Blue Canvas vs. WP Engine

Blue Canvas

Blue Canvas

1 Reviews and Ratings

WP Engine

WP Engine

59 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Blue Canvas	Score 6.0 out of 10	N/A	Cloud-based DevOps solution for Salesforce that helps businesses manage continuous deployment, source code, and unit tests. The platform aims to enable admin teams to leverage Git without massive overhead and training, using Git to compare orgs with thousands of differences in seconds. Commit, compare, merge, review, and backup.Be prepared to rollback any release with continuous metadata backups; automatically run tests on each deployment.	N/A
WP Engine	Score 7.2 out of 10	N/A	WP Engine is a website hosting service built to host WordPress for companies of any size, with features such as daily backups, firewall,SSL, and proprietary caching technology.	$35 per month

Pricing

Blue Canvas

WP Engine

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Startup: $35
per month
Core: $400
per month (annual contract)
Enterprise: Custom
*Per Month

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Blue Canvas	WP Engine
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Discount available for annual billing on the Startup plan.

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Community Pulse
	Blue Canvas	WP Engine
Considered Both Products	Blue Canvas No answer on this topic	WP Engine Verified User Anonymous Chose WP Engine In our experience, WP Engine offered a much more secure environment than we had on the GoDaddy hosting platform. They were more proactive about maintaining server integrity and dealing with potential security issues than GoDaddy ever was. Although they are generally more … Incentivized Helpful? Mark Davoli Director, Web Development Chose WP Engine WP Engine is the preferred platform among all the competition I've worked with. Their support is second to none, as is their dedication to their customers and partners, which, more than anything, is the key difference I see vs other organizations. They are best in class, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WP Engine Provides a great balance of the two. Feature set is on par or better than Kinsta but with the usability and support associated with a hosting provider such as Godaddy. The tailormade solutions for wordpress are very intuitive and provide great options to take control of your … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WP Engine Cloudways and Cloudflare Incentivized Helpful? Jesse Haraldson Principal Software Architect Chose WP Engine For Acquia and AEM the major differentiator was the cost for WPEngine was significantly lower and we could use the more common WordPress CMS. AEM is better for large marketing sites that integrate with the Abobe Marketing Cloud and we didn't feel we could support Drupal on … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WP Engine WP Engine provides premium WordPress hosting. I haven't dealt with other dedicated WordPress hosts, except for wordpress.com by Automattic, which is good, but WP Engine is professional-grade, dedicated WP hosting. I have found that generally, non-dedicated WordPress hosting … Incentivized Helpful? Kelly Michael Skelton Internet Marketing Manager Chose WP Engine WP Engine and Go Daddy both had great support offerings and were both very competent when it comes to hosting websites. We chose WP Engine because their platform was just much easier to use and our marketing personnel could perform the majority of the essential daily tasks that … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WP Engine DreamHost is good as well, but overall I really enjoy the experience I have had working with WP Engine with all of our clients. The support is pretty good with all three that I mentioned, but WP Engine is superb. WP Engine is really great and the interface is super easy to … Incentivized Helpful? ML Matt Levy Manager Digital and Social Media Chose WP Engine If DIY hosting is your thing, you are 100% better off on Linode or Google Cloud. Pantheon ultimately won our business and respect with 100% uptime. Incentivized Helpful? Thomas Petty Owner Chose WP Engine There's absolutely no comparison between the other companies and WP Engine. WP Engine is far superior in all ways. Every time I do a security audit on a potential client's website, I can tell right away that it's on an overloaded server at one of the competitors. The first … Incentivized Helpful? MH Michael Herchenroder Senior Software Engineer Chose WP Engine We were originally on GoDaddy until we got a malware attack on their shared server. Cleaning up an infected server is almost impossible, so we decided to jump ship and set up our sites on Site Ground. We needed faster hosting anyway. Site Ground was decent, but their customer … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WP Engine While we still use GoDaddy for some services, WP Engine definitely has been a major upgrade for our WordPress hosting. In addition to faster load speeds, WP Engine has been more adept at allowing us to manage a high number of websites without straining the system. We have never … Incentivized Helpful? Josh Peichoto Digital Strategy Manager Chose WP Engine Other hosting companies are garbage by comparison. Budget, shared environment hosts are clunky, slow, and not as secure. Larger hosts generally require someone with a decent amount of knowledge with configuring and maintaining the hosting environment. WPEngine fills the void in … Incentivized Helpful? Quentin Aisbett Digital Strategist Chose WP Engine We've evaluated many hosting providers over the years and in fairness, we've now been with WP Engine for 5 years so I'd imagine each of them has improved over that time also. However, WP Engine's support team, product development, and user experience is better than any other … Incentivized Helpful? Gordon Seirup Owner Chose WP Engine I selected Kinsta to replace WP Engine because their performance statistics, security configuration, and technical support prowess reminded me of WP Engine circa 2012 - top-notch. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WP Engine I used a solution from Rackspace years ago which was just their dedicated server product (not available for selection above so had to choose managed hosting). They pretty much give you shell access to a box and then it's up to you to manage everything yourself. This is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WP Engine I used to work for GoDaddy when they released their own WordPress hosting. It's not bad, but not nearly as well developed. They have too many irons in the fire if you ask me, and WP Engine is so laser-focused on WP hosting. A2 hosting is a great budget solution that is also … Incentivized Helpful? Jeremy Estes Chief Media Buyer Chose WP Engine WP Engine blows all these hosting companies out of the water when it comes to WordPress hosting. I ultimately moved to WP Engine when my to WordPress sites continued to go down, performed slowly, or got to the point where they were impossible to manage. Now, if I see someone … Incentivized Helpful? Alec Dibble Founder Chose WP Engine I have used WP Engine for several years and love the service. Their technology, security, speed & support are unparralleled. I've had to file several support tickets & the experience was really good every time. Being a consultant & tech integrator, I often have to deal with B2B … Incentivized Helpful? Collin Berg Freelance Web Developer Chose WP Engine WP Engine has a no worry solution for automatic backups and free SSL is great for $30/month. They scale to our needs as well so we never have to worry about being throttled if we get a lot of press. and at $1 for every 1000 visitors over your quote, hits one of the cheapest … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose WP Engine I have worked with other top web hosting companies and none offer the simplicity of WP Engine. WP Engine is more expensive, however we deem the cost justifiable for the features that are included. Other web hosts are simple boxes that give you more control, however do not offer … Incentivized Helpful? Peter Filias CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Chose WP Engine We tried to run this site on Wordpress-optimized versions of hosting offered at MediaTemple and GoDaddy... neither sufficed. Incentivized Helpful? Ben Whitaker President Chose WP Engine WP Engine blows these guys out of the water in regards to reliability, security and customer support Incentivized Helpful? Will Paccione Owner Chose WP Engine We used to use HostGator in the past. We feel they've gone downhill in the past few years. When other hosting companies offer free SSL certificates through the trusted "Lets Encrypt", HostGator still down't offer it (last I checked). Support takes a long time. Ability to use a … Incentivized Helpful? Rachel Maner Content Marketing Specialist Chose WP Engine Prior to WP Engine, we had an off-site consultant hosting our site. It was terribly inconvenient and counterproductive. We selected WP Engine because the platform is intuitive and the price is very reasonable. I've never used another hosting service, so I can't speak to how … Incentivized Helpful?

Best Alternatives
	Blue Canvas	WP Engine
Small Businesses	GitHub Score 9.2 out of 10	SiteGround Score 8.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	GitHub Score 9.2 out of 10	Pantheon Score 9.9 out of 10
Enterprises	Perforce P4 Score 7.4 out of 10	Pantheon Score 9.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Blue Canvas	WP Engine
Likelihood to Recommend	- (0 ratings)	8.5 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	3.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.7 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Blue Canvas	WP Engine
Likelihood to Recommend	No answers on this topic	New users to WordPress can rejoice with a very hands-off hosting approach. If 100% uptime is not essential, you can get breakneck speeds with minimal tinkering using their platform. If you need to get up and running quickly and scale as required, the cost-benefit is here, although you need to pay a lot to get the most from it. Incentivized ML Matt Levy Manager Digital and Social Media Read full review
Pros	No answers on this topic	I love the database backups and how quickly & easy it is to restore from an old backup point. This gives me & my clients confidence that any change can be rolled back. The built in caching & CDN mean that I have to spend less time worrying about the speed of the server & site. The caching has some side-effects that take getting used to (on-page dynamic PHP code sometimes needs to be moved to API endpoints), but this is true for most caching systems. They have really good support for multiple environments. It's very easy to have separate production & staging environments. It's also very simple to deploy from staging to production, making product launches and large scale website copy changes much easier to coordinate. Incentivized Alec Dibble Founder Read full review
Cons	No answers on this topic	The user interface is not very intuitive, which means new staff members require more training than I'd like. The way they manage production/development servers and FTP access is somewhere between nebulous and tragically unique. Their premium pricing is surely worthwhile, but it is significantly higher than virtually all of their competitors, without much obvious distinction in feature sets. Some very basic features like spinning up a second instance require a PHONE CALL to their BILLING department to enable. What is this, 1990? Incentivized Robert Allen WordPress Developer Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	I was in a situation where I had to bolt Wordpress on to an existing infrastructure that could not support it. If I ever end up in that situation again, please kill me. Other than that reasonably common use case, I don't think it offers a lot of value over robust shared hosting, virtual private server (VPS) or dedicated servers. Joe Preston E-Commerce manager Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	From the onboarding and in the days afterward, it was very easy to get into the platform and begin creating important websites and configuring user options. The interface is easy to navigate, and the platform pages load quickly. Since the platform is built for Word plus press, it has features including backup, staging, maintenance mode, and direct WP-Admin login to make configuration and site management faster. We have never had any issues on the billing side of the account. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Support is generally great. Enterprise support is fantastic, with little to no wait times. I find that chat support can almost always take care of the problem without escalating to a ticket for a higher level of troubleshooting. The chat support for many other hosting providers can only handle basic issues. This is a big bonus for us to get quick and helpful answers. Incentivized Josh Peichoto Digital Strategy Manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	No answers on this topic	For Acquia and AEM the major differentiator was the cost for WPEngine was significantly lower and we could use the more common WordPress CMS. AEM is better for large marketing sites that integrate with the Abobe Marketing Cloud and we didn't feel we could support Drupal on Acquia. AWS EC2 is a viable option if you are going to self support and maintain your own WordPress experts. We felt that the value from WPEngine was they handled the support and the WordPress security patches and knowledge beyond simple theme usage. Pantheon was the closest in matching but we felt with our large installs that the hosting model for WPEngine was more cost-effective than the Container architecture for Pantheon Incentivized Jesse Haraldson Principal Software Architect Read full review
Return on Investment	No answers on this topic	Positive: We've been able to scale up more easily as adding new sites has been easier. Positive: The load speed improvements we saw were immediate and have not let up. Negative: Adding advanced security and other tools to a multiple sites is expensive. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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