Considering WP Engine for Managed WordPress Hosting?
WP Engine is a popular destination for premium-priced WordPress-only hosting — it is, after all, the company’s sole focus and their only product. On the surface, that’s a terrific selling point. But upon closer inspection, you may decide that their solution simply forces you to make too many compromises.
WP Engine limits the number of visitors your sites can have (as few as 25,000 per month), and won’t allow you to use any plugin that they’ve disallowed. If your favorite plugin, a component required by your preferred theme, or a plugin you track down (or create) to solve a specific issue falls out of favor, then you’re out of luck. Most of WP Engine’s more affordable plans rely on shared hosting — a limited, one-size-fits-all solution which forces them to go to great lengths to ensure (and enforce) compatibility. In a shared environment, any single site’s resource usage or traffic could negatively impact the dozens or hundreds of other sites on the same server; hence the need for restrictions on resource usage and plugins. Compounding the issue is the fact that when you don’t own your own data centers, troubleshooting and resolving issues with the servers themselves can be more difficult, expensive, and time-consuming.
Liquid Web has been a leader in the web hosting industry since 1997, serving tens of thousands of customers using WordPress — and every other platform imaginable. That experience has allowed us to engineer and optimize our network and power infrastructure, as well as construct data centers from the ground up.
Rather than simply adopting a popular platform and figuring out the rest moving forward, we’ve taken everything we’ve learned in our mission to perfect the art of web hosting and applied that knowledge to the world’s No. 1 CMS. Liquid Web’s Managed WordPress plans put your sites on equal footing with some of the biggest companies in the world — using the same class of hardware and powered by the same rock-solid infrastructure — with no need to compromise.
Liquid Web vs. WP Engine:
Managed WordPress
| Full Control of Your Server |  |  |
| Shell Access | | |
| Choice of Streamlined Dashboard or cPanel Interface | | |
| Fully Supported Migrations | | |
| No Limit on Number of Visitors | | |
| Use Any Plugin or Theme You Choose | | |
| Free CDN Tier Included with All Plans | | |
| Disk Space | At Least 100 GB | As little as 10 GB |
| Wholly Owned Data Centers | | |
| 100% Network Uptime Guarantee | | |
| 100% Power Uptime Guarantee | | |
| On-Site Support Team | | |
| 24/7/365 Support for WordPress and Your Server | | |
| 24/7/365 Support by Phone, Live Chat, or Email | | |
Nobody Includes More Than Liquid Web
CloudFlare® CDN
We provide full management for one of the world’s most popular CDNs, and full support when your site is added to CloudFlare through our interface. CloudFlare will not only speed up your site, but also provide a further boost to security.
Built-in Backups
Local backups are always included at no extra charge. For an extra layer of backup protection, you can add our Guardian backup system, which uses replication, synchronization, and point-in-time snapshots.
Enhanced Security
Security is paramount, which is why we include ServerSecure™ with every Fully Managed server. Your server will be protected by a range of proprietary security enhancements to block unwanted access and keep your data secure.
DDoS Attack Protection
We provide free basic protection from small volumetric DDoS attacks with every server on our network. Best of all, it’s always on and ready to go. For larger and more sophisticated attacks, comprehensive protection and mitigation is available.
The World’s Most-Loved Hosting Company
“Our company, PlanetGuide.com, has been designing and hosting websites for over 20 years, and I must say that the team at Liquid Web has been the most helpful, knowledgeable, caring, and responsive sys-admins that we have ever dealt with. Please know that you hard work is appreciated on this end!”
“At the end of the day, as a sales rep, it is your job to make a sales pitch and sell a product, but I felt (Ron and Mark) were both very genuine in their efforts to assist me and help me find a solution that works for me. As a whole, anytime I speak to a rep from Liquid Web, no one sounds robotic, which I appreciate (it surly helps that y’all don’t outsource sales or support).”
Backed By The Most Helpful Humans in Hosting™
and the Best Guarantees in the Industry
24/7 Support from The Most Helpful Humans in Hosting™
It’s easy to say you have the best support, but we have the numbers to back it up. Our Support ranks No. 1 in customer satisfaction.
59 Second Initial Response Guarantee: Phone and Chat
We’re committed to answering your call or connecting to your LiveChat within 59 seconds.
30 Minute Initial Response Guarantee: Email
HelpDesk tickets receive an initial response via email within 30 minutes, guaranteed.
100% Network Uptime Guarantee
All major routing devices within our network will be reachable from the global Internet 100% of the time.
100% Power Uptime Guarantee
By owning — not leasing — our infrastructure, we can guarantee that power to your rack will always be online.
30 Minute Hardware Replacement Guarantee
Any hardware exhibiting a fault will be replaced within 30 minutes of identifying the problem.
