Ever really thought about what hosting is?

Who is this guy?

• My name is Rick Shaw
• Digital Marketer Ricks Concepts
• Photographer at GBS Photography

Tons of hosting sites

The real question. How much is this going to cost?

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What is your hosting company doing

for your money?

• SSL Certificate
• Backups
• Security
• Storage Space
• Uptime / Downtime
• CDN
• Designed for WP
• Support
• Development Support

Finally

Let's break these down

Please note

This was updated as of Aug 22 and were taken from the following websites based off a dedicated lowest WP hosting plan if available. If it isn't then the lowest hosting plan available. 

SSL Certificate

SSL Certificate

What does this mean?

SSL Certificate

You don't want customers or visitors to see this.....

SSL Certificate

• A2 Hosting:  Yes
• Bluehost: Yes, Free for 1st Year
• Dreamhost: Yes
• Flywheel:  Yes
• GoDaddy: No
• GreenGeeks: Yes
• Hostgator: Yes
• Siteground: Yes

Backups

Backups

Backups

• A2 Hosting:  Yes, Daily
• Bluehost: No, included in high tier
• Dreamhost: Yes, Daily
• Flywheel:  Yes, Daily 
• GoDaddy: Yes, Daily
• GreenGeeks: Yes, not sure how often
• Hostgator: Yes, Daily *previously Weekly
• Siteground: Yes, Daily

Security

ATTACK!!!!!!!

That's my only plan....

Security

• A2 Hosting:  No, included in high tier
• Bluehost: No, Additional service is offered
• Dreamhost: Not descriptive
• Flywheel:  Yes
• GoDaddy: Yes
• GreenGeeks: Yes
• Hostgator: Yes, previously no
• Siteground: Yes

Storage Space

(Server Resources)

How much can it hold?

Storage Space

• A2 Hosting: 1 Website
• Bluehost: 10 GB & 200k file count
• Dreamhost: 1 Website
• Flywheel: 1 Website
• GoDaddy: 1 Website
• GreenGeeks: 1 Website
• Hostgator: 1 Website
• Siteground: 1 Website

Uptime / Downtime

We're down right now

Uptime / Downtime

• A2 Hosting:  99.99%
• Bluehost: Unknown or Hidden
• Dreamhost: 100%
• Flywheel:  99.95%
• GoDaddy: 99.99%
• GreenGeeks: 99.99%
• Hostgator: 99.9%
• Siteground: 99.99%

CDN

(Content Delivery Network)

Fly birdie fly!!!

CDN

• A2 Hosting:  No
• Bluehost: Yes, for free
• Dreamhost: No
• Flywheel:  Yes, for free
• GoDaddy: Yes
• GreenGeeks: Yes
• Hostgator: No or Unclear
• Siteground: Yes

Built for WordPress

Built for WordPress

• A2 Hosting: Yes
• Bluehost: Yes
• Dreamhost: Yes
• Flywheel:  Yes
• GoDaddy: Yes
• GreenGeeks: Yes
• Hostgator: Yes
• Siteground: Yes, previously no

Hosting Support

Hosting Support

• A2 Hosting:  24/7/365 Chat and Phone
• Bluehost: 24/7/365 Chat and Phone
• Dreamhost: 24/7/365 (US based) Chat and Phone
• Flywheel:  24/7/365 (US based) Chat and Phone
• GoDaddy: 24/7/365 (US based) Chat and Phone
• GreenGeeks: 24/7/365 Chat and Phone
• Hostgator: 24/7/365 Chat and Phone
• Flywheel:  24/7/365 (US based) Chat and Phone
• Siteground: 24/7/365 (EU based) Chat and Phone

Developer Support

Developer Support

• A2 Hosting: No or Unknown
• Bluehost: No, offered as additional service
• Dreamhost: No
• Flywheel:  Yes, To a point
• GoDaddy: No
• GreenGeeks: Yes, to a point
• Hostgator: No
• Siteground: Yes, To a point

What about you Rick?

Managed Hosting

What does this mean?

• Hosting (where your site is stored)

• Caching (site speed)

• Daily Backups

• Security (SSL Certificate)

• Website Care

  • Updating of WordPress Files

  • Updating of Theme Files

  • Updating of Plugin Files

• 2 Non-Rollover Hours of Website Maintenance a month which includes:

  • General troubleshooting

  • Logo changes (not graphic design work, just changing the image/colors used on the site to reflect logo changes)

  • Page additions/removals on a small scale (1-3 pages)

  • Content additions/removals on a small scale (1-3 pages)

  • Photo additions/removals on a small scale (1-3 pages)

  • Fixing User issues or broken functionality

  • Adding new site functionality

Outdated plugins

Outdated WP core

Hacked Websites

Missing Files

Database issues

Website Reports

Maintenance Reports