Maya Okafor
Maya leads provider reviews at Hostilo. She spent eight years running infrastructure for digital publishers before moving into editorial, where she still personally migrates a real WordPress site to every host we test. Her reviews focus on the gap between marketing claims and what an operator actually sees at month three.
- Areas of expertise
- · Managed WordPress
- · Migration tooling
- · Editorial site infrastructure
- · Support quality testing
6 articles by Maya Okafor
Core Web Vitals for WordPress: a practical fix-it guide
May 2026What LCP, INP, and CLS actually measure, and the WordPress-specific moves that fix each one.
WordPress security: a no-nonsense checklist
Apr 2026Ten security steps that account for 95% of real WordPress attacks. Skip the security-plugin theater and do the basics properly.
How to speed up WordPress: the only checklist you need
Apr 2026Ten changes that actually move the needle on WordPress speed — ranked by impact, not by what plugin authors want you to install.
The WordPress performance checklist that actually works
Apr 2026Twelve changes that move real Core Web Vitals numbers, ranked by impact, not popularity.
How to back up a WordPress site (and actually test the backup)
Mar 2026The backup plugin you choose matters less than where the backup lives and whether you've tried restoring from it.
Managed vs unmanaged hosting: who actually needs each
Feb 2026Managed hosting costs 3-5x more than unmanaged. Here's an honest breakdown of when that's a smart purchase versus when you're paying for handholding.