WP Engine WordPress® platform

With WordPress websites rising in popularity, many web hosting companies offer a shared or dedicated WordPress hosting option as part of their other services. At WP Engine, hosting WordPress sites is our specialty—we host no other type of site. We provide optimized web hosting that delivers the best performance possible for WordPress.

When you switch to a managed host like WP Engine, you won’t need to worry about the day-to-day management of your website’s most important maintenance tasks. We’ll handle the optimization and maintenance of your server, automate updates for plugins, themes, and PHP, and proactively protect against any security threats. Aside from just automated maintenance, we also ensure you have access to 24/7/365 support from a team of experts in WordPress so that you’re not going it alone.

Investing in a managed host for WordPress like WP Engine helps free up time and bring you peace-of-mind.

Containers are packages of software that contain all of the necessary elements to run in any environment. In this way, containers virtualize the operating system and run anywhere, from a private data center to the public cloud or even on a developer’s personal laptop.

By leveraging containers, we standardized how we pack and ship code on our platform. This standardization of how we move software from one place to another means our platform is more efficient in how we run, move, and deliver for our customers.

We recommend choosing a data center that is located close to where the majority of your site’s visitors are. This server location can reduce round-trip time latency for domestic visitors, because the website data is physically closer, the site can load more quickly. This performance increase for visitors also helps improve SEO by creating a better user experience. The faster the site loads, the better your website SEO and the greater the opportunity to drive conversion. Learn more about how to select or change a website’s data center location.

Yes, WP Engine Headless Platform is for building fast and dynamic headless sites and applications on WordPress.

Yes, WP Engine has eCommerce plans available for every shape and size of WooCommerce site. With WP Engine’s web hosting platform, you get a WooCommerce-optimized plan built to help your store grow to the next level of success.

We have a wide range of developer tools designed to integrate and accelerate your team. We have plugins, themes, and tooling for the modern WordPress developer.

WP Engine has built plans for every type of WordPress site—from casual blogs for novices to high-traffic sites handling traffic from Super Bowl ads. Outside of traffic and storage, there are a number of factors to consider in choosing your plan—stability, security, uptime. For any questions, we’d encourage you to chat with our team who can recommend a few options for your unique use case.