WordPress Hosting UK

What you get with WordPress on dijitul

WordPress powers a huge share of small-business websites, and most of the problems people have with it are really hosting problems: slow pages, failed updates, missed scheduled posts and no backup when something goes wrong. Our plan is built to take those off your plate.

• Plesk WP Toolkit in your own control panel, so you can see every WordPress site, its version and its plugins on one screen.
• Staging copies so a theme change or big plugin update can be tested before it touches the live site.
• Security hardening such as blocking PHP execution in uploads, protecting wp-config.php and turning off XML-RPC if you don't need it.
• Per-site PHP settings including memory_limit and upload_max_filesize, so page builders and big media uploads don't fail.

Speed: what actually makes WordPress fast

Most slow WordPress sites suffer from the same few things: too many plugins, huge uncompressed images, an old PHP version and no caching. We deal with the hosting side:

• Current PHP 8.x with OPcache, which runs WordPress code noticeably faster than PHP 7.
• Cloudflare caching static files such as images, CSS and JavaScript closer to your visitors.
• A real cron job in place of WP-Cron, so background tasks don't run on visitors' page loads.
• A tidy database, with old revisions and expired transients cleared if they've built up.

If the site is still slow after that, the cause is usually the theme or a plugin, and we'll tell you which one.

Moving your WordPress site to us

We copy the files and database, update the site address if it changes, check permalinks, forms and email sending, and test everything on a temporary address before switching DNS. Contact form emails are a common casualty of a move, so we check they arrive. Read about our website migration process.

WooCommerce shops move the same way, with extra care around orders placed during the switch. See WooCommerce hosting.

Older WordPress sites

Plenty of WordPress sites are stuck on a theme that stopped being updated in 2017 or a plugin that won't run on PHP 8. We can host them on an older PHP version in isolation while you decide what to do, then update or replace the parts that are holding the site back. See old website hosting for how we handle older sites safely.

Who updates WordPress itself?

We look after the server: the operating system, PHP, the web server and security. WordPress core, plugins and themes are part of your website. You can update them yourself, set automatic updates in WP Toolkit, or hand the whole job to us with WordPress maintenance. Either way, daily backups mean a bad update can be rolled back. Ready to move? Order dijitul Complete Hosting.

Making sure WordPress emails arrive

A surprising number of WordPress complaints are really email problems: contact form messages that never turn up, or WooCommerce receipts landing in spam. By default WordPress sends mail through PHP's mail() function with nothing to prove it's genuine, and modern inboxes are suspicious of that.

Because we manage your DNS in Cloudflare, we can set the records that matter:

• SPF, listing which servers may send mail for your domain
• DKIM, signing each message so it can't be forged
• DMARC, telling inboxes what to do with mail that fails those checks

Where it helps, we also set WordPress to send through an authenticated SMTP mailbox rather than mail(). The result is form enquiries in your inbox, not your spam folder. See Cloudflare DNS management for more.

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