At BigScoots we take great pride in offering all types of hosting solutions, especially our custom Managed services for WordPress. With over 15 years of experience, we have helped tens of thousands of websites unlock the full potential of WordPress through our tailored solutions.
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While Shared hosting may appear to be a cost-effective option for your website, we strongly advise considering all of your options before moving into this environment as it does pose many limitations that come along with a lower price point.

Comprehensive Site Management: Our WPO plans offer a serious amount of site-specific management. This includes addressing plugin conflicts, database issues, stuck PHP processes, resource consumption problems and much much more, all with an average response time of ~90 seconds.

Dedicated Hosting Environment with Scalability: Our Managed services for WordPress server environments are dedicated environments where your site or sites are the sole tenant(s) on the server. They are custom built with WordPress and the growth of your site in mind. This means that we understand that some WordPress plugins may utilize more resources, or that you may have days with spikes in traffic or transactions where you need to be in an environment to accommodate that. Because of this we over provision these servers with additional resources (like CPU and memory) to grow and scale with whatever your site will need at any given time. Our Starter plan alone offers ~10x the resources of a Shared service.
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Speed and Core Web Vitals: We proactively and reactively assist with speed and core web vital concerns, ensuring your site performs optimally. Our Managed Services for WordPress come with the added benefit of being able to take advantage of our Performance Services for WordPress, which are focused around improving key areas to positively impact PageSpeed Insights and Core Web Vitals. These addon services are not offered within Shared as the site would need to be within a dedicated environment to provide this level of hands on management.

Real-Time Security Management: We address site and network security issues in real time and offer professional cleanings when needed, at no extra charge.

Proactive Monitoring: Our team, with the help of ~30 proactive monitors, monitor your site 24/7/365, looking for and addressing issues before they impact you or your visitors.

Cloudflare Integration: We set up, integrate, and manage all the security and performance benefits of Cloudflare’s DNS and CDN services.

Our WPO services are specifically designed with WordPress in mind, delivering significantly improved load times and enhanced management compared to any provider we've tested (some more than others).

Each WPO plan is hosted on its own dedicated environment, allowing us to fully optimize your WordPress setup with your site’s needs in mind.

Shared Hosting, as the name suggests, has your site sharing resources with others on the server. While it is a great way to reduce your overall cost, it unfortunately will be unable to achieve the same level of performance, hands on management, optimizations, or security benefits found in WPO.

To help you clearly understand the differences between Shared Hosting and our WPO services, we've created a comparison table. This table lists the key features and services, highlighting what you will miss if you opt for Shared hosting:

We cannot guarantee performance with our Shared Hosting services.

With Shared Hosting, the resources allocated to your account are guaranteed; however, unlike WPO, they come with set limits to prevent any single user from overusing server resources. As a result, some websites may not perform at their optimal level.

Given these limitations, we strongly recommend considering a WPO service instead of Shared Hosting. WPO offers scalable resources, ensuring that your site is never restricted by exceeding limits and will always perform at its best.

Our WPO services are fully optimized and designed to handle thousands of concurrent users. Whether your site faces a sudden traffic surge, irregular resource usage due to a security vulnerability, or a plugin conflict, the WPO services ensure your site remains unaffected.

The configuration and management of Cloudflare is a service provided within all of our WPO services, and has many security and performance benefits.

For Shared Hosting customers, while we do not manage DNS automatically, like we would for our WPO clients, you will have full control over your DNS settings within cPanel and our team is available and happy to assist you if you need help along the way.

Yes, you are free to switch your services at any time.

If you'd like to upgrade from a Shared Hosting service to a WPO service, please sign up for a WPO service on our website. After signing up, submit a migration request from your WPO portal - We recommend reaching out to our live chat for assistance as we will complete the request for you. Once the migration is confirmed as successful, you can request the cancellation of your Shared Hosting service.

After careful consideration, if you decide to migrate from our WPO services to a Shared Hosting service, we ask that you please submit a support ticket so that we can make sure your site can fit the downgraded service.

We are happy to have you, regardless of whichever service you decide upon.

While we believe our WPO plans offer unmatched value, if Shared Hosting is the right choice for you at this time, we're here to help. When you're ready, you're always welcome to upgrade to our WPO services.

If you are interested in our WPO services, you can find them on our website. In addition, if you would like a guide to help you set up your new WPO service, please check out the article below:

If you are interested in our Shared services, you can find them on our website. In addition, if you would like a guide to help you set up your new Shared service, please check out the article below:

Thank you for reading about the differences between our WPO and Shared services.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact our team via live chat.

For technical inquiries, please feel free to reach our support team by emailing support@bigscoots.com from your registered email or by submitting a support ticket.