If your live website is the star of the show, then your website hosting is the behind-the-scenes theater crew, with a very big job to do.
And as your crew, we love making sure your website is secure, backed up and running smoothly, without you having to think about your site at all.
So let’s take a look at all the website hosting fun that’s been happening behind the scenes during 2024 — and end with a prediction for the year to come. 🔮
WordPress in the Press
As you may have guessed, WordPress continues to be the most popular CMS (content management system) in the world!
- Out of all the websites that use a known CMS, 43.4% of those sites use WordPress — which is a market share of 62.6%.
- It’s estimated there are 34,635,214 live WordPress websites (as of Aug 2024).
- WordPress is used by mega big brands including NASA, Time Magazine and Taylor Swift.
WordPress also turned 21 this year, and WPExperts celebrated with this list of major WordPress milestones. 🎉
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Hosting News Roundup
- Near the beginning of this year, Google launched a whole assortment of new top-level domains, which also included .meme.
- Advanced Custom Fields won this year’s Plugin Madness competition (hosted by WP Engine) — for the second year in a row!
- WP Engine made HostingAdvice.com’s top 10 list for “most trusted” web hosts of 2024.🏅
Critical Plugin Updates
critical plugin updates, noun
crit·i·cal | \ ˈkri-ti-kəl \ : WordPress plugin updates that must be addressed ASAP
to prevent hackers from gaining access to your site.
What’s Ahead for 2025 🔮
Experts predict that artificial intelligence and machine learning will be big trends in the CMS space.
In fact, these WordPress plugins are already aboard the AI train.
From the bottom of our geeky hearts, thank you to our amazing clients for trusting us with your websites. 🧡
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Image credits: Chandan Chaurasia on Unsplash (calendar), CodeGeek (critical plugins)
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