Uptime |
| Up for: | Overall uptime: |
| 143d 46m |
| US (W) | US (E) | London |
65 ms | 32 ms | 93 ms |
| Singapore | Sao Paulo | Pune |
220 ms | 127 ms | 348 ms |
| Sydney | Japan |
200 ms | 173 ms |
| Performance |
| A+ |
| Recommended For | Key Features |
| • Professional Blog | ✓ Fully Managed |
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Overall uptime
100 %
Server performance
A+
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Rebecca Gill runs a digital marketing agency. She hosts her and numerous clients' website with WP Engine.
“Their staging area and ease of migration is their biggest differentiator. It is what sets them apart from other hosting companies…”
Robert Brandle heads the team at WebsiteToolTester & they are hosting on WP Engine Business Plan.
“The GeoIp plugin allows us to show location-based content to users depending where they are from, which is extremely useful for us as an international website…”
With WP Engine, my site has almost never been down. There may have been a couple of times, but they were very brief.
WP Engine provide fast servers, managed upgrades and site transfers, and a site staging area. The staging feature allows you to try and test site changes without affecting your live site – but you get to see what it really looks like. Compared to other web hosts, this isn’t cheap hosting – but it is solid and virtually worry-free.
WP Engine has been amazing — all of my sites’ page load speeds increased by at least 42%. Support even during my trial period was impressive and personal. It gives me great comfort to know that what I now offer to my clients are backed by rock-solid technologies.
When I moved to managed hosting, it was a choice between two hosts, WPEngine being one of them. I had met several of the employees and also had chatted with a couple of them. I took two months to decide on WPEngine. And I’ve never regretted it. Their product is great. Gives me everything I need to manage my WP site. Customer service has always gone out of their way to solve my problems.I don’t have one single complaint.
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Things have been unbelievably fast and stable since we switched to WP Engine. Everything has been been great. Keep up the awesome work!
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When a hosting company prices their services competitively, they usually have to make do with cheap servers and under-qualified staff. These can cause many headaches as sudden spikes in traffic will prompt them to shut down our sites, not to mention the frustration we go through when dealing with inexperienced support staff about these issues. WP Engine justifies their high monthly charges by using servers that are finely tuned for WordPress and employing WordPress experts to run them and assist customers, resulting in smooth-as-butter site setup and super-quick problem solving if errors arise.
Generally, the experience of using WP Engine was what we expected from a premium managed host – site migration was quick & smooth (assisted by the friendly and experienced support staff) and site speeds were amazing thanks to the optimized servers. One brilliant feature that caught our eye was the Staging Area. This allowed us to make changes to a test site before deploying it to the live site, eliminating the fear of accidentally bringing down the entire site with unforeseen errors.
Other solid features from WP Engine include automated daily backups, one click restore points, 100% uptime guarantee and lastly, hacker cleanup guarantee, all features that aim to make our lives easier. We encountered a few snags and we have mixed feelings about them, such as the lack of email hosting. In fact, WP Engine suggested gmail, which can be unprofessional especially if you’re running a business. Also, there isn’t any live chat system or phone support. We had to deal with them via email, and as excellent as the support staff may be, they’re not available 24/7. Some may find this disturbing but considering how reliable the servers are and how most of the problems are automatically resolved for you, we found that 24/7 support isn’t really a necessity.
So should you go for WP Engine? If you don’t mind paying the high price, then yes. The reliability, speed, and peace of mind you get when hosting with them is definitely worth it. There’s a 60 day money back guarantee so you can try it out yourself to get a feel of it. If the price is a bit of a stretch, then you might want to look into other companies, such as Dreamhost or Inmotion Hosting.
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Overall uptime
100 %
Server performance
A+
We recommend this!
