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Our WordPress hosting plans ensure your site is fast, secure, and reliable. Plus our technology powered by the Google Cloud Platform enables us to ramp up instantly to meet traffic spikes, surges, and everything in between.
Plus we’re located in Kitchener-Waterloo to offer a local perspective and Canadian servers for your site.
Secure WordPress Hosting
Maximum security against hackers and malware.
WordPress Updates
We handle both major and minor WordPress updates, ensuring your site remains safe from security threats associated with outdated versions.
Automatic Nightly Backups
Free Malware Cleanup
Fully-Managed WordPress Hosting
Our Hosting Includes
Website hosting, or web hosting, is a service that allows you to publish your content on the internet. It provides space on a server to store your website’s files, making them accessible online.
With a managed hosting plan, you can forget about tasks like server configuration, maintenance, and performance monitoring. We also offer additional optimization and security services.
- Free WordPress site migration
- Free auto-renewing SSL certificates
- Nightly backups (30 day backup storage)
- Security patching & plugin risk scans
- Automated WordPress & PHP updates
- Global CDN (content delivery network)
- Free malware cleanup
- Fast WordPress performance
- Fast WordPress performance
- Site maintenance
- Technical support
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WordPress Hosting in Kitchener-Waterloo
Choosing the right hosting service is crucial for your website’s performance, security, and reliability. If you’re located in Kitchener-Waterloo and prefer to have your website hosted on Canadian servers, we have an excellent WordPress hosting option available to meet your needs.
We offer hosting for:
- Brochure-style business websites
- Small to medium sized business websites
- eCommerce style websites
- Blogs and personal interest sites
- Nonprofit & charity websites
Overview of WordPress Hosting
Standard web hosting services provide websites with the server space and resources required to deliver content online. There are four main types of hosting: shared, dedicated, VPS, and cloud.
However, since WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world, there’s an entire category (and industry) of WordPress hosting services designed explicitly for this CMS.
WordPress hosting plans should work seamlessly with all of the WordPress core software and other essential tools like plugins and themes. For example, a WordPress host may offer seamless installation of the CMS via a one-click installation process. It might also guide you through a WordPress-specific setup wizard and install specific plugins and tools.
Additionally, with this type of hosting, the servers are usually optimized for peak WordPress performance. The support team should also be particularly knowledgeable about this CMS.
With a managed hosting plan, you won’t need to worry about tasks like server configuration, maintenance, and performance monitoring. Many top managed hosts also offer additional optimization and security services. While the cost may be slightly higher, you gain valuable assistance in managing your site.
Unlike the four main types of web hosting services, managed hosting isn’t strictly defined by server type. Shared, VPS, dedicated, and cloud hosting plans can all be offered as either “managed” or “unmanaged.”
Creating and running a website involves numerous tasks, such as writing and publishing content, managing site design, and administering user accounts.
A Content Management System (CMS) simplifies these processes. As the name implies, a CMS is designed to make content management easier. It offers a comprehensive platform for creating, publishing, and managing content online, all through an intuitive interface that requires minimal technical expertise.
Additionally, many CMSs have a developer-friendly structure under the hood, allowing those with coding experience to customize and extend the platform to meet specific needs.
Technically, anyone can host their own website using the right open-source tools, including WordPress. However, this is not recommended unless you are an experienced IT professional. Hosting your own WordPress website requires a physical server and the ability to configure, maintain, and manage it. Since maintaining a server environment demands advanced technical skills, it’s usually best to rely on the expertise of a web hosting company.
You may encounter the term “self-hosted,” which can be misleading. It typically refers to any website built using a CMS or website builder that requires an external hosting provider.
For example, when you create a site using the software available from WordPress.org, you are using the self-hosted version of WordPress. This is true even though you will be utilizing a third-party web host.
WordPress operates using a combination of PHP and MySQL to store and retrieve data. When users visit a WordPress site, their browser sends a request to the web server hosting the site. The web server then forwards this request to the WordPress software, which fetches the necessary data from the MySQL database and uses PHP to generate the HTML code that is sent back to the user’s browser.
Now, let’s explore what makes WordPress so beginner-friendly and intuitive. Here are some of the tools you’ll use to build a website with WordPress.
When software is open source, it means the source code is available for anyone to access, modify, and distribute. This allows developers and users to view, customize, and enhance the underlying code, contributing improvements, bug fixes, and new features to the project.
Open source software is licensed to grant users the rights to use, modify, and distribute it for any purpose, provided they comply with the license terms. Generally, open source software is free to use and distribute, and it can be tailored to meet specific needs and requirements.
One of the primary advantages of open source software is that it fosters collaboration and innovation. Developers and users can contribute to the project, building upon each other’s work.
WordPress is an excellent example of open source software, with its source code freely available for anyone to access and modify. This has resulted in a vibrant ecosystem of developers and users who have significantly contributed to its development, creating a wide range of plugins, themes, and other tools for the platform.
Website hosting, or web hosting, is a service that allows you to put your content on the internet. It provides space on a server to store your website’s files and make them accessible online.
Servers, which consist of both hardware and software, power the World Wide Web. Their job is to process user requests and deliver content via browsers.
Through a series of web protocols, servers access a website by following the web address entered into your browser. The type of server and optimization tools you choose can significantly affect your site’s performance.
Because servers require substantial resources, maintenance, and management, web hosting is typically provided by private companies known as “web hosts” or “hosting providers” (or simply “hosts”). Each web host usually offers multiple hosting plans that vary based on server configurations and additional features.
Not if you want people to visit it. Every website requires server space and resources to be accessible to end users, so all online websites need to be hosted in some manner.
You can create a “local” website that runs on your own computer, but these sites are not accessible to online visitors. However, they are useful for testing and development purposes.
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Our Location & Hours
Evergreen Digital Marketing
60 Ottawa St S
Kitchener, ON N2G 3S7
Our Hours
Monday to Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: Closed
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