While Managed WordPress Hosting is designed to be easy-to-use for beginners, the service also offers advanced tools that can be leveraged by more experienced users. Beneath the graphical user interface lies a powerful web server with all of the features and customizability of a modern VPS platform. In this article we will discuss the underlying technologies at the core of Managed WordPress Hosting and provide insight into ways users can benefit from them.
Managed WordPress Hosting Web Server Technologies
Managed WordPress Hosting uses InMotion Cloud VPS (cVPS) web servers powered by InMotion’s UltraStack. This combination of NGINX, Redis, Brotli Compression, ImageMagick and many other technologies provides you with the flexibility and performance you need to host one or more WordPress websites. To help you understand what’s going on behind-the-scenes within your Managed WordPress Hosting server, we will explore these various concepts.
InMotion cVPS
The InMotion Cloud VPS (cVPS) platform is a high-performance, scalable NGINX cloud server that forms the foundation of Managed WordPress Hosting. This state-of-the-art combination of hardware and software provides users a reliable, easy-to-use WordPress hosting solution.
Redis
Short for Remote Dictionary Server, Redis is a memory-based data storage system that is used commonly on web servers to temporarily store, or cache, user session data as well as full web pages. This cache prevents the website or the user from needing to load the same data twice, thus speeding up site performance. Additionally, storing the data in the server’s memory, or RAM instead of the hard drive helps the data load much more quickly.
Redis is also used for leaderboards and messaging applications, a notable example of which is Twitter.
Brotli Compression
Brotli is a popular compression algorithm created by Google and serves as a successor to the gzip compression algorithm. It specializes in compressing text data, which makes it particularly useful in the context of web hosting. By compressing all of the text data on your website, the server can load the site more quickly.
ImageMagick
ImageMagick is a software tool used primarily for the manipulation and modification of digital images. As an open source piece of software, ImageMagick is free to use. One of the most commonly used features of ImageMagick is the ability to convert images to different formats. Supporting over 200 formats, ImageMagick is an incredibly helpful tool for modifying images to fit within file format restrictions.
Advanced Configurations
Since Managed WordPress Hosting is built on the foundation of a fully-functional cloud VPS platform powered by NGINX, a number of advanced configurations are available. These NGINX configurations require the use of a command-line interface, and are only recommended for users comfortable with command-line tasks. Detailed instructions for performing these tasks can be found in our article for Advanced NGINX Stack Configurations.
Changing Global Options
While working on your Managed WordPress Hosting website you may find yourself looking for ways to apply NGINX configuration changes to your entire server. You may need to update the server configuration to reach PCI compliance, or maybe another piece of software relies on a particular configuration.
Such server-wide modifications can be performed through global configuration changes for both Cache Manager and NGINX itself. After updating the relevant configuration file, the changes will be applied to the entire server, freeing you from having to apply the same rules to all domains on your server.
Managed WordPress Hosting: The Best of Both Worlds
By mastering the advanced NGINX configuration changes and familiarizing yourself with the core technologies of Managed WordPress Hosting, you get the best of both worlds in terms of web hosting: customizable, high-performance web server utilities with easy-to-use, interactive front-end website design resources. Whether you’re just getting started or a seasoned web hosting veteran, Managed WordPress Hosting can enhance your online presence.If you’d like to read more about advanced configurations, please see our article covering how to edit the Redis configuration file.
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