GoDaddy Expands WordPress Offerings with Managed Hosting

Go Daddy unveiled a new WordPress offering that they announced on Thursday.

From the press release they put out:

GoDaddy Managed WordPress automatically updates accounts to the latest version of WordPress and ensures that a website’s plug-ins aren’t vulnerable to security attacks or wasting resources, causing a website to perform poorly. In addition to protecting WordPress, GoDaddy offers layers of added security including firewalls, malware scanning and automated security patching – all supported by an award-winning Security Team with continuous monitoring.

The new Web hosting service uses load-balanced servers dedicated to WordPress with multiple cashing layers and massively redundant SSD-backed file and database servers to ensure fast page loads and high scalability for traffic spikes. Users interested in transferring WordPress sites to GoDaddy can use a one-click migration tool that has been developed to automatically and simply move all the relevant files.

GoDaddy is officially launching the product at WordCamp Phoenix yesterday. Participants of the event have been able to test out the product leading up to the event, in order to give feedback directly to the engineers and designers. Just as the product was created with feedback from users and experts, the team plans on using interactions with the WordPress community to continuously improve the product.

Venture Beat covered this and included a line “Protection against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks comes as part of the deal.”