Why You Need a SSD Hosting Plan for Your WordPress Website
It’s been a while since I highlighted a specific need for WordPress hosting, but the time has come. Frankly, there are just so many reasons why you should consider an SSD (Solid State Drive) host for your blog or website. Here are just a few reasons why you should move to SSD hosting…
Faster Speed
If you’re already using WordPress to build out your blog or website, you know how critical speed is. If you’re hosting your site on a regular server, your site will load more slowly than it should. An SSD host provides the necessary technology to make your site much faster. When you compare the two, you’ll notice a significant difference in terms of speed. If you’re on a limited data plan with your current host, you’re going to notice a huge difference in terms of loading speed. Many WordPress users experience significant lag time when using their regular hosting plan. With an SSD host, you’ll experience a much smoother and faster user experience.
Increased Performance
When you’re using a traditional web host, every little bit of activity pulls resources away from your site. For instance, if you make a minor change to your site (e.g., you add a widget or something), the host will have to make that change for you. With an SSD host, each time you update your site, you’ll see increased performance. This is because the SSD host will simply update the contents of the drive without having to physically touch your site.
Improved User Experience
Imagine you’ve got an SSD host and you’ve got 50 WordPress sites hosted on it. Now, if something goes wrong with one of your sites (e.g., you get a virus, cyber-attack, or 404 error because the web host can’t find the article you’re trying to display), you’re going to end up having to manually fix all the problem sites. With a traditional web host, if one site is down, they’re all down. If you’ve got multiple sites using the same hosting plan, you can have one of the engineers on call to help you fix the issue. With an SSD host, each individual site is like its own independent entity. If one site gets hacked, the others remain intact. Even more impressively, when the issue is resolved, you won’t even know that the site was down. Your users will not even know that they weren’t able to access your site for a little while.
Increased Scalability
The more sites you’ve got on a single hosting plan, the more performance it’s going to suffer from. With an SSD host, you’ve got the ability to add more sites to the plan without worrying about performance. If you’ve got a growing business and you need the ability to scale, an SSD hosting plan is absolutely what you should be looking at.
Improved Backup and Restore
One of the biggest problems with traditional web hosts is that they don’t offer a good way to back up your data. This is incredibly frustrating if you’re not tech-savvy and you lose your site content because you can’t back it up. It’s also incredibly frustrating if you’re a small business owner who has to pay for another server just to keep your data safe. Thankfully, modern-day cloud technology has provided us with a way to solve these problems with incremental backups and restores. If you’ve got an SSD host and you schedule a backup with a tool like SpiderOak, you’re going to see an immediate improvement in terms of backup and restore. Your data will be safer and you’ll be able to access it whenever you need to.
More Cost-Effective
Depending on how large your site is, you may end up paying more for traditional web hosting than you would for an SSD host. Fortunately, there’s also a solution to this problem. Companies like Cloud Flare and Justhost offer affordable SSD hosting plans. If you have a limited budget, you can’t afford to invest in costly dedicated servers, and you don’t want to go the DIY route either because you don’t want to end up with an inferior product, either, then you’ve got two options. One is to try and find an affordable alternative to dedicated servers, such as a shared hosting plan on Cloud Flare or Justhost, which offer the performance of a true dedicated server with the cost effectiveness of a shared hosting plan.
Let’s get back to the original list of reasons why you need a Solid State Drive (SSD) hosting plan for your WordPress site. Despite all of the improvements that cloud technology has provided, it’s still far from perfect. If you want to keep your data safe and ensure that it’s always accessible, you need an SSD hosting plan. Here’s why:
Security
Let’s be honest, no matter where you host your site, there’s always a potential security risk. You could have a virus, hacker, or even a government agency snooping on your private emails or documents. While you can’t prevent all risks, you can take some measures to make your site more secure. One of the best things you can do for your security is to take advantage of the fact that you’ve got an SSD hosting plan and store all your website files on a separate partition on the drive. This will ensure that your data is safe and you’ve got nothing to worry about in terms of security.
Features
When you’ve got a growing business, you want to make sure you have everything you need. One of the best things about an SSD hosting plan is that you’ve got many features available to you. For example, if you run a website that gets a lot of traffic, you may want to consider buying extra storage to cope with the unexpected increase in demand. Alternatively, you can use the Premium Theme by WordPress to get a ton of features for your site without having to spend a single penny. The choice is yours.
If you decide that you want to DIY (Do It Yourself), you’ve got an entire knowledge base filled with helpful articles that will guide you along the way. Alternatively, you can hire someone to do it for you. Either way, using an SSD hosting plan is the right way to go. You’ll notice an improvement in your site’s loading time and performance, and you’ll be glad that you made the switch.