WP Engine vs. other hosts.
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SSL Certificates Included |
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Global CDN Included |
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Caching |
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Staging Environment |
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SSH Gateway |
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PHP Version Control |
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GeoTarget | Add-on |
WordPress experts at your service.
If you need help, our 4x Stevie Award-winning support team is available 24/7/365 to answer any questions, with an average response time of less than 3 mintues.
Build with confidence.
With WP Engine you can build remarkable website experiences quickly and easily to drive your business forward faster. Every WP Engine plan includes:
- Dev, staging, and production environment for every install
- Seamless local development with Local
- Git and SFTP connections
- SSH access
- Genesis Framework & 30+ premium WordPress themes
Boost performance.
Industry leading speed and scalability to help you deliver the fastest digital experiences.
- Load content faster with our fully managed global CDN
- Reduce strain on your site’s resources with EverCache®
- HTTP/2 enabled, so you can get better SEO, visitor retention, and conversions.
Keep your site secure.
- Free Let's Encrypt SSL certificates
- Managed WordPress core updates & patches
- Daily encrypted backups
- Threat detection & blocking
Choose your WordPress hosting solution.
Managed Hosting gives you industry-leading speed, security, and stability that you need to start or grow your website.
Managed Hosting PLUS Startup
All the basics for starting a small website or blog.
Available features
- Automated plugin updates
- Plugin updates tested with AI including 3rd party plugins
- Auto-rollbacks if issues detected
- Choose which plugins are auto updated
- 24/7 support
- 10 premium themes
- Free automated migrations
- Daily backups
- Free SSL and SSH
- One-click staging site
Annual discount applied!
$28/mo 33 (USD)
Billed at $480 $400/yr.
You're saving $68 by getting 2 months free with annual prepay.
- Faster site speed with website caching
- Threat detection & blocking
- Site content in the cloud (CDN)
- Handoff to clients with transferable sites
- Activity log & user permissions
- Page performance monitoring
- Local developer tools
- SSH access with WP-CLI, MySQL, and bash
- GIT & SFTP connections
- Multi-factor password authentication
- Up-to-date PHP
- Chat support
Managed Hosting PLUS Professional
The best solution to build your brand.
Available features
- Automated plugin updates
- Plugin updates tested with AI including 3rd party plugins
- Auto-rollbacks if issues detected
- Choose which plugins are auto updated
- 24/7 support
- 10 premium themes
- Free automated migrations
- Daily backups
- Free SSL and SSH
- One-click staging site
Annual discount applied!
$52/mo 50 (USD)
Billed at $756 $630/yr.
You're saving $126 by getting 2 months free with annual prepay.
- Faster site speed with website caching
- Threat detection & blocking
- Site content in the cloud (CDN)
- Handoff to clients with transferable sites
- Activity log & user permissions
- Page performance monitoring
- Local developer tools
- SSH access with WP-CLI, MySQL, and bash
- GIT & SFTP connections
- Multi-factor password authentication
- Up-to-date PHP
- Phone & chat support
Managed Hosting PLUS Growth
Features you need for a growing business.
Available features
- Automated plugin updates
- Plugin updates tested with AI including 3rd party plugins
- Auto-rollbacks if issues detected
- Choose which plugins are auto updated
- 24/7 support
- 10 premium themes
- Free automated migrations
- Daily backups
- Free SSL and SSH
- One-click staging site
Annual discount applied!
$104/mo 17 (USD)
Billed at $2100 $1750/yr.
You're saving $250 by getting 2 months free with annual prepay.
- Faster site speed with website caching
- Threat detection & blocking
- Site content in the cloud (CDN)
- Handoff to clients with transferable sites
- Activity log & user permissions
- Page performance monitoring
- Local developer tools
- SSH access with WP-CLI, MySQL, and bash
- GIT & SFTP connections
- Multi-factor password authentication
- Up-to-date PHP
- Phone & chat support
Managed Hosting PLUS Scale
Higher capacity and site limits to scale your experiences.
Available features
- Automated plugin updates
- Plugin updates tested with AI including 3rd party plugins
- Auto-rollbacks if issues detected
- Choose which plugins are auto updated
- 24/7 support
- 10 premium themes
- Free automated migrations
- Daily backups
- Free SSL and SSH
- One-click staging site
Annual discount applied!
$258/mo 33 (USD)
Billed at $5040 $4200/yr.
You're saving $620 by getting 2 months free with annual prepay.
- Faster site speed with website caching
- Threat detection & blocking
- Site content in the cloud (CDN)
- Handoff to clients with transferable sites
- Activity log & user permissions
- Page performance monitoring
- Local developer tools
- SSH access with WP-CLI, MySQL, and bash
- GIT & SFTP connections
- Multi-factor password authentication
- Up-to-date PHP
- Phone & chat support
Dedicated Hosting Custom
Scalable, highly performant, and hyper-secure solution along with a strategic team on standby to support you.
Available features
- Dedicated, high-availability architecture
- 99.99% uptime SLA
- Easily scale resources
- Advanced security
- 24/7 Premium dedicated support
- White glove onboarding with Launch Readiness Assessment
Available enhancements
- Premium Plus service A dedicated Customer Support Manager and Technical Success Manager to ensure you're meeting your goals.
- Application Performance Monitoring Detailed insights to deliver faster site speed and increased stability with code-level monitoring, powered by New Relic.
- Dedicated Developer Environment For advanced developers who need a separate dedicated environment to run performance and load testing as well as security and penetration testing.
