Why Managed WordPress?

PROTECTION & PEACE OF MIND

Research has shown that 75% of websites have been hacked and infected by malware. This comes from websites not being properly maintained and monitored.

Easy to Use

One of the great things about WordPress is that it’s easy to use and flexible enough for just about anything. Even a novice can make simple changes.

TIME AND COST

A bespoke website can be expensive and time consuming to keep up to date, as it requires paying a developer to constantly check the code and look for vulnerabilities and issues.

Tons of Resources

WordPress has over 45,000 Plugins and 10,000 themes available to help provide out of the box functionality and customize your website experience at minimal cost.

WORLDWIDE SUPPORT

Worldwide, more than 25% of all websites are powered by WordPress with a large community of designers and developers keeping the core modern and up to date, at no cost to you.

What's Included

As great as WordPress is, all that flexibility and functionality sometimes comes at a price, and it takes some special technical wizardry to get the best performance out of some sites, especially if you have rich themes and lots of plugins, and in those cases regular hosting won’t cut it. Our managed WordPress sites are hosted on servers specially optimized for WordPress, and they do not host anything except WordPress.

It is also important to keep your WordPress installation up to date and free from malware, which requires a certain amount of technical skill and expertise. As a managed WordPress host, Zen is going to take care of all the technical nitty-gritty and maintenance, so you can get back to doing what you love and growing your business.

Here are the main tenets of what makes us a true managed WordPress host:

Managed WordPress Updates

We handle WordPress updates for you. Our team of WordPress experts upgrade each site individually to make sure things are running smooth on the latest version.

Built in Caching

Server-level caching makes your WordPress sites blazing fast. Never configure clunky caching plugins or micro-manage performance settings again.

Malware Scanning

It’s no secret that WordPress sites are vulnerable to hackers due to their popularity. We constantly monitor and scan your site for malware, alert you if there’s a problem, and cleans it up for free.

Automatic Backup

Your data is backed up every night and stored securely off-site for when something goes wrong. We can create and restore backups with just a quick click from our dashboard.

Plugin Maintenance

We keep all your plugins up to date, and will inform you if a plugin is no longer being maintained, and recommend a replacement.

Advanced Email Handling

We use Mailgun to process all outgoing email from your website, which includes automatic bounce handling, tracking, reporting, blacklisting and more.

Brute Force blocking

Brute force attacks are some of the most common ways that attackers gain access to a website. We protect against this both at the site and server level; multiple failed attempts means malicious users can never get inside.

Intelligent IP Blocking

Intelligent IP blocking on our security systems detects intruders and blocks them across all sites within seconds. So your site’s protected from hackers before they even try to attack your site.

Strong Password Enforcement

Create complex passwords. It’s one of the best things you can do as far as web security. We go to great lengths to ensure that our clients use strong passwords. It makes a hacker’s job incredibly tough, and we are very into that.