These are things that YOU would normally have to worry about if you were hosting and managing your own blog. It’s a ton of stuff and can really be overwhelming when all you want to do is blog! Let us do all the worrying, fretting, and stressing for you.
- Getting help when you need it. We got this!
- Making sure that your blog is up to date, fast, and running the latest security software
- Traffic spikes (we will not take your site down because of traffic surges)
- Your blog disappearing or getting shut down without warning or recourse
- Searching through 15,000 plugins to find the right ones for your blog that won’t crash your server
- Installing and and updating those plugins
- Maintaining databases
- Installing Google Analytics code
- Social Media integration
- Creating contact forms
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Researching the best, fastest, and easiest to customize themes
- Installing and updating those themes
- Network routing and availability
- Server uptime monitoring – making sure that your blog is up and running
- Mapping your domain name to your blog
- Installing and configuring WordPress
- Software and server updates
- Dealing with server admin guys, the hardcore techies
- XML sitemaps
- Spam protection for your blog
- HTTPS (data security)
- FTP – getting your files and images uploaded to your server
- SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
- HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol)
- CPANEL (server management panel)
- MySQL (database query language)
- UNIX / Linux servers
- Apache web servers
- WordPress updates
- Finding a good WYSIWYG editor
- Making regular backups of your blog
- Mirroring backups to a secure offsite location
- Restoring those backup if something goes wrong
- CDN (Content Delivery Network) Integration for super fast page loads
- Site speed and performance
- Custom coding (writing your own HTML)
- Error checking
- Code debugging
- Trackbacks and pingbacks
- WordPress performance caching
- PHP object code caching
- MySQL database caching
- Network caching
- Enterprise architecture
- Application layering and network firewalls
- Malware scanning
- High availability VPS (Virtual Private Servers)
- Hand tuned server optimization
- Data transfer and bandwidth
- RSS (instant content syndication)
- Primary and secondary DNS
- Redundant data centers
- Server failover
- Trusted third party digital certificates
- Amazon S3, Rackspace CloudFiles, MaxCDN
