Say hello to the final set of speakers from panel discussion at WordCamp Turku 2018!
Joonas Vanhatapio
I have been running my own Managed WordPress hosting company (WP-Cloud.fi) for around 2 years and on May 2018 one of the biggest hosting companies in Finland (Zoner Oy) acquired WP-Cloud & technology used to provide the service. I moved to work with them as WordPress Business Lead to help them develop the fastest, scalable & easy-to-use Managed WordPress hosting.
What matters when choosing hosting for a WordPress site?
WordPress should be easy, fast and fun to the end user. I believe that a good WordPress hosting should handle all technical aspects for the end user including WordPress installation, WordPress updates and enhanced security and performance features. The user should be able to focus on their core business instead of worrying about the technical stack behind the site and to be sure that site is running smoothly.
We at Zoner WP-Cloud take care of each site by offering fully Managed WordPress hosting, tested updates, excellent customer service and the fastest infrastructure possible.
Otto Kekäläinen
Otto Kekäläinen is the CEO of Seravo Oy and also works for the MariaDB Foundation. Otto has been using and advocating Linux and other open source technologies for over 15 years. His first blog in 2004 was made with WordPress and he has been deeply involved with the platform for a number of years. As a software developer Otto has insight into the technical side of open source development, and as an entrepreneur he also knows how to use open source in business successfully. He enjoys sharing his experiences on how to use open source methodologies to maximize the potential benefits it can have to the world at large.
What matters when choosing hosting for a WordPress site?
My take on the topic is that hosting should be affordable, have best practices and security by default, easy to use and offer freedom to those who want to tinker more. For WP I also think people should factor in how they money goes to advancing WordPress and how involved the hosting company is in open source.
Roni Laukkarinen
Roni is a full stack developer which practically means he knows his stuff from design to development and all the way to server configurations but his main skills lie on the front end and theme development side of the cake. Rolle (as everyone calls him) has been doing WordPress from year 2005, professionally in his own digital agency Digitoimisto Dude Oy since 2013. Accessibility is also very close to heart as his wife has a hearing and vision impairement. Always curious and eager to learn more!
What matters when choosing hosting for a WordPress site?
As a “server guy” of the company we’ve had our own servers almost from the beginning in our digital agency which is not that common you would think. As many devs know, it’s good to have full control to be able to optimize both WordPress performance and workflow. I’m going to be talking in the panel about pros and cons of hosting your own servers and providing bundled web hotels for your WordPress customers.
Tapio Nurminen
I’m a historian turned IT entrepreneur. I’ve spent the last 20 years building websites and been an entrepreneur since 2005. I am running Flo Apps Ltd, a Helsinki-based web agency. We develop FloMembers, a SaaS membership management, and build websites on WordPress.
What matters when choosing hosting for a WordPress site?
Flo Apps Ltd is running WP sites on a number of hosting companies. Over the years we’ve been using 10+ different hosting providers. For fail-safety, we have distributed our sites on an array of different servers, spread over several partners and several countries.
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