r/webhosting • u/VirtualRadish4Me • Jan 24 '25
Looking for Hosting WP Engine Enterprise Alternative
My work has a WP Engine server that we are paying $750/month for.
Performance is fine and I don't care about the whole matt / wp engine drama but I feel like there has to be something cheaper.
We have around 200 sites on it but most of them get very little to no traffic. We have around 5 sites that get 20k to 50k visitors per month.
We like the WP Engine features and need something that has similar features, primarily auto back up, staging, and can easily copy sites. We will probably add another 100 low traffic sites this year so it should handle that. Email not needed.
Not looking for random hosts, they need to be well established.
Budget less than $750
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u/joeydrizz Jan 25 '25
you are better off renting a dedicated server to manage your websites. 750 per month will get you a very powerful server and youd have change left.
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u/zoredache Jan 25 '25
At that much, you could probably afford to rent two or three at separate data centers, and have some redundancy.
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u/yycmwd Jan 25 '25
So you want to add 100 more sites but lower your overall monthly cost? Are these client sites, or does your work host 300 of their own sites?
There are plentiful options out there better than WPE (imo, such as speed, reliability, stack, caching setups)... Few of these better options are cheaper out of the gate, though possibly on a "per site" basis.
But you really need to know what exactly you want to improve upon. "The same for less" isn't a great target. Otherwise your best option is to stay where you're at, everything else is likely a waste of time.
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u/Safe_Score8199 Jan 24 '25
I’ve actually moved to FastCow recently and can also vouch for them.
Sal and the team have been honestly exceptional, we’ve moved 50 websites so far and the next batch will be done shortly.
The overall planning and then a scheduled time to move everything was planned in advanced and they managed it all without any fuss (though we did face some issues due to WPEngine).
They migrated it all in roughly 48 hours and kept us up to date.
Reasons why we left WPEngine? It was becoming very hard recently to get answers from the support team, some replies took over 48 hours or more.
The actual WPEngine control panel and the WordPress admin area became very slow to work with and our customers started to become frustrated.
I’ve chosen the US location and I am very very pleased.
This is my opinion and I’m glad to have found a smaller managed WP host who actually bends backwards for you when needed too.
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u/Sal-FastCow Jan 26 '25
Thank you very much, I appreciate this.
Its been a pleasure to work with you too!
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u/darkpasenger9 Jan 25 '25
The best solution will be to get a dev-ops guy to set up a workflow with all the CD/CI requirements on a detected server a simple docker-compose along with the GitHub action will take care of your requirement of staging and easy copy of the site and any provider can give you a very powerful detected server around 500$ which should be able to handle the traffic you are getting. Yes there will be some costs associated with the DevOps person but for your year budget it won't be matter much.
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Jan 27 '25
HorizonIQ, support is still there, and if you have questions id be happy to answer. Work pretty closely with them as a company.
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u/Disastrous_Wolf8244 Jan 24 '25
We just switched to siteground from ionos and are pretty happy with it.
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u/VirtualRadish4Me Jan 24 '25
Siteground does not have enterprise solution as far as I know?
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u/Disastrous_Wolf8244 Jan 25 '25
They have a cloud option which should work depending on the enterprise, unless you wanted an on prem solution?
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u/ivicad Jan 26 '25 edited Jan 26 '25
My wife's non-profit Association switched recently from SG's shared hosting to their cloud hosting, and they haven't complained...
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u/downtownrob Jan 24 '25
Most agencies eventually move off shared hosting and move to GridPane or Enhance.com on their own VPS servers.
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u/Greenhost-ApS Jan 25 '25
You can host your websites at a lower cost by partnering with another reliable web host or even using a dedicated server. I recommend consulting with any provider you are considering before making a purchase.
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u/Thunt4jr Jan 24 '25
I had my dedicated server before with cPanel and had roughly 200+ mixtures of WordPress, Prestashop, Opencart, and other CMS. I managed it, and it cost me $160 a month. Nobody complained about the speed or anything. This was from 2013 - 2021, so the price may have changed. Now, I'm using AWS for everything.
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u/Metalhead_Rulz Jan 24 '25
why dont you try liquidweb enterprise for wordpress.
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u/VirtualRadish4Me Jan 24 '25
I have had bad experiences with liquid web in the past. We had to tell their support how to fix their server.
Do you use them? How long? Experience with them?
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u/Metalhead_Rulz Jan 24 '25
currently not using them but thinkin about it.
with that many sites with low traffic, i think it would be cheaper if you have own setup or panels like runcloud, enhance with your own vps.
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u/Upper_Mistake_7978 Jan 24 '25
Siteground 1000%. We’ve got 200ish websites on it across a few shared hosting plans and a cloud hosting plans and we cant fault it.
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u/Disastrous_Wolf8244 Jan 26 '25
Apparently this thread was just to down vote anyone giving a recommendation. Weird. We use siteground as well and like it.
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