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

Liquid Web is the world’s most loved hosting company for a reason. Our industry-leading web hosting solutions are built on best-in-class hardware and verified by independent testing to consistently outperform competitors. We don’t limit your sites to a subset of available plugins, and we don’t punish you for success by charging overages whenever the number of visitors to your site grows. See for yourself how Liquid Web compares to WP Engine:

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

The World’s Most-Loved Hosting Company

Nobody delights customers more than Liquid Web. Our Net Promoter Score (NPS® ) of 74 puts us among the world’s most loved brands — and makes us No. 1 in the hosting industry. What makes us special? Our customers say it best:

“Our company, PlanetGuide.com, has been designing and hosting websites for over 20 years, and I must say that the team at LiquidWeb 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!”

— Brett Bauman

“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).”

— Chase Morgan

Backed By World-Renowned Heroic Support®
and the Best Guarantees in the Industry

24/7 Heroic Support®
It’s easy to say you have the best support, but we have the numbers to back it up. Our Heroic 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.