Lumen Edge Private Cloud vs. WordPress VIP

CenturyLink Private Cloud is well suited for companies that are smaller and wouldn't have to undergo scaling for a longer time. Apart from that, it does well in almost all categories. It wouldn't actually be useful for bigger companies since the UI is a bit laggy sometimes and usually, it's not advisable for big companies.

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WordPress VIP really changed the game when it comes to WordPress CMS and Content Management. A one-stop shop for all our client's business needs. We are focusing on Content Management instead of technicalities. The big advantage is the security features covering all recent vulnerabilities that any WordPress developer/user wastes lots of precious time fixing/updating. Performance-wise, WordPress VIP is definitely up there. We’ve been doing lots of optimization work over the last few years. Every client wants to score 100. With WordPress VIP we decreased the time spent on optimization significantly and now feel confident with taking more performance optimisation work than we did before. Lastly, maybe the most important for every business is the support quality. WordPress VIP runs a superb support team with phenomenal knowledge and expertise. Quick to respond and solves issues here and now. It is definitely recommended.

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• robust framework
• amazing customer support in case you're facing maintenance issues
• collaborative ability is off the charts

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• Keeps us informed of upcoming releases/patches associated with the Wordpress Platform.
• Introduces us to products/companies/Wordpress plugins as necessary when new business needs arise.
• Amy and Allie are excellent at managing the relationship; speaking with them on our monthly calls is a pleasure.

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• UI can be really improved, since it sometimes lags a lot
• Very few know about the product, so they should advertise a bit more
• There maybe scaling issues since it's a relatively smaller company compared to its competitors

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• Too many different dashboard formats
• Everything should have the same look and feel.
• The admin portal looks different than the user content portal

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It's true enterprise ready hosting framework providing unparalleled hosting infrastructure for WordPress. Where an organisation has high load needs, but with stability and scale VIP delivers. It provides complete peace of mind that the hosting, security and scalability are taken care of and organisations can focus on developing out their website strategies

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There is documentation for everything you might need.

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The people who work for WordPress VIP clearly are passionate about representing the organisation. Therefore when support is required, they do go above and beyond what you may expect in terms of overall support. They take security very seriously, and due to the nature of VIP, it's rarely a concern for the end-user, if at all.

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It doesn't stack up that well against them, since these are big companies and have huge infrastructures and they provide smooth scaling features. However CenturyLink Private Cloud is a little concise and not many people know about it, so I feel like they should advertise more and try to improve their customer outreach.

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Our team manages 4 different brands' websites and before WordPress VIP we were using multiple different hosts including DreamHost and AWS. These were convoluted and didn't offer the enterprise features for our organization that WP VIP was capable of. We also considered Pantheon, but they were not Wordpress-centric enough for the direction we were going.

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• We reduced our cloud hosting costs a lot after switching to CenturyLink Private Cloud
• Maintenance is very easy since there is documentation available for every part
• It had some issues with the UI but we can neglect those considering the pricing options they provide.

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• Working as a WordPress VIP gold partner has helped our business grow from 12 staff to 28 staff in 2 years. They have brought many projects to the table that are always the right ones for us and they really understand our goals as a business.

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