I'm thinking about running a "managed WP service" for small businesses where we do the installs (including necessary plugins, themes, etc.), we handle the security updates, we do the backups, etc. This will be part of larger packages we offer that include marketing, etc.
The reason for my question is that we are fairly new to WP and have heard horror stories about security and speed/server usage. This is one reason we would manage the systems for our customers. For example we would only install trusted and necessary plugins. In fact, we would try to avoid letting customers do much more than add content only.
From a reseller point of view, if we have let's say 10 WP blogs on 10 different accounts that we handle as above but are heavily marketing, would our current Lite hosting plan do and then as we add customers we move up to additional plans like Value or Silver?
At what point would we know that the server usage was too much?
What is the memory typically available to each install and plugins?
The reason I ask these basic questions, is that even though we have had a reseller account for years, we've never had "real" hosting customers but are now wanting to do that.
Thanks in advance for any advice,
Mark
The reason for my question is that we are fairly new to WP and have heard horror stories about security and speed/server usage. This is one reason we would manage the systems for our customers. For example we would only install trusted and necessary plugins. In fact, we would try to avoid letting customers do much more than add content only.
From a reseller point of view, if we have let's say 10 WP blogs on 10 different accounts that we handle as above but are heavily marketing, would our current Lite hosting plan do and then as we add customers we move up to additional plans like Value or Silver?
At what point would we know that the server usage was too much?
What is the memory typically available to each install and plugins?
The reason I ask these basic questions, is that even though we have had a reseller account for years, we've never had "real" hosting customers but are now wanting to do that.
Thanks in advance for any advice,
Mark