If you're searching for where to host an enterprise WordPress site, you've probably come across popular managed WordPress hosts like WPEngine and Pantheon.
While these managed WordPress hosts certainly offer a tantalizing level of convenience, the tradeoff is that you lose control over your hosting stack, which can cause big problems for enterprise WordPress sites when it comes to...
- Portability
- Corporate governance
- Security
Instead, most enterprises are better off maintaining full control over the WordPress hosting stack.
In this post, we'll explain in more detail why those three issues mean enterprise WordPress sites should maintain control over their hosting, and why it might be easier than you might think to run your own hosting stack, as long as you have the right partner.
3 Big Reasons Your Enterprise Should Retain Control of Its Hosting Stack
1. Portability
If you use a managed WordPress host, your site might exist in the cloud...but it's not
your cloud. If you ever want to leave that host because of pricing or poor service, you're going to have to fully migrate your site to whatever new hosting service you choose.
For a mission-critical site, a forced migration is an inconvenience, an added (
and unnecessary) cost, and a big chance for something to go wrong that causes downtime or lost data.
When you control your own hosting stack, you're never locked in to a middleman between you and your cloud provider.
2. Corporate Governance
If you're using a third-party hosting service, you're giving up control over the access to your hosting account, which is a major risk from a corporate governance perspective.
You don't know who at the host has access to your hosting, and you're put in a position where you're forced to trust your corporate governance to a third-party.
On the other hand, when you retain control of your hosting stack, you have complete and total control over which third-parties have access to your hosting account.
If needed, you can also revoke access in a matter of seconds, rather than needing to go through a third-party's interface or support staff.
3. Security
With a third-party managed WordPress host, you're also giving up control over your environment's security to a third-party. And, while rare,
security breaches can happen, even at high-quality managed WordPress hosts.
With a mission-critical WordPress site, you don't want to trust your site's security to a faceless third-party - you want to be in control so that you
know your data is properly secured.
NeatlyPressed Offers Hosting Convenience Without Losing Control
If you're an enterprise using WordPress, the benefits of retaining control over your hosting stack are clear. But the allure of managed WordPress hosting is still there - there's no denying that giving up control is a lot
simpler.
With
NeatlyPressed, you don't have to choose between convenience versus portability, corporate governance, and security.
NeatlyPressed offers an end-user dashboard to create, develop, and manage WordPress sites, along with experienced web and dev operations teams to manage your WordPress site's hosting stack. Most importantly, though, you get to use
your own Google Cloud or AWS account, which means that you're still 100% in control of access and compute resources.
If you'd like to learn more about how NeatlyPressed can help you experience the power and flexibility of cloud computing
without forcing your enterprise to give up control,
reach out today.
