Category: WordPress for Business
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What is Managed Hosting for WordPress?
There’s no denying that WordPress is one of the most powerful website platforms on the market today. It powers roughly 43% of all websites on the internet and about 60% of every site that uses a content management system, making it the dominant CMS by a wide margin. It offers extensive SEO capabilities, robust security,…
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Configuring Your WordPress Site For Zero Downtime
We all dream of perfect uptime, but reality has other plans. Networks can get shaky, hardware gets old, and even the most reliable services can throw you a curveball. That’s why experienced WordPress teams focus on high availability instead. The goal is to keep your site running smoothly, even if something behind the scenes goes…
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An Introduction to Amazon RDS
As innovators in the hosting space, we’re constantly testing hardware and software solutions here at Pagely to find the optimum balance between price and performance for the unique demands of WordPress. Through all of that testing, Amazon RDS emerged as the clear winner for our database solution. We’ve built our hosting solution on it so…
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Risk Mitigation and the True Cost of Website Downtime
Most businesses don’t think twice about the necessity to carry the insurance policies to protect against various forms of loss. Errors & Omissions, Workers’ Comp, Liability… managing downside risk of unforeseen losses and limiting potential damage is a standard cost of doing business. But rarely do business owners go into a hosting scenario with the…
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WordPress Multisite vs. Managing Separate Installations
Choosing between WordPress Multisite and separate installations isn’t always straightforward. Both options can work, but the right answer depends more on how similar your sites are than how many you have. If your sites share branding, workflows, and features, Multisite is often the smoother path. If your sites have different audiences, risks, or business goals,…
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How Managed WordPress Hosting Can Level Up Your Business
If your business relies on its website for lead generation, ecommerce, or brand authority, the foundation that site is built on matters. For businesses scaling on the world’s most popular CMS, the choice often comes down to standard hosting versus a managed solution. But what exactly is the difference, and is the upgrade worth the…
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Transforming User Experience Through Audits
In our world, we obsess over infrastructure. We lose sleep over uptime, we celebrate shaving milliseconds off server response times, and we lock down security like Fort Knox. But the hard truth is that you can have the fastest, most secure WordPress site on the planet, but if your users can’t figure out where to…
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Deciding on the Best CMS for Your Website
Choosing a content management system (CMS) is one of those high‑leverage decisions that can quietly determine how fast you ship, how much you spend, and how far you can scale. There’s no one‑size‑fits‑all answer, but there is a clear way to decide. In this post we’ll cover what a CMS does, outline a practical decision…
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Is your website ready for the holiday traffic?
Holiday traffic is the best kind of problem, until it isn’t. When your campaign lands, your product gets featured, or that email goes out, the visitors you’ve worked so hard to attract can overwhelm an unprepared site. Slow pages, checkout errors, and outright downtime translate directly into lost revenue and trust. This post is your…
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Is Managed Hosting for WordPress Worth the Premium?
WordPress, while powerful, can hinder organizations without proper hosting and management. Server upkeep, performance, and security are time-consuming challenges that distract businesses from growth and product development. Below, we’ll explain managed hosting for WordPress, a solution that relieves these technical burdens by outsourcing infrastructure to specialists, allowing businesses to focus on core initiatives, promoting growth…