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Reviewed – WPEngine Secure Managed WordPress Web Hosting Service

Introduction

While working on the web, having and running numerous websites, and experienced shared hosting, VPS and even dedicated hosting in times, you might be wondering on or thinking on to switch to such a hosting service where all the things will get securely managed itself by the hosting team. It is quite a decent thought that a web person might think of in time, even the same case comes in front of us either. So, today with this review, I thought on exploring this option with the hosting service name WPEngine and see and find that how much it will make sense to me or you, if we think of to switch to it in near future.

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Founded in 2010, WPEngine is a new web host service which only focused on managed WordPress hosting and provides its customers the fast, scale and secure hosting service. While it might considered as an expensive hosting service at first as its starting price is $29 per month, but if one think in broader way, you are getting a service where everything is managed completely with the team in backend from hosting side itself, then paying the amount is also not a bigger deal. At least with having such a service on board to give fuel to your websites with zero havoc and tension to you, it is a fairer deal to opt for.

Features & Pricing

Features

  • Unlimited Data Transfer
  • Stage & Deploy with Git
  • Managed Upgrades
  • Daily Backups
  • One-Click Restore-Points
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • No Caching Plugins!
  • International Data Centers
  • Top-Shelf Hardware
  • Firewall
  • Malware Scanning
  • “Surprising” Support
  • Money-Back Guarantee
  • No Lock-In

Pricing

You can start with trying the service for free for first 60 days, experiencing and testing and seeing yourself that if this is the right hosting service for you or not. And, once you are satisfied you can opt for anyone of the plans, the company is offering. The plans starts from $29 per month, which includes 1 WordPress Install, 25,000 visits / mo., Unlimited Data Transfer and 10 GB Local Storage while the premium comes on count for more, which goes completely the customized way as per your requirement and in which you will get Unlimited WP Installs and Millions visits / mo.

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  • Personal – $29 a month – 1 WordPress install, 25,000 visits a month, unlimited data transfer, 10 GB local storage
  • Professional – $99 a month – 10 WordPress install, 100,000 visits a month, unlimited data transfer, 20 GB local storage
  • Business – $249 a month – 25 WordPress install, 400,000 visits a month, unlimited data transfer, 30 GB local storage
  • Premium – Customized plan with unlimited WordPress installs and unlimited millions of visits a month
  • CDN –Professional, Business and Premium plans includes CDN but with the Personal plan it comes at an additional cost of $19.95 a month.

Advantages & Disadvantages

Advantages

  • Managed WordPress Hosting
  • Speed. Blazing fast
  • Custom dashboard
  • Daily backup with restore points
  • First class support
  • Fast server optimized for WordPress
  • CDN support
  • Strong Reliability & Security
  • No cache plugins required, the server handles that
  • Malware scanning and other high level security features
  • Automatic upgrades to the latest WordPress version
  • Top of the line security and cache which comes built-in to every single site
  • Offers amazing WordPress support to all

Disadvantages

  • Only one site in the standard package
  • Extremely Expensive
  • Limited Websites & Local Storage

Take A Speed Test

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Take the WPEngine Speed Test today and see how much of a difference WPEngine can make for you! All you have to do is to fill up your site’s URL and email address and WPEngine’s will tell you if there are any obvious problems, how much of an impact they are making on your business, and what you can do about them. The best part it’s totally free.

Summary & Review

No doubt WPEngine has dominated the managed WordPress hosting service space in recent time. Although the service don’t come cheap, but still with the promise it has made – speed, security and capability – it does delivers that only. The only factor which counts with me regarding the service is the support – the company have to work more on this – while WPEngine is a one’s preferred hosting choice for WordPress sites.

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How To Secure Your WordPress Blog In 6 Ways

Started back in 2003 as a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing, WordPress now becomes the most popular and powerful Content Management System in the world. The web software used by millions of users globally, and in which the hosting of more than half of the blog itself. Not only this, but the popular brands are using the CMS too, including TechCrunch, Mashable, I2Mag, NBC and lots more.

This is huge and even getting bigger every instances passed by. Interesting and the best part while using the WordPress is that it takes mere two easy steps to install WordPress, yes the only two steps process. In order to keep the CMS work for you, today I will talk about what ways (by sharing tips and tricks) by which you can protect your WordPress blog. These tips and tricks will not only help you keeping your blog safe from hackers but also help in maintaining the much faster pace.

Do Not Use “Admin” As User

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Starting with, once you have your WordPress blog in place, you do come up with “admin” as the login username. Thing to note here, avoid using “admin” at any cost as this is a common mistake which give a clear way for hackers to hack your website. What you have to do is as soon as you install WordPress, you need to create a new account and do use that one as default. Even, better as soon as you create a new account as an administrator; better delete the user “admin” as all the robots always looking out for it.

Increasing The Strength Of Your Password

Password-Strength

Gone are those days when you can use the passwords like abc12345, xyz12345 and so on, reason with the way technology grows, breaching the authentication becomes much easier. It’s always been recommended to use strong passwords, including both small and capital letters, with numbers and different symbols which make your password much stronger. Even, in case if you don’t think of stronger password yourself, you can use the password generator software which helps you selecting the right one.

Update Regularly

Update

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Updating your WordPress website from time-to-time is very much important, as it keep your blog safe for a long run. Developers keep on working on to solve security issues, and in order to have your WordPress websites updated, new security release comes regularly. It takes hardly few seconds time to update your blog, resulting in helping your blog run better and be more compatible with different plug-ins. As soon as update will be available, you will get notified through your WordPress dashboard itself or you do also update it manually, but remember don’t download the update from any other website except WordPress.org.

Using .htaccess

htaccess

By default .htaccess is available in your hosting folder. The .htaccess lets you blog different IPs which you believe would be security concerns for you. Even further, .htaccess will allow you to people from browsing your WordPress folder structure as well as let you hide XML sitemaps from search engine.

Protecting wp-config.php File

wp-config

The time when you are installing the WordPress on server, you need to either create or edit the wp-config.php file. The fill will let you create and manage the database files of your blog. Just like .htaccess, the wp-config.php is one of the most important files you have with you, therefore it is also very much important to take measures to protect it out. Even, suggestive is to make it hide from the public, by adding this simple line of code:

<Files wp-config.php>

order allow, deny

deny from all

</Files>

The addition of this will prevents the file being seen by users as well as difficult to spot by hackers and robots.

Backup Your Whole Blog

Backup

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Keeping a back up is a key stone to maintain a huge pace. You can back up your whole of blog either daily, once a week or a month, although it’s suggestive to do it at least once a day. You never know what things may come up your way and ruin your whole hard work in a one single go, so it is a good idea to have a back up regularly.

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