"A premium web hosting solution that makes our websites load quickly and securely"
What do you like best about WP Engine?
WP Engine keeps their web hosting service simple and allows our WordPress websites to load quickly since the hosting environment is designed for WordPress. The account tools are easy to use and mostly self-explanatory in nature. We can update our core WordPress files and plugins through the WP Engine system. The pricing is good for all of the features and enhanced hosting performance that we get. The customer support is also very helpful and pleasant to communicate with.
What do you dislike about WP Engine?
I can't complain about a whole lot with WP Engine, but I think it would be great if there were more built-in visitor analytics in our standard account features. I think that some of the analytics regarding site performance aren't really that useful for us from a marketing and user analytics standpoint.
Recommendations to others considering WP Engine:
Most basic hosting plans can usually host WordPress websites, but I'd suggest using a web host that is geared specifically for WordPress like WP Engine to give your website visitors the best, or at least a highly optimized, experience when viewing your website content.
What problems is WP Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?
WP Engine gives our company an optimized web hosting environment for our websites that reduces the amount of time commitments we need for account management and maintenance. Our web pages load quickly most of the time, which I think maximizes the website visitor experience and leads to conversions in sales or increases in form sign ups or service inquiries.
"WP Engine has changed the way we do the web for our business and clients"
What do you like best about WP Engine?
WP Engine is a great product for managing website consolidation, quick M&A turnaround and new properties that you need stood up quick. It also makes it seamless for internal and 3rd party development with good staging and production flows to roll things up and down as needed.
What do you dislike about WP Engine?
Most of the items I have had suggestions for improvement for over the past couple of years have been implemented on the administrative and support side, so no complaints here!
Recommendations to others considering WP Engine:
Depending on how many properties you are going to manage investigate going dedicated vs. shared as there are benefits to both sides with the biggest consequence mainly being you will share resources with other shared tenants (and at times it could be not speedy). We elected to go dedicated and have never had a single problem with in 2.5+ years. Also, when pricing your enterprise tier do your homework on how many sites you need now and how many you will need so you do not overestimate your initial first year of your dedicated instance.
What problems is WP Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reduced # of CMS to support, providing single pane of glass for managing and administering platform, delivering marketing faster time to market on website instance stand-up. Benefits are type 1 ROI on license savings from moving from other platforms and reduction in cycle time of time to market of delivering an available website for editing. Other benefits are providing great ease of use in WordPress and freeing up internal IT resources from day-to-day management of wordpress.org properties.
"WP Engine the tool that works hand in hand with WordPress"
What do you like best about WP Engine?
I am very pleased that the technical support is 24 hours a day attentive to the requests presented by users, and at the same time to guide you while you handle the tool, it is an extremely important factor that not all tools have. This tool will provide you with backup and backup copies of your clients' websites so as not to lose any relevant information for the organization.
What do you dislike about WP Engine?
It would be ideal for the tool to send notifications to the email of the users to know the release of the main updates of the tool, so that the user immediately devotes himself to update and to know his new options and versions.
Recommendations to others considering WP Engine:
WP Engine is a recommended tool for all organizations, whether large or small, since the price becomes quite accessible and competitive for small businesses depending on the staff they work on. WP Engine allows people to focus on content creation and not site maintenance. It gives you reliable and secure security through automatic daily backups. Your backup system will not fail, truly recommended.
What problems is WP Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use WP Engine in the organization to work together with WordPress.org, these two tools are responsible for working on the management of our websites and blogs for our customers. We use WP Engine to host and support all our websites, it provides reliability and security to safeguard all the information that is handled regarding the websites. It is responsible for managing the backup copies of our clients' sites. The ability of WP Engine to create and organize sites easily and transfer data makes it an ideal and powerful tool for our organization, its use in the organization is vital.
"WP Engine is a simple solution to get our WordPress website running efficiently"
What do you like best about WP Engine?
I think the ease-of-use is one of the best things about WP Engine. We can get our WordPress websites imported rather quickly and also create new websites from scratch with the WP Engine installation and management tools. Making updates to our WordPress core files is more streamlined in the WP Engine system compared to updating the software through package downloads. I like that we can get regular updates of activity regarding the use and security of our account.
What do you dislike about WP Engine?
The only thing that is not as good as standard hosting plans is the fact that the pricing for WP Engine is much higher than many of the basic level plans. For some WordPress installations that don't require lots of plugins or complex programming, I think that the page load differences aren't going to be that much improved in WP Engine.
Recommendations to others considering WP Engine:
WP Engine can save you lots of time and effort from the maintenance involved with WordPress website installations. You don't have to mess around much with technical programming or any other complicated tasks and maintenance. You may be able to see dramatic improvements in page load speeds compared to standard web hosting, so that's a big reason I would recommend using them.
What problems is WP Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?
WP Engine makes it easy for us to install and maintain our WordPress websites. We run lots of important websites for business through WP Engine and need to make sure that they are up and running and are performing as quick to load for visitors as possible. The uptime for WP Engine has been excellent and we often get great page loading speeds. We can also get extended metrics that allow us to analyze the effectiveness of our web page designs.
"Sticks to the essential items we need for our WordPress websites"
What do you like best about WP Engine?
When I tried loading websites at other hosting accounts, they tended to not load WordPress pages as efficiently. WP Engine is great since the structure is designed especially for WordPress installations. We can also get insightful data on visitor activity and the performance of our pages. We often have to install plug-ins to fulfill the design specifications that we have for our websites and WP Engine gives us a platform to be able to download and activate plugins more efficiently.
What do you dislike about WP Engine?
Though WP Engine has been super for WordPress installations, it isn't really as much of an open-ended environment for more advanced design and development needs. It is somewhat rigid in terms of the way we can add on features to our hosting account.
Recommendations to others considering WP Engine:
Many popular web hosting companies nowadays have a WordPress specific hosting package and you may want to check those out if you already have a hosting plan with them. However, I think WP Engine is one of the more efficient companies to go with because they're dedicated more strictly to WordPress.
What problems is WP Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?
WP Engine has been a great way for us to get faster page loading speeds and be able to update our WordPress extensions and security features more effortlessly. When we don't use a WordPress hosting package like WP Engine, we often have to deal with more malware and coding bugs. WP Engine has reduced the amount of malware attacks we've had on the whole. We can make basic design updates more efficiently and make updates to the content in less time.
"Ideal Server Setup for WordPress Websites"
What do you like best about WP Engine?
We use WP Engine as our WordPress server. We know that there is requirements for each website that is setup and it helps to keep the WordPress websites running as fast as possible.
What do you dislike about WP Engine?
At this time, there is honestly nothing to say as an item to be disliked. All in all, WP Engine has a certain way that they are running the server for the WordPress websites that we run on the system and we've found that it helps to keep all the sites we host on the server to run that must faster.
Recommendations to others considering WP Engine:
Hands down, if a client is running their WordPress website on something other than WP Engine, you might want to do a comparison and really determine if that is the best choice for you.
What problems is WP Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?
Previously we had websites running on another server that ran into DDOS attacks at the time. When this was happening, we looked for a new server to get our sites moved over too so they could be up and running. We like how WP Engine is powering their servers as it helps us to report to our clients with just about each month with 100% up time. Keeps our clients happy and us.
"Account Managers, hosting speed, support - everything is top notch"
What do you like best about WP Engine?
The Account Managers are great. I worked with my account manager Oscar Saldivar, who went out of his way to make sure he took ownership of my problems, executed with urgency and raised the bar as far as account managers go.
The hosting is fast. REALLY fast. I came over from host gator and I was pleasantly surprised how fast it was. NEVER GOING BACK.
Support is great. 24/7. You can easily get online and get help with anything you need.
What do you dislike about WP Engine?
I wish I could call in for support. Sometimes it is easier to explain what isn't working on the phone versus typing it out.
What problems is WP Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?
Fast hosting. My client's websites were not a tiny site by any means and WP Engine handles them no problem.
"Solid hosting for WordPress with support that can be helpful"
What do you like best about WP Engine?
I like the ease of use of WP Engine. I don't need to worry about upgrades, patches, security issues, performance, DR, and time-consuming administrative things like that. It is all taken care for more by WP Engine. I can focus on delivering sites that perform for my customers.
What do you dislike about WP Engine?
User account management can be a little quirky as you have accounts inside of your WordPress instances and a second set of accounts in WP Engine. Also, installing and updating custom SSL certificates is not automated on their site and requires opening a support ticket.
Recommendations to others considering WP Engine:
I think that you should't hesitate to go with WP Engine if you are looking for a quality hosting solution. WordPress is a terribly complex piece of software. Generic hosting providers like GoDaddy just do the install and then leave the rest to you. WP Engine sticks with you throughout the lifecycle of your site. Also, self-hosting WordPress is a nightmare unless you have dedicated staff for it.
What problems is WP Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have enjoyed the fact that WP Engine is very easy to use and the dashboard is very user friendly. We can do everything from the dashboard such as setup SSL, create SFTP users, CDN, cache, domain mapping, setup staging, etc. It has very good chat support, they are always available for our help. The WP Engine team can take care of our websites. They email us every day regarding the vulnerabilities of plugins. They can take care of WordPress updates.
"Awesome Support and Website Performance"
What do you like best about WP Engine?
We used to use Hostgater, which was a nightmare due to very poor support and at one point they even shut down our site due to some technical issue.
Moved to WP Engine and it's been an awesome experience,
What do you dislike about WP Engine?
Only one bad experience when a new support person answered on a weekend. Even that wasn't very bad!
Recommendations to others considering WP Engine:
By far the most outstanding, knowledgeable and available technical support I've ever rec'd from a marketing platform.
If you're a very small business like us, with very limited technical knowledge of Wordpress and webhosting, etc. you can't go wrong with WP Engine.
What problems is WP Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?
Website performance, reliability, and super strong technical support.
"Best WordPress Hosting of All times"
What do you like best about WP Engine?
The user-friendly interface and the faster loading times are one of the best things I like about WP Engine. Through the WP Engine servers, my WordPress website runs quickly and smoothly. The support team is very knowledgeable, and I always get instant feedback whenever I have technical issues. One can easily contact them through their live chat. WP Engine allows me to see live traffic on my website and account data and updates are done automatically.
What do you dislike about WP Engine?
Their prices are on the higher side. They also have a limitation on the number of websites I can connect to my account. Similar hosting companies offer an unlimited number of websites under one account at the same pricing.
Recommendations to others considering WP Engine:
I would highly recommend WP Engine if you want to host and manage WordPress websites in one place. It is ideal for WordPress, and your website will have faster-loading pages. There are different hosting plans to choose according to your budget.
What problems is WP Engine solving and how is that benefiting you?
I needed a solution that could provide backups, automated updates, and secure hosting services, and I found WP Engine. WP Engine does most of the maintenance work for my website and has freed up a lot of time, which I use to concentrate on other parts of my business. The marketing department has scaled up with hosting services from WP Engine.

