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Website Hosting and Maintenance: What Your Host Does (and Doesn’t)

By Jonathan Wofford / Nov 3, 2026

The short answer Website hosting and website maintenance are two different jobs. Your host keeps the server running. Maintenance keeps your WordPress site running: plugin and theme updates, fixing what an update breaks, backups you can actually restore, security cleanup and checking that forms and checkout still work. Most hosts do some of this, very…

How to Speed Up a WordPress Site: Find the Real Cause First

By Jonathan Wofford / Oct 21, 2026

The short answer To speed up a WordPress site, measure first so you know which part is slow: the server’s response, the weight of the page, or code that holds the page back. We test in GTmetrix on desktop and mobile and read the waterfall to find it. Then fix that cause. Page caching and…