243 - A different way of doing hosting: Servebolt with Remkus de Vries

Interview with Remkus de Vries and Nathan Wrigley

If I got you to list out all of the things that you’d like your WordPress websites to be, I’m pretty sure that the word “fast” would be pretty close to the top of that list. It’s super important for your website to be fast; so that user can use it quickly, and enjoy it more, and so that the mighty Google will rank it higher in their results pages.

Well, we all know that there’s a bunch of things that you can do to make your WordPress websites fast, and selecting good hosting it certainly one of them.

Remkus de Vries is on the podcast today to talk about Servebolt, which is a new(ish) hosting company that puts speed at the heart of every decision that they make. It’s really interesting how they’ve done things differently.

In the podcast you’re going to find out that this is not merely lip service either. They’ve ripped up the manual of how to do hosting and started over, right back to the bespoke operating system (Servebolt Linux) that they’ve created to run on their servers.

Many hosts will sell on the fact that they’ve added in X and Y to create a faster experience; Servebolt have gone the other way, they stripped things out to make it lean.

Their offering can be summed up with the following bullet list:

• Faster TTFB – time to first byte
• Faster Network Transfer
• Faster Browser Rendering
• Lightning fast processors
• Lightning fast networking
• Servebolt Linux
• Optimized MariaDB and PHP

All of this stuff about speed might make you think that it’s all just words on their website. How could they really be all that much faster? I get it, and so do they, and they want you to test them at their word. They offer a free trial which gives you ample time to test it out and see if it lives up to all the hype.

Another topic that we stray into is how their offering is ‘greener‘ by design. Their infrastructure causes less data to be travelling over their network, meaning a reduction in energy consumed.

It’s managed hosting, but not WordPress managed hosting. They will take care of all-the-things in terms of the hosting of your website, and you’ll be taking care of the WordPress side of things, but fear not, they’re on hand if you need them with their support channels and Remkus knows a thing or two about WordPress!

If all of this sounds like it’s up your street, why not check out the pricing page and see what plan suits you best?

There’s a lot more in the podcast than in this post, so hit play and find out all about Servebolt.

Mentioned in this podcast:

Servebolt website

https://servebolt.com/pricing/

https://servebolt.com/how-to-migrate/

https://servebolt.com/articles/servebolt-on-sustainable-and-green-hosting/

https://servebolt.com/articles/how-to-test-website-speed-for-performance/