We often get questions from people asking about what is “good” WordPress hosting. One of the things we tend to find hard is tell people which hosting company they should use in Europe. Some of the managed WordPress hosting companies out there offer servers in Europe, but their support is primarily American and it almost always shows.

About a year ago, we were approached by a very local (to us) new managed WordPress hosting company, Savvii. They’re based in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, which is about 10 km away and they’d started to offer managed WordPress hosting. As Savvii is part of a larger company I already knew, we started talking immediately. As things go those were rather technical conversations: how should we do this, where should our servers be, etc.

Moving yoast.nl over to Savvii

Earlier this week, after quite some testing, we moved yoast.nl over. Now yoast.nl is not exactly “vital” to our business, but if something is wrong with it, I almost always get a tweet or 5 within the next few minutes, so people do still visit it :).

The new hosting is fast. We ran some tests and the yoast.nl is now actually twice as fast on the frontend. Now the frontend is nice, but the real test is always the admin, and this admin is screaming fast. Savvii’s servers are in England, which of course is a lot closer than our .com servers which are in the US, but the difference is more than “just” a bit of latency.

Savvii rocks all the things you’d expect from a managed hosting party, including 24 hour support and much more. We’ve been very happy to work with them and if you’re looking for high-end WordPress hosting in the Netherlands or elsewhere in Europe, I’d certainly check them out!

PS: we’re hosting a WP Meetup together with Savvii in Nijmegen tonight. The one for tonight is fully booked, but if you follow the WPM024 twitter account or check wpmeetup.nl we’ll tell you all about new meetings.

This post first appeared on Yoast. Whoopity Doo!