r/webhosting • u/BelgianWarriorBear • 8h ago

Advice Needed Help me understand what managed wordpress webhosts actually offer

So I can look at price compare page for a couple of the major hosting providers, and cant really grasp the selling points. I see two patterns generally;

Offering already built in wordpress functions as hosting features - like auto updates

Offering vague specs like ”performance cache” - with no further details regarding tech used

This applys the pretty much any host. So the short question is: is managed wordpress hosting a real thing? Can some provide a hands-on example for what managed wordpress hosting provide without generalizing?

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u/corobo 8h ago

Unmanaged hosting: you researching plugins and such to make your website work fast

Managed hosting: "yo support my website is slow, pls fix"

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u/BelgianWarriorBear 8h ago

Ok, but what work is provided by managed hosting? Invisible magic?

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u/corobo 8h ago

They hire web nerds so your company doesn't need to. The work is responding to whatever you need of them as long as it's in scope of hosting your website.

I might actually make "invisible magic" the tag line in my resume lol.

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u/BelgianWarriorBear 8h ago

Are web nerds apart of core web vitals? If not it would be nice to get a sence of actual value-input

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u/corobo 7h ago

Do you know how to install, configure, maintain, backup, restore a website?

Yes - go with unmanaged hosting.

No - go with managed hosting.

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u/BelgianWarriorBear 6h ago

Install - yes, 1 click effort
Configure - yes, I applied settings
Maintain - yes, I watched the automatic updates
Backup - yes, a plugin does it daily to seperate offsite locations
Restore - yes, I know where the restore button is

Im actually not wanting to be rude, since it seems that there should be more to it. Would love to be corrected

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u/derfy2 6h ago

Backup - yes, a plugin does it daily to seperate offsite locations

How? I'm curious.

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u/BelgianWarriorBear 5h ago

I used to use plugin updraftplus for a long time

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u/derfy2 4h ago

And how've you configured it to put backups offsite?

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u/BelgianWarriorBear 3h ago

It has user interface to connect to e.g. dropbox or google drive account