CourseLauncher Platform
The CourseLauncher Platform leverages the power and flexibility of WordPress with a plugin suite designed to give you an easy and worry-free experience to build, sell and deliver your online course quickly and confidently.
With the CourseLauncher Platform, you can turn your expertise into a stunning and powerful online course site that delivers results.
What is the CourseLauncher Platform?
Simply put, the CourseLauncher Platform is an online course platform built on WordPress, and includes everything you need to build, sell, and deliver your ecourse, even WordPress Plugin Licenses.
Plus, the Managed WordPress Hosting provides continuous updates to WordPress and plugins, and expert support from a world class team of WordPress developers. It's a truly worry-free experience.
WordPress Managed Hosting Features
No Lock-In Guarantee
Unlike many other platforms, you are not stuck with proprietary software where you have to re-build your entire course site on another platform if you're not happy. Since the CourseLauncher Platform is built on WordPress, you can be confident that what you build will work on virtually any WordPress host.
If you ever want to move your site, we'll give you a WordPress package that you can install on any host. We will even include the exclusive CourseLauncher Platform EXTRAS. You would just have to pay for the plugin licenses.
Innovative Technology
The CourseLauncher Platform utilizes Pagely®, which has developed specific technologies and systems to scale and secure your CourseLauncher site.
Updates to WordPress & Plugins
We handle all the WordPress and plugin updates. You never have to worry about whether your site is up to date and if you have the latest features and security.
Expert Support
We have a world class team of WordPress, LearnDash, and Memberium experts always ready and willing to help you with whatever issue you may have.
Managed Security
Secure infrastructure, malware monitoring, least-privilege user access, and more.
Performance Monitoring
We monitor your site’s performance to ensure your visitors get fast page loads and a smooth experience.
Smooth Scaling
Scale to millions of pageviews without affecting performance on container-based infrastructure.
FOUNDATION OF THE COURSELAUNCHER PLATFORM
After years of research and testing, our experts concluded that WordPress with LearnDash and Memberium offers the best all around solution for online courses. We built the CourseLauncher Platform on these 3 elements with a plugin suite that enhances the foundation.
LearnDash is the most trusted WordPress LMS, and Memberium is the #1 way to connect your WordPress course site to ActiveCampaign or Infusionsoft.
The other included plugins have been chosen after years of research, development and testing by experts in online course design.
The CourseLauncher Platform doesn't stop there! We even include the new BuddyBoss Platform, integrated with LearnDash to create a powerful social learning experience. Not only is it a great WordPress theme designed specifically to work flawlessly with LearnDash, it is a big driver for engagement thanks to powerful social features and integrated gamification.
The CourseLauncher Platform includes the following plugins
Each site is different, but we utilize selected plugins from the list below to create a site that will enable you to deliver a top-notch online course. Other plugins are available upon request.
LearnDash LMS
+ LearnDash ProPanel
+ LearnDash Add-Ons
Memberium
OR
WooCommerce
BuddyBoss Platform
Thrive Themes Package
Other Paid Plugins Available
May be purchased directly from the vendors, but are included at no extra cost with the CourseLauncher Platform.
Free Plugins Available
These plugins are available in the WordPress repository for free. They come installed and configured with the CourseLauncher Platform.
CourseLauncher Platform EXTRAS
These extras are available only to CourseLauncher HQ customers. They come installed and configured with the CourseLauncher Platform.
With the CourseLauncher Platform, you can turn your expertise into a stunning and powerful online course site that delivers results.
HOSTING POWERED BY PAGELY
The CourseLauncher Platform utilizes Pagely® Managed WordPress hosting. Their stack is built upon Amazon Web Services. Simply, this allows us to leverage a near infinite amount of resources and advanced tooling to scale and support your CourseLauncher site.
Optimized for WordPress
WordPress has a very specific resource footprint and usage pattern. Pagely has developed specific technologies and systems to scale and secure your CourseLauncher site.
PressDNS™
Latency and Geographical targeted routing for your WordPress site.
PressDNS™ by Pagely works with their PressCACHE™ system to route requests, at the DNS level, to any of their global cache nodes (geo-routing). Powered by Amazon's route 53 service PressDNS™ makes it simple to take advantage of geo balancing and geo routing.
PressCACHE™
A global network of DNS routed cache nodes explicitly designed to serve WordPress page output. Your site, available instantly, from anywhere.
PressCACHE™ by Pagely is a global WordPress acceleration system. It works much like a CDN, but specifically designed to cache and serve WordPress page output.
Essentially, a request for your website is routed to one of Pagely's global PoPs (Point of Presence) closest to the user. This shortens the distance between the user and your website thereby speeding up the load time of your site to a global audience.
PressCDN™
Photos, images, and static assets served from a global network of servers. Faster download speeds for your site visitors.
PressCDN™ is Pagely's CDN built specifically for WordPress, and is powered by backend providers that include MaxCDN. That means your static assets are served according to the provider which has the closest location to your site’s particular visitor. For example, if your visitor happens to be accessing your site from Chennai India, your static assets may be served by Amazon Edge, since they have a location there. Having multiple providers on the backend means more efficiency and faster load times for your users.
PressArmor™
A comprehensive security architecture developed by Pagely® that hardens and protects their network, hardware, and WordPress applications. The primary focus is on prevention and the mitigation of risk to clients.
Secure WordPress Hosting is just how Pagely does business. For base level security, they utilize a dynamic web application firewall (WAF) that blocks code injection attacks, known exploits and rate limits access attempts. This greatly reduces the chance of a DDoS attack or Brute force attack succeeding.
On top of the above, Pagely also practices chroot user separation and real-time system malware scanning. Scanning for malware means they’re constantly looking for things like trojan horses, viruses, worms, keyloggers, spyware, and adware. Additional rulesets at their network edge filter out much of the nefarious traffic long before it even has a chance to pass into their network.
Pagely Hosting Features
Pagely® is the preferred Managed WordPress host for large businesses across a variety of industries. Companies like Disney and Verizon trust Pagely to host their WordPress sites.
#1 WordPress Managed Platform
Nearly a decade of experience Managing WordPress at Scale. That knowledge translates to a better quality product & service and a deeper tribal knowledge.
Fully Managed WordPress
Pagely handles all the technical aspects. That means updates to both core and plugins, proactive security, and advanced tuning for optimal speed and performance.
Powered by Amazon Web Services
By using Amazon Web Services your WordPress site gains the unbeatable performance, redundancy, and scalability available to the biggest brands in the world.
Built in Redundancy
Redundancy means Pagely has duplicated critical components and functions of each system so that in the event of any type of failure, there are mechanisms in place to quickly provide a backup or replacement.
Modern Hosting Stack
Leverage the latest in performance technologies including PHP7 to accelerate WordPress. Proprietary NGINX/OpenResty HyperProxies that deliver unmatched speed. Pagely utilizes Redis to further accelerate the WordPress experience.
Automatic Daily Backups
Your entire site and database is backed up daily and stored on Amazon s3. Download or restore a copy with ease.
With the CourseLauncher Platform, you can turn your expertise into a stunning and powerful online course site that delivers results.