- CDN
- Storage
- Bandwidth
- Visits WPEngine visits are up to @6x Google Analytics visits because GA filters out indexing robots and other stats
- Speed Cache
- Backups
- Malware Detection
- SSL/Dedicated IP Dedicated IP no longer needed for SSL for ecommerce sites (or for SEO)
- Email Hosting options: free or paid email via 3rd parties
- SLA Service Level Agreement
- Streamlined Development Tools
- Support
- STATUS
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Standard
$20
- CDN Not Included Available from many 3rd parties starting around $108/year
- Storage 4GB +$5 per 4GB
- Bandwidth 200GB
- Visits 7,500 GA Visits +$5 per 2K Google Analytics Visits
- Speed Cache Simple
- Backups Free restore and snapshots; Manual restore options Daily, Weekly and Monthly Backups
- Malware Detection Limited; manual restore
- SSL/Dedicated IP SSL fees + $10/mo for IP Dedicated IP i savilable
- Email Hosting Forwarding Only +$3/account
- SLA 99.90% see: https://www.servint.net/sla.php
- Streamlined Development Tools Staging server optional
- Support Via HelloAriHosting Free for hardware issues, paid support for all other issues
- STATUS Enhanced Speed
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WP Engine
$25
- CDN Not Included Available from many 3rd parties starting around $108/year
- Storage 5GB+5GB 5GB local + 5GB free (and more paid) via Amazon S3/LargeFS
- Bandwidth Unlimited
- Visits 25,000 WPE Visits +$1 per 1K WPEngine Visits; (25K WPE [email protected] GA Visits)
- Speed Cache Advanced
- Backups Free restore and snapshots Daily and as-needed snapshot Backups; instant staging server
- Malware Detection Full with free restore a $16/mo value
- SSL/Dedicated IP Free SSL (or $49.99/yr) Free Let's Encrypt™ certificates. No Dedicated IP available
- Email Hosting Only via 3rd parties Usually Google Apps or Office365
- SLA 99.95% see: http://wpengine.com/sla/
- Streamlined Development Tools Staging server and more Make a copy of your site with one click to test content or plugin updates
- Support Via WP Engine or HelloAriHosting WPE offers free 24/7 Phone + Live Chat Support
- STATUS *DISCONTINUED Only offered with CDN
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WP Engine Premium
$40
WITH CDN
- CDN Included FREE a $20/mo value (WPE personal plans don't include CDN)
- Storage 10GB 10GB local +(your Amazon S3/LargeFS)
- Bandwidth Unlimited
- Visits 25,000 WPE Visits +$1 per 1K WPEngine Visits; (25K WPE [email protected] GA Visits)
- Speed Cache Advanced
- Backups Free restore and snapshots Daily and as-needed snapshot Backups; instant staging server
- Malware Detection Full with free restore a $16/mo value
- SSL/Dedicated IP Free SSL (or $49.99/yr) Free Let's Encrypt™ certificates. No Dedicated IP available
- Email Hosting Only via 3rd parties Usually Google Apps or Office365
- SLA 99.95% see: http://wpengine.com/sla/
- Streamlined Development Tools Staging server and more Make a copy of your site with one click to test content or plugin updates
- Support Via WP Engine or HelloAriHosting WPE offers free 24/7 Phone + Live Chat Support
- STATUS Enhanced Speed, Security Now testing PHP 7 and other speed improvements.
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- WordPress managed hosting: WP Engine plans include free upgrades of WordPress. In addition, we keep your site protected from new security vulnerabilities and include monitoring with our remote tool – this gives us warnings on high priority security issues. Upgrades are based around the WordPress production schedule and the importance of their security patches. For the most simple sites this includes all the updates you need. Our plans do not guarantee plugin updates and don’t include other kinds of maintenance tasks.
Features: Standard
- Security: Firewall and other server-based layers of protection. If your site gets hacked there is a charge to clean it.
- Backup: full monthly, weekly and daily differential with four week retention. Amazon s3 complete backups as an extra layer of protection.
- Access: Cpanel web-based control panel; includes unlimited SFTP access: (also Web-based file manager)
- PHP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, CGI with your own cgi-bin, Perl, Python & Tcl, SSI
- 24/7 external & internal server monitoring (performance, services & connectivity) at the server farm and additional 3rd party server uptime monitoring
- Detailed, graphical web stat reports (awstats is optional) — I also set up Google anaytics for sites I design
Standard hosting services are backed by a commitment to offset the total carbon-footprint by at least 110 percent.
Features: WP Engine + Premium
- Security: Advanced Firewall & 3rd party Malware Scanning ($8/mo value) — includes FREE repair if your site gets hacked.
- Backup and Testing tools: 30 days of automatic daily backups, One-Click Restore Points & One Click Staging Area
- Access: WP Engine has it's own custom portal (no Cpanel, no SSH access); includes unlimited SFTP access
- Note that WP Engine counts visits differently than Google Analytics. 1 GA visit is usually equal to about 3 WPE visits but can be higher. Learn more.
- Speed: SSD drives, 64bit processors, separate load-balancers, multi-server clusters, in-RAM caching (page-caching, database caching and object-caching) and a content delivery network (CDN)
- WPE can't accept variables in redirects; and has other limitations that affect a very small number of types of highly customized sites.
- Learn more at WP Engine
- In almost all cases I strongly encourage hosting email elsewhere - that keeps your website fast and is common practice for WordPress-specific hosting services. There are both free and paid email hosting options via a variety of third party services. Learn More
Billing
- No setup charges
- You will be billed annually on 12/1 due 1/1 — or on the anniversary of your signup. I will send you an invoice and you can pay with check or PayPal. Most of my clients will simply have this hosting fee added to an invoice for web design/maintenance.
- Automated monthly billing through Credit Card: Contact me
- Automated monthly billing through PayPal subscription: (Credit Card or Checking account - whatever payment options you have in PayPal)
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(Storage needs and RAM usage will help guide which plan is appropriate to your site—vast majority of sites need just the standard plan) Not using WordPress? (or any other content management systems—no php, no databases) Take $5/mo off the standard plan. Need to register a domain? Buy one from NameCheap (try these coupons) or GoDaddy.