What's up LTD addicts? There's a new
lifetime deal for 10Web running at
AppSumo. In this video I'm gonna break
down 10Web. No I think this is actually
one of the most confusing deals to hit
AppSumo in quite some time. It's part
WordPress management and part WordPress
hosting. Who is it right for? What does it
do? I'm gonna break it all down inside of
this video. Stay tuned. Hi I'm Dave from
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10web's page on AppSumo. You can see the
plans start at $69. Now this one is
really confusing for people. I've seen a
lot of conversation already in Facebook
groups this morning. Now full disclosure
I did have the opportunity to try this
back in June. It's now the end of July. So
I'm pretty familiar with the platform.
I've actually also discussed some of the
issues that I saw with the platform with
the founder and he was very receptive to
my thoughts and ideas. However I think
the platform itself still suffers
from a bit of an identity crisis and the
way that they're trying to present
themselves. So I'll explain that as we go
through the video. So basically here's
what you're getting for your money at
AppSumo. For one code $69, you're gonna
get one year of managed hosting. So that
is not a lifetime deal, it's just kind of
throwing in as as a freebie. You can
think of it that way and this starts to
become more valuable. What you get
lifetime access to is this 30 connected
sites, so what this means is if you
already have websites hosted on other
platforms, you can connect them to the 10web
dashboard and you can manage them
all from one interface. So this is gonna
be more of a ManageWP competitor than
it necessarily is for something like
SiteGround or Kinsta. So that is
really where I want your mind to go with
this. That this is a website management
tool that has hosting as a feature, that
is an optional feature, it is not
required. So once you get your hand
around that. This starts to look like a
lot better of a deal in my opinion. So
with the hosting plan it is important to
know what you get. If you decide to build
a website with their hosting, it's gonna
renew at $69 a year, you'll get 25,000
monthly visits and 5 gigabytes of storage
space, 20 gigabytes of backup. So we'll
get into all of the details, all of the
features that are included with the
dashboard a little bit later in the
video. But let's look at how the stacking
works because if we go from one code to
two codes, you're gonna get two
additional sites that can be hosted and
you'll also double the amount of
connected sites. So again they are not
related, you could have 60 connected
sites and only two of them hosted or you
know whatever combination that you can
can arrive at there. The amount of
visitors quadruples, the amount of
storage doubles and the amount of backup
storage only increases about 1.5. So
that's interesting. As you go from
one site to three sites you might think,
you know, you'll need a proportionate
amount of storage and backup included.
However, it is not. So if we start
stacking here, you'll see that these kind
of go up in a linear fashion. So three
sites it's gonna give you two more. And
then if we go up to four sites, you'll
get two more hosted sites as well. So
everything else is scaling as you'd
expect in any increment from one site to
two sites. So you're gonna get ten
additional gigabytes of backup storage
with each code and five additional
gigabytes of storage with each code.
Alright so that is the plans. Hopefully
that's starting to make sense
and it will make a lot more sense as we
get into the platform. So here we go, this
is a 10Web account, nice and fresh and
clean, nothing on the dashboard. Let's get
started by connecting a website. Now
I've got two options here. I could create
a new website from one of their
templates or I could simply connect on
of my own existing websites. So will
kind of do both here to get a feel for
how the tool works.
Why don't we start by creating a new website
from scratch and just see you know
if I were to treat this as Squarespace
or Wix, but with you know WordPress
kind of powering it in the backend,
what would the experience be like? So
let's hit Add Website and it's gonna ask
me if I want a brand new website or to
connect an existing website. Now I do
also have the option to migrate a
website. So the difference here would be
you know connecting it, leaving it where
it's hosted currently versus migrating
it. It would grab all of the data from
your existing server and move it over to
one of the 10Web servers. So for this
example,
let's go ahead and start a brand new
WordPress website. I have to choose a
subdomain. Now of course I can choose the
actual domain later but for now we need
to choose a 10website subdomain. So it
looks like it's given me dave.10web.site
that's fine for me, and here is
the domain where it says add your own
domain if you already have one or you
can add it later. I'm gonna add it later.
For now I'll choose the data center that
I want. Let's look for something in the
US. I'm in the Midwest so if something in
Iowa would probably closest. Whatever
you're choosing a data center, you know,
just think about where the people are
existing, who are visiting your site. So
if you've got you know if you're in the
Midwest then it's probably great to
choose something in the Midwest. But if
you're on the coast and all of you
you're a local business, choose something
near you. If you're in New York, choose a
server near the east coast.
Alright let's go to the next step here.
Choose my WordPress installation
information. I'll just call this Dave's
Blog and my admin username, I'll go ahead
and set up very secure admin username. I
recommend choosing something, maybe a
little bit more obscure. Alright, so the
website is creating. Alright here we go.
You can see that I've got my 10web site
created here. It says congrats and if I
open it up, this is basically the first
thing. It's gonna ask me to do is choose
one of the templates that they have. Now
I don't need to choose one of these
templates. I could just jump right into
WordPress, there's a link right here to
access the WordPress dashboard, and if
you've used WordPress before this will
look very familiar to you. As soon as it
loads up here, there we go, alright that
has loaded and this just looks like a
normal WordPress installation. However we
should probably kind of get, you know if
you're a WordPress expert you'll want to
know these things, what theme is it using.
So let's go under Appearance and choose
themes. Out of the box, it's just got the
regular old 2017 theme installed. However
there is the 10Web website builder
theme that is kind of laying in the
lurks here. So that is installed by
default, however, it doesn't activate it
out of the box.
Alright plug-in wise, what have they
added here. For me there's quite a few
plugins added, we've got this slider
plug-in, a photo gallery, a PG Export/Import.
This is the photo gallery
Import/Export tool. Hello Dolly as you'll find
on many WordPress installations. This is
just kind of a you know standard
WordPress plug-in that doesn't have a
lot of functionality Form Maker Pro, Form
Maker Import/Export. Elementor, the free
version of course and Akismet anti-spam
which is disabled as well. Most sites
when you start up a new WordPress site
you're gonna see the anti-spam plug-in
as well as Hello Dolly. And then we've
got the 10Web builder which is
essentially just a series of add-ons for
Elementor. That's really what you can
think of this as a is add-ons for
Elementor. I think they make it confusing
by calling it the 10Web builder. It's
really an add-on pack for Elementor.
Alright then a couple other things that
stand out, we've got some additional
items up here in the sidebar. The 10Web
manager, now this is just the tool that
allows us to connect to the 10Web
dashboard. Then there's this 10Web
cache, which is basically just you know
running as a cache in the background. So
you don't need something like WP rocket,
although I'm sure WP rocket probably has
more features, but this would replicate
similar functionality. It says they use
NGINX FastCGI Static Page Caching to
cache everything from pages to feeds to
301-redirects on subdomains. Help load
your site super fast for non
login visitors. Alright so good to know
that those things are in place. Notice
that they are not active plugins. They're
actually included over here where it
says must use. So if we are hosting on...if
we build a new site on 10Web, it's
gonna require that we have these plugins
installed to manage everything and
connect it back to the 10Web services.
So it's not a bone-dry WordPress
installation.
They've already modified it just
slightly. Okay so let's head back to the
10Web dashboard and check out what
happens when we activate one of their
templates. Because I think this will be
an attractive thing if someone's you
know looking at 10Web as a replacement
for something like Squarespace. Well how
good are the templates, how easy is it
for me to kind of import or get going
right out of the gates. So let's see what
looks interesting.
Oh how about in this car website. Looks
pretty good I can preview it right here
and it loads up, there we go. There we go
at the beginning. There it was not full
width so that's interesting that's
probably just their their preview looks
like you can
so view it in tablet and a phone mode
here so that's a nice interface and a
similar to the Astra template, a viewing
plug-in similar look and feel. I think
they call it a WP portfolio I believe is
the name of the plug-in. Okay so let's go
ahead and choose that one, that one looks
just fine. So I'll hit import and it says
this website template is importing.
Alright the import is complete, I'll go
ahead and just close the other windows
that I have opened and I'll head back over
to the WordPress installation here. It
will go to the dashboard to begin and
just kind of see what changes are made
on the back end. You can see already a
bunch of new plugins have been installed.
Let's actually check it out. So let's
start by looking at the theme and they
have switched it over to the attend web
theme builder or excuse me website
building our theme and then if I check
out the plugins now I've got a bunch
more plugins active. Let's just highlight
the active ones. We got the photo gallery,
so these were installed before but they
were not activated, so now they are
turned on. I believe all of them are
installed I can't remember if this form
import/export plug-in was there but
regardless looks like everything is you
know very simple. It's not like they've
added 40 different plugins to get this
template rolling. Let's look at the
front-end and see what it looks like. So
it looks just like it did on the on the
templates website where I was browsing
through the templates. So that's good to
know these open up is a little slideshow.
So this is probably the photo gallery
plugin. So you know a lot of
functionality here right out of the box
without a ton of work, so kind of
impressive you know it's not too
bad now how would it be to begin editing
a page like this. Well I can edit with
the 10Web builder which is really just
Elementor. As I said they've kind of
rebranded Elementor. You can even see the
element or logo here, that's one thing
that feels a little bit shady to me. They
should just say at it with Elementor.
Everyone knows what Elementor is. They've
you know rebranded it here at the top. So
that's 10Web builder on top of
Elementor that doesn't feel very good,
doesn't feel very honest so I can may
start to minimize some of these elements
here and you can see these are the
assets that they're including with their
their plugin. Everything else is the
basic element or functionality that
you'll get out of the free plugin. They
do add the form plug-in a slider google
map
integration, some more premium widgets
here things like countdown timers
testimonial carousels, so a lot of good
functionality, a lot of good features
here. One of the strongest things about
10Web would be how it brings kind of
everything to the table type of
approach. We haven't even looked at some
of the other more interesting features
in terms of image optimization and
backups SEO tools like that. So I can
tell you right away, I've used this
platform enough to say that this
replicates almost all of the
functionality that my agency uses. Many
many different plugins and different
services to supply to our customers.
However I'm not gonna switch everything
over to 10Web just because we already
have all of our systems in place now.
That said, if things were different if we
were starting from scratch today and I
didn't already have investments with
several different pieces of software,
10web would be a major can't a definitely
be something I strongly consider is is
it good to put all of your eggs in one
basket so to speak - I want one provider
to essentially be providing the software
tools for my entire organization. You
know there's definitely pros and cons
that go along with that. Okay so you're
getting the idea you know this is if
you've used WordPress before and you've
used Elementor before, you'll know that
you can just start you you know edit
this however you like and you can you
know type right in the screen and that's
that's the functionality of Elementor.
This is Elementor with an add-on pack,
you know as I've already established. Okay
I'm back over in the 10Web dashboard
and you can see in the overview window
here, these are all of the additional
functionalities that I can very simply
add to my website so I can see at a
glance if there's any updates that need
to be added to this website. And
obviously this is brand new. So there's
no updates that have come out in the
last few minutes. I could add an SEO tool.
So it says right here the SEO plug-in
will be installed on your website. I
think that's nice if they indicate when
I click this as I've just done now. It's
actually installing a plug-in on my
website it's not kind of you know
linking up to the back end somehow it's
just you know inserting a plug-in. Then
I'd be able to see if there's any
WordPress core updates right here. These
are rearrangable if you're wondering
like
would like to group maybe all of these
together so I can see you know maybe my
statistics if there's any plug-in
updates or any core you know
functionality updates. It's nice to have
those all together then maybe you know
you'd think about grouping things like
security and backup together and SEO and
image optimization that those are the
other things. So now I've got everything
kind of organized, so I like oh we can
also do some performance testing. I guess
that would be kind of more in lines with
this SEO category. So performance testing
this is really just running a speed test
so if I hit enable now, it's gonna go
ahead and run a speed test now. The
websites are hosted on Google cloud and
I'm actually gonna show you a
conversation I had with the founder
earlier today. Kind of getting some of
the specs about Google cloud later in
the video here as we after we wrap up
all of these features. So if you're
interested in that, stay tuned. But right
now it is running a website performance
test on the website I just created. So
we'll let that continue. Alright so
here is my performance check, you can see
that that page is loading in 1.24
seconds with a total page size of 4.43
megabytes so it's kind of a
hefty page in my opinion. It'd be
interesting to see if I can optimize
that by adding the image optimization
plug-in. So let's go ahead and turn that
on and before I actually run the image
optimization I don't know if it'll do
anything here by just turning it on with
the wait and see what I'd like to do is
actually run this website through
Pingdom to see if I'm gonna see a
difference in speed time from their test.
So it looks like I could press this
button to optimize these images. So
rather than do that, let me go ahead and
grab the main website URL here. I'll head
back to the dashboard and I'll insert
this here. Now I don't know, one issue
that I have with their performance is
that I don't know where this test is
being run from if I hit manage here.
Let's see what options it gives me, it's
just keeping a log of the tests that
have been performed but this is very
similar to kind of what Pingdom would
provide on their paid version. So I think
this is a kind of a cool feature
actually so I can turn on scheduling
here and it could run you know once a
week or once a day and just make sure
that the site was responding quickly. So
let's go ahead and I'm gonna run this
you know
maybe the San Francisco server here and
to see how it compares versus what their
performance tool shows me. Alright so
interestingly enough Pingdom actually
came back with a far smaller page size
and a faster load time. So maybe what I
should do is go ahead and run that page
check one more time just to be sure that
everything is consistent here. Okay so
the second result is in right here and
if I click on this I can get a list of
everything that is going well and things
that need to be optimized. You can see
that the page size did come down on the
second test. However the speed remained
about the same previously it was at one
point, two seconds to four and it's
currently at 1.20 second so
very speedy for this size of a website.
That's pretty big, so actually let's see
what happens once we optimize the images
with their image optimization tool. So
here we are in the image optimization
tool, over on the left hand sidebar, you
can see that and this is very much like
ShortPixel so we're gonna have three
options for the level of optimization or
compression that we're applying to the
images. There's a conservative approach
if you're you know a photographer and
image quality is of utmost importance,
you might want to choose this or just
leave your images on optimize and you
also have a balanced or extreme version.
I'm gonna go ahead and leave it on the
middle setting because I think that's
probably most appropriate for people and
I'll go ahead and hit optimize now, see
what the results are. Alright the image
optimization is complete, all 61 images
were completed and under a minute there.
That was fairly snappy you can see the
total reduction here is 16.79
percent so that's a
reasonable reduction, however nowhere
near the 60 percent it makes me
wonder maybe the images on the website
were already optimized. Otherwise we
could probably expect to see a little
bit better of a result here. However
let's see if this affected the page load
time, I'm gonna go back over to the
performance section here and go ahead
and check this one more time. And while
this is running, I'll actually run it
again over at Pingdom. Remember on
Pingdom it was at a 782 milliseconds so
very fast load time. So here are the
Pingdom results you can see that the
page size did come down considerably.
However the load time remained about the
same now. That's a very fast results for
this size website so I'd be pretty happy
with that if this were my main site.
Let's see over here the this pagespeed
came down again just ever so slightly, so
the discrepancy here is most likely
related to where the testing server is
in relationship to the actual server
location that remember we're using Iowa
as our data center. So overall I mean you
know can't really ask for better results
than you know having your website load
in under 1.5 seconds. That's
really good especially a website that's
fairly heavy and go back and look at it
here. It's fairly heavy in terms of
graphics. It's not that there's you know
just blank text or anything on this site
so I'm impressed. I mean this is looking
pretty good to me. So here's the SEO tab
in the overview setting, you can see
there's some copy here. It's in my
opinion a little bit hard to understand.
It says Sign up for a free account to
gain access to reports. That will tell
you how your site ranks up against the
competition with it's like one really
long sentence. Essentially what they want
you to do here is to sign up with Moz so
you can use their API to get some data
back into their SEO plugin. So I'm just
gonna head back over to the blog here
and go into the dashboard just to show
you kind of the backend of the SEO
plugin. Because that did actually as we
we mentioned earlier in the video it
installed a plug-in when I turn that on
in here. It's called SEO by 10Web. If I
click on that you there's a few things
that it wants you to do. It wants you to
connect up with Google so you can you
know get the data to the Google search
console. That's fairly normal for SEO
plugins that wants to be able to reports
a sitemaps or to Google then it wants
you to link up this Moz account now this
is the same thing as we're seeing over
here on the dashboard. So we'll look at
that in a minute here. It does say
problems need. Note that you need to
change the default tagline to have your
website recognized by other search
engines. What happens if I click on that
problem that I found, oh so it says just
another WordPress site the default
tagline got it. So we're search engines
will generally ignore that because so
many people don't change that on their
website
alright so that's interesting, that's
going to kind of pull up a list of
problems over here. I actually like that,
that's pretty helpful. The other features
that are included in the SEO plug-in are
redirects. This is you know an essential
part of SEO. You'd expect to find that in
SEO plug-in. We have meta information so
you can set up your metadata, so that you
have nice snippets generated by Google,
so you can kind of get a preview of what
it would look like over here let's see
if there's many options there's a some
options for Open Graph information as
well.
No Rich Snippets just to you know be
clear about that you'd need a stronger
plug-in to do that a more full feature
to kind of plug-in dedicated to doing
Rich Snippets but thinking something
like Schema Pro. So sitemaps
right here, can generate sitemaps for you.
We can do google site verification, let's
see, it says include images so you know
kind of all the standard SEO features
you'd expect to see you know this is a
light SEO plug-in. I would say you know
that's a fair assessment, it's gonna do
the essential things like redirects and
set up the metadata but it's not gonna
get like ridiculously in-depth. So if I'm
on a post by post basis let's go over to
all posts here and edit it I will see
this SEO tab show up. This is similar to
what you'd see on a plugin like Yoast
where they'll give you the ability to
customize the metadata on a post by post
or page by page basis and that's really
what most people use Yoast for. That's
the primary function that I think the
average person will really use the free
version of views to accomplish. Okay so
that is all and good. Now if I were to
connect this up to Moz as they want me
to do that's just gonna pull in some
reporting data. So that's going to as it
says it will show you how your site
stacks up against the competition and
important measurement tools like ranking
and backlinks, things like that. So I'm
actually not gonna go ahead and set that
up but if you wanted to, if I clicked on
this it's gonna open up the Moz API. I
have to go over here to Moz, sign up for
a free account and then you connect your
login information back here with a
access code and a secret ID. So I'm gonna
leave that, we're not be able to hit
every feature in this video because
obviously this has a lot going on.
Alright let's check out another feature we
haven't talked about yet. This is the
plug-in section over here on the sidebar,
so this is going to mirror pretty
closely to what you'd see on the
WordPress dashboard. The one benefit
being you don't have to actually
log into your WordPress website to check
for updates. Now if you have multiple
websites that becomes pretty efficient.
One thing I would like to see is the
ability to manage all of your plugins
across all of your sites from a single
click. I know other tools of this ilk
have that feature, this one does not yet
but perhaps a lot in the future so I'm
be able to see the active plugins,
inactive plugins, plugins that have updates
and this is kind of what I was talking
about it'd be nice if there a screen
where I could see all of my websites.
Let's say I have 30 sites connected and
I wanted to view all of the websites
that have updates available from one
screen. So far this is only going to be
for the one site right, even if I had
additional ones connected. It's only
going to show me that one site. There's a
scheduling tool so if I turn on
scheduling I can set a schedule so it
would be either daily, weekly or monthly
and I can set a start time and if I say
did let's say weekly I could choose the
day of the week that I wanted it to run
on and then I would be able to choose to
have a backup taken before I updated the
plugins and that's a really smart thing
to do. You want to make sure you have a
clean safe version before you add new
software to your website and then you
can choose which plugins you want to
have updated. So maybe I don't want to
update Elementor but sure Hello Dolly
and the photo gallery whenever there's a
new new update for that. I want those two
to go live as my scheduling permits so
then I would just hit save here and I
would have a new schedule set up to
update my plugins. There's also a
scheduling history so I can check to
make sure that everything ran smoothly,
that everything updated cleanly ,there's
also the option to add a new plugins
right here and again I would like to see
a feature to add a plug-in say across a
multiple websites. However that is not
available yet so right now I can see the
10Web plugins. These are included with
your account. Then there's also the
ability to upload your own plugin. So if
you have a premium plug-in, you need to
upload directly. You can do that here.
Again this is mirroring a lot of the
WordPress dashboard, we can see the
WordPress repository, as well as their
featured plugins here, which is this live
chat. So overall I think that is a good
feature to have, again it saves you the
hassle of
loading, excuse me it saves you the
hassle of logging into each site
individually. However they can make it
even more efficient by giving the
opportunity to upload one plug-in to
five sites at once or to 20 sites at
once if you want it. Alright moving on
the theme section over here, this is very
similar to what we just saw. You can see
the themes that are currently installed
like I don't need these any longer this
is the active theme right so I'm not
gonna use 2017 or 2016 I can choose that
and delete it and it says please wait
while the theme is deleting and we see
the progress bar go there that one is
deleted and if someone is deleted that's
actually pretty handy because if you
have a lot of themes and in WordPress it
can be a little bit painstakingly slow
to go through because you have to
actually click into them scroll down hit
delete. It's a bit tedious although it's
one task you do once and it's done so it
certainly doesn't it's not a deal
breaker for just using straight up
WordPress scheduling. We can set up
scheduling for updating your theme if
you always want to make sure you have a
current version of the theme. You trust
your team developer to not push a broken
update. That availability is there and
once again, if I turn this on you can see
that you can enable the backup service
and it will perform an update before the
updates go ahead and push - it will
backup your site before it pushes the
updates of your theme and you can also
see the scheduling history to be sure
that updates were applied correctly.
Alright that takes us right into the next
section which is backups. So there is a
backup service and when I click on this,
it will install the plug-in on the
website. So I'll hit enable now alright
so here is the backup settings you can
see I've got 20 gigabytes available. I
have no backups created yet so let's go
ahead and back up now and see this
process it's just one click and I get
this little loading a circle here I
assume the backup is going to start
immediately. Yep it looks like it doesn't
require anything additional, the backup
is running and looks like it's almost
complete. Obviously this is a template
website. It's gonna be fairly small
alright moving on to last step here
which is syncing the files over to the
10Web cloud service. Alright the
backup's complete and gives you a
timestamp for when the backup was taken.
Restoring it just takes one click right
here and downloading it is in this
option. I can set up schedules for
backups and there are also some static
settings here if you just want to
back up say the files or the database
you're able to do that. However you
couldn't set up a schedule to say do the
files maybe once per week and the
database multiple times per day. That's
not available so it's kind of a one-stop
shop here in terms of scheduling. So
backup's pretty clean simple, 20 gigabytes
storage, it'd be nice to you know maybe
have a little bit more included with the
plan but I'm okay with that. It's moving
on to the next section. We already saw
the image optimizer and how that works
here. I did compare this actually
directly to ShortPixel and here's kind
of the results. I don't have any data or
images to compare just for the length of
this particular review. ShortPixel was a
little bit better. ShortPixel got things
smaller and the image quality was
comparable right. So let's say an image
went from 100 kilobytes down to 50
kilobytes, well the ShortPixel versions
gonna look better at 50 kilobytes than
maybe the image optimization that 10Web
did at 75. Now I'm just making these
numbers up but it was kind of
proportional like that, where the images
on the 10Web image optimizer
we're always a little bit bigger but the
quality was still consistently good. So
you know just to keep that in mind if
you have ShortPixels don't think oh no
I wasted all was money on ShortPixel.
It's still probably a better plugin,
better bet. Okay the SEO tools now there
are some options here to kind of get
some analytics pulled in. I could view a
search analytics report right here,
we already saw the the plug-in on the
back end now obviously there's gonna be
no search analytics here but what it's
gonna require me to do is actually
connect up with Moz so once I click this
that's taking me back to that account. So
once you do that you'll have some more
analytics pulled right into your
dashboard and that's nice I can manage
the redirects that's just going to link
me up to the plug in the section on
you know setting that up. So these are
really all just links to those different
sections in the plugin. Security - so I
have not turned on the security yet. This
will again add an additional plugin so
while the AppSumo's page says there are
50 plus premium plugins included in the
deal, yes, that is true and if we go back
to the page here, you can see the
security has loaded up here
get back to that in a second. I go over
to plugins and I add a new plug-in.
Really what they're talking about is
these plugins right here, right these are
gonna be the premium plugins that are
included in addition to the plug-in
we've added for backups. The plugin we've
added four image optimization, plugin
we've added for SEO and now the plug-in
we've just added for security. So in my
opinion you're really only going to be
using maybe three or four of these tools
right. You might use backups image
optimization, maybe you have a different
tool you like to use for SEO performance.
This doesn't require a plug-in it's just
literally running like a site speed
check for you, so you know you're not
gonna necessarily be overloading your
website with dozens of plugins before we
look at the security. If I just go back
to the WordPress dashboard here by
clicking on the W, I can see how many
plugins am I up to, a total of ten right.
So I've got three they're inactive so
that's gonna include things like Hello
Dolly and this slider plug-in is not
being used. So you know it's even though
I've added backup image optimization and
security now I don't have 40-plus
plugins or some ridiculous number. I know
people like to keep the number of
plugins they run on their website small
and I think that's not a bad idea. You
don't want to have too many
opportunities for security breaches
available but if these are well coated
plugins then you know there's no real
reason to worry about having having ten
plugins on your site. Okay so let's go
back to the dashboard here and check out
the security options. So my opinion the
security features are a little bit
lacking, so it tells me a bunch of files
are missing here that it expects to see
and it gives me the option to ignore
them. However it doesn't really tell me a
lot about it so I can click on this and
let's see what it loads up here. It just
kind of shows me that this is a file
that they expect to see. There's no date
or anything. So security out of all of
the major features we've touched on so
far, security's definitely seems lacking
right. It's not a real clear explanation
for what it's doing to actually keep me
secure. I've got my issues I've got my
ignored issues so if I ignore this one
that would show up over here. Now there
it is
I've got vulnerabilities so if it
detects any vulnerabilities then there
says it says none I write I've run the
scan says there's no vulnerabilities,
they would show up right there and I
could do something about it. So here are
the settings for the security plug-in. We
check WordPress for vulnerabilities, we
can check plugins for vulnerabilities we
can compare core files with the
repository versions, so that's a good
feature. I like this stuff however it
doesn't do much to prevent me from
getting infected right. It's just telling
me if I have been infected I can compare
the plug-in files with their repository
versions to detect changes. I can repair
the theme with the repository versions
to detect changes and then I can set up
a schedule to make sure none of that's
happen. So this would pair well with
another type of firewall. Maybe there's
you know already one that you have on
your hosting or I would assume there
would be some kind of firewall included
with 10Web all the way. I don't really
have that knowledge. So it's you know
gonna let you know if something bad has
already gotten in but it's like you know
once the bad guys are running the house
you're kind of in trouble. So security in
my opinion needs some improvement.
Alright we're gonna go ahead and look at
connecting up a site that's hosted
elsewhere to 10Web. But before we do
that I just want to show you the rest of
the options up here in the minibar. We
did this little pie graph here and if
you click on this it will show you your
resources that you have available so
right now. I'm hosting one out of one web
sites that's available in my plan. Here
is the backup that I have available and
the image optimization credits that are
available. There's also a tab up here to
see the activities to kind of see you
know what's been going on on the site. So
this is helpful if you have you know
virtual workers that are on your site
you can kind of get a run by run of
what's been completed or if you have
scheduled activities you can see them
completing there as well. Then you've got
some notifications right now. There is no
notifications available and of course I
can see my account settings over here,
like you can see on just about any
software-as-a-service. Alright so let's
go ahead and add a new website. So you so
it's as simple as clicking the plus button
right over here and I can either you
know as we already saw install a brand
new website but this time
I'm going to connect an existing website
that's hosted elsewhere. So here are the
steps. I need to go to my Wordpress
dashboard add a new plug-in called the
10Web manager. So let me do that right
now. I'm not sure you're just gonna copy
the name of that plug-in and head over
to my demo website. So here is a demo
website that I installed with Astra
using their Astra Sites plug-in and let's
go ahead and login right here.
Alright I'm over in plugins, I'm gonna
install a new plugin, I'll search for the
10Web manager, install this.
I'll hit activate, I'm gonna go back here
and it says after I've activated go to
the 10Web manager in your dashboard
and click connect and then return to the
dashboard here and I can close that out.
So let's go back and I've got the 10Web
manager here. You can see this is the
same plugin and the same interface that
we saw when we hosted and created the
site from scratch. Inside of 10Web I'll
just hit the connect button right here
and it's gonna load me back into the tab
more interface. Alright now my site is
connected. So it says congrats your
site's connected. Let's hit Explorer and
here if I went back to the dashboard
right here now I can see this is the
view of the websites that I have. Now one
thing I'd like to see here is maybe more
statistics right on all the websites. So
imagine if you have 30 sites connected
here, maybe having a little thumbnail of
the site isn't the best way to do this.
It'd be better to have some
notifications that there's three updates
pending here or this this theme is out
of date and needs to be updated. I'd like
to see improvements like that to you the
dashboard I can easily remove sites by
clicking on the triple dot right here
and I can also load up the admin
dashboard as well as view the actual
site by clicking on the eyeball. So here
is the demo site that we just added, I'm
gonna hit manage and it's gonna look
very similar in fact almost identical to
what we've already seen on the hosted
version of the sites so I can add a new
plugins by just clicking the button not
gonna go through this entire process
again. But just want to show you that you
don't necessarily need to have your
sites hosted on 10Web to get all of
the same functionality out of their
services and in fact this isn't going to
add the 10Web builder to my site
unless I
to get to. It's not going to add a ton of
extra bloat or additional plugins but I
can you know do things like optimize
images with a single click. So if I don't
have ShortPixel already which you can
see over here I do have installed. Here's
the update. This is kind of a nice option
so I can click one button and update all
the plugins. Now I don't necessarily
recommend you do that however in this
case this is a demo website so I didn't
even look to see what the websites were.
There's all of that information
available to you really really easily at
a glance if I had 20 websites I would
have to thumb through each one so again
I'd like to see the functionality to be
able to see the updates you know on an
entire level. But that's not there yet.
However everything else is and if I
wanted you know you think of it this way.
Let's say you wanted some image
optimization and you wanted some backups
for your websites, this is a great way to
get it right you know I mean it's sure
there's other alternatives out there if
you already have a ShortPixel deal
you're good on that if you're using
something like op drafts you're good
there too over the op drafts is a little
bit clunky it's a little bit harder to
use than something like this where you
know you have to either have a Dropbox
account and you know set up the Google
authentication to link up to Google
Drive or whatever platform you choose. I
like having it all in one plugin, just
kind of hitting backup and boom it's
done alright. I hope I've established
that regardless of whether you're
hosting on your own platform that you've
already been using or you're starting
from scratch and building your site or
migrating your site over to 10Web that
the feature set is essentially identical
but what about the quality of the
hosting. Well as you've already seen from
the performance testing it's really fast
even though this just launched on
AppSumo and they're likely being smashed
pretty hard with service requests and
you know trying to get people launching
new sites. Everything is loading fast.
Pingdom is resulting in faster speed
times than even their own speed testing
tool but I still have been reading a lot
of uncertainty about the quality of the
hosting. So I reached out to the founder
this morning and I got some feedback
from him. So he says that the servers are
very high quality, they use Google cloud
and so it ends up being super fast.
One of the issues that I'd seen going
around is well you know what if people
who bought the lifetime deal get put on
some rinky-dink server with that's
underpowered and doesn't have enough RAM
available it versus the regular paying
customers they're gonna get the faster
speeds. Well he says they treat all of
their customers are the same they're all
getting an lxc or lxd container there
is staging included I did not mention
that but if you're hosting with them
you'll be able to use a staging server.
Then I asked him well how much RAM is
included, how many PHP workers are we
gonna get and he says there's three PHP
workers and four gigabytes of RAM per
site. These are pretty beefy statistics
and you'll be able to run all but the
largest WordPress websites using those
stats as a guideline. So if there is any
doubt over the quality of the hosting
you know, you can't really get I'm sure
there are parallels but you can't really
surpass the power of say Google Cloud
and those are really good allotments of
resources they're providing so is this
the Wix-ification of WordPress? I don't
think so
WordPress doesn't need to be made, dumbed
down or simpler in order to reach the
masses. WordPress is already powering a
massive percentage of websites on the
Internet.
Last I heard was around 30% of websites
use WordPress. What we need is more
efficient tools to manage WordPress
websites and we need WordPress itself to
be more secure. 10Web provides a real
option for people to provide efficiency
so that the websites are that they're
managing are all raised up to date which
will result in more secure websites. So
because of that I see a ton of value in
10Web. If you don't already have a
system in place to automatically backup
secure and manage the contents of your
WordPress website,
10Web is kind of a no-brainer at this
price. You'll have access to all of these
tools for life for one fee and if you
want to move over to their superfast
Google Cloud hosting, you can certainly
do that as well the renewal costs are
fairly reasonable in my opinion. So with
all of that in mind, I'm going to give
10Web
very handsome nine point four out of ten
score. Highly recommend picking this one
up. And if you do go ahead and pick it up
and you found this review and tutorial
helpful, I'd appreciate it if you use the
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