WPEngine<\/a> is one of the most beloved managed WordPress hosting company in the WordPress community. Today, I am very excited to shed a little light on all the right reasons responsible for this in the first place and the kind of users who can use this excellent hosting company to host their websites.<\/p>\n WPEngine<\/a> is a Managed WordPress Hosting company which specializes in managed hosting<\/strong>, customization<\/strong>, intelligence<\/strong>, and integrated solutions<\/strong> for WordPress websites.\u00a0Jason Cohan<\/a>\u00a0founded WPEngine in 2010 when the concept of managed WordPress hosting was still fresh.<\/p>\n Since 2010, the company has grown to a whopping\u00a0480+ employees<\/strong> which includes a lot of prominent names like\u00a0Heather J. Brunner<\/a> \u2014 CEO & Chairperson WPEngine, Jason Cohan<\/a> \u2014 CTO WPEngine, and\u00a0David Vogelpohl<\/a> \u2014 Vice President of Web Strategy WPEngine.<\/p>\n In 2018, WPEngine raised<\/strong>\u00a0$250 million in funding<\/a><\/strong> from Silver Lake<\/strong>. It now serves more than 75,000 customers<\/strong> with more than $100 million<\/strong> in annual recurring revenue<\/strong>. Recently, they also acquired StudioPress<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 the company behind Genesis Framework and a little over 60 professionally developed WordPress themes \u2014 in June 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \ud83d\udc49\u00a0We reviewed WPEngine in our #WPHostingWeek18 at WPCouple<\/a>. You can check it out over here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Deciding a host for your website is utterly essential. It is because you always want to have a group of people who will take care of your websites and help you whenever you’re in trouble. Here’s the list of all the right reasons for choosing WPEngine<\/a> to host your WordPress sites.<\/p>\n WPEngine<\/a> provides award-winning\u00a0customer support<\/strong> to their customers. Their customer support won their third Stevie Award this year<\/a>, in February, for excellence in customer service. WPEngine has a massive support team which consists of actual WordPress experts which help you resolve your queries.<\/p>\n In 2017 alone, their support staff answered a little over 678,000 support questions<\/strong>. WPEngine also invests thousands of hours in the training of this team. Their support team completed 4,640 hours of training<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n Another critical factor which contributes to the success of their support team is availability<\/strong>. WPEngine’s support staff is available 24\/7\/365 answering questions of their clients like any excellent hosting company out there. You can open a chat with their support at any time of the day.<\/p>\n WPEngine is built on a set of core values<\/a> which set this company apart from any other managed WordPress company. These values help the employees of this company to make the right decisions, become an aspiration for the future growth of the company and set the root for their team culture.<\/p>\n Some of these values are:<\/p>\n When people trust a hosting company with their websites, they are expecting a reliable host with impenetrable security. WPEngine<\/a> offers various security protocols which makes it one of the most secure hosting companies in the WordPress ecosystem.<\/p>\n Some of their noteworthy security protocols go as follows:<\/p>\n Almost 5% of the online world<\/strong> visits the company’s network every day which makes it more susceptible to attacks. The system blocks more than 2 million attacks every day<\/strong> with its threat detection<\/em> and blocking rules<\/em> for the internet traffic.<\/p>\n The traffic goes through an inspection of the WPEngine’s network which detects attacks based on pattern<\/em>, locations<\/em>, or suspicious activity<\/em>. If the system finds anything wrong with the traffic, then it automatically blocks the source to prevent further attacks in the future.<\/p>\n The development team is also on the lookout for security issues which may arise on the level of web application \u2014 WordPress \u2014 or the server level. If the threat level they find is dangerous<\/strong>, they patch the application temporarily until the fix is released or they report their findings to the WordPress community.<\/p>\n As soon as WordPress Foundation releases security updates, the maintenance teams at WPEngine<\/a> automatically upgrade their customers’ websites ASAP. It is done to ensure the safety of these sites so that they do not remain vulnerable to known attacks of any kind.<\/p>\n WPEngine’s platform is scalable which means that in case you face any surprises in your daily routine traffic, you will be able to scale the resources of your WordPress site. This option comes in handy during the sales season for WooCommerce websites.<\/p>\n Maintaining a WordPress website nowadays is a difficult task. You have to stay on top of all the updates related to piece of software being used on your site. It can take a lot of your time and energy which is a total waste if you’re not using it to take care of your business.<\/p>\n Managed WordPress Hosting takes care of all these trivial tasks related to website maintenance. It in-turn lets you take care of your business and invest your time and energy in the building\u00a0and growth of your digital experience<\/a>\u00a0for your customers.<\/p>\n If your website is taking ample time to load, then there is a chance that you could be losing your customers. You can lose almost 87% of your visitors<\/a> with a two-second delay<\/strong> in page load time. WPEngine<\/a> provides you with the necessary tools which make sure that this never happens to your WordPress website.<\/p>\n WPEngine developed three products in 2017 to help customers optimize their sites and its content. The name of these products are:<\/p>\n Application Performance is powered by New Relic<\/a>\u00a0to make your WordPress site perform faster. It provides you with\u00a0code-level insights to help fix the performance issues faster and optimize your website proactively before your visitors face any problem.<\/p>\n This tool enables you to gain actionable insights so that you can improve your site performance. It also helps you visualize the speed and performance data of your WordPress site. In this way, you can measure the improvement in performance over time.<\/p>\n Using Google Analytics with your website can do wonders regarding growing your traffic. Content Performance is an application which utilizes Google Analytics optimized explicitly for your WordPress site and helps you build your audience as a result.<\/p>\n WPEngine announced a solution center<\/a> in September last year. Like WordPress’ plugins repository, this solution center is a place for third-party plugins<\/strong>, software<\/strong>, and services<\/strong> which can help you improve the performance of your WordPress website. There are various categories of solutions present in this center.<\/p>\n 35+ StudioPress themes and Genesis framework<\/a> became a part of every customer plan<\/a> of WPEngine<\/a> at the end of August 2018. You can access these themes and the framework from the dashboard of WPEngine after signing up with them.<\/p>\n All of these themes from StudioPress are designed professionally<\/strong>, mobile ready<\/strong>, optimized for SEO<\/strong> and has different layouts<\/strong> to suit the needs of your website. These products are available for download under the tab of Themes<\/em><\/strong> on the\u00a0User Portal<\/em> <\/strong>of WPEngine.<\/p>\n Another benefit of using WPEngine<\/a> is that you get different environments \u2014 Development<\/strong>, Staging,<\/strong> and Production<\/strong> \u2014 for different phases of your website. These are essential for testing and deployment before a site becomes available to the public.<\/p>\n These environments are also easy to operate. You can copy the contents of a website to\/from<\/em> any of these environments from\/to<\/em> another one with the help of a single button. You can find these buttons on the details page of a single WordPress install.<\/p>\n WPEngine<\/a> offers free website migrations to all of its customers. It has developed a free automated site migration plugin<\/strong> \u2014 WP Engine Automated Migration<\/a> \u2014 for the sole purpose of this task. This plugin makes the WordPress website migration from any other hosting to WPEngine a breeze.<\/p>\n You can contact the\u00a0support anytime \u2014 24\/7\/365 \u2014 to request your site migration. The support team will get in touch ASAP to get the details of your website and then you can enjoy a cup of coffee \u2615\ufe0f while they migrate the site to WPEngine for you.<\/p>\n Depending on the cost of plans by WPEngine<\/a>, there are a variety of users which can host their WordPress sites on it. Currently, there are four packages available at their pricing page<\/a>.<\/p>\n The following types of users and companies should get their\u00a0hands on WPEngine’s managed WordPress hosting.<\/p>\n WPEngine’s<\/a> hosting is great for small and midsize businesses who are looking to move their WordPress website to a more secure<\/strong>, managed<\/strong>, and tension-free environment<\/strong>. These businesses can use WPEngine’s migration<\/strong>, analytics<\/strong>, geotargeting<\/strong>, and scaling<\/strong>\u00a0to grow their digital experience for their customers.<\/p>\n Managed WordPress hosting by WPEngine<\/a> can be of great use to WP agencies. These agencies can utilize the User Portal<\/em> of WPEngine to create<\/strong> and launch websites instantly<\/strong>. They can also use it to streamline their workflow<\/strong> of delivering WordPress websites to their customers.<\/p>\n Enterprise clients and large businesses \u2014 like National Geographic<\/strong>, AMD<\/strong>, and SoundCloud<\/strong> \u2014 are powered by WPEngine<\/a>. They have a custom plan for such customers which includes dedicated environments<\/strong>, high-performance servers<\/strong>, 24\/7 phone<\/strong>, and ticket support<\/strong> backed by an army of WordPress experts, and much more.<\/p>\n WPEngine<\/a> is one of the proud partners of WPCouple<\/a>. The good folks at WPEngine were kind enough to let us know that the discount code \u2014\u00a0WPCOUPLE20<\/strong> \u2014 is still in play, which means that you can get 20% off on your first payment<\/strong>.<\/p>\n On the purchase of an annual package, you also get an additional two months worth of hosting for free<\/strong>. Combining that with the above discount code makes it almost four months of premium managed WordPress services without any cost. If I were you, I’d avail this offer to enjoy the peace of mind they’re offering \ud83d\udc83<\/p>\n\ud83d\udd25 WPEngine \u2014 WordPress Hosting, Perfected.<\/a><\/h2>\n
![\"WPEngine](\"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/wpengine-review-header-image.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\ud83c\udfc6<\/h2>\n
All the Right Reasons for Choosing WPEngine<\/h2>\n
\ud83c\udfc5 Award-Winning Customer Support<\/h3>\n
\ud83e\udd1d Values of WPEngine<\/h3>\n
\n
![\"Wpengine](\"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/wpengine-review-company-values.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\ud83d\udee1 Security and Reliability<\/h3>\n
\ud83d\udeab Threat Detection and Blocking<\/h4>\n
\ud83d\ude94 Proactive Security Maintenance<\/h4>\n
\u2705 Managed Patching and Updates<\/h4>\n
\u2696 Scalability<\/h4>\n
\ud83d\ude80 Managed WordPress Hosting<\/h3>\n
\ud83d\udcc8 Performance and\u00a0Optimization<\/h3>\n
\n
\ud83c\udfce Application Performance<\/h4>\n
\u23f0 Page Performance<\/h4>\n
\ud83d\uddc2 Content Performance<\/h4>\n
\ud83d\udcaf\u00a0Solution Center<\/a><\/h3>\n
\n
![\"Wpengine](\"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/wpengine-review-solution-center.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\ud83d\udcb8 35+ Premium StudioPress Themes<\/h3>\n
![\"Wpengine](\"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/wpengine-review-studiopress.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\ud83c\udfac Different Website Environments<\/h3>\n
![\"Wpengine](\"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/wpengine-review-staging-environments.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u267b\ufe0f Free Site Migrations<\/h3>\n
\ud83c\udfe0 Type of Usage<\/h2>\n
\n
![\"Wpengine](\"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/wpengine-review-pricing.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\ud83d\udeb4 SMBs \u2014 Small and Midsize Businesses<\/h3>\n
\u26a1\ufe0f WordPress Agencies<\/h3>\n
\ud83d\udcbc\u00a0Enterprise Clients<\/h3>\n
\ud83e\udd11 Membership Discount<\/h2>\n
\ud83d\ude4c Final Words<\/h2>\n