Re:Pain Points of Web Development with WordPress
by josefresco on Thursday September 19, 2019 @02:38PM
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> Did WPEngine solved all of your security issues ?
No. Because I'm paranoid and have been hacked before, I still apply additional "hardening" to WordPress. We use various plugins, and Cloudflare to further enhance our client's security.
However hosting with WPE had allowed me to sleep at night, whereas previously I was constantly worried about performance and security of our VPS/dedicated boxes. I'm not a server admin, and if more webmasters were honest with themselves they'd admit that too. WPEngine takes care of running the infrastructure and I can focus on design and building great websites.
The reason I still host and advocate for WPE is the quality support. It is by far the best hosting support I've ever worked with. I have other beefs with WPEngine (for another time) but am happy to continue working with them - never going back to a "VPS" model.
No. Because I'm paranoid and have been hacked before, I still apply additional "hardening" to WordPress. We use various plugins, and Cloudflare to further enhance our client's security.
However hosting with WPE had allowed me to sleep at night, whereas previously I was constantly worried about performance and security of our VPS/dedicated boxes. I'm not a server admin, and if more webmasters were honest with themselves they'd admit that too. WPEngine takes care of running the infrastructure and I can focus on design and building great websites.
The reason I still host and advocate for WPE is the quality support. It is by far the best hosting support I've ever worked with. I have other beefs with WPEngine (for another time) but am happy to continue working with them - never going back to a "VPS" model.