Bedrock and Roots: Modern WordPress Stack Hosting Requirements
What Bedrock and the Roots modern WordPress stack actually need from hosting: PHP 8.x, Composer, SSH, a /web document root and Git deploys. 2026 guide.
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Nick Quirk has spent 25+ years building, hosting, and ranking WordPress sites. He is the creator and owner of PeakKR, SEO App, SEO Locale, Power Up WP, and WebVibo — after watching slow, oversold hosting quietly throttle rankings, he built WebVibo to make fast, SEO-friendly managed hosting the default. He personally migrates and benchmarks every platform he writes about.
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What Bedrock and the Roots modern WordPress stack actually need from hosting: PHP 8.x, Composer, SSH, a /web document root and Git deploys. 2026 guide.
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