The WordPress economy just keeps growing. According to W3Techs, almost 65% of all websites that use a Content Management System are running on WordPress. Right now, 43% of ALL websites use WordPress.
That’s almost half a billion websites, ranging from personal blogs and hobby sites to some of the largest brands in the world... and a huge number of fast-growing small and medium-sized e-commerce businesses. That’s where it gets interesting for cloud and hosting providers.
The gap in the WordPress hosting market
Until now, there has been no perfect way for those companies to host the WordPress sites that their businesses depend on. They can buy cheap WordPress hosting from companies all over the world, but typically it’s based on shared hosting technology.
For personal, non-critical websites that’s totally fine. If you’re running your business on WordPress, it totally isn’t.
What’s wrong with WordPress shared hosting?
Shared hosting is a 20-year-old technology. It has weak security, no disaster recovery, no high availability and poor performance. You don’t get lifecycle mechanisms built in, so developers have to manually configure and update their WordPress applications.
Most important of all? Shared hosting has limited scalability. This is critical for online businesses built around marketing campaigns, seasonal promotions, product launches and social media trends (i.e., all of them).
Solving the WordPress hosting problem
There are a few specialist WordPress hosts that can solve some of these problems if you’re willing to pay a premium. If you’re a very large brand, you may have gone down the route of building a large, expensive development team and doing it yourself.
For the vast majority of WordPress users, however, shared hosting has been the only viable option - until now.
It’s time to democratize high-end WordPress hosting! We want to make it easy for any host or cloud provider to offer secure, scalable and flexible WordPress hosting without the cost, complexity or limitations of other solutions available today.
Our Application Platform for WordPress is designed specifically for service providers. It gives you the tools to host WordPress with the scale, flexibility and performance that your customers need.
Built on optimized container technologies and enterprise-grade software stacks, it enables:
- Automated clusterization on application and infrastructure layers
- Optimized container technology and enterprise-level software stacks
- Vertical and horizontal scaling based on resource consumption
- Automatic updates with a pre-configured professional CI / CD pipeline
- Improved security with isolated containers, DR, built-in WAF, DDoS protection and server security add-ons
- Intuitive management with self-service developer and admin portals
Handle multiple WordPress topologies
Different WordPress businesses have different hosting requirements. The Virtuozzo Application Platform for WordPress automates the installation of multiple WordPress topologies, out-of-the-box:
- Standalone - a single-container WordPress solution with NGINX application server and load balancer
- Standalone Pro - a single-container WordPress solution with LiteSpeed application server and load balancer
- WooCommerce - a single-container WordPress solution with NGINX and WooCommerce plugin
- WooCommerce Pro - a single-container WordPress solution with LiteSpeed and WooCommerce plugin
- Cluster - a clustered multi-container WordPress solution based on LiteSpeed and MariaDB Galera
- WooCommerce Cluster - a clustered multi-container WordPress solution based on LiteSpeed, MariaDB Galera, and WooCommerce plugin
- Multi-Region Standalone - the Standalone Pro WordPress package, deployed and synchronized between different regions
Modernizing applications and infrastructure
Switching from shared hosting, to hosting based on the Virtuozzo Application Platform, has far-reaching benefits for your customers and for your cloud hosting business.
- For customers, it’s a way to modernize applications and development to drive new business opportunities and sales. It accelerates their development process, reduces maintenance effort, and enables them to build more flexible applications that leverage microservices and APIs. It also simplifies the adoption of multi-cloud hosting strategies.
- For you, the service provider, the Virtuozzo Application Platform creates a better hosting infrastructure with more efficient utilization; enables you to offer multi-cloud solutions; and gives you an advantage over traditional hosting competitors, as well as speeding time-to-market and reducing your own maintenance efforts
How to get started
You can install the Virtuozzo Application Platform on any bare metal or cloud infrastructure, and it’s easy to white-label and customize it for specific use cases.
Want to get started with next-generation WordPress cloud hosting? Just get in touch!
