Discover Managed Hosting for WordPress (Beta version)

Objective

Managed Hosting for WordPress is a new OVHcloud offer that allows you to host and manage your WordPress websites with ease. Designed for professionals, agencies, and freelancers, this service frees you from technical tasks related to infrastructure management and updates, so you can focus on your content and business. This guide presents the product concept, its main benefits, and the features available during the Beta phase.

Requirements

• Access to the OVHcloud Labs program for the Beta phase.
• Access to the OVHcloud Control Panel.

Instructions

Product overview

100% WordPress management by OVHcloud

With Managed Hosting for WordPress, OVHcloud takes care of everything:

• Hosting, infrastructure, cache, and security.
• Installation and maintenance of WordPress.
• Automatic backups and updates.
• Performance and availability monitoring.
• Simplified management of domains, plugins, and staging environments (Beta and General Availability phases).

No server knowledge is required: everything is accessible from the OVHcloud Control Panel. You can thus create, import, and manage your WordPress sites in just a few clicks, without ever having to use FTP, a database, or the command line.

A complete solution

Each website benefits from an optimized, ready-to-use environment:

• Automatic WordPress installation as soon as you place your order.
• Managed infrastructure: maintenance, patches, software updates, and security handled by OVHcloud.
• Guaranteed performance: integrated WordPress cache, optimised infrastructure hosting and continuous monitoring.
• Built-in scalability: monitor usage in real time across key metrics (storage, traffic, site count), and scale effortlessly as your needs evolve.
• Full compatibility: access via the OVHcloud Control Panel, allowing integration into your existing workflows.

A phased approach

The product is currently available in Beta version as part of the OVHcloud Labs program. This first phase allows you to test the essential features:

• Creation and management of managed WordPress sites.
• Import of external sites.
• Automatic WordPress and plugin updates.
• Display of your website status in a dashboard in your Control Panel.

Features

Log in to the OVHcloud Control Panel, go to the Web Cloud section, and click on Managed hosting for WordPress.

Create a website

To create a website, click the Create button. The following page appears:

Fill in the form fields to define the credentials for your WordPress website:

• WordPress admin language: select the default language for the administration interface.
• PHP version: choose the desired PHP version for your WordPress environment. Check the available PHP versions on this page.
• Admin email: enter the administrator's email address for the WordPress site.
• Admin password: set the password associated with this administrator account.

Click on Continue to validate the information.

You are redirected to the My sites tab. At the top of the screen, a confirmation message appears indicating that your website creation request has been processed.

In the table, a new line appears for your new website:

• Domain name column: corresponds to the technical domain name of your website. It serves as the staging URL (pre-production), allowing you to access your website before associating it with your own domain name.
• Status column: indicates the progress of the website creation. The status initially appears as In progress, while the infrastructure is deployed and WordPress is installed. Once your website is operational, the status changes to Enabled, indicating that your WordPress site is now available online via its technical domain name.

You can also track the progress of your website creation by clicking on the Tasks tab.

Import a website

You can import an existing WordPress website into Managed Hosting for WordPress. The import can automatically transfer:

• WordPress content (plugins, themes, media, articles, pages, users).
• Files.
• Database.

To import a WordPress website, click on the Import button. The following screen appears:

Fill in the form fields:

• Website administration URL: enter the address used to access the administration interface of your current WordPress website, for example https://www.mywebsite.com/wp-admin.
• Admin account: enter the WordPress administrator username.
• Admin password: enter the WordPress administrator password.

These details allow the system to access your existing website to automatically extract the files, database, and necessary configuration.

Once the required fields are filled in, click on Continue to start the import process.

You can then select the items to import, including plugins, themes, media, and databases.

Once all items are selected, click on Start import.

Delete a website

Delete a single website

To delete a website, go to the My sites tab and identify the row in the table corresponding to your website. Click on the ⋮ button and then on Delete.

A confirmation message appears. Click on Delete to confirm the deletion of your website.

You are redirected to the My sites tab. A confirmation message appears at the top of the screen, indicating that the deletion process of your website is in progress.

When your website is permanently deleted, its corresponding row in the table disappears.

Delete multiple websites at once

To delete multiple websites at the same time, go to the My sites tab. Identify the rows in the table corresponding to the websites you want to delete and check the boxes on the left. Once the websites are selected, click on the Delete X websites button.

A confirmation message appears. Click on Delete to confirm the deletion of your websites.

You are redirected to the My sites tab. A confirmation message appears at the top of the screen, indicating that the deletion process of your websites is in progress.

When your websites are permanently deleted, their corresponding rows in the table disappear.

Manage your websites

To manage all your websites, go to the My sites tab and click on Manage websites. This button automatically opens the fleet manager, integrated into Managed Hosting for WordPress. This space allows you to manage multiple WordPress websites simultaneously, from a unified interface.

Dashboard

The fleet manager is a centralized monitoring and management tool automatically provided with your offer. It allows you to manage your managed WordPress websites without having to log in to each website individually.

From this dashboard, you can:

• View the overall status of all your websites: available updates, alerts, performance, security.
• Manage WordPress updates (plugins, themes, etc.) centrally.
• Quickly access each website to check its status or take action.
• Monitor recent activities (changes, updates, synchronizations).
• Use the integrated security, monitoring, backup, and analysis features (in future phases).

Smart Automatic Updates

Automatic updates can introduce compatibility issues that affect site stability, performance, and user experience. When managing multiple WordPress sites, manually handling updates increases operational overhead and the risk of service disruption for end users.

Managed WordPress Hosting mitigates these risks through a controlled update process:

• Pre-deployment testing All updates—including WordPress core, plugins, and themes—are first applied to a cloned environment of your site.
• Validation checks The cloned site is evaluated for performance, functionality, and user experience to detect regressions or errors before deployment.
• Automated decision process
  • If no issues are detected, the update is automatically deployed to the live site.
  • If issues are identified, the live site remains unchanged. You are notified via the dashboard and receive an email outlining the detected problems along with recommended remediation steps.

This approach ensures updates are applied safely while preserving site reliability and minimizing impact on end users.

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