Hosted.com, a leading premium Web Hosting and Domain Registration solutions provider, continues its long-running partnership with Softaculous as its preferred auto-installation provider. This collaboration continues to enhance the user experience for Hosted.com’s WordPress Hosting customers by streamlining website setup and management processes.
The partnership meets a growing demand for simplified WordPress installations that take care of the essentials of setting up a site while maintaining functionality for users of all technical experience levels.
Softaculous is a comprehensive auto-installer platform that supports hundreds of web applications and focuses on optimizing the installation process. It is fully integrated into Hosted.com’s WordPress Hosting infrastructure and control panel.
The integration of Softaculous with Hosted.com’s WordPress Hosting offers several important benefits:
Streamlined WordPress Installation & Management
- One-Click WordPress Installation: Drastically reduces setup time from a complex, manual process to a few simple clicks, allowing users to launch a new WordPress site in seconds.
- Pre-configured Install Options: This option lets users enter essential settings during installation, such as admin username and password, site title, description, and even some initial plugin selections (though theme/plugin updates are mostly managed through WordPress itself).
- Automated Updates: This feature simplifies maintenance by updating the WordPress core software to the latest versions with a single click or by setting automatic updates, ensuring that websites benefit from the newest features and security patches.
- Management Dashboard: This dashboard provides a centralized view of all installed WordPress websites, making it easy to manage multiple installations from one central hub.
“At Hosted.com, we’re constantly looking for ways to make website creation and management easier for our customers while delivering high-speed hosting solutions,” said Wayne Diamond, CEO of Hosted.com. “Having Softaculous as our preferred partner perfectly aligns with this philosophy. Their platform transforms what can be a complex WordPress setup process, into a one-click experience, allowing our customers to focus on building their websites and creating content rather than having to handle the often technical and time-consuming side of the WordPress installation process.”
Backup & Restoration Solutions
- Automated Scheduling: This feature lets users setup regular, automated backups of their entire WordPress website (files and database) with customizable frequency options (daily, weekly, or monthly).
- Multiple Storage Options: It supports various storage locations for backups, including the server and local drives, and often offers integration with remote FTP (File Transfer Protocol) or cloud storage services.
- One-Click Restoration Process: This process enables easy website recovery from a backup. Users can choose a specific backup version and restore the entire site with a single click.
- Partial Restorations: This feature allows users to restore only the database or only the website files from a specific backup dependent on the situation, thus providing more control over the website recovery process.
Development and Staging Tools
- Clone and Staging Functionality: Staging lets users create exact copies (clones) of a live WordPress website. These can then be used as safe staging environments for testing new themes, plugins, or major site changes without affecting the live version.
- Easy Push-to-Live: After testing a website on a staging site, Softaculous often allows for a one-click push of the changes back to the production site, streamlining the development workflow for the user.
This partnership particularly benefits small business owners, creatives, and beginners who use Hosted.com’s WordPress Hosting services but may lack the backend and coding experience for launching and managing a new WordPress site. The Softaculous integration removes the need for manual database configuration, FTP knowledge, and other technical requirements typically associated with installing WordPress.
It changes how customers interact with their hosting environment as a whole. Most importantly, it can show that when complex tasks are removed from the website creation process, businesses can launch them faster, experiment with more features, and not have to worry about losing content and data due to problems with updates and compatibility.
The Softaculous integration is available for all Hosted.com WordPress Hosting plans at no additional cost to both new and existing clients.
About Hosted.com
Hosted.com provides comprehensive Web Hosting services, including WordPress and Email Hosting, as well as Domain Registrations and Transfers. Their solutions always ensure performance, stability, and security for SMEs, businesses and individuals, and are specifically tailored to an easy to use client portal for website and domain management.
About Wayne Diamond
Wayne Diamond, the founder and CEO of Hosted.com, brings over 25 years of experience in web hosting and domain management. Committed to excellence and outstanding customer support, Hosted.com aims to transform website creation and domain registration experience for businesses of all sizes.
