Managed WordPress Demystified

Managed WordPress is a vibrant category of web hosting that specializes in doing 1 thing only: ensuring your WordPress websites are reliable, secure and well-maintained.

In this presentation, Alex Sirota (@alexsirota), Director of NewPath Consulting (@newpathtech) will describe the different types of hosting available for WordPress with a focus on the ever evolving managed WordPress hosting space.

This will be a non-vendor biased presentation but will help web developers, designers and their customers understand the value proposition that a Managed WordPress hosting company can offer.

Objectives:

  • Describe the difference between shared hosting & Managed WordPress.
  • Demonstrate some of the very cool features in several Managed WordPress systems including GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress Solution (part of GoDaddy Pro), DreamPress from DreamHost, FlyWheel, Pantheon and WPEngine.
  • Present a new survey of more than 20 Managed WordPress hosts across the world.

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About Alex Sirota

I have a traditional computer science background and I grew up in the Detroit suburbs. I graduated from the University of Michigan, and after working for Apple Computer, Inc. in the mid 90s out of school I was recruited to come work for a small software development company called EveryWare Development. We made a piece of software called Tango that connected the web to relational databases. There I worked on an analytics product called Bolero, a precursor to Google Analytics. I also was product manager at an email marketing company called FloNetwork, that was a precursor to email marketing companies like MailChimp. After burning out in the startup life, I worked for the Ontario Government as team lead for over a decade and in 2014 started my own consulting business called NewPath Consulting. I am married with 2 children, a son and a daughter. For fun I play the trumpet in a band called Tuesday Horns in Toronto.