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Pros and Cons of Managed and Unmanaged WordPress Hosting

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When searching for a web host for your business website and e-mails, usually people see the specifications and prices for WordPress Hosting Servers both managed and unmanaged. If all you need is a small hosting account for your business on a shared server, these options do not apply; but if your website requires its own dedicated server, is an important choice to make. Price should not be the main concern, as the less expensive unmanaged hosting can be a false business strategy over time.

The purpose of this article, therefore, is to help the reader navigate the various options in order to make an informed choice and appropriate to their expectations. But first things first and, first of all, let’s do some clarity of presentation – in a nutshell – the various types of solutions to which you can navigate.

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Shared Hosting

The shared hosting or Unmanaged WordPress Hosting is, of course, the most common service used for the development of an online website. This service, in practice, is in the hiring of a portion of a web server that is allocated hundreds (or thousands) of other sites with which we share, for better or for worse, the resources of the system.

Pros

  • Low costs
  • Don’t require any technical skills
  • Very easy to use

Cons

  • Insecure
  • Performance is not guaranteed
  • Restricted possibility of customization
  • Not suitable for high traffic sites that develop or require large computational resources

Dedicated Server

The dedicated server (in its various forms) has always been the most common alternative to hosting traditional. Until some time ago, in fact, those who had a need for a quality service for your website was obliged to move towards a solution of housing.

Once you buy the Managed WordPress Hosting servers and software and configuring the environment was necessary to contract for its connection to the network and possibly for its maintenance and updating.

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Pros

  • High performance
  • High customization possibilities
  • Higher levels of security compared to shared hosting
  • Suitable for high-traffic sites or those that require high levels of performance and reliability

Cons

  • High cost for the purchase or rental of hardware and software
  • It requires systems skills or, alternatively, additional costs for the subscription of a service managed
  • Robust construction and difficult to scale
  • Longer activation time

Virtual Server

In practice, as in the shared hosting, the system is shared among multiple guests but, unlike the latter, the hardware resources are fractionated with extreme precision, ensuring each customer dedicated resources and a stand-alone environment and, as such, completely impervious to the vicissitudes of the other systems maintained by the virtualization engine.

Pros

  • High performance and customization possibilities
  • Higher levels of security compared to shared hosting
  • No cost for the purchase and / or maintenance of computer hardware
  • Suitable for high-traffic sites or those that require high levels of performance and reliability

Cons

  • It requires systems skills or, alternatively, the suffering of the cost to subscribe to a service managed
  • Robust construction and difficult to scale
  • Activation times not immediate

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