{"id":193,"date":"2018-05-17T09:57:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T09:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpitbull.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2018-12-14T03:01:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T03:01:38","slug":"what-is-augmented-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpitbull.com\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Hosting Essentials for E-commerce WordPress Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New e-commerce businesses are popping up every day, with brick-and-mortar operations rapidly joining the digital marketplace. This flurry of growth has massive economic implications: eMarketer recently reported that global e-commerce sales will experience double-digit increases through 2020, topping out at an astounding $27 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as no surprise that WordPress, which powers 28% of websites worldwide, is used by ecommerce sites both large and small. Here are some hosting essentials for WordPress e-commerce site owners.<\/p>\n<h3>High Availability<\/h3>\n<p>E-stores have a huge advantage over brick-and-mortar ones in one key area: They\u2019re always open, allowing customers to shop anytime, anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>As such, and to ensure that their site stays up 24\/7, every e-shop should be looking for web hosting that provides the maximum amount of uptime. Web hosts often boast about having at least 99% uptime, but what happens after the initial 99% is critical and can make a big difference in terms of maximizing transaction value during a peak shopping period. For example, while 99.8% uptime gives leeway for a site to be down for up to 17.52 hours per year, 99.99% is barely an hour per year.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon learned this lesson the hard way when a service outage impacted Amazon.com for 20 minutes in March 2016. While the incident didn\u2019t occur during the holiday shopping season, the effect was palpable to the tune of $3.75 million in lost sales, according to Digital Commerce 360.<\/p>\n<h3>Robust Security<\/h3>\n<p>Security may seem like a no-brainer, and that\u2019s for good reason. While WordPress core is extremely secure, that doesn\u2019t mean every WordPress site is immune to malware, DDos attacks, phishing, or ransomware.<\/p>\n<p>It is ideal to take a multi-pronged approach, which includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Automatic software updates: Potential attackers can find chinks in a site\u2019s defense when WP core or plugins are not regularly updated. While updating and patching manually is a worthwhile but time-consuming affair, a managed WordPress hosting provider should automatically update WordPress core and other critical plugins.<\/li>\n<li>Security monitoring: Awareness of an attack is the first line of defense against it. Around-the-clock security monitoring can provide real-time notification of any security breaches.<\/li>\n<li>Backup and restore: As always, backups should be scheduled regularly to provide roll backs to functioning versions of a site. And when disaster strikes, a hosting provider\u2019s restore capabilities can rescue the day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Developer Features, Staging, and Cloning<\/h3>\n<p>Certain hosting companies will include developer friendly tools in their WordPress plans, like Git version control, phpMyAdmin access, WP-CLI, and staging and cloning capabilities. These features can provide developers the hands-on control needed for their application environment.<\/p>\n<p>Critically, cloning and staging software can prove to be a fertile testing ground for new coding elements or site redesigns. Testing out a new functionality on a staging site can not just spare blushes but also ensure that the rollout will go as expected.<\/p>\n<h3>Around-The-Clock Support<\/h3>\n<p>Any issues with a site can lead to a drop off of business opportunities and customers. Having reliable, 24\/7 expert help that\u2019s just a phone call away can provide the peace of mind that top-notch support will p Additionally, notifying a support team about any upcoming high traffic events can let them take a proactive approach to any possible hosting issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New e-commerce businesses are popping up every day, with brick-and-mortar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[58,57,53,15],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-e-commerce","tag-hosting","tag-technology","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpitbull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpitbull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpitbull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpitbull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpitbull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zenpitbull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/zenpitbull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpitbull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpitbull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpitbull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpitbull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}