What is WordPress?

"WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) in the world. WordPress is in use by more than 40% of the websites on the internet."

What Makes WordPress Great Choice For Your Website?

WordPress allows anyone to build a site (no coding knowledge required) and has a community of followers who constantly design and release tools for other users. Because of WordPress's Flexibility, security integrations and unlimited amount of tools, more web designers are using their software. Designers can now focus on the search ability and actual design of your website (instead of spending hours hard coding each page). 

WordPress is by far the most popular CMS with 64% of the market share. This means WordPress is used by 40% of all the websites online. That's huge! And WordPress is used by popular brands across the world.

It may sound astonishing, but what was once just an obscure content management system is now powering more than 40% of the web, according to WordPress.com and Net craft. The reason behind this success is the unparalleled versatility that allows WordPress to be deployed everywhere from small personal blogs, small business websites to powering Fortune 500s like Sony Music and the Forbes blog.

Considering that the number of total active websites in the world is estimated at over 1.3 Billion means that around 455,000,000 websites are using WordPress today.

You can extend WordPress with over 55,000 plugins to help your website meet your needs. Add an online store, galleries, mailing lists, forums, analytics, and much more.

About WordPress (CMS)

WordPress is a powerful semantic publishing platform, and it comes with a great set of features designed to make your experience as a publisher on the internet as easy, pleasant, and appealing as possible

What Makes WordPress Great Choice For Your Website? 

WordPress Features (Overview)

Main Benefits You Get By Using WordPress CMS

WordPress is considered the easiest CMS to use, thanks to a very friendly interface. It also has an amazing number of plugins which allow extension of its functionality in various possible ways.

In addition to custom development, WordPress users can also choose from a wide variety of third-party themes (used to control site design) and plugins (used to add features) to extend their site.

The power of WordPress combined with a thriving ecosystem of product and service providers means that developers, designers, marketers, and agencies alike can create everything from simple brochure-ware sites to enterprise-level solutions.

WordPress has roots as a personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL. It's open-source software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and has been under active development for more than 18 years.

Over the years, WordPress has matured from a blogging platform into a fully-featured content management system, providing developers with the ability to create highly customized digital experiences via a variety of APIs.

WordPress Quick Facts

WordPress is the world's most popular content management system powering 40% of all websites on the internet.

Flexibility

WordPress is highly flexible, giving you complete freedom over the look and functionality of your site while also being easy enough for a complete beginner to jump in and start building a website.

User Friendly

WordPress is an easy CMS to use. Most of our clients need only two hours of training to grasp the CMS program.

The administration section is easy to navigate and it's even easier to add articles, videos, PDFs, images and all types of content to your website.

It's extremely easy for content creators and marketers alike to log-in to WordPress and start producing content.

No coding knowledge is required for content production either. Any beginner can quickly become familiarized with WordPress' easy-to-navigate interface. 

A Plug In For Everything

There are currently 55,000 WordPress plug-ins available for web designers and developers to select from.

Due to the open-source model, programmers are constantly developing functionality to WordPress websites.    

You can do just about anything you desire with endless options for extended functionality.

Utilizing existing programming or plug-in development is a very cost-effective way of adding functionality to your website.

(SEO) Friendly

Because of its open source nature, WordPress can be fully customized as either a standalone solution or as an extension of an ecommerce store, membership-only content, or other type of website.

Sites aren't limited in scope thanks to its ease of modification through technology like the JSON REST API and fully adjustable theme frameworks.

Also, because it's open source, costs are relatively low (there are no licensing fees), other than the costs for cloud hosting, paid extensions, and development. 

Extensibility

WordPress supports a variety of APIs that enable developers to add project-specific features to the platform and interact with the data in interesting ways.

Open Source Has Won Over The Enterprise

WordPress has been an open-source affair from the get-go and has consistently stayed true to the principles of that philosophy over the years. With its current status of powering more than over a quarter of the sites currently online, it's also one of the highest profile open source projects in the world today. There was a time when the mere mention of open-source software had enterprise clients scrambling for cover, but those initial doubts have been blown away by decades of rock-solid performance by projects such as Linux, Apache, Android, and a host of others, without which the modern web simply wouldn't exist. It's hard to pin down exact numbers for open-source adoption across the enterprise, but a recent survey from Black Duck Software saw 78% of respondents relying on open-source for operational matters, and 66% developing software built on open-source roots. The reality for most enterprise firms is that software will be assessed on its wider merits, rather than simply on whether it's proprietary or not. WordPress' status as an open-source project is a long way from being a significant burden in today's world - if anything, it's an advantage. 

WordPress Moved Beyond Being Just A Blogging Platform Years Ago

WordPress today boasts an increasingly impressive plugin ecosystem that helps power thousands of businesses worldwide, and the commercial side of the platform now has entire conferences devoted to it. The incredible recent success of Woo Commerce in dominating ecommerce from more or less a standing start is also a testament to the power of WordPress as an inherently disruptive multi-purpose platform.

The adoption of WordPress by an increasingly large group of blue-chip traditional media companies such as Wired and the New York Times also demonstrates how far from its blogging roots it has moved. In 2016, WordPress is a battle-tested, general purpose publishing system suitable for use by companies of any size in even the most commercial of settings.

WordPress is Already Supporting Enterprise Companies

Prestigious names in music such as Sony Music, Jay-Z, and Beyoncé are just a Few using the WordPress CMS. Also multi-million dollar companies, most notably GM, UPS, and Microsoft all use WordPress.

These test cases are a perfect example of how customizable and flexible WordPress really is, and how it can support huge amounts of traffic. 

Examples Of Fortune 500 Companies Using WordPress

For anyone who doubts the legitimacy of WordPress as a powerhouse CMS solution, they need look no further than the impressive roster of Fortune 500 and Global 500 companies using WordPress.

Here are just a handful.

Walt Disney Company

In 2018, The Walt Disney Company ranked 55 on the Fortune 500 list, 176 on the Global 500 list, and brought in $59.43 billion. It's no stretch to say they're one of the world's most popular brands.

WordPress powers the official Disney website as well as multiple other websites that are part of the Disney brand.

Microsoft

Microsoft, another massive brand that's enjoyed 20+ years on the Fortune 500 and Global 500 lists, uses WordPress to power the Microsoft News Center, the Skype Blog, TechNet, and a variety of other brand properties.

Sony

Sony is another Global 500 brand that uses WordPress to power sites that are part of the Sony family, including Sony Music and the PlayStation blog. That a single brand would choose WordPress again and again to power a family of websites is a testament to the performance, security, and flexibility of WordPress.

AZYM CLOUD MANAGED WORDPRESS

Why Choose Azym Cloud Managed WordPress?

We've engineered the best WordPress hosting platform to make hosting simple. We'll focus on the cloud hosting infrastructure, and you can focus on growing your site. Find out what makes us the best choice for your mission-critical WordPress sites.

Blazing Fast Managed WordPress Hosting

With Azym Cloud Managed WordPress Hosting, we handle WordPress administration including upgrades & patches for you, ensuring your site is secure and optimized to run as efficiently as possible.

 WordPress is a pretty complex Content Management System (CMS) that benefits from hosting that is specifically designed for its unique requirements. Azym Cloud Managed WordPress is heavily optimized specifically for WordPress. Means your WordPress will run more quickly and will be less prone to security risks including hacking                   

Azym Cloud Managed WordPress will also take care of server management as well as often providing automated WordPress core upgrades. Our Managed WordPress plan comes with additional features specifically designed to optimize the WordPress experience. With several exciting features that you won't see included in average website hosting plans, these benefits will elevate your WordPress website to a professional standard.

Focus on what you do best, keep your attention focused on your content and audience, not your server. But it doesn't mean you have to sacrifice the controllability and flexibility. Instead, we give you more of that.

Azym Cloud Managed WordPress For Your Online Business Growth

We offer a worry-free WordPress cloud hosting with personalized support. Azym Cloud Managed WordPress Hosting allows you to focus on running and growing your business.

Managed WordPress Hosting includes applying any updates and patches monthly, among other services. We utilize Linux-based security techniques, superior to what traditional WordPress or a WordPress security plugin can offer.

At Azym, WordPress hosting has been created from the ground up to provide users with a fully optimized, high-performance hosting experience that's loaded with useful features that have real value.

Getting so many great features for your WordPress website all in one place not only ensures the security of your site, it provides an experience that's completely hassle-free, leaving you with more time to focus on making your online business a success and doing what you do best.

"We put the "Word" in "WordPress" for the Best Managed WordPress Hosting in the market"

WordPress specific utilities such as WP-CLI, LiteSpeed's LSCache, and ACSC all contribute to an ecosystem enabling WordPress to be used to its full potential. With Azym Cloud Managed WordPress hosting, You don't have to worry about WordPress updates, keeping the server updated, or PHP versions - we handle all of that for you, while keeping your site fully optimized for WordPress. Azym is a quality guaranteed cloud hosting provider that offers the best managed WordPress hosting solution. Our goal is to enable a hassle-free WordPress environment for users to upload content, sit back, and relax!

Our Azym Cloud Managed WordPress comes with a developer-friendly environment for automated backup and restoration, customizable PHP versions and more development-oriented features.

We handle all the technical aspects of WordPress sites with our Managed WordPress Hosting. We ensure for the beyond expected uptime and security for WordPress sites with custom setup using LiteSpeed, and HTTP/2/3 with Daily backups.

Azym provides servers and services that are tailored specifically for WordPress. (Hence the name, "Cloud Managed WordPress Hosting!") This means your sites will experience the highest quality of performance and security because every server is optimized for a single CMS.

Beyond the servers, you'll get additional features with a Azym Cloud Managed WordPress like automated nightly backups and WordPress upgrades that help you manage your sites (or rather, help Azym manage them for you). Plus, our 24/7 support team of WordPress experts is always on standby whenever you need help!

WordPress requires regular updates of the software, as well as the themes and plugins. Failing to update the software will mean your website is more vulnerable to hacking and malware injections.

With our Fully Managed WordPress hosting you can get your site up and running in no time without any of the technical hassle of traditional shared hosting accounts. In addition to the ease of setup, one click staging and restores, our Azym Cloud Managed WordPress hosting servers are tailored to your exact WordPress site needs, allowing your site to operate at an ultra-fast speed!

Azym Cloud Security Central (ACSC)

Azym Cloud Security Central is a platform designed to handle emerging cyber security threats in the cloud platform by utilizing our own security technologies, best practices, and leading 3rd party security vendor platforms.

Security of your site is a priority, not an afterthought. Our rock-solid platform was carefully crafted from every angle to protect your WordPress sites from threats. That means no more stressing about security plugins and far more peace of mind!

Thanks to our ACSC, you'll get a hardened WordPress installation that's supported by complementary DDoS protection, active intrusion protection and a free SSL certificate to give your WordPress site superior security. Our robust, responsive security protocols are there to keep out attackers and ensure the safety of your WordPress site.

The Network layer consists of a Web-Application Firewall together with WebShield and a Network Firewall. This layer protects against different web attacks sent via HTTP/HTTPS as regular traffic and from a CDN or Proxy. Each component uses cloud-based information, and many attacks are blocked in real-time. Attackers cannot bypass the protection while collecting information. Additionally, the network layer does not wait for attackers to reach a threshold. ACSC offers 360 degrees protection leaving no possibility for the malware to go through to your WordPress site. 

The firewall tightly integrates with ModSecurity web application firewalls supplied by low false positives rules to enhance its usefulness. In combination with WAF, ACSC stops the majority of web application attacks even before they start. An advanced Captcha system and Splash Screen are employed to halt malicious activity and ensure valid customers can reach your website.

The WebShield takes care of CDN and Proxy Traffic by determining the attackers' real IP-addresses, then differentiates those IP addresses from those of legitimate users. Webshield grey-lists suspicious IPs then provides splash screens and CAPTCHA challenges that prevent malicious requests from harming or even slowing your website.

Network Firewall and Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems prevents all system services attacks against FTP, SSH, IMAP/SMTP, etc. Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) that includes a comprehensive collection of "deny" policy rules that block all attacks and are effective against those who use custom or well-known exploit tools. By monitoring server logs, the Intrusion Detection System (IDS) provides excellent visibility of security. It scans log files from several different angles and bans IPs that show signs of malicious activity. This activity includes password failures, potential exploits, etc., and reports to Azym Security Operations (SOC) Center team.

ACSC analyses scripts in real-time and recognizes dangerous execution flows. This means you no longer need to watch CVE lists to identify current exploits. ACSC stops malicious PHP scripts, both new and old, preventing them from running on your WordPress Site. Innovative PHP Immunity technology makes any web application invulnerable.

The second layer of protection happens at the Application service level. Proactive Defense technology detects and blocks malicious execution flow in runtime. It analyzes the PHP script behavior and prevents it from causing any harm to the cloud server or your WordPress site. It either blocks the entire script execution or just the malicious flow. This is crucially important because malicious code is often hidden: obfuscated, injected in the middle of the legitimate file, fetched from the network dynamically, and placed in the database. Proactive Defense sees right away when it is executed and stops it before it causes any damage.

The final layer of defense occurs at the File-System level during file input/output operations. The file system is where Antivirus comes into play.

A real-time file scanner. When a file is loaded into the website, it is scanned. If it is malicious, it is cleaned. This mitigates the destructive effects on an unprotected website and is most helpful for an already infected site.

A background (regular) Antivirus program that performs regular file checks in the background to keep.




On-Demand Antivirus that can be run at any time from cPanel that you can check any arbitrary folder against malware.



A WordPress database scanner that checks WordPress records against malicious injection of javascript, iframes, and other content.


A term we use is "herd immunity" - a collective immunity for our customers based on data related to incidents and attacks accumulated. It's designed to analyze incidents in real-time and produce protection rules and distribute to all cloud servers. Once an attacker is identified, it proactively blocks malicious activity on all our cloud servers.

Through machine learning and algorithms collects security insights from around the world to help identify potential threats and secure your website with proactive patch management.

Equipped with six-layers of security defenses the ultimate security solution for mission critical websites seeking an enterprise-grade security solution.

We continuous patching all PHP versions against known vulnerabilities.

Our cloud servers kernel updates automatically applied without requiring a server reboot. This means, highest uptime for your website without compromising on security.

Who Are Hackers Anyway?

The people who hack websites have a range of reasons for deciding to attack. One of the most popular reasons for hackers to try to compromise your website is so that they can infected with malware and therefore help their malware to spread to other servers, systems, networks, and personal computers.

Another popular reason for hackers to compromise websites is because they want to steal your bandwidth. After all, they can then use it to bot networks for DDoS attacks. This is where the hacker uses your computational power to attack other computers or systems that are worth more money or kudos to them.

Hacker Attacks

From injecting malicious code to stealing security credentials, there are many ways hackers bring down websites. Our reliable Managed WordPress hosting solutions come with advanced security features and free WordPress hack recovery assistance to prevent third-party interruptions.

At the first sign or report of an intrusion, our team can investigate and help you to restore your website to a safe and secure state.

Other WordPress hosting providers may not keep your WordPress core updates managed correctly or have the same speed or efficiency when it comes to recovering your website from the wrong hands. But, we're different. Our free hack recovery assistance is provided to you without any need to pay extra. 

Even if you do everything right when it comes to securing your WordPress or WooCommerce website, hacks do happen. Fortunately, when you host your website with Azym, you get free WordPress hack recovery assistance from our team of experts.

Access WordPress hack recovery assistance quickly in the event your website's security is compromised. We're available to chat 24/7. So, if you suspect your website has been hacked, we can dash into action and help provide some peace of mind.

We prevent cyber-attacks by ensuring that your managed WordPress core updates are always the most cutting-edge available. It's all a part of our goal to make the internet a better place with unparalleled, managed WordPress hosting and security

One of the scariest parts about managing a website is knowing your business can be under attack from hackers at virtually any time. You deserve to know that your chosen Managed WordPress hosting provider is doing its absolute best to help keep your site safe from malware and other online threats.

The team at Azym is committed to delivering the highest possible level of security and peace of mind. We regularly run a malware scan of all websites hosted on our network to identify vulnerabilities, malware, and other threats that may compromise your site's security. If a threat is detected, we work with you to remove any malware and get your site back up and running quickly.

In addition to regularly scanning for known threats and WordPress vulnerabilities, we proactively protect your site by keeping WordPress core (as well as plugins like WooCommerce and other common plugins) updated, ensuring you're using a current version of PHP, backing up your website daily, and employing a state-of-the-art web application firewall (WAF) to keep you safe.

If an instance of malware is ever detected, Azym's team of certified experts comb through your site to identify and eliminate any intrusive software and clean up the mess as best we can. In some instances, there will be steps you need to take to get your website back up and running. But rest assured, our team is here with you every step of the way.

Our Free DDoS protect service offers you peace of mind knowing that we are watching over your network traffic and taking action against attacks when they happen.

We believe in everyone's right to privacy, and we back that with a strong anti-spam policy and free WHOIS privacy.

Give your site visitors confidence that their personal information is

protected on your website with our complimentary secure socket layer (SSL) certificate.

SSL certificates are a hard requirement if your site processes payments or private info. With Azym Cloud Managed WordPress, each site gets a free SSL, updated automatically. SSL certificate helps to keep the data safely encrypted every time it is transmitted between you and your site visitors.

Customers trust a website with SSL & sales or revenue will increase when they have confidence with your site. This will also make your website search engine (SEO) friendly

HTTPS is an important sign that indicates your website is secure or not. When hosted at Azym, don't worry about the WordPress website security as all sites hosted at Azym are automatically configured with HTTPS. We help secure traffic between your site and its visitors (plus boosting your SEO) with our HTTPS feature addition.

Rollback from any disaster with daily backups. Each backup is retained for 15 days, providing wide coverage to restore a site even if you don't notice an issue right away. We provide end to end encryption backups and the autonomy to take your own backup using a control panel.

WordPress Toolkit feature in cPanel also offers an easy-to-use snapshot backup mechanism which is triggered before any critical operations like major core updates or syncing changes from a staging website.

WP-CLI and SSH is included & you'll have direct command line access to your Managed WordPress hosting account. We've pre-installed it for you.

Manage WordPress workflow with Git. Its version control system is designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Make a clone of your website or create a stage environment and manage a separate version of your website. This environment is fully protected from the outside world thanks to a password.

Before you launch a site online, test and review it in a private environment. Azym provides a staging tool to make it simple for our WordPress users to develop and maintain copies of their websites. If you want to hide the modification of your WordPress website from the users, this tool will work for you.

Create a staging copy of a WordPress website with its own database and credentials. The WordPress Toolkit Feature in cPanel can copy data between the live website and each of the corresponding stages.

Setup a copy of the live site, where you can test modifications before deploying them on the live site. for testing before push to live It's important to test your site prior to going to live. Using staging websites means you can make key developments then pair them to your actual site whenever you see fit. This is a great feature for developers and/or site managers.

A staging environment starts out as a perfect copy of your existing site, which is only accessible to you personally (or it has an obscure URL), and is super handy for testing out new plugins/themes or updating/modifying code before applying any changes to your live site.

Create a complete copy of your WordPress site with all website files, database, and settings with cloning. Our 1-click cloning tool helps you to create a copy of your WordPress site within a few seconds. You can clone your website while developing your website, testing a new theme, integrating a new plugin's Functionality, or implementing any significant update on your site.

Create a 1:1 clone of a website on a new subdomain, domain, or in a subfolder with a new database. WordPress Toolkit feature in cPanel also creates new credentials for the website and the database (for improved security) and takes care of updating the configurations

Did you know that? Obsolete themes and plugins make your website vulnerable to hackers.

Continuous maintenance of WordPress, the theme and the plugins are necessary to keep your WordPress site running at its best. We'll take care of major and minor WordPress updates, keeping your site safe from security threats due to outdated versions. These updates ensure that your site is always fast, secure, and up to date. Missing an update is not so bad, but postponing maintenance for a longer period of time only causes conflicts and security risks. This way your website is a lot safer, and you can focus on the content of your website. We also make sure your WordPress site is on the best available versions of PHP and MySQL/MariaDB so you can run your site and not worry about the technical jargon!

For smaller, less complex WordPress websites the updates can be performed automatically. We will first make a backup to make sure you always have a working version of your site. If something goes wrong during an update, we come into action and restore the backup. If something still goes wrong with the manual update, we will look for a solution together.

For larger, more complex WordPress websites or WooCommerce shops with many visitors it is important to carry out the updates in a controlled manner. In consultation we schedule a time and set up a staging environment for the website where we can safely perform the updates. After we have checked the installation, we merge it with the live site.

Why WordPress Site Speed matters?

When a person lands on your site for the first time, you only have a few seconds to capture their attention to convince them to hang around. If your site takes too long to load, most people are gone, lost before you even had a chance.

Not only that, but Google now includes site speed in it's ranking algorithm. That means that your site's speed affects SEO, so if your site is slow, you're now losing visitors-we'll ensure that your WordPress site is designed in the most optimal way.

Speed Obsessive Architecture

Our technologies like LiteSpeed, PHP 8, HTTP/2/3 can make the WordPress website to load faster within a blink of an eye. It can also make the website to be secure, reliable and stable. We work to improve the page performance, content performance and application performance for the WordPress sites.

Optimized For WordPress Speed

Website speed impacts everything from how well you rank with Google to how many sales your website makes. We ensure your WordPress websites most superior performance with our Azym Cloud Managed WordPress, Utilizing LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress. LiteSpeed optimizes your website's data to deliver faster load times for your WordPress site. We furnish the all-in-one site speedup features, including server-level cache and a collection of optimization features. With WordPress Optimized cloud server, we make your WordPress site highly reliable and secure. Also, you get 4X faster hosting for your WordPress site, enhanced security and best performance with us. Our high-speed cloud servers improve the page load time of your WordPress website. Features like inbuilt server caching, PHP 8 and HTTP/2/3 support help your WordPress website to fly with blazing speed.

Server-Side Optimizations

Our specifically configured cloud servers help to boost the performance of your WordPress sites. Web server caching, enabling GZIP/Brotli compression and setting cache headers also helps in reducing the server load per visitor.

MariaDB

We use MariaDB instead of MySQL, as it has several advantages when it comes to speed.

Better Caching

Clearing your cache in WordPress is something that needs to be done regularly. Load times of any website can be reduced only when a website is cached properly. Our caching tool does this by discovering data that loads frequently and keeping it ready to go immediately as the website is requested.

Predictable nature of the WordPress environment, a much more efficient server-side caching solution can easily be implemented, and can dramatically impact your site speed by making sure each page is cached as effectively as possible and for as long as possible. Our server-level caching will make your WordPress Fly.

GZIP/BROTLI Compression

Whether your site is small or big, it will surely run fast. We include GZIP/Brotli compression software in all Our WordPress cloud servers for improving delivery time for sites of all sizes. Also, it reduces the amount of data sent from your server to the visitor's browser and speeds up your WordPress website drastically. In addition, it also helps in reducing the server load.

Performance = LiteSpeed + LSCache

WordPress site performance matters - it impacts the user experience, can limit sales conversions, has a massive impact on search engine optimization, and should be a leading concern when you consider a host. That's why we use LiteSpeed - the fastest web server in the industry and LSCache for a performance like no other for your WordPress site.

LiteSpeed Web Server delivers a variety of advanced features, exceptional scalability and first-class WordPress site performance.

Wordpress Accelerator

Every WordPress installation comes with the LSCWP (LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress) cache plugin which ensures that your WordPress website is working 4X faster combined with our LiteSpeed Web servers. At Azym, we understand the demands of an ultra fast WordPress site server load.

HTTP 2/3 Support

Why do we use HTTP2 rather than HTTP ?

HTTP2 is the next version of the old HTTP protocol. It is faster, compressed data transfer, multiple request response for quick loading of web pages. HTTP2 is around 14% faster than older HTTP protocol.

HTTP2 is around 14% faster than the older HTTP Protocol

HTTP2 and LiteSpeed Web Server provide superior performance for your WordPress. 

See below the test results

SPDY Technology

SPDY (Pronounced as "speedy") is a networking protocol used to increase the speed of the website. This technology uses the HTTP protocol and many other optimization technologies to get a good page load time. This feature will reduce your bandwidth usage and server load.

SPDY is developed by Google for improving the data transfer rate of the website content. Google was following the SPDY technology to improve the performance of Google products. The main attraction of SPDY technology is that this protocol was supported on most of the popular web browsers.

SPDY became the basis for HTTP/2 specification. However, HTTP/2 diverged From SPDY and eventually HTTP/2 subsumed all use cases of SPDY. After HTTP/2 was ratified as a standard, major implementers, including Google, Mozilla, and Apple, deprecated SPDY in favor of HTTP/2.

Azym Technologies provides HTTP/2 to all the customers using Azym Cloud Managed WordPress for getting an optimized page load time.

QUIC And HTTP/3 Technology

QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connection) is a next generation internet protocol originally designed by Google. QUIC is encrypted by default and can decrease website load times considerably, especially for mobile devices and for low bandwidth connections.

There was a time when HTTP was sufficient, but those days are long gone. First SPDY came along and evolved into HTTP/2. And now the highest performance websites demand QUIC and HTTP/3. This is the next generation of Internet protocols, surpassing HTTP/2 in both speed and security. HTTP/3 makes your WordPress site future-proof, providing not only an impressive performance boost, but also vital protection against DDoS and pack- et-spoofing attacks.

HTTP/3, which uses QUIC as a transport layer, is a new, improved version of HTTP. Web infrastructure technology (web servers, web browsers, etc.) are being updated to support HTTP/3, and take advantage of HTTP/3's speed, reduced latency, better handling of packet errors, and built-in encryption.

Relax, Your Website Is In Good Hands

WordPress Experts

With over 10 years of WordPress experience, we know exactly what your WordPress site needs. Our team of real managed WordPress experts is always here, ready and waiting, to help you get the most out of your sites.

Do you have a WordPress question, or do you want to spar with us about a suitable solution? Service means more to us than just support. We like to get in touch with you!

AVAILABLE DAY AND NIGHT TO ANSWER ALL YOUR QUESTIONS

We are available to assist you day and night, because the Internet never sleeps.

Our team has in-depth knowledge of WordPress and is committed to helping you until your problems are solved.

Accessibility Monitoring

We check the accessibility of all the websites we manage every minute. Every other minute; that's 720 checkpoints per day. 720 moments per day where we are ready to take action when a problem occurs with your website.

Response Time

Our uptime checks allow us to respond quickly and adequately to problems so that as few visitors as possible are affected.

This way we can be proactive in our support and you are always assured of a working

website that is available for your customers.

Dedicated WordPress Support

We understand that downtime is a major concern for businesses of all sizes. Our support professionals are available 24/7 to help resolve your issues. You can contact our support team via email and chat. Additionally, we will also recommend the best practices for your site.

Our knowledgeable, 24/7 manned dedicated team of WordPress experts are available day and night. We are here to help! No other host provides the same level of WordPress support and services that we do.

Our team stands ready to help you overcome any challenges and get back to business. Whether you host one site, a WooCommerce online store, multiple WordPress websites, or a high-traffic enterprise site, our team of dedicated support technicians are here to help.

Our in-house team members do their best to provide one-touch resolution, making you feel like a part of our family.

Round the clock technical support to assist you with technical errors, and carefully monitor and thwart suspicious activity.

You are our number one priority.

Our team knows WordPress, and has deep experience troubleshooting poor performance, and won't quit until your problems are solved.

Free WordPress Migration

When you're ready to move to Azym Cloud Managed WordPress, you won't have to worry about downtime or any expense. Our migrations team will move in your existing websites for free.

Our in-house support team is available round the clock to execute the website migration task as per your convenient timing. We'll carefully migrate all your website data from your current host to our server- free of charge.

Our expert team takes care of everything to make your site live without any downtime or with aminimum amount of downtime and interruptions.

We facilitate the migration of your website files, databases, emails and more from your old server to our new advanced cloud servers.

Our transfer service goes one step further. Instead of automatically copying and pasting your Files and databases, the whole process is carried out manually by our WordPress expert.

Free WordPress Modifications & Professional Services Engagement (PSE)

Your website is an indispensable business asset, and it should be treated as such. You didn't get into your line of work to become a web developer.

Our WordPress experts are happy to help you with small changes to your WordPress site. However, if you are looking for a complex WordPress custom development or Theme customization/Designing? Don't worry, we've got you covered!

We also offer professional services (hourly charged) on designs and development of WordPress based websites. From smaller landing pages based on a template to large websites and web shops that are custom designed and developed.

Contact your Customer Success Manager (CSM) to discuss your requirements and know more details about our Professional Services Engagement (PSE).

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

What Is Wordpress?

WordPress is an application for developing and managing websites and blogs. It is OpenSource and dominates about 64% of the CMS (Content Manager System) market and 40% of the entire websites in the world.

WordPress started as a project which Matt Mullenweg developed in 2003, with the goal of being a simple platform for use in web blog (or blog) sites. Due to its modular structure, contributors could extend its features, and today it is an efficient and winning content management system.

WordPress has evolved over time and provides a wide range of plugins, themes and extensions that you can utilize in accordance with your website requirements. The best feature of WordPress is that it has a user-friendly interface and thereby it is preferred by the new bloggers and many website owners.
Why Use Wordpress?

If you've ever dealt with a Content Management System (CMS) you know how difficult it is to find a CMS that meets your expectations, is simple to use and works the way you want, with no fatal error messages or a bunch of bugs. Finding a CMS that is able to adapt to your needs and grow with your site, is also a very big difficulty. In our opinion, WordPress contains all these features and even more, and that's why so many have opted for WordPress to be their CMS.

Other than being the world's most popular website creation platform (powering over 40% of the internet's websites), WordPress offers a wealth of tools, plugins and themes that allow you to create any kind of website imaginable. From blogs, to online stores, to business websites, to websites about cats, WordPress can do just about anything.
Do I Need To Have Coding Knowledge To Manage My Wordpress Website?

Absolutely not, and that's exactly why WordPress is such a widely used platform! Your WordPress account comes with an easy to use dashboard, using which you can manage your website.

Isn't WordPress Free? Why Do I Need To Pay?

Yes. WordPress is Open Source, free and extremely popular. But, you need a computer (or a server) to host your website. You can either set up and configure your own server to host your website - or you can pay a cloud hosting company (like us) to host the website on your behalf.

What Is WordPress Hosting?

When your website is hosted on a server that is capable of supporting a WordPress site, it is called WordPress Hosting.

What Is Managed WordPress Hosting?

Any server can run WordPress but there are hosting companies like Azym that invest their time and effort for customizing cloud servers just for WordPress. This type of hosting is called Managed WordPress Hosting.

Managed WordPress Hosting is a professional solution that caters to controlling and maintaining the technical elements of a WordPress website. Azym Cloud Managed WordPress Hosting offers invaluable advantages such as cutting-edge security, superior and dedicated expert support, optimal site speed, and high performance for your WordPress website.

A Managed WordPress hosting provider works as an extended team and takes care of all the website- and server-related issues for you while giving a hassle-free experience.

Our hosting platform is built to run WordPress so you can experience the best possible performance on your WordPress website.

Put simply, we take care of all of the technical tasks that come along with hosting so you don't have to.

This includes:

  • WordPress core and WooCommerce updates

  • Automatic failover and server redundancy

  • Daily website backups

  • Proactive network and server security

  • Automatic caching



And, because we only host WordPress and WooCommerce websites, our platform is optimized for best performance and our support team can provide expertise for ensuring your website runs its absolute best.
What's The Difference Between Regular Wordpress Hosting And Managed WordPress Hosting?

With our managed WordPress hosting, you gain the power and time to only focus on your site and contents, while we handle everything else, including security, updates and any other technical issues.

I Don't Want To Use WordPress, Can I Choose Something Else?

Yes. You can still use our Azym CloudSite Builder to build an awesome website for your business. WordPress is a platform that's easily accessible for our clients to update themselves, it's search engine friendly and it's easy to integrate with third-party companies. Your WordPress website will also grow with your business and is not limited. WordPress is a free platform powering 40% of total websites in the world.

Do You Restrict The Use Of Wordpress Plugins Or Themes On Your Cloud Hosting Platform?

No, when you host on our managed WordPress hosting platform, you will have the privilege to use any plugin or theme you may like. We believe that you should be the owner of your WordPress website while we help you while building it.

Do I Get Root Access To The Cloud Server?

No, as this is a Managed WordPress Hosting service, all the cloud server administrative tasks are fully taken care of by Azym. Any issues upon discovery, should be reported to us so that we can rectify it for free for you!

Do I Get Access To A Control Panel?

Yes, you will get full account access through cPanel based control panel.

Are Resources Protected So Someone Else's Wordpress Can't Throttle Mine Or Take Me Offline?

Definitely. We use optimized Cloud Linux to create a secure WordPress hosting environment that seals and protects your instance from every other one on the cloud server. The actions of another WordPress site won't negatively impact yours, guaranteed.

How Many WordPress Websites Can I Have On This Plan?

No, Multisite is not supported. We allow one website per plan. Each plan is an isolated and compartmentalized instance using dedicated resources to ensure your site is blazing fast. Our backup, staging and other cloud hosting tools are specifically designed to host and support one dedicated WordPress installation per plan.

Why Use Wordpress And Not Wix, Shopify, Square Space, Blogspot, Joomla, Drupal Or Any Other Content Management Systems?

WordPress is very user friendly compared to the other content management systems. There are a lot more plugins and themes available for users. It also has the largest market share of users and minimal technical expertise is required to use the platform. WordPress is also the most popular content management system in the world for developing informative websites or e-commerce stores.

Will I Get SSH Access For WordPress?

Sure you will. We know people still like to manage, update and access their cloud hosting accounts via SSH and SFTP.

Can I Use Git And Wp-cli With Managed WordPress Hosting?

Yes, we do provide Git and WP-CLI access to manage WordPress. These features will be handy for WordPress developers and advanced users.

What Level Of Control Will I Have?

Even though our team manages your WordPress setup, you still have complete access to the WordPress admin panel. You'll also have the cPanel control panel where you'll have access to your websites, email, website files, databases, and statistics! You'll also have access to the WordPress toolkit making it easy for you to add plugins, change your site's theme and more!

You'll also have access to our easy WordPress staging allowing you to test changes and updates before you take them live. WP-CLI even comes pre-installed so you can manage your WordPress sites with command line.
So, You Update My Website Content For Me?

We can, but that's not included as part of our cloud hosting. Our cloud hosting ensures the availability and security of your website. As part of our Managed WordPress Hosting, we update WordPress Core and most popular third-party plugins to ensure the security of your website.

Small adjustments are often performed by us free of charge. This however doesn't include updating content, copy, images, functionality etc. on your website. If you need a hand with that, we'd love to help, it's just an additional Professional Services Engagement (PSE).
What Happens If An Update Fails?

With over 10 years of WordPress experience, we know what we are talking about! Before every update we make an extra backup of the site. If something goes wrong during maintenance, we will restore it immediately. With every update we test your WordPress site thoroughly, to make sure no conflicts arise and your site works perfectly. If it is not possible to update a theme or plugin, we will always contact you to find a solution.

Can I Manage Wordpress From A Mobile Device When I'm Out Of The Office?

Yes, with the WordPress Mobile App you can access blogs, widgets, plugins and update your pages at your fingertips -you can access them from anywhere to keep watch on your website. WordPress Mobile is a native mobile application available for Android and iPhone.

Can I Also Have Websites Hosted Elsewhere Maintained?

Unfortunately, that is not possible. We only maintain WordPress website that is hosted by us. This is to guarantee a constant quality. We also want to be able to help you if a website goes down or if your email doesn't work, which of course is impossible if the website is not hosted by us.

What If I Want To Migrate My Existing Wordpress Website? Does Azym Handle All The Aspects Of Migration?

Yes, we handle everything and help you to migrate your website for free as well as without any hassle. You simply need to provide us the details of your current hosting account.

How Secure Is Your Platform?

We take the security of Managed WordPress hosting very seriously. We have deployed platform-level firewalls on all our cloud servers that have hosting for WordPress and other applications. Our experts have also used top-notch security hardening techniques. In addition, all customers, no matter how big or small, are hosted on dedicated and jailed managed WordPress hosting.

Where Is Your Datacenter?

Your website will be hosted in our datacenter, at either Florida, US or Atlanta, US. These are all our world-class co-location datacenters with multihomed bandwidth and multiple network peering.

What Happens If I Exceed My Monthly Bandwidth Allotment?

Truthfully, nothing.

We know other hosts may charge you for overages, but we don't want to be that kind of partner. We will likely reach out to you to make sure we are meeting your needs and to ensure we're giving you the resources you require to maintain peak performance, but we would love nothing more than to hear your latest post went viral or your service was featured in a big way. On your popular days and your exceptionally popular days, we've got your back.
Can I Run My Online Store On?

THE MANAGED WORDPRESS PLATFORM? You sure can! We know you might have several sites and some of them might have eCommerce elements. That's why we've made certain modifications to provide a perfect balance between power and profitability. If your store is ready to go to the next level, we also have our Azym Cloud Managed WooCommerce offering.

What Happens If I Cancel?

There are no contracts - you can cancel at anytime. You can take all website content, blog articles, graphic designs, webpage layout and rendered HTML/CSS. We do not however provide the underlying WordPress theme code, Azym-WP plugins or database files which are intellectual property of Azym.

How Long Will It Take To Get To The First Page Of Google?

It depends. There's no clear answer to this question as search engines change their algorithms all the time. Generally, it can take even up to 6 months for Google to show your website on the first page. There is also no guarantee that your website will ever get to the first page of Google for your main keywords, as some of your competitors might have high marketing budgets or have been there for years.

It's worth noting that high rankings in Google are also linked to your activity. The more your business is promoted in Social Media and mentioned in various blogs and other websites, the higher Google ranks your website and treats it as a reliable and valid site.
Do You Do Seo For My Website When You Build It?

Yes, we set up on-site SEO for you, perform keyword research and optimize each page for search engines. This will start you off on the right foot, give your website visibility and allow Google to start indexing your site.

It's worth noting, however, that SEO is usually an ongoing commitment and for the full success will require continuous work (we can help with that if you choose our Digital Marketing Add-On Packages).
Help! My Website's Been Hacked

It's OK, we can help. Call us straight away, give us as much information as you can about where you registered your domain name and who currently hosts your website and we'll handle the rest.

We can get most typical websites cleaned and back online within a day or two. We'll even put up a great looking, temporary landing page to cover the ugly hack while we do our work.
Why Is WordPress Website Security Important?

The software (core) of a WordPress website, plus any additional third-party plugins, needs to be updated to protect it from malicious attacks.

Just like other pieces of tech, such as your phone or computer, these updates are essential to patch vulnerabilities that can allow attackers in. Websites are that much more vulnerable because by design, they're public facing and accessible by everyone.
Who's Trying To Hack My Website?

Typically, there are millions of automated programs (scripts) that trawl the internet sniffing out outdated websites that are vulnerable to attack.

These scripts automatically attempt to breach your website, or they report back their findings to their owners.

With access to your website, attackers will try anything from redirecting your users to other third-party websites, installing malicious code to infect users machines, creating spam bots, or just outright vandalizing your website.
How Does Malware Get On My WordPress Site?

When it comes to WordPress, hacks can occur for a number of reasons:

  • Weak or compromised user name/password (control panel, WP admin, SFTP, etc.)

  • Vulnerabilities in plugins or themes (out of date, nulled plugin versions)

  • Improperly secured WordPress configuration file (wp-config.php)

  • Incorrect file permissions

  • Phishing attacks against

  • website owner

  • "Black Hat SEO practices (irrelevant links, content scraping, malicious redirects)

 

You can take some comfort in knowing that hackers aren't necessarily targeting your website specifically. Almost 40% of all websites in the world run on WordPress. What hackers do is take advantage of known exploits to indiscriminately launch attacks in hopes of finding and infecting vulnerable sites.
How Do I Stop These Attacks?

You need to regularly update your WordPress Core and third-party plugins to patch any holes that can be taken advantage of. Or, you can use our Azym Cloud Managed WordPress Hosting service and we'll take care of it for you.

What Are HTTP/3 And QUIC?

What are HTTP/3 and QUIC?

HTTP/3 is the newest version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, formerly referred to as "HTTP over QUIC," and is the successor to HTTP/2.

QUIC was originally a Google effort to improve HTTP/2 by transporting it encrypted over UDP. In 2016, the IETF began working to standardize the protocol. Part of that process involved splitting QUIC into the transport protocol (QUIC) and the application protocol (HTTP/3).

HTTP/3 is close to its final form. The IETF drafts are going through the last formalities before being published as RFCS.
What Is The Difference Between HTTP/3 And HTTP/2?

The main difference is HTTP/3 uses QUIC, which is built on UDP, while HTTP/2 uses TCP. In addition, HTTP/3 uses QPACK to compress headers, while HTTP/2 uses HPACK to compress headers.

Will HTTP/3 Replace HTTP/2?

No. HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 work in a similar way, but HTTP/2 uses TCP, while HTTP/3 uses UDP-based QUIC as the transport protocol. HTTP/3 support is optional. When enabled, HTTP/3 can fall back to HTTP/2 or HTTPS if not available.

What Is The Difference Between HTTP/3 And QUIC??

HTTP/3 is based on QUIC. QUIC was originally developed by Google, and the Google version of QUIC is now referred to as gQUIC.

HTTP/3 has evolved from gQUIC with contributions from the IETF working group.

HTTP/3 is the full application protocol. QUIC refers to the underlying transport protocol, which is not limited to serving HTTPS traffic.
Why is HTTP/3 Better Than HTTP/2?

HTTP/3 uses QUIC, which reduces the Head of Line (HOL) blocking issue. All TCP-based protocols suffer from HoL blocking, including HTTP/2.