{"id":1236,"date":"2015-04-10T21:16:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T07:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymonkeydo.com\/?page_id=1236"},"modified":"2015-04-10T21:16:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T07:16:40","slug":"why-wpengine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mymonkeydo.com\/why-wpengine\/","title":{"rendered":"Why WPEngine"},"content":{"rendered":"
One of the biggest hurdles I had in choosing WPEngine was validating a $29 monthly hosting payment. Now that my eyes have been opened, it is no longer a hurdle. I admit, I am\/was a GoDaddy shared hosting customer. GoDaddy, with all its crowded servers, does have a place in the hosting business, but not for most businesses.<\/p>\n
WPEngine touts its speed as being the fastest your WordPress site can be. Thanks to their aggressive cache, CDN, and uncongested servers they are faster than GoDaddy shared hosting and another managed WordPress<\/a> host. I didn’t know how crowded shared hosts can be until I looked some sites up on http:\/\/whois.domaintools.com<\/a>. Enter the url on that site and you can see how many other sites are hosted on the server. I usually see GoDaddy shared hosting servers with about 4,000 sites. I once saw a site with a million sites on a server (don’t remember if it was GoDaddy). The site I looked up was very slow, which is why I looked it up. I’m not sure what the average is for WPEngine servers. I just know the server mymonkeydo.com is on hosts way under 100.<\/p>\n Almost every host says their servers are secure, has a firewall, malware scanning etc, so how do you know when a host is secure? One good indication is when they send you emails notifying you to update a plugin because of known security flaw<\/a> that was just found that day. In the 2 years I’ve been with WPEngine they have probably sent a couple of these emails.<\/p>\nSecurity<\/h2>\n