Stress Free Website Hosting
I HAVE A NEW WORDPRESS HOSTING COMPANY (and I love them)
Disclaimer: I have been compensated for this post.
MY RELATIONSHIP WITH BLOGS
I’ve had multiple blogs for the last few years, and I love blogging. I love technology. I love playing in the back end of WordPress and feeling all kinds of smart while updating plugins and such. That is until I update the wrong thing without paying attention to the pretty warning of potential errors or conflicts and get a white screen.
AN EXAMPLE OF A COMMON PROBLEM I ENCOUNTER
It’s 11pm and I’m getting a lot of work done and this white screen completely stops me in my tracks. My options with old hosting firms were to try to communicate with someone on Live Chat which may not be available and when it is, it’s always dicey, or submitting a ticket with the host and waiting for some response. Those responses don’t normally come with a solution, and while their brilliant customer service people pass me from one tech to another, my clock is ticking, I’m not getting answers, I’m no closer than I was when I called and I kind of feel a little dumber since the whole thing began.
HOW MY NEW HOST DEALS WITH THESE SITUATIONS
I have my choice of using the ticket system, live chat, emailing the techs directly or even calling them directly. I describe what I did when the site blew up, and they’re on it. If they can’t quickly determine exactly what went wrong, the first option is to restore from the previous day’s backup. This can all be done within about 15 minutes. I like the sound of 15 minutes rather than “we’re working on it…”
Then, after the site is back to normal, AcceleratedWP will do a sort of post-mortem on the issue to see if they can determine when it happened, what actions triggered it and why. When they do determine that it was because I installed an ill-advised plugin or updated one that had an issue, there’s no blame game. Simply a recommendation that we avoid this type of thing in the future.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A COMMON PROBLEM
I have some amazing photography I want to put up on the site, so I do. When I go to view the page, it’s obvious; the images are WAY too large for the page that causes the page to load slooooowly. I now know exactly how my visitors feel and it needs to be fixed. Where do I even start? I start with AcceleratedWP. I send them an email describing the situation, and they immediately have a remedy for the current problem, and something else to prevent future problems. Then instead of telling me how to do it they take care of it for me. That’s EXACTLY the type of help I need.
I KNOW THIS POST MIGHT SOUND LIKE A CHEESY INFOMERCIAL
…but all I’ve said is true, and the main reason I decided to do a sponsored post for them is I know others feel my pain. I want to be a successful blogger, and I want my blog to make a profit so I can quit my day job. To accomplish these goals, those two problems I mentioned can’t happen. To accomplish these goals, I need to:
Make sure my site is fast
Be sure that I’m not doing things the wrong way and potentially cause problems with the site, and I need to know who to call when something goes wrong. So while I’m not yet making a ton of money I took the plunge and instead of trying to find the cheapest web hosting around, I looked to find the best. AcceleratedWP not only makes all plugin and WordPress updates for me, they recommend many plugins for optimizing my site and will even configure them for me. Along with that, they’ve made many changes to my theme to prevent conflicts and keep my site up-and-running smoothly. And yeah, it costs more than $5 a month but the peace of mind is worth it.
I guess the easiest way for me to compare this with something my readers might be familiar with would be with hair styling. I know there are $6.95 and $7.95 haircuts available but having had experiences with those places I know the quality I require just isn’t there. The experience, knowledge and professionalism just aren’t there. I have completely the opposite experience with AcceleratedWP, and I will continue to be their customer until my blogging days are done.
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