The best hosting package for a WordPress website!
For only R65 a month, you can have your WordPress website running on an optimised, feature-rich hosting package!
WordPress MAX in a nutshell:
- Superfast, stable servers optimised for WordPress
- Content served through the Akamai Content Delivery Network
- Automated, frequent backups stored safely off-site
- Free access to premium WordPress themes
- Website optimisation service
- Unmetered bandwidth
- Specialist WordPress support
Servers Optimised for WordPress
Texo's WordPress MAX servers use the Nginx high-performance webserver, which also powers many high-visibility sites, such as Hulu, Github, Ohloh, SourceForge and TorrentReactor. WordPress.com uses Nginx on its huge commercial blogging platform to serve between 8 and 9 thousand requests per second!
WordPress MAX servers are hosted on the Texo Cloud, a very large network of powerful servers which is designed from the ground up for redundancy, high-availability and automatic failover to minimise downtime.
Akamai Content Delivery
Akamai is the preferred partner for the world's largest websites and streaming services, and Texo is the first — and only — South African webhost to offer its clients access to the Akamai Content Delivery Network.
Software updates for Microsoft, virus updates for Symantec and Yahoo's DNS service all run over the Akamai network. Apple uses Akamai for realtime streaming of Quicktime and also for Itunes, and the FBI uses Akamai to deliver all its content on fbi.gov
Akamai has roughly 61 000 servers distributed over 1450 points of presence (POPs) and 950 networks in 70 countries, including South Africa.
What does this mean? When using Akamai, the contents of your webpages, including images, javascript and CSS files (in other words, the bulk of your website) is served from the Akamai server closest to the viewer, and not directly from the Texo server. This means that no matter where in the world visitors to your website are located, the largest portion of your website will be served from a local server. For visitors in South Africa, the files will be served from the Akamai servers in Johannesburg.
Why is this important? Not only will your visitors experience faster browsing on your website, but in announcement after announcement, Google has talked about how they want to do everything they can to make the web a faster place. In an interview, Google's Matt Cutts said that speed may soon be a ranking factor in Google's search results.
"Historically, we haven't had to use it in our search rankings, but a lot of people within Google think that the web should be fast," says Cutts. "It should be a good experience, and so it's sort of fair to say that if you're a fast site, maybe you should get a little bit of a bonus. If you really have an awfully slow site, then maybe users don't want that as much."
With Akamai, you will never have to worry about being penalised for a slow website!
Automated Hourly Backups
An automated backup process built into every WordPress MAX server will make a backup of your WordPress database every hour, and FTP it to an offsite server for safe storage. These hourly backups are stored for 48 hours, so you will be able to roll your website back to any one of 48 backups over the past two days, at any time.
Seven daily database backups (covering the preceding 7 days) are also stored safely off-site.
In addition to this, the contents of your website, including your themes and uploaded images, are backed up and stored offsite once every 24 hours, and each WordPress MAX server has a complete backup made of every database and file on it, once every 24 hours.
Premium Theme Library
For as long as you have your WordPress website hosted on WordPress MAX, you will have full access to our Premium Theme Library, which has themes from Rocket Theme and Woo Themes available for you to use on your website at no extra cost. We add new themes to the library every month.
Website Optimisation
When we create your WordPress MAX account or move your existing website onto a WordPress MAX server, Texo will install the tools, and make any adjustments and changes necessary to optimise your website for speed and stability. We will also give you tips, advice and suggestions to speed your website up, make it more search-engine friendly and ensure that everything is done to help you increase your search enging ranking and pageviews.
Unmetered Bandwidth
Our WordPress MAX servers are hosted on the Texo Cloud, which has huge resources available to it, including large amounts of bandwidth. All WordPress MAX accounts have access to unmetered bandwidth, bursting at 1Gbps, so you never have to worry about your website being suspended (or being charged for overages) if you experience a surge in visitors.
WordPress Support
Everyone at Texo knows and loves WordPress. Together with the support offered in the WordPress section of our Community Forum, we will be able to help you with any WordPress support you need.
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All-in-One Hosting
Starting at R40 a month, Texo's shared hosting packages have all the tools and features you need to create a successful website.
Private Cloud Servers
For as little as R140 a month, you can have your own private server on our self-healing cloud, with automatic failover!
Reseller Hosting
From only R240 a month, you can have your own white-label webhosting service up and running within minutes on Texo's network of servers.
WordPress MAX
For only R65 a month,
you can have your WordPress website running on an optimised, feature-rich hosting package!
Domain Names
From only R70 a year, you can own your own domain name, and use it for a website and for your own email addresses.
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Sign up for a new All-in-One PLUS or All-in-One PRO account and get a free .com, .net, .org, .info or .co.za domain. Offer ends 15/04.
