{"id":2008811,"date":"2021-12-02T12:12:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T12:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpx.net\/blog\/?p=2008811"},"modified":"2023-11-29T13:54:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T13:54:53","slug":"wpx-just-turned-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpx.net\/blog\/wpx-just-turned-8\/","title":{"rendered":"WPX Just Turned 8 &#8211; Here Are 8 Landmarks That Make WPX Unique"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Normally it&#8217;s pretty boring for a reader like you when a company blathers on about how wonderful they are, how &#8220;it&#8217;s the company&#8217;s birthday but you get all the presents&#8221; etc right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>That&#8217;s all true BUT I will do my best today to explain WHY these 8 landmark features of WPX &#8211; to coincidentally align with our 8th birthday &#8211; are great for your online business when hosted with WPX.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buckle up, let&#8217;s fly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"648\" src=\"https:\/\/wpx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-135.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2016593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-135.png 1200w, https:\/\/wpx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-135-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/wpx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-135-1024x553.png 1024w, https:\/\/wpx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-135-768x415.png 768w, https:\/\/wpx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-135-200x108.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Landmark_1_of_8\"><\/span>Landmark 1 of 8:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>About 5 years ago, we decided to overturn the broken, pointless hosting industry norm of having customers like you wait forever for support agents to talk to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>So we OVER-resourced our live chat support teams and got our AVERAGE live chat support response time down to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/quality.livechatinc.com\/4691811\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">below 30 seconds<\/a>, where it&#8217;s stayed ever since (currently 25 seconds).<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re not all cocky about it but that&#8217;s fast by any industry standard, not just hosting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If something goes wrong with your site, won&#8217;t you want it fixed fast?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Landmark_2_of_8\"><\/span>Landmark 2 of 8:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For a while, we had been using MaxCDN (now Stackpath) and KeyCDN for a Content Delivery Network option (giving OKish speeds globally) for our customers but we couldn&#8217;t do anything to speed &#8217;em up through obvious optimizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Why not?&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because we didn&#8217;t own them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, we launched our own CDN and the constantly-optimized speed of our own CDN (top secret codename &#8220;XDN&#8221;) gave us a global speed average&nbsp;<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wphostingbenchmarks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">1st place<\/a>&nbsp;in these 2021 independent tests and Top Tier results (gold medals basically)&nbsp;<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/wordpress-hosting-performance-benchmarks-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\">in these tests<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Landmark_3_of_8\"><\/span>Landmark 3 of 8:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Another thing that really bugged us with &#8216;normal&#8217; hosting companies was that&nbsp;whenever your site had a problem,&nbsp;their support would just send you a link to a long, complicated technical article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>They would expect you to<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>[a] read the whole article,<br>[b] understand it,<br>[c] identify how to fix it, then,<br>[d] fix your site.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We changed all that with our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/kb.wpx.net\/what-is-the-wpx-hosting-fixed-for-you-guarantee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fixed For You Guarantee<\/a>, meaning that if your WPX-hosted site goes offline, we will fix it, fast and free, instead of sending you to a complex article full of technobabble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustpilot.com\/review\/wpxhosting.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>&nbsp;how many WPX customers feel about this approach to hosting support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Landmark_4_of_8\"><\/span>Landmark 4 of 8:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While most hosting companies run a mile from removing malware &#8211; though they are happy to detect it for you &#8211; WPX embraced free malware removal a couple of years back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>That alone could save you HUNDREDS of dollars a year on a 3rd party malware removal<\/b> <b>service.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Landmark_5_of_8\"><\/span>Landmark 5 of 8:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For most of our 8 years of life as a company, we have offered&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/kb.wpx.net\/is-site-migration-to-wpx-hosting-free-is-email-included\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free site migration<\/a>&nbsp;for people moving their sites to WPX, usually within 24 hours. That&#8217;s unlimited and the only exception to that is when a domain change is required during the migration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Landmark_6_of_8\"><\/span>Landmark 6 of 8:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Like the other free stuff on this page, WPX also offers its customers free site speed optimizations, particularly if improving your scores on Google&#8217;s Core Web Vitals matters to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Landmark_7_of_8\"><\/span>Landmark 7 of 8:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost every hosting company in the world is now part of a giant corporate conglomerate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>WPX is not.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are a fully&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wpx.net\/blog\/how-wpx-was-created-to-change-the-hosting-industry-empower-change-in-your-online-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">independent company<\/a>, totally bootstrapped back in 2013, with ZERO VC funding, ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>That matters to you because we can continue to innovate (see this page!) in ways that aren&#8217;t immediately profitable (or ever!) but they are great for your Customer Experience at WPX.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Landmark_8_of_8\"><\/span>Landmark 8 of 8:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Many hosts want to offer all things to all people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We do not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>WPX is completely focused on&nbsp;<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/wpx.net\/wordpress-speed\/wpx-hosting-promo-coupon-discount-code\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>WordPress<\/b><\/a><b>&nbsp;and nothing else.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s how specialization, innovation, and service can progress &#8211; FOCUS!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"BONUS_Landmark_%E2%80%93_Congrats\"><\/span>BONUS Landmark &#8211; Congrats!<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of just giving money to charities, we created our own nonprofit NGO, EveryDogmatters.eu, with a singular mission to PERMANENTLY fix the homeless animal situation here in our part of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can see how that disruptive mission is going&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/everydogmatters.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>If you made it this far, kudos and a gold star for you!<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--2\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-palette-color-8-background-color has-text-color has-background has-border-color has-text-align-center wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/wpx.net\/cart\/wordpress-hosting\/\" style=\"border-color:#fb5718;border-width:1px;border-radius:25px;color:#fb5718\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View Our Plans<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally it&#8217;s pretty boring for a reader like you when a company blathers on about how wonderful they are, how &#8220;it&#8217;s the company&#8217;s birthday but you get all the presents&#8221; etc right? 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