What does internally hosted means

Question

I have built a site in WordPress and the client wants to control things through WordPress but he wants the live version to be static for which someone told me to use StaticPress plugin.

He would like to have the WordPress version internally hosted and the live version would be static. He further wants to update things using WordPress and then push it so that the live static version gets updated automatically.

I would like to know that what does internally hosted means how this can be achieved. Let me know if my question is unclear, I'll either update it or reply to clarify you.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

It basically means that he wants the live version to be a cached (static) version of the full database-queriable WordPress that is hosted on a local/slave server. See Master/Slave Server Relationships: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_%28technology%29

It is used to allow for high-volume traffic and not have it shut down the server from heavy amounts of querying. (Otherwise, each user-visit would have 1+ queries to the server for every page, post, and plugin loaded).

There are plugins that assist with caching, CDNs to assist with content delivery and put up firewalls against known spammers - but it sounds like this client knows specifically what he wants (StaticPress & Master-Slave Server Relationship).

Answer 2

internally hosted means that you have your system running inside the company infrastructure. So it means that your client want to have wordpress installed on a server managed by the company.