How will Artificial Intelligence change the WordPress hosting industry?

Adrien

I thought this would bring food for thoughts (@Isaia-Arknet_PTY_LTD I stole this expression from you :-)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is expected to have a significant impact on the WordPress hosting industry in several ways. Here are some potential changes we may see as AI continues to evolve and integrate with the hosting industry:

Automated performance optimization: AI-driven algorithms can analyze and optimize website performance by identifying areas that need improvement, such as caching, minifying files, and image optimization. This can lead to faster loading times and better user experiences.
Enhanced security: AI-powered security systems can identify and prevent threats, such as DDoS attacks, malware, and brute-force attacks. By continuously monitoring and learning from new security threats, AI can help protect WordPress websites more effectively.
Improved customer support: AI-driven chatbots and virtual assistants can assist with answering common questions, troubleshooting issues, and providing tailored recommendations for clients. This can lead to reduced support response times and increased customer satisfaction.
Resource allocation and scalability: AI can help hosting providers analyze traffic patterns and server load, allowing them to allocate resources more efficiently and scale up or down as needed. This can result in cost savings and improved website performance.
Automated website creation and design: AI-driven design tools can simplify the process of creating and customizing WordPress websites, allowing users to easily create professional-looking sites without extensive design experience. These tools can also suggest design improvements based on user behavior data.
Predictive analytics: AI can help hosting providers predict and forecast trends in customer behavior, allowing them to better plan for future needs and offer personalized services and recommendations.
Smart plugins and themes: AI-powered plugins and themes can provide advanced functionality, such as personalized content recommendations, voice-activated controls, and natural language processing for enhanced search capabilities.
Reduced energy consumption: AI can optimize server operations and resource allocation to minimize energy consumption, leading to reduced carbon footprints and more environmentally friendly hosting solutions.

In summary, the integration of AI in the WordPress hosting industry has the potential to revolutionize the way websites are created, hosted, and managed, leading to improved performance, security, and user experiences.

wbknght

Adrien did AI wrote this xd

Zoinkies

If you’re following EU Law, GDPR etc, AI will be nerfed before it has chance to do any of the following in any significant way.

Isaia-Arknet_PTY_LTD

I had a link, but I can not find it now of the new Google plans for selling products and SEO trajectory for the future.

The future of search and product selling looked good (it is questionable) for the end user but not as good for sellers and service providers.

The Future of Search:
Search will be voice Search (you ask your trusted Virtual assistant what you need, and it will provide you with the best/correct product to buy at the best price etc.) and Text Voice providing on a web page the same results as voice,
The problem Google and other Search providers encountered when Chat GPT arrived was the fact that this Tool could do this job already if connected to the internet (not yet done), and Google and others, when they realised the potential, panicked 🙂 (they realised people can bypass Search engine and go directly from Question asked to the Service provider without clicking their Page) (no more tracking and no more money)

Now they are preparing a platform where all sales will be via the Google platform, and if not, you probably do not really exist. This way, they can integrate their own tools (virtual assistants) and sell the product.

How is this related to Web hosting and Web services (hosting+design+SEO etc.)

I can tell you that Chat GPT is not very smart yet (it has a lot of knowledge - huge storage), but creating things, it still needs to evolve a lot. I tested this myself (asked to create a few scripts in PHP MySQL or file DB) it is not really performing complex tasks.

If really optimized and provided a standard platform (hardware + software), I do believe if released, all hosting industries can be automatised, and we can all be out of business.

Servers are deployed automatically in 120 sec on OVH. They are already there. Enhance can be deployed on hardware replacing human interaction (this is already possible in my opinion) Future does not look very good for service providers. (Support can be deployed and provided via AI and learn and apply the knowledge acquired from all interactions at an amazing speed.)

Will a client choose between something (AI) learning and providing instant 24x7 support and fixes or someone like Mr "Jhon Smith" having leased a couple of servers and with his own knowledge and tools available get some hosting services up.?

Myself, I would choose the AI 🙂 (yes there are a few times "here and there" when requirements are very custom)

If you are a coder or a guru on any of the modules running the infrastructure (maybe a good hardware engineer (this I probably me) or others here let's add Enhance development team here for software), we might have a chance, but not many of us are required. The rest we can relax and enjoy free time or start doing something else as a career.

There are steps in human evolution, and they are called revolutions. Not long ago we had the hardware revolution (mechanical). The next one will be the Software revolution (AI)
AI and automatization will disrupt many industries. (I will definitely not need a bookkeeper, as AI will do a better job at a fraction of the cost) imagine how many People (bookkeepers) will have to choose a different path as a career in the future!

This was a long post, and I probably have typo mistakes, but it was good to share 🙂

Adrien

Isaia-Arknet_PTY_LTD thanks for sharing and bringing value.
I tend to have a more optimistic vision on that.
If all this happens, i see myself as an assembler putting together the best of what AI has to offer. I also see my role as financial, paying for all these tools on behalf of my clients.
As far as my limited experience and knowledge are concerned i have already connected chatgdp4 to the web. You can already connect it to google search engine.
Since a few days chatgdp playground has released very interesting plugins. Im yet to test them.
AI is already helping me to build my website. Copywriting has been a huge help but also in coding. I was able to build up for fun Enhance CP in Gutenberg blocks adding chart.js to it to give some kind of nice animations. Chatgdp is really skilled in chart.js ;-)

Yesterday i connected chatgdp to my livechat and now when a customer is asking something technical and before reaching live support, he gets a first help from chatgdp who also is searching through my KB to build his reply. I'm still testing and im not yet there but very soon.

I hope humans will put a framework for AI so that we can still do the work we chose and enjoy.

josedieguez

customers need to learn how to ask and specify things to get proper results when talking with an AI.

that's why there may be even a career just to know how to formulate and write your prompts to talk with the AI and ge tthe results you want.

MediaServe

For any WHMCS users, this is interesting:

https://whmcs.community/topic/324689-rc-lara-ai-assistant-free-openais-chatgpt-for-whmcs-tickets/

Hennie

MediaServe that's the future, very interesting.

Adrien

@Zoinkies @Isaia-Arknet_PTY_LTD MediaServe @Adam @Aliysa_Enhance

An interesting Article on the subject in Forbes I recommend you to read. It's written by Tom Fanelli, CEO and cofounder of Convesio:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2022/11/21/whats-the-future-of-web-hosting/amp/

Isaia-Arknet_PTY_LTD

Maybe we are looking at things from different perspectives, but reading the respective article is like reading my above post. I could almost say he copied me, but his article was written first🙂 (Joke)

So I guess not only hosting industries will be disturbed; instead, most WordPress designers and people making a living from making WordPress websites will be out of a job, end users can do it themself via WIX-like builders.

Zoinkies

Isaia-Arknet_PTY_LTD Hosting won’t change because of AI, GPT4 is still really bad at anything technical. If anything AI will improve the current workflow, I’ve seen the cutting edge of AI based DNS Load Balancing and it isn’t that impressive.

I think at worse some designers will be out of a job, and by some I mean the template monkies etc, with or without AI people won’t have time to sit down and design, learn to create prompts, drag and drop in a creative way. Ultimately, AI generated websites will end up like templates are now.

I don’t think a lot of people remember but in 2012-13 there was a handful of really cool, super easy AI / generative based website designing tools which included hosting. Flopped massively, too much vendor lock in, endless issues with consistency etc.