WordPress is one of the quickest ways to create a website, as it is free and easily accessible to anyone. Considering extensibility via themes and modules, WordPress can be used by both professionals and amateurs, which makes it the world’s most popular website builder.
In order to get the most from this great website builder, WordPress needs an equally incredible web host. The Cloudjiffy Application Platform has vast experience with hosting WordPress-based applications, including pre-packaged solutions, clusterized and standalone options, optimization, automatic scaling, and high availability. The platform is designed to provide a reliable, secure, and high-performance environment for WordPress websites. It is built on top of the latest container-based virtualization technology, which allows for efficient resource allocation and management.
The Cloudjiffy Application Platform provides a range of features that make it an ideal choice for hosting WordPress websites:
Platform-as-a-Service
Cloudjiffy Application Platform is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution that offers a cloud hosting platform with a set of deployment and scaling automation, application management, and DevOps tools. It eliminates the complexity of building and maintaining the underlying infrastructure. Also, PaaS uses multiple servers to host websites and applications. This means that your website is not reliant on a single server, which can lead to downtime and performance issues. Instead, cloud hosting distributes your website’s resources across multiple servers, ensuring that it remains available and responsive even during peak traffic times.
Compared to traditional dedicated servers, cloud hosting takes care of everything from managing setup, creating the infrastructure, and configuring security to maintaining your website backend. It offers out-of-box solutions to automatically handle server management routines and is more efficient in terms of compute resource allocation based on business growth. It frees up your team’s time and resources to focus on your business growth and development.
Reliability
On the platform level, the resources of multiple servers are combined to eliminate the problem of your resources being overused on a single server. If one server in the cloud is no longer working, the other servers are available to step in and ensure the flow and continuity. This creates less downtime for your website.
Also, the platform provides high availability by evenly distributing containers of the same environment layer across all available hosts (physical servers). It is done with the help of anti-affinity groups, which specify that certain virtual containers should not be run on the same physical server
Flexibility and Scalability
Cloud hosting is good for WordPress websites with less predictable traffic numbers. If your website’s resource demand grows, a single server with fixed resources might become overwhelmed by such a surge. With the Cloudjiffy Application Platform, there is no such problem. The platform can automatically scale up the resources to meet the demand. This means that if your website experiences a sudden spike in traffic, the platform can automatically allocate more resources to ensure that your website remains available and responsive. Automatic vertical scaling is a distinctive platform feature that ensures applications can scale within a server without downtime.
Additionally, the horizontal scaling feature allows you to add more servers to your environment. This is particularly useful for creating a Wordpress cluster solution, which is a group of servers that work together to host your website. If needed, triggers can be set to automatically scale up or down the number of servers in your cluster based on the load.
Security
Container-based virtualization guarantees that each container is fully isolated, so they are highly secure and provide maximum uptime. The isolation of containers ensures that if one container is compromised, the others remain unaffected. The Cloudjiffy Application Platform also provides a built-in container firewall that can be used to protect your website from malicious attacks and unauthorized access. This is particularly important for WordPress websites, which are often targeted by hackers.
Additional security options can be configured automatically for your specific WordPress deployment. For example, the Brute Force Attack Protection and Web Application Firewall (WAF) features can be enabled for WordPress installations based on the LiteSpeed web server.
Performance
The Cloudjiffy Application Platform is designed to provide high performance for WordPress websites. The platform uses a combination of container-based virtualization and cloud hosting to ensure that your website remains fast and responsive, even during peak traffic times. Better density and higher utilization rates are gained with the help of a memory deduplication mechanism, which collects file access statistics to find the most frequently used ones and puts them into a cache. If a container needs to access such a file, it can go straight to the cache (instead of the disk). Such implementation improves performance by reducing the number of I/O operations.
Additionally, the pre-packaged WordPress solutions include the option to use the high-performance LiteSpeed web server, which is optimized for WordPress.
Cost-Effectiveness
Standard hosting options usually have fixed pricing, which can be a significant drawback for new websites with little traffic. When starting, you may not know how much traffic your website will receive and end up paying for resources that you do not use. On the other hand, smaller servers may not be able to handle the traffic, leading to downtime and performance issues.
With the Cloudjiffy Application Platform cloud hosting, however, you only pay for the resources used rather than settling for a fixed amount that may or may not be used. Such an approach can save you money in the long run. Additionally, cloud hosting eliminates the need for expensive hardware and maintenance costs associated with traditional dedicated servers (reduces your maintenance efforts). This makes it an ideal solution for businesses of all sizes, from small startups to large enterprises.
Also, with the pre-packaged WordPress solutions, you get the fastest go-to-market time for your business, as the platform takes care of everything from setting up the topology to configuring the application.
Conclusion
Whether you own a new website or are looking to switch your web hosting service, the Cloudjiffy Application Platform definitely deserves your attention. Due to its superb performance, reliability, high scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness, it is a great choice for hosting WordPress websites