Host it with us and forget it. Fully managed WordPress updates, security, SSL certificate backups, disaster recovery, malware monitoring and malware removal.
Running a WordPress website involves more than simply putting your website on a server. WordPress software and plugins need to be updated, websites need to be backed up, security threats need to be monitored and technical problems need to be addressed when they occur.
With IDP’s Fully Managed WordPress Hosting, you don’t have to manage those responsibilities yourself.
IDP handles the hosting, WordPress maintenance, software updates, backups, security monitoring and technical administration required to keep your website running. If something goes wrong, you have an experienced team you can contact instead of relying on a chatbot or trying to troubleshoot the problem yourself.
We’ve been developing and hosting websites since 2003, giving our team experience with both the WordPress software powering your website and the server environment where it runs.
You focus on your business. We’ll take care of WordPress.
Fully managed hosting means taking responsibility for the technical work required to maintain your WordPress website. We don’t just host your site, we maintain it.
IDP combines WordPress hosting, maintenance, security, backups, and technical support into one managed service.
WordPress & Plugin Updates
Keeping WordPress and its plugins updated is an important part of maintaining a secure and reliable website. Outdated software can introduce security vulnerabilities, compatibility problems, and other technical issues.
IDP manages routine WordPress core and plugin updates for hosted websites, including reviewing and implementing important software and security patches. You don’t have to log into WordPress every month and determine what needs to be updated.
WordPress Security & Malware Protection
WordPress website can be targeted by automated attacks, vulnerable plugins, malicious code and other security threats.
IDP uses multiple layers of protection to help secure managed WordPress website, including website security tools, malware monitoring, WordPress hardening, and hosting-level security. If a managed website becomes infected with malware, our team can investigate the problem and work to clean the affected site.
Security isn’t something we install once and forget. It’s part of the ongoing management of your WordPress website.
Nightly Website & Database Backups
Your WordPress website consists of both website files and a database containing important content and settings. A reliable backup strategy needs to protect both.
IDP performs nightly backups of WordPress website and databases as part of our managed hosting service. Our hosting environment also incorporates disaster recovery and backup infrastructure so recovery options are available when they’re needed.
WordPress Performance Optimization
Website speed your visitors’ experience and can also influence search performance.
IDP can configure WordPress performance and caching tools and optimize the website for better loading performance. Because we’re also web developers, we can investigate website-level performance issues that aren’t solved simply by installing another WordPress plugin.
SSL & Hosting Configuration
You shouldn’t need to become a server administrator to operate your business website.
IDP handles the technical hosting environment, including SSL configuration and other hosting-related setup. There’s no complicated hosting control panel you need to learn just to keep your WordPress website online.
Website & Server Monitoring
Managed hosting shouldn’t mean waiting for the customer to discover that something has gone wrong.
IDP monitors both our hosting infrastructure and the WordPress website we mange. Combined with backups, security monitoring, and disaster recovery planning, this provides multiple layers of protection for your website and data.
Real WordPress Support
When you have a question or website problem, you shouldn’t have to explain WordPress to a generic hosting support chatbot.
IDP’s team develops, maintains, and hosts WordPress websites. Our managed hosting clients can contact us by phone or email when they need assistance or have questions about their WordPress website.
Because we understand both WordPress and the hosting environment, we can troubleshoot problems across the entire website instead of automatically blaming the server, the website, or another provider.
Why Choose Managed WordPress Hosting?
WordPress makes it easy to manage website content, but maintaining the technology behind a WordPress website requires ongoing attention.
Plugins change. WordPress updates. Security vulnerabilities are discovered. PHP and server software evolve. Backups need to run successfully. Performance can deteriorate as website grow.
With unmanaged hosting, many of those responsibilities ultimately belong to you.
Managed WordPress hosting transfers much of that technical responsibility to an experienced team. Instead of spending your time monitoring software updates, configuring backups, investigating security alerts or troubleshooting hosting problems, you can focus on the website content and the business it supports.
For businesses without an internal web development or IT team, managed WordPress hosting can provide the technical expertise needed to keep and important business website properly maintained.
WordPress Security is an Ongoing Responsibility
WordPress powers websites around the world and its popularity also makes WordPress websites a frequent target for automated attacks. Security vulnerabilities can be discovered in WordPress itself, third-party plugins, themes, and other software used by a website.
That’s why WordPress security shouldn’t be treated as a one-time setup.
IDP’s managed WordPress hosting combines routine software maintenance with security monitoring, WordPress hardening, malware protection, backups, and hosting-level security measures.
When important WordPress or plugin security patches become available, our team can address those updates as part of the ongoing management of your website.
And if malware does make its way onto a managed WordPress website, you don’t have to figure out how to clean the infected files yourself. IDP can investigate and clean malware infections and help restore the website to a secure working condition.
The goal isn’t to promise that a WordPress website can never experience a security problem. It’s to reduce unnecessary risk, identify problems when they occur and have an experienced team and recovery strategy already in place.
WordPress Updates & Ongoing Maintenance
A WordPress website isn’t finished when it launches. The WordPress core software, plugins, and supporting technologies continue to change throughout the life of the website.
Updates can provide new features and bug fixes, but they’re especially important when a release addresses a known security vulnerability.
IDP manages routine WordPress and plugin updates for our managed hosting clients and installs important software patches when they’re needed. Our team can also evaluate issues that occur when an update conflicts with a plugin, theme, or other part of the website.
This is where having WordPress developers and your hosting provider under one roof becomes especially valuable. If an update causes a website problem, you’re not stuck between a hosting company that says it’s a WordPress problem and a developer who says it’s a server problem.
You have one team responsible for helping you figure it out.
Managed WordPress Hosting in Kansas City
IDP isn’t simply a WordPress development company reselling an anonymous hosting account.
We’ve been hosting websites since 2003 and manage our own hosting infrastructure from a professional data center environment in Kansas City, Missouri. Our team works with both the websites and the hosting technology behind them.
For Kansas City businesses, that means your WordPress hosting can be managed by the same local company responsible for your website development, maintenance, and support.
For clients outside Kansas City, it means you still have access to a real team that understands your website and hosting environment rather than being routed through a large anonymous support center.
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Managed WordPress Hosting is a type of web hosting specifically optimized for WordPress sites. We as the host take care of technical aspects like server setup, updates, security, performance optimization, and backups so you can focus on content and business rather than backend maintenance.
Traditional hosting supports multiple types of websites and platforms, which may require you to manage the setup or maintenance. Managed WordPress Hosting on the other hand is tailored for WordPress sites. Instead of just hosting your website, we can perform updates, fix or update security, and perform other maintenance while you focus on other aspects of your business.
It depends on your needs. If you are running a high-traffic site, value speed and security, or don’t want to worry about maintenance, then yes, it is worth the price. For hobby/smaller websites or low-maintenance sites, other options may be preferred.
Nope! We with handle updating your site and plugins to keep it running exactly how you want. We test plugin updates before we implement them in order to ensure they don’t cause issues on your site. All of these responsibilities can be lifted off your shoulders with Managed WordPress Hosting.
Our Managed WordPress Hosting offers a range of support. We will host, update, secure, clean, answer questions, and more for your site.
It is very likely that your site will have higher speeds with our hosting services. We have servers optimized for WordPress performance in a data center in Kansas City.
Absolutely! We can migrate your WordPress site to our hosting platform and can even convert your site to WordPress if it isn’t already.
Web Design Customer Testimonials
Berkley Alliance Managers
Berkley Alliance Managers
Working with IDP is fantastic! We’ve developed several websites together and I appreciate how creative, resourceful and helpful they are. Their customer service is outstanding – professional, knowledgeable and friendly. The entire company is agile and responsive, helping at every turn to make issues opportunities and opportunities successes. I can’t wait to work on our next project together. I highly recommend IDP!
Alliance Insurance Brokerage
Alliance Insurance Brokerage
To be a client for 10 years, IDP is obviously doing business the right way. Their expertise and customer service is beyond comparison. I highly recommend them.
Southwest Risk
Southwest Risk
We worked with IDP on two insurance pool website designs. From the start, IDP’s impressive communication skills, patience, and speed have helped us meet our deadlines and bring beautiful, functional sites to our customers. They provide excellent service to everyone they deal with, which became obvious when a third party change recently affected our site. IDP reacted immediately, and the solid relationship they had in place with the third party led to a quick fix, with minimal client disruption. Now I am confident the web hosting phase will run as smoothly as development has! I highly recommend IDP to businesses in need of their service.
Doug Herriott, OD
Eyecare Associates of Lees Summit
We have use IDP for several years. We had a professionally designed website for many years with another company but found when we searched for ourselves we seldom came up on the first page in organic search. Once we switched to IDP within a few weeks we were coming up on the top of organic search in several keywords relating to our business. We have remained that way as IDP has periodically made changes in our website to keep our content current and relevant for the search engines. One of the reasons we were slow to switch was the perceived amount of it would take to redo the website. This was not the case. We had to give some basic content but IDP quickly built us a very nice and effective website. We were very pleased at how turn key the process was. Monte and his staff really do a wonderful job. I cannot say enough good things about them or how pleased we are with the product and services they provide.
Kids TLC
Kids TLC
IDP created a much more SEO and user friendly website for us nearly 5 years ago. They provide very prompt, courteous and accurate support! IDP looks for cost effective web option to help us maximize our site, when necessary.
The Auto Clinic
The Auto Clinic
IDP has become a very important piece of the marketing strategy for The Auto Clinic. IDP has given our company a strong presence on the internet. I continue to receive positive comments related our website design from our customers and associates in the Lee’s Summit business community. Also, since IDP initiated their internet search engine advertising strategies, we have found more and more of our new customers are discovering our company through internet searching. Our positioning on the internet has allowed us to put our logo in front of our new and repeat customers. I have been very satisfied with my company’s exposure for the dollars spent.
Jason Y. Lundgren Vice President
Young Management Corporation
I just wanted to take time to let you know how much we appreciate the web hosting / web design services you have provided us the past several years. I’ll never forgot how concerned I was when my past web host went out of business and forced me to look elsewhere. I thought I had a good web host, but once I switched to IDP it wasn’t long before I realized the quality of services IDP provides are far superior to those I had been receiving!
Recreation Wholesale
Recreation Wholesale
We’ve been with Jill, Monte and the crew for roughly six years and they are awesome. We had tons of trouble with companies coming and going and our SEO just not working. Go IDP has taken all the stress out of our site and they are QUICK to respond. Can’t recommend them highly enough.
Brad Runnebaum
PlatinumOne Insurance
The entire team at Internet Design & Publishing has been fantastic to work with. I recommend them to everyone that I know.
Vaught Roofing, Inc.
Vaught Roofing, Inc.
I just wanted to take time to let you know how much we appreciate the web hosting / web design services you have provided us the past several years. I’ll never forgot how concerned I was when my past web host went out of business and forced me to look elsewhere. I thought I had a good web host, but once I switched to IDP it wasn’t long before I realized the quality of services IDP provides are far superior to those I had been receiving! Since choosing IDP to be my webhost some 7+ years ago, you have performed services which have improved my search engine results to a level I never expected possible (i.e. #1 or #2 ranking on just about every pertinent search criteria)!
HumanaNatura Natural Health Community
HumanaNatura Natural Health Community
IDP helped to turn our good website into a great one, with their redesign resulting in a web traffic increase of 600% in the first three months. The team is knowledgeable, patient, and easy to work with – taking our ideas, bringing their own, and synthesizing our best thinking into reality. Our globally-oriented site now has the level of polish that it needed, making our content come alive and attracting much greater interest and word of mouth referrals. Thanks guys!
Kari Burchett
Eyecare Associates of Osawatomie
A great job customizing our business web page, made great suggestions to improve upon our own ideas and delivered a product exactly how we wanted! Highly recommend.
Kerry McCane
After referring a couple of clients to IDP for products, I’ve finally had the opportunity to work with them directly on a complete redesign of my company’s website. They have been fantastic to work with – knowledgeable, thorough and very, very patient. They are willing and able to take on the needs of very unique businesses, companies that need much more than just a basic ecommerce presence. I look forward to continuing to work with the team as we continue to launch new products that require even more challenging integrations.
Nick A. Cutrera
Law Offices of Nick A. Cutrera, LLC
I was satisfied with my firm’s existing website when a friend recommended that I ask IDP to evaluate it. I decided that an evaluation wouldn’t hurt, and I’m glad I did. IDP transformed our website from a generic, informational site into our second biggest revenue generator, only behind client referrals. The website has been so successful in generating new business that I have been able to substantially reduce marketing dollars spent elsewhere. In addition, IDP’s fast response to requests for changes to the site is impressive. I recommend IDP to any company looking to grow its business and to better serve its existing customers.
Etap Communications
Etap Communications
We began working with IDP on a mutual client’s website redesign. They were so easy to work with and were always available to answer any questions. The process to get the new site up was seamless and the client was extremely pleased too!
Loren Shanks
Community Buying Group
Monte and Jill are great to work with. We’ve used them for several projects and have always done a great job! They do great work in a short amount of time. Our company has every intention to continue to use them in the future.
Performance Furniture
Performance Furniture
About 3 years ago we were searching for a new web design and SEO company, and when we put the word out we were looking 3 separate companies recommended IDP. In fact we had very few other recommendations. We have a unique direct sales strategy for our high end TV Furniture, TV Cabinets, and TV Consoles and IDP has helped us to market Performance Furniture locally as well as nationwide. Their approach to SEO is very straightforward where we know what is happening and can track our results. Very satisfied with IDP.
Thoroughbred Ford
Thoroughbred Ford
We have worked with Internet Design & Publishing since 2003 and they have been nothing but fantastic. Their response time to our requests is incredible. They have helped us redesign our websites, several times and every time they finish on time and on budget. They manage our internet marketing and are always on top of it. When we have asked for the impossible, they have always found a way to work it out. I am constantly impressed with their knowledge and creativity. I could not recommend another website designer more. Should anyone be looking for more information on IDP, feel free to contact us.
Kennedy Graphics
Kennedy Graphics
It was a pleasure working with IDP. They gave us a quote that was easy to understand and competetitively priced. Everything was completed on or before schedule and within budget. We made some additions/tweaks to the system during the process and to our delight they responded promptly and handled all of our concerns and helped us figure out how to accomplish our goals. Follow-up after the project has been excellent. We will certainly look to IDP for our future needs and have already recommended them to several business associates and friends.
Project One Integrated Services
Project One Integrated Services
IDP finally allowed us to have a quality website that reflects our company, message and high level of service we provide to our clients. The process went smoothly and quickly and we are thrilled with the final results. I would recommend using IDP to any company with website needs.
Brian Buffington
iResQ
I have been working with IDP since around 2010 (currently 2016) and am pleased with their work. They are fair and trustworthy. I have recommended them to several friends and colleagues and will continue to do so.
Amanda Covey
The Tub Connection
I’ve worked with IDP in the past but never as extensively, nor in as large a capacity as we have for the last 18 months. The projects we have completed have required grave attention to detail and near constant communication which I am happy to say made all the difference in the world. I recommend IDP highly, and look forward to working with them in the future!