Category: WordPress for Business
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Introducing Malwatch, a new malware scanning system created at Pagely.
Malware is the bane of most site owners’ online journey. New threats emerge daily and a successful attack can bring your operation down by defacement, tanking your SEO, or harvesting your private data. Pagely has created a new malware file scanning tool under our PressARMOR™ security framework that is not only more capable than existing…
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How to close your online company for 2 weeks and still excel in the market.
This title is intentionally clickbait, however let me share how we did take our annual company-wide downtime for Christmas and New Years‘ (and 4 days for Thanksgiving). In the web hosting industry, where 24/7/365 always-on is table stakes, we make it a point to all but lock the doors and power down the lights every…
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Whitehouse.gov Chooses WordPress, Again
With the change of administrations comes a new website, and this morning the all-new Whitehouse.gov debuted. Like its predecessor, the site is powered by WordPress – but this version carries many differences and modern out-of-the-box features that we’re glad to see used on a site of this magnitude.
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WordPress Security Updates: October 2020
This article covers our public notifications related to major security issues our clients and the WordPress community should know about. We are always focused on prevention and the mitigation of risk to our clients, and keeping you updated here is part of that process.
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Pagely Changes the Caching Game in Hosting with Object Cache Pro Partnership
Pagely is thrilled to announce our partnership with Object Cache Pro. Utilizing state of the art compression technology, Object Cache Pro is now part of Pagely’s core offering, and available to all of our customers, platform wide. Offering major cost savings, access to some of the world’s best technology, and a dedicated DevOps team to…
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Are Pageviews a Valid Billing Metric?
Catch up on the conversation. This piece comes as a followup to our CEO Joshua Strebel’s recent piece on why you should never pay your WordPress host for pageviews. Managed WordPress hosting has exploded across the hosting industry since Pagely created it way back in 2006. Overall, the level of innovation that the mainstream has…
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Pageviews is a Bogus Billing Metric for WordPress Hosts
Since this is the internet – and the rules of the internet clearly state everyone gets an opinion, I’d like to share one of mine around website hosting billing plans. Quick backstory: 10+ years ago when we launched Pagely we did so with a simple line on our pricing page denoting a rough estimate of…
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PHP Worker Performance Benchmarking and Test Results
At Pagely, we pride ourselves on providing the best possible solutions for our customers. Sometimes, that requires dedicating a significant amount of research and development into truly discovering what works best. Whenever possible, we always want to take a data-backed approach. That’s why we’ve run several benchmarks to determine how PHP workers impact a site’s…
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WordPress Security Updates: April 2020
These monthly reports are provided for the WordPress community at large from Pagely’s head of security, Robert Rowley. Rowley and the entire security team keep their finger on the pulse of any potential vulnerabilities that might affect our customers, as well as any WordPress user. We sincerely hope these efforts help any and all that…
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WordPress Security Updates: March 2020
These monthly reports are provided for the WordPress community at large from Pagely’s head of security, Robert Rowley. Rowley and the entire security team keep their finger on the pulse of any potential vulnerabilities that might affect our customers, as well as any WordPress user. We sincerely hope these efforts help any and all that…