“GoDaddy Expands WordPress Services With Managed Hosting” that’s the news circulated through a press release by GoDaddy yesterday and they will officially launch the product at WordCamp Phoenix today.

The world’s largest Web hosting provider, is launching a new Web hosting platform dedicated to optimizing WordPress, the most popular content-management system

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.

From today onwards GoDaddy will be proving exclusive service for WordPress which enables customers to focus on content creation, while GoDaddy handles the technical details of managing a Web hosting account including server set up, security, daily backups and performance optimization.

GoDaddy is committed to supporting the WordPress community with one of the fastest, most secure and reliable hosting platforms

Bill Watt, Director of Hosting Product Management

The company claims to be managing nearly 2 million WordPress websites currently, which helped the team to create a product that provides a simple way to build a WordPress site that’s fast, reliable and secure, at an affordable price.

The new Web hosting service uses load-balanced servers dedicated to WordPress with multiple caching 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.

We will keep an eye on the progress and user feedback about the product which we will be publishing in relation to this article. To know more update the available services click here