WP Engine

WP Engine

WP Engine

59 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
WP Engine	Score 7.3 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.	$29 per month

Pricing

WP Engine

Editions & Modules

Startup: $25.00
*Per Month
Growth: $95.00
*Per Month
Scale: $241.00
*Per Month

Offerings

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

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

*Pricing for annual contract.

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Community Pulse
	WP Engine
Considered Both Products	WP Engine Verified User Manager 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 Manager 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? 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 Director 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 Manager 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 Administrator 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 Director 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 Director 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 Employee 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
	WP Engine
Small Businesses	SiteGround Score 8.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Pantheon Score 8.6 out of 10
Enterprises	Pantheon Score 8.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
	WP Engine
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (31 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	3.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	7.7 (6 ratings)

User Testimonials
	WP Engine
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized Jesse Haraldson Principal Software Architect Read full review
Pros	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. Incentivized Alec Dibble Founder Read full review
Cons	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. Incentivized Peter Filias CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	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. Joe Preston E-Commerce manager Read full review
Usability	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	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. Incentivized Josh Peichoto Digital Strategy Manager Read full review
Alternatives Considered	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	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 Robert Allen WordPress Developer Read full review
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