As more and more hosting providers are developing niche hosting plans – such as SiteGround who offers specialized hosting plans for Magento & WHUK with their WordPress specific plans – GoDaddy has joined in with the launch of their very own managed WordPress hosting.
With nearly 2 million WordPress websites currently under management, GoDaddy has quiet the extensive experience with WordPress, and with this experience they built Managed WordPress hosting from the ground up to provide the best possible experience and service. The GoDaddy team listened to customers, engaged WordPress experts and connected with Web professionals to create a product that provides a simple way to build a WordPress site that’s fast, reliable and secure, at an affordable price.
GoDaddy Managed WordPress automatically updates accounts to the latest version of WordPress and ensures that a website’s plug-ins aren’t vulnerable to security attacks or wasting resources, causing a website to perform poorly. In addition to protecting WordPress, GoDaddy offers layers of added security including firewalls, malware scanning and automated security patching – all supported by an award-winning Security Team with continuous monitoring.
“GoDaddy is committed to supporting the WordPress community with one of the fastest, most secure and reliable hosting platforms,” said GoDaddy Director of Hosting Product Management Bill Watt. “The team created a product that is easy-to-use and is robust and scalable as an enterprise-level service. GoDaddy Managed WordPress hosting costs a fraction of other competitors prices and is backed by award-winning, around-the-clock customer service which makes this a great choice for anyone looking to get their website up and running.”
The new Web hosting service uses load-balanced servers dedicated to WordPress with multiple cashing layers and massively redundant SSD-backed file and database servers to ensure fast page loads and high scalability for traffic spikes. Users interested in transferring WordPress sites to GoDaddy can use a one-click migration tool that has been developed to automatically and simply move all the relevant files.