WordPress Hosting Team Handbook

Welcome to the WordPress Hosting Handbook! Here you will find WordPress hostingHosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. best practice documentation developed collaboratively by the Hosting Team. Use the “Contents” menu on the left to navigate topics.

About the Hosting Team

The WordPress Hosting Team consists of experienced professionals dedicated to bridging the gap between WordPress and hosting environments. Our members include system administrators, hosting providers, pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party. developers, and serverServer A server is a piece of computer hardware or software that provides functionality for other programs or devices. Typical servers are database servers, file servers, mail servers, print servers, web servers, game servers, and application servers. infrastructure experts who are passionate about optimizing WordPress performance and reliability in production environments.

The Hosting Team Mission

Hosting Team members are typically professionals in the web hostingHosting A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. industry; system administrators, support technicians, software engineers, plugin developers, etc., who are invested in supporting a relationship between WordPress and WordPress web hosts.

The team’s goals and projects are focused on facilitating collaboration between the WordPress Open SourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. Project and Web Hosts, through distributed testing on hosting systems and documentation on best practices as applicable to hosting WordPress.

The Hosting Team believes that great hosting experiences enable WordPress to thrive. The team works to:

• Maintain testing software for Hosts to test server compatibility with new versions of WordPress
• Publish authoritative documentation on hosting best practices, server configurations, and environment recommendations for WordPress deployments
• Maintain compatibility guides that help hosting providers and site owners understand which server environments work best with each WordPress release
• Monitor and evaluate new PHPPHP PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a general-purpose scripting language especially suited to web development. PHP code is usually processed on a web server by a PHP interpreter. On a web server, the result of the interpreted and executed PHP code would form the whole or part of an HTTP response. versions, databases (MySQLMySQL MySQL is an open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). MySQL is free and open-source software under the terms of the GNU General Public License./MariaDBMariaDB MariaDB is a fork of the MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), intended to remain free and open-source software under the GNU General Public License. MariaDB intended to maintain high compatibility with MySQL, ensuring a drop-in replacement capability with library binary parity and exact matching with MySQL APIs and commands.), and web servers to ensure WordPress compatibility and performance
• Provide technical resources that help the WordPress community make informed decisions about their hosting infrastructure
• Advocate for WordPress within the hosting industry and represent hosting needs within the broader WordPress project

What the Hosting Team Does

The Hosting Team focuses on end to end distributed hosting tests, providing documentation on best practices for hosting WordPress, and guidance on hosting WordPress, available tools, and server environment recommendations (such as PHP, databaseDatabase A database is an organized collection of data. Access to this data is usually provided by a “database management system” (DBMS) consisting of an integrated set of computer software that allows users to interact with one or more databases and provides access to all of the data contained in the database. Because of the close relationship between them, the term “database” is often used casually to refer to both a database and the DBMS used to manipulate it., and web serverServer A server is a piece of computer hardware or software that provides functionality for other programs or devices. Typical servers are database servers, file servers, mail servers, print servers, web servers, game servers, and application servers.).

Get Involved: If you want to know more and join the efforts, feel free to visit the Hosting Handbook Get Involved page.

What is the WordPress Hosting Team?

The Hosting Team works to improve the WordPress user experience across hosting environments through user collaboration and education.

Everyone is welcome! This may include folks hosting WordPress, interested in learning more about hosting WordPress or folks working directly with WordPress hosts, such as System Engineers, System Architects, DevOps Engineers and Developers that are working on coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Team builds WordPress., plugins, or themes.

When does the Hosting team meet?

The Hosting Team meets in the WordPress SlackSlack Slack is a Collaborative Group Chat Platform https://slack.com/. The WordPress community has its own Slack Channel at https://make.wordpress.org/chat/, in the #hosting channel. The conversations are in English. Check out the WordPress Meeting calendar for the current schedule.