WordPress VIP

Score7.5 out of 10

52 Reviews and Ratings

What is WordPress VIP?

Wordpress VIP, from a team at Automattic, is enterprise WordPress hosting with customer or digital experience features for enterprises.

Categories & Use Cases

API
An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.
Category average: 8
WYSIWYG editor
What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get editing tool allows users to build pages without writing code.
Category average: 8.1
Mobile optimization / responsive design
The CMS helps users build webpages that work well on mobile devices – whether m-dot pages or responsively designed pages.
Category average: 8.1

SEO support
The CMS helps users create the right website infrastructure (pagination, page headers, titles, meta tags, url structure, etc.) to increase the site’s visibility in search engine results.
Category average: 7.6
Bulk management
Users can change an attribute on a group of documents or sites all at once through features such as global search and replace, making bulk changes easier.
Category average: 7.3
Internationalization / multi-language
The software supports multiple languages, countries, currencies, etc.
Category average: 7.8

Verified User

Administrator in Engineering (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use this product for content management and analysis. This choice was made partially because of the enterprise security features available . We were also interested in the professional services but did not wind up using them as we originally intended. We saw the integration with CI/CD and Git as a big advantage as well. Support options also seemed to be superior to other options as well.

Pros

Security is a big one.
Integration with GitHub
Availability

Cons

Wish integrations/plugins were more comprehensive
Expensive
The REST APIs are okay.

Return on Investment

I dont really deal with the business objectives. But it is expensive
Our uptime has gotten significantly better

Alternatives Considered

Sitecore Content Hub, Sitecore CDP, Contentful and Acquia Digital Experience Platform

Other Software Used

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), NetApp Active IQ, NetApp AFF C-Series, NetApp FAS Storage Arrays, VMware ESXi, Microsoft Visual Studio, Docker

Ramsey Mohsen View profile

CEO/Owner in Product Management at Everhance LLC (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are handling large-scale traffic from Google when it spikes. We have extensive social media profiles on Facebook and get much traffic from Google News and Discovery. This means that traffic can be very unpredictable, and we need to make sure that our servers "just work" when there is a spike in traffic. Any downtime is lost revenue literally by the second. WPVIP ensures everything is running, no matter the traffic volume, and running/loading fast!!

Pros

Fast support when there are issues.
They always want you to be happy.
Scale is not an issue for traffic, it just works.

Cons

I wish there were insights on making our website use fewer resources and performance recommendations for my web developers.

Return on Investment

I spend 0 hours a week worrying about hosting; before, it was at least 2-3 hours.

Other Software Used

Parse.ly, Google Analytics

Verified User

Executive in Information Technology (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

WordPress VIP is used for hosting / infrastructure of our websites theCHIVE.com and chivemediagroup.com. In addition, we use Wordpress VIP for API data associated with our daily posts. The API data is ingested into our native apps on Android and iOS

Pros

Keeps us informed of upcoming releases/patches associated with the Wordpress Platform.
Introduces us to products/companies/Wordpress plugins as necessary when new business needs arise.
Amy and Allie are excellent at managing the relationship; speaking with them on our monthly calls is a pleasure.

Cons

The only issue we have had is access to the TTLs in DNS, and we are unable to change those.

Return on Investment

By migrating our mobile applications to Wordpress's APIs, we could remove a large portion of our technical infrastructure, which was hosted on Google Cloud, along with an additional database and a lot of business logic used to support data transformation and ingestion.

Other Software Used

Shopify

Fahad Zafar

Sr. Eng. Manager in Engineering at WBD (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

- We use VIP to host certain content that is super performant and handles our social marketing use cases.
- It is easy to work with when we are coordinating with 3rd parties to create and publish certain content.
- Configurable and easy to collaborate

Pros

User management
Core use case, host content and deliver performance pages
Simple and easy to work with

Cons

Too many different dashboard formats
Everything should have the same look and feel.
The admin portal looks different than the user content portal

Return on Investment

Cost has increased for WordPress which is a downside. It went over 25k / year this time
More increase would result in us probably trying to find a local solution.

Alternatives Considered

11:11 Solutions for AWS

Other Software Used

AWS CloudFormation

Gyles Seward View profile

Managing Partner in Sales at Elementary Group (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Elementary Digital is a dedicated WordPress agency operating in the EMEA region. We work with clients looking to create and manage Enterprise-level WordPress websites. The concerns often with WordPress are centered around security, scalability, and performance, which for those who work in WordPress (and the organizations that use it) are not issues. However, one of the key considerations for these concerns is hosting and this is where WordPress VIP steps in. Effectively it's hosting from the organization (Automattic) that develops WordPress and its hosting is closely aligned to the development roadmap of WordPress itself. This, of course, provides great peace of mind for organizations, working directly with the CMS owners and being first in line to ensure security is paramount allowing for scale, reliability, and most important performance.

Pros

Security - class leading security, ensuring sites are protected and operate hassle free
Scalability - provide patches and updates first before the market place
Reliability - up to 99.9% up time, with a fantastic track record
Performance - hitting the high notes for Core Web Vitals and ensuring WordPress is operating at its peak performance

Cons

Smaller packages - which typically only operate in the Enterprise space, could offer more cost-effective solutions for smaller organizations

Return on Investment

Enterprise - providing a true enterprise hosting solution for organizations that ticks all the boxes (especially for IT Directors)
WordPress best practice - learning and aligning development methodologies to VIP's best practice
Updates - first to receive updates about WordPress ensuring we keep our clients updated
Belief and confidence - in the VIP hosting framework ensure our clients are getting the best service

Other Software Used

Amazon Web Services

Sitecore Digital Experience Platform

Adobe Experience Manager

Acquia Digital Experience Platform

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Top Performing Features

API

WYSIWYG editor

Mobile optimization / responsive design

Areas for Improvement

SEO support

Bulk management

Internationalization / multi-language

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