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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    UENI

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ASmall business owners don’t have much time to build their online presence, don’t have much money to spend on digital advertising, and don’t want to navigate the complexity of what it means to be online today. So UENI presents a solution built specifically for them. Unlike DIY website builders or digital agencies, UENI delivers a fully built website and listings on what they present as trusted, high traffic platforms. The service includes a fully built website customized to the…

    $16.99

    per month

    WP Engine

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/AWP 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
    UENIWP Engine
    Editions & Modules
    UENI Launch Plan
    $16.99
    per month
    UENI Plus Plan
    $59
    per month
    UENI Growth Plan
    $99
    per month
    UENI Platinum Plan
    $199
    per month
    Startup
    $35
    per month
    Core
    $400
    per month (annual contract)
    Enterprise
    Custom
    *Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    UENIWP Engine
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$79 one-time feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsA discount is offered for annual and biennial billing.Discount available for annual billing on the Startup plan.
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    Features
    UENIWP Engine
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of UENI and WP Engine
    Feature
    UENI
    8.0
    7 Ratings
    2% above category average
    WP Engine
    -
    Ratings
    WYSIWYG editor8.56 Ratings00 Ratings
    Library of website themes7.46 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design8.27 Ratings00 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of UENI and WP Engine
    Feature
    UENI
    7.2
    5 Ratings
    4% below category average
    WP Engine
    -
    Ratings
    Content taxonomy7.25 Ratings00 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of UENI and WP Engine
    Feature
    UENI
    8.1
    4 Ratings
    4% above category average
    WP Engine
    -
    Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language8.14 Ratings00 Ratings
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    UENIWP Engine
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    Score7.7 out of 10
    Rackspace Managed Hosting
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    UENIWP Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (7 ratings)
    8.5
    (31 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (6 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    UENIWP Engine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    UENI
    This company suited me at the time due to running out of time to get a site up. UENI was able to add a good-looking site quickly. No extra hosting charges. Shame they miss out on standard features like many other sites offer. It has given me an online presence, which I was after. This looks good and is easy to edit.
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    WP Engine
    I am an enterprise user of WordPress and host over 7000 sites with WPEngine. Areas that I think they are well suited for include customers that need enterprise-level support and uptime and have more complex needs than a simple blog. They also manage scale well with a variety of isolated install options that you can scale up or down depending on your contract needs. They also provide premier support for enterprises and have highly knowledgable Technical Account Managers that provide a significant value add. If I were to look at where it isn't as appropriate for usage I would focus on the low-end needs and say while they do support small sites, there are options out there for cheaper hosting that lack the support a WPEngine gives you.
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    Pros
    UENI
    • Money-back Guarantee if you're not completely satisfied
    • Deliver a website in 3 days
    • Easy to convey your needs via their form
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    WP Engine
    • 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.
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    Cons
    UENI
    • Some aspects of the website could do with improving, however, we have fed this back to them and have passed it on to their development team, to look at implementing them in the next update they do.
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    WP Engine
    • I'd like to see WP Engine offer their own monitoring solution. When I say monitoring, I mean specific use cases that may end up being something you could script. This would keep customers from having to pay for additional services like Pingdom, New Relic, etc.
    • I would like to see some proactive analysis done by WP Engine on their customer sites - at least on their home pages, and offer up suggestions. This kind of goes along with the other example.
    • Finally, it would be nice to see a "lighter" offering, perhaps a plan that costs $49 for those who want to host only a few sites, or even 1 site.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    UENI
    No answers on this topic
    WP Engine
    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.
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    Usability
    UENI
    No answers on this topic
    WP Engine
    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.
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    Support Rating
    UENI
    No answers on this topic
    WP Engine
    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.
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    Alternatives Considered
    UENI
    UENI overshadows Wix by far. Considering how helpful, cost effective, and fast UENI is to make the websites as per my requirements, in comparison to Wix where you have to first purchase a subscription then either learn to make it yourself, which wouldn't be as user friendly, or pay someone extra to have it made rather than the one-time payment to UENI.
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    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 used Network Solutions for our own hosting needs, but when we do interact with them on behalf of our clients, their systems always seem to be clunky and hard to use, and they often overcharge customers by selling them products they do not need.
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    Return on Investment
    UENI
    • Will promote professionalism of my brand
    • Otherwise not enough time to assess
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    WP Engine
    • WP Engine reduces our time investment and upkeep costs which increases our margins.
    • WP Engine simplifies site management with a built-in development server, which saves us headaches.
    • WP Engine itself is positioned as a premium service, which allows us to use their branding as a tool to close sales.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    UENI Screenshots

    Screenshot of the home screen of the UENI Editor alongside the inter-editor HelpDeskScreenshot of a section of the jewellery products available on this UENI websiteScreenshot of the website header for a shipping company built with UENIScreenshot of editing one of the content blocks using the UENI EditorScreenshot of the mobile-friendly shopping cart & checkout functions, shown here on desktop