typically use human and financial resources on troubleshooting, instead of growing their website.

When doing research on hosting for WordPress, make sure to aim for value-for-money instead of cheap and test, and communicate with potential providers. However, if you run a staging site, a cheap WordPress solution could be a good way to test it and run it at a low cost.

Pay per Use Pricing: Choosing this option allows you to be charged solely depending on the rate of resource usage from your WordPress website. For example, if no users visit your website for a day, you will be charged with minimal cloud hosting expenses, according to the resource usage, which is limited. This option is great for websites that are just getting started or for websites with high seasonal or circumstantial volatility.

Fixed Monthly Pricing: This is a great option if you want to be in full control of your budget, knowing your exact monthly expenses for cloud hosting. Regardless of your WordPress site’s traffic and resource usage, you will pay for a specific amount of available, reserved resources. This means that if your website overcomes this traffic threshold your plan will not be able to support the load, resulting in slowing down. This option is ideal for established websites that are aware of the typical monthly traffic they receive.

It really depends on your needs. WordPress hosting companies have created a plethora of services and it is difficult for a webmaster to figure out the best solution for her/his business needs.

Shared WordPress Hosting: In this case, WordPress is deployed on cloud servers that do not apply restriction to their tenants in terms of resource utilization. Although this can be considered a low reliability solution with limited uptime that focuses on cost-efficiency, it really depends on the WordPress hosting providers. For example, MassiveGRID strategically avoids overselling, as a result, even our clients who have shared hosting services with us never face the “busy neighbor problem”.

Dedicated WordPress Hosting: It is very similar to VPS hosting. Typically, a cloud dedicated server is deployed with WordPress CRM having been preinstalled on it.

Managed Hosting: It is related to a plethora of IT services that can be managed by the WordPress hosting providers. They can be anything from hardware, network and power management to Sysadmin support. MassiveGRID provides fully managed hosting in terms of hardware, storage, power and network health, allowing you to focus on what matters most.

WordPress Hosting is a type of web hosting that focuses on offering WordPress plans. Since WordPress.com focuses on delivering the best possible experience in the platform, third party hosting by numerous hosting providers seems to have certain advantages when compared to self-hosted WordPress. Hosting providers focus on the Infrastructure (IaaS) that the CRM is based on, in order to secure uptime, fast server response time and good customer support. Typically, once a user opens a hosting account WordPress is automatically deployed right away.

WordPress (wordpress.com) is a Content Management System (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. Too complicated? Okay, WordPress is a drag-and-drop website builder that allows WordPress users to easily create, deploy, edit and manage content and interact with their audience. WordPress powers 35% of websites and is ideal for small businesses that need something simple and user-friendly to manage their online presence in a cost-efficient way. WordPress is compatible with thousands of plugins that automate numerous processes. Frequent WordPress updates allow the platform to remain relevant and useful for hundreds of thousands of webmasters.

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Platform as a Service, or PaaS, is a type of cloud-based service that is ideal especially for developers. It can be deployed both on public cloud and private cloud environments.

With PaaS you gain access to a cloud-based platform that allows you to focus on the development, deployment and management of all kinds of web applications, web sites and databases, without having to also manage and upkeep the associated IaaS Infrastructure (servers, etc.)