Almost a year ago I met a guy who shared my name (Josh) that ran a company that offered managed WordPress hosting. At the time, I couldn’t really figure out why it was a worthwhile endeavor until the most recent hacks on WordPress. Imagine if you didn’t have to worry about administering your server, keeping WordPress up to date, and keeping your site running: This is the appeal of Page.ly. If you’re in the business of putting out great content, you’re probably not in the business of preventing PHP Exploits from running amok on your website.

If you haven’t considerd Page.ly to host your new (or existing) WordPress site consider the following:

• Page.ly is managed. Critical updates are pushed after they come out. You could be on a beach in Bermuda — no problem.
• Page.ly is FAST. Not only do they have lots of heavy iron serving your website, but making an account takes less than 2 minutes WITH a domain. You probably can’t even download WordPress in that time.
• Great support. Fanatical support. If you’re unhappy, they’re all ears.

If you are a new customer, they’ll even give you a brand new domain name to get started with. That’s pretty sweet, and for $15/month, it’s hard to go wrong with managed hosting. It doesn’t matter where you are or what you’re doing, if a critical WordPress upgrade comes out, you can be assured that it’s going to get handled. That kind of security is of intangible value if you like your site always being available.