About - MITA WoPHoP

About WoPHoP

The Malta Information Technology Agency (MITA) is the public entity vested with the responsibility to provide ICT infrastructure, systems and services to Government that leverage a modern digital ecosystem and contribute towards the definition and execution of the Government’s digital strategies that sustain a modern digital economy.

The MITA Managed WordPress Shared Hosting Platform (WoPHoP) is based on the concept of Shared Hosting and is intended to host public facing content management sites of the Public Service and Public Sector of the Government of Malta, that contain public data only.

Why WoPHoP?

The MITA Managed WordPress Shared Hosting Platform provides you with the features and tools that you need to build and publish WordPress based portals and focus on what really matters – the portal and its content. The fully MITA Managed hosting model is being adopted to introduce the concept of Business as a Service (BaaS) in web hosting. This means that MITA, as the technology arm of the Government of Malta, will focus on the technology layer, and hence allow clients, to fully focus on the business aspect with full control over the website content.

This approach brings several advantages to the client, namely:

maximisation of potential of all stakeholders, as each will be focusing on their strengths.
reduction in development effort by making transparent to the portal creators.
lesser time to market, as the focus will shift away from technology.

Advantages of utilizing a Shared Hosting Platform

Being a Shared Platform on the other hand is the simplest and most cost-effective way to achieve all these benefits whilst taking advantage of economies of scale. This method is also popular within the web hosting industry as it provides the highest flexibility whilst balancing out costs. MITA shall also be providing a set of pre-approved plugins and a starter theme, with pre-defined layouts, that will augment the hosting service offering.