Solid, Premium WordPress Hosting
Updated July 06, 2022
Solid, Premium WordPress Hosting
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with WP Engine
We use WP Engine for our managed WordPress hosting. They help make sure that our website is running quickly and securely. They provide a full solution for WP including daily backups, site transfers, and multiple development installs. There are other nice perks like automatically updating insecure plugins and WP versions and telling you if an update or install didn't complete.
- Security - blocking unnecessary ports and logins and updating software automatically
- Speed/reliability - They have a CDN program that keeps everything running smoothly.
- Support - I'm always able to get someone on chat and they're always helpful. If they can't solve it right away they create a ticket and escalate it.
- The pricing is high. You get what you pay for, but this isn't cheap and probably isn't for average consumers or people with basic sites.
- Sometimes you'll have a wait to get someone on support chat. It's rarely awful, but prepare to wait a bit.
- They've rolled out a lot of add-ons and potential upcharges. We have legacy pricing, but for new folks, it might be a little more difficult to parse.
- Reliability
- Security
- 24/7 tech support
- We have spun up a total of 9 different websites using WP Engine, with plans for more.
- We routinely have +30k visitors/month to our primary sites
- Our pricing has changed fairly little over the last 10 years.
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 either doesn't give you the same degree of control or doesn't give you the security and reliability of WP Engine. Of course, proprietary site builders give you reliability but little control. WP Engine is a niche product, but it fills that niche very well.
Do you think WP Engine delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with WP Engine's feature set?
Yes
Did WP Engine live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of WP Engine go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy WP Engine again?
Yes