Ever wonder what it’s like being the Director of Innovation at one of the world’s most visionary companies? Wonder no more. We sat down with Jesse Friedman, Director of Innovation for Jetpack at Automattic. We picked his brain on all things Jetpack, WordPress, Automattic, open source, botnets, and woodworking.
Continue reading → Meet Jesse from Jetpack: Director of Innovation, Entrepreneur, Writer, and Botnet Fighter
Hosting companies play an invaluable role in building and managing your website. Not only are they responsible for storing the files that make web pages available to people around the world, they have a significant impact on site speed, security, and scalability.
The hosting landscape is competitive, so providers work hard to offer effective tools that add value to every site they host. That’s why we’re honored that Bluehost recommends Jetpack as an essential WordPress plugin.
Continue reading → Bluehost and Jetpack: Working Together for Better Website Management
Speed and reliability are undeniable priorities for any website: 47 percent of consumers expect online stores to load in less than two seconds, and a one-second delay in load time reduces page views by 11 percent. Moreover, with search engines increasingly prioritizing load times, maximizing your site’s speed is crucial for search engine optimization (SEO).
While there are a variety of ways to improve website speed, one of the most effective solutions is to use a content delivery network (CDN). By integrating a CDN, you can reduce the stress on your server and enable visitors to load pages on your website faster.
In this article, we’ll explain what a CDN is and discuss its main benefits. We’ll also show you how to use Jetpack’s WordPress CDN. Let’s get started!
Continue reading → WordPress CDN Plugin – Why Use One & How to Choose The Best
Most of us purchase car insurance, home insurance, life insurance, or one of the other plans that insure everything from motorcycles to vacations. Why? Because we want to protect our most important assets.
As a business owner, your website is one of your most important assets. You’ve invested time and money into it, you might be relying on it for eCommerce income, and it may store important customer or client data — not to mention that it’s how you present your business to the world. If your entire site goes down or is lost, that’s all in jeopardy.
Continue reading → How to Back Up Your WordPress Website with Jetpack
Even the smallest delay in a web page’s loading speed can result in discouraged site visitors. According to research from Think with Google, 53 percent of mobile users will abandon a website if it takes more than three seconds to load — that doesn’t give you much room for error! If you want to attract new users and keep them engaged, it’s important to make sure that your site loads quickly.
Often times, the most engaging types of content (videos and images) slow down a site the most. Fortunately, you can host these elements offsite, on external servers, to speed things up.
Today, we will explain how you can improve site performance by moving some site elements onto faster servers, and how Jetpack can help in the process.
Continue reading → Hosting Resources Offsite Can Make Your Load Times Lightning Fast
Exciting news: you can now get Jetpack Professional with a DreamPress Plus or Advanced plan at no additional cost. In other words, just pay for your DreamPress hosting and you get Jetpack Professional (a $299 value) for free.
This is an even better version of the deal we offered with DreamHost earlier in the year, which gave you Jetpack Premium for free. We were all so excited about the success of our original partnership with DreamHost that we wanted to make the deal even sweeter and give you our best plan.
DreamPress is DreamHost’s managed WordPress hosting option.
Most hosts give you space on a server somewhere in the cloud, leaving it up to you to manage your WordPress site day-to-day. But DreamPress plans are custom-designed to make installing, using, and maintaining WordPress easier.
With DreamPress, WordPress comes pre-installed and configured right out of the box, updates are handled automatically, and you get 24/7 support from DreamHost’s WordPress experts. It’s a premier hosting experience that delivers faster, more secure WordPress sites — and now DreamPress Plus and Advanced includes all the perks of Jetpack Professional.
Jetpack Professional gives you all the top-tier design, marketing, and security features we have to offer. Normally $299 per year, a Professional plan includes:
If this sounds like something you’d like to try out, here’s how you can get going:
As always, please contact us if you have any questions about Jetpack. Enjoy!
Update November 30th, 2017: Jetpack and DreamPress have since improved this partnership to include Jetpack Professional, read more here.
We’ve partnered with DreamHost to make Jetpack’s Premium plan services available to DreamPress customers at no additional cost. In other words, you just pay for your DreamPress hosting and you get Jetpack Premium for free.
Regular web-hosting services typically provide you with space on a server somewhere in the cloud, leaving it up to you to install and manage WordPress day-to-day.
Enter DreamPress, a custom-designed hosting service that makes using WordPress even easier. With DreamPress, WordPress comes pre-installed and configured right out of the box, updates are handled automatically, and you get 24/7 support from DreamHost’s own WordPress experts!
To quote our partners, Jetpack Premium is the “the gold standard for WordPress-specific backup solutions”. Normally costing $99 annually Jetpack’s Premium plan includes:
As always, please contact us should you have any questions.
World Hosting Days kicks off this weekend at the Europa-Park in Rust, Germany.
WHD is one of the largest events in the hosting and infrastructure space and we’re excited to meet you there this year.
Jesse Friedman will represent Jetpack and deliver a short talk about our services to hosts on Wednesday the 29th at Noon in conjunction with Jan Löffler, CTO at Plesk — don’t miss it!
Before you go, check out our services for web hosts. Want to meet face-to-face during the event? Feel free to get in touch.
Pro Tip: Personal plan customers benefit from priority support and faster assistance.
Jetpack offers three paid plans that help you improve your WordPress site’s security, appearance, marketing, and performance. These plans are designed for every type of user or business, whether you’re running your own site or working with a team of developers.
Here are a few things you should consider when choosing your Jetpack plan, and how you can pick the right option for your specific needs.
Continue reading → A Simple Guide to Choosing the Right Jetpack Plan for your WordPress Site
