A2 Optimized WP – Turbocharge and secure your WordPress site vs Duplicator – Backups & Migration Plugin – Cloud Backups, Scheduled Backups, & More

Boosting performance and securing your WordPress site has never been easier with the A2 Optimized WP plugin from A2 Hosting. Get customized desktop and mobile performance scores for your site, including: Server speed (Time to First Byte) Page load speed (Largest Contentful Paint) User perception (First Contentful Paint) Visual stability (Cumulative Layout Shift) Website browser speed (First Input Delay) Using these scores, A2 Optimized WP generates specific, personalized recommendations for improving your site: Performance Security Best practices compliance With just a few clicks you’ll give your WordPress site the boost it needs with stable, industry-proven optimizations and improvements. Vulnerability disclosure program Performance optimizations Our plugin is optimized to work best in the A2 Hosting environment, so items marked with an asterisk (*) are only available for sites hosted at A2 Hosting. If you are not an A2 Hosting customer, join today! Page caching * Allows site visitors to save copies of your web pages on their device or browser. When they return to your website in the future, your site files load faster. * This optimization improves Time to First Byte (TTFB) and reduces bandwidth usage. Gzip compression * Turns on Gzip compression to make text files smaller. * This optimization improves Time to First Byte (TTFB) and reduces bandwidth usage. Redis object caching (*) * Stores commonly used elements such as menus, widgets, and database sets in memory. * This optimization improves Time to First Byte (TTFB). Minify HTML pages * Removes extra spaces, tabs, comments, and line breaks from HTML pages. * This optimization improves First Contentful Paint (FCP) and First Input Delay (FID). Automatic database optimizations * Periodically cleans MySQL databases of expired transients (a type of cached data used in WordPress) as well as trashed and spam comments. Also optimizes database tables. * This optimization improves Time to First Byte (TTFB) for uncached pages. Compress images on upload (*) * Automatically compresses images when they are uploaded to your site. * This optimization improves First Contentful Paint (FCP), Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), and First Input Delay (FID). Turbo Web Hosting (*) *Takes advantage of A2 Hosting’s Turbo Web Hosting platform to provide faster serving of static files, pre-compiled .htaccess files for improved performance, PHP opcode caching, and more. *This optimization can improve multiple benchmarks. Use system cron instead of WordPress cron (*) * Replaces the WordPress virtual “cron job” with a genuine, system-defined cron job. * This optimization reduces the load on WordPress and ensures scheduled tasks run at precise, correct intervals. Minify inline CSS and JavaScript * Removes extra spaces, tabs, comments, and line breaks from inline CSS and JavaScript. * This optimization improves First Contentful Paint (FCP) and First Input Delay (FID). Disable WooCommerce AJAX Cart Fragments * Disables WooCommerce AJAX Cart Fragments on your homepage and enables the “redirect to cart page” option. * This optimization improves WooCommerce performance. Security optimizations Our plugin is optimized to work best in the A2 Hosting environment, so items marked with an asterisk (*) are only available for sites hosted at A2 Hosting. If you are not an A2 Hosting customer, join today! Lock editing of plugins and themes from wp-admin * Prevents misuse of built-in editing capabilities for the WordPress admin. Change login URL (*) * Changes the login page URL from the default wp-login.php to a random URL. * Helps prevent bots from brute-force attacking your login page. Add CAPTCHA for comments and login (*) * Adds a CAPTCHA to comment forms and login pages to deter bots from posting spam comments and running brute-force attacks.. Block unauthorized XML-RPC requests * Rejects XML-RPC requests except for whitelisted services, such as Jetpack. Deny direct access to configuration files * Displays a “403 Forbidden” error when visitors or bots try to access WordPress configuration files. Best practices recommendations Regenerate wp-config salts * Generates new values for wp-config.php salts and security keys for increased security. Recent post limit *Checks the number of recent posts per page, which should be less than 15 for most sites. RSS post limit * Checks the number of posts in RSS feeds, which should be less than 20 for most sites. Recent posts showing on home page * Checks whether the home page displays recent posts, and offers to use a static page instead for faster performance. Permalink structure * Checks that the permalink structure is configured to fully optimize page caching and get additional SEO benefits. Unused themes * Checks if there are any non-default, unused themes that should be deleted. Inactive plugins * Checks if there are any inactive plugins that should be deleted. Hosted with A2 Hosting * Checks if your site is hosted with A2 Hosting for faster page load times and more optimizations.

WordPress Backup & Migration Plugin Duplicator provides a simple way to move WordPress sites, create reliable backups, or clone a site for staging. With Duplicator, you can easily migrate, transfer, or clone your WordPress site between domains or hosts with no downtime. Create full backups of your website, or package your entire site to download and install elsewhere with only a few steps. At Duplicator, reliabilty, security, and ease of use are our top priorities. Our variety of cloud backup integrations and easy migration wizard make Duplicator the most beginner-friendly backup and migration plugin on the market. You don’t have to hire a developer. Create a backup and migrate sites in just a few minutes. Duplicator Pro This plugin is the Lite version of Duplicator Pro, which comes with scheduled backups, cloud storage integrations, multisite support, and more. Get Duplicator Pro for the complete migration and backup solution. Easy Site Migration, Backup, and Cloning Duplicator streamlines site migrations by packaging your website files and database into a single file, known as a “backup”. Download and re-install your “backup” on any new WordPress location or server without dealing with complicated setups. Launch at your new destination without installing WordPress. Duplicator is the only migration and backup plugin that works on an empty site. See why experts love Duplicator: “Duplicator provides an easy to use tool to make backups of your site, or to transfer it to another location.” Richard McAdams – Expert Web Developer Secure WordPress Backups Duplicator offers cloud WordPress backups with military-grade encryption. Automatically backup your entire WordPress site to secure cloud storage. Recovery Points (1-click Restore) Duplicator makes 1-click restores for WordPress backups easy and stress-free. Quickly restore your entire website in minutes just like a time machine. Fast WordPress Migrations Duplicator makes WordPress website migrations fast and stress-free. Quickly move to a new host, domain, or server. No downtime, no data loss, and no coding required. WordPress Multisite Backups Duplicator offers automatic WordPress Multisite backups with easy 1-click restore. Safely backup your entire Multisite network to secure cloud storage. WooCommerce Backups Duplicator offers reliable WooCommerce backups with military-grade encryption. Easily and automatically back up your entire online store to secure cloud storage. Pre-configured WordPress Installs Never start from scratch with Duplicator’s smart pre-configured WordPress installs. Save time and hassle duplicating ready-made sites with 1-click. WordPress Recovery Points with Quick Rollbacks Duplicator offers hourly recovery points and 1-click rollbacks for WordPress sites. Quickly and automatically recover from failed WordPress updates or disasters. Partial WordPress Backup Plugin Duplicator makes partial backups for WordPress quick and easy. Save storage and restore sites faster with database-only, media-only, or completely custom backups. Server to Server WordPress Migration Import Tool Duplicator makes server-to-server WordPress migrations fast and hassle-free. Quickly import your website to a new server in minutes. No downtime, no data loss. Smart WordPress Migration Wizard Duplicator’s smart WordPress migration wizard makes transferring your website to a new host or server effortless. No downtime, no data loss, and no code required. Drag & Drop Import WordPress Website Tool Migrating WordPress sites has never been easier with Duplicator’s drag & drop import tools. Quickly transfer your site to a new host or server in minutes, no code required. Clone WordPress Website Plugin Duplicator clones your entire WordPress website with 1-click, no code needed. Perfect for staging sites, sandbox, or site migration. WordPress Staging Site Duplicator Pro lets you create a WordPress staging site directly from your WordPress dashboard. Safely test plugin updates, theme changes, and new features on a staging environment before pushing changes to your live site. No manual setup, no separate hosting, and no risk to your production site. Duplicator Pro Features Duplicator Pro takes Duplicator to the next level with features you’ll love, such as: WordPress staging sites – create a staging copy of your site to safely test changes before going live Drag and Drop installs – just drag the backup file to the destination site! Scheduled backups Cloud Storage to Dropbox Backups, Google Drive Backups, Microsoft OneDrive Backups, Amazon S3 Backups and FTP/SFTP Backups Custom Backups and Cloning: want just plugins, or just themes, just the database? No problem! A special 2-step streamlined installer mode for mega-fast installs Recovery Points added for very fast emergency site restores Support for managed and shared hosts such as WordPress.com, WPEngine, GoDaddy Managed, and more Multi-threaded to support larger websites & databases Migrate an entire multisite WordPress network or a sub site as a standalone site Database and user creation in the installer with cPanel API Connect to cPanel directly from the installer Custom plugin hooks for developers Advanced permissions Email notifications Professional support … and much more! Supported Backup Cloud Storage Integrations We support any Amazon S3 compatible storage providers plus these first-party integrations. Localhost Backups FTP/ SFTP Backups Dropbox Backups Google Drive Backups Microsoft OneDrive Backups Amazon S3 Backups Cloudflare R2 Backups Wasabi Backups Dream Objects Backups Vultr Backups Digital Ocean Spaces Backups Google Cloud Storage Backups Backblaze B2 Storage Backups Linode Object Storage Backups You can easily see why Duplicator is the best WordPress backup and migration plugin on the market! Want to unlock these features? Upgrade to our Pro version Branding Guidelines Duplicator® is a registered trademark of Snap Creek LLC. When writing about the backup & migration plugin by Duplicator, please make sure to uppercase the initial first letter. Duplicator (correct) duplicator (incorrect)