Managed WordPress
CATEGORY
$30/mo
FROM · ADVERTISED
99.95%
UPTIME SLA · ADVERTISED
2026-07-17
FACTS CHECKED
// OVERVIEW · AS ADVERTISED
WP Engine sells managed WordPress hosting in site-and-visits tiers. Every plan advertises a global CDN via Cloudflare, auto-renewing SSL, daily and on-demand backups with 30–60 day retention, one-click staging and development environments, and Layer 3/4 DDoS protection.
The published SLA commits to 99.95% availability on standard plans; a 99.99% SLA is advertised on the Core and Enterprise tiers. Support is chat and phone on all standard tiers.
// ADVERTISED PLANS
THEIR NUMBERS, NOT OURS · CHECKED 2026-07-17Startup
$30/mo billed annually ($35 month-to-month)
- ✓1 site
- ✓25,000 visits/mo
- ✓10 GB storage
- ✓75 GB bandwidth/mo
Professional
$55/mo billed annually
- ✓3 sites
- ✓75,000 visits/mo
- ✓15 GB storage
Growth
$109/mo billed annually
- ✓10 sites
- ✓100,000 visits/mo
- ✓20 GB storage
Advertised prices on annual billing; month-to-month costs more.
// WHAT'S INCLUDED · AS ADVERTISED
- CDN
- Global CDN via Cloudflare, all plans
- SSL
- Auto-renewing, included
- Backups
- Daily + on-demand, 30–60 day retention
- Staging
- 1-click staging & dev environments
- Security
- L3/4 DDoS protection, plugin risk scans
- Deployments
- GitHub Actions integration
- Support
- 24/7 chat & phone
- Uptime SLA
- 99.95% standard; 99.99% on Core/Enterprise
The numbers above are WP Engine's. The measurement below is yours.
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// SOURCES
Everything on this page is what WP Engine advertises on its own site, checked 2026-07-17. Prices and features change — verify on their site before buying. This page contains no measurements by SpeedSonar; for measured comparisons, see the hosting leaderboard.