Hosting WordPress Hosting

Question 1

What is 'managed WordPress hosting'?

Accepted Answer

Hosting optimized and managed specifically for WordPress with automatic updates, backups, and performance tuning

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Hosting where you manually manage WordPress yourself

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Generic shared hosting with WordPress pre-installed

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Hosting that only allows WordPress to be installed

Question 2

Which caching technology is commonly pre-configured on managed WordPress hosts to improve page load speed?

Accepted Answer

Object caching (Redis/Memcached) plus page caching (Nginx FastCGI or Varnish)

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Redis only

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Memcached only

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No caching is used in WordPress hosting

Question 3

What is a 'staging environment' in WordPress hosting?

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A test copy of the WordPress site where you can safely test updates before pushing to production

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A live production website

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A backup stored on a remote server

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A CDN node for static files

Question 4

Which popular managed WordPress hosts are well-known in the US market?

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WP Engine, Kinsta, Flywheel

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GoDaddy, Bluehost, HostGator (budget shared)

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AWS EC2, Google Compute Engine

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Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly

Question 5

What does 'auto-scaling' mean for a WordPress hosting plan?

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Automatically increasing server resources during traffic spikes to maintain site performance

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Automatically updating WordPress plugins

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Automatically resizing images in WordPress

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Automatically renewing the hosting subscription

Question 6

What WordPress table prefix should you change from the default 'wp_' for security reasons?

Accepted Answer

Changing the table prefix from wp_ to a custom value makes SQL injection attacks harder

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You should always keep it as wp_

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You should delete the prefix entirely

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The prefix should always be your domain name