[Hidden-tech] Looking for experiences with Managed services server

[Jeff Brand]

I've used a variety of managed WP services. For most of my client 
use-cases we prefer to have some amount of control but like that the 
host is watching our back for big issues and also have tuned the web 
server environment for WordPress.

Cloudways: Managed WordPress with a custom control panel. You choose 
your hosting layer - DigitalOcean, AWS, and others including Linode. CW 
provisions the resources so that you're not really directly interfacing 
with the cloud provider, just Cloudways. Most actions are point and 
click. The CLI experience is limited and optional. Scaling up to meet 
required resources is supposedly seamless (we haven't needed it yet) and 
you can add multiple sites per server at no additional cost.

WPEngine: Managed WP, Shared and VPS options. One of my clients just 
migrated a WooCommerce site to their VPS option and the site performance 
has been great.

Dreampress: A WP tuned version of their VPS offering, which is not a 
"normal" VPS (no root.) I used to love Dreamhost but have had increasing 
issues with their services.

I can give a tour of any of these if you'd like.

  - Jeff