WP Engine Launches To Make Custom Wordpress Hosting Better

There is a time and a place where spending the least amount of money possible is just not required. Yes, you could buy a $10 domain and then spend $4 a month to use GoDaddy hosting, but what if you don’t mind spending a few more dollars on your website?

Assuming that you want help getting your site going, you want to use WordPress, and don’t want to muck about for too long in the back-end getting it in order, Page.ly has long been a very feasible option. At a $15 a month price point, it is cheap enough for everyone and is feature rich to boot.

But what if you just need a little more? WP Engine, which launched last night, is a more expensive, higher performance service that you just might want to check out. The company was put together by a bunch of WordPress junkies looking to scratch their own itch. The product focuses on speed, security, and capability.

In all those areas WP Engine seems to be  a strong offering. What is the catch? At a starting price of $50 a month, it’s not cheap. So what is the difference between Page.ly and WP Engine? From what we can tell, WP Engine has a few features that power users (which might not be you) are going to want to use, like access to their PHP error logs.

The decision seems to be simple then, if you just want to host your own site, Page.ly is a great choice. If you need more, and you are determined to have the best website online, and darn the cost, then the newly launched WP Engine just might be your best bet.

Long live competition, right?

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   Kyle Tunney says July 29, 2010

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   I don’t get it! If you’re going to spend $50pm ($600yr) why would you not just go about getting hosting yourself, Install wp and then you can do absolutely everything to wordpress and more…..

   Or am I missing something?

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     Aaron Brazell says July 29, 2010

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     That’s a viable option but a lot of people just don’t want to worry about that. They are scared their sites are going to be hacked and concerned that they aren’t doing what they need to do to protect themselves. They get a low-end VPS that doesn’t have the horses in place to serve at blazing speed.

     We’re certainly not for everyone but there are definite valuable reasons for us to be the primary choice.

     Thanks for the great, objective write up, Alex!

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   Jason Cohen says July 29, 2010

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   If you don’t mind staying on top of keeping your self-hosted WordPress secure, if you don’t mind learning and implementing all the techniques for keeping WordPress fast and scalable (both in server configuration and in WordPress itself, with plugins), if you don’t mind staying on top of security patches, if you don’t want any assistance picking out good plugins, if you don’t want access to tech support, …

   …then yes of course you should host yourself! Many geeks enjoy that stuff anyway, and that’s perfectly great!

   But for most of us, that’s not fun, that’s work, and $50/mo compared to $20/mo for your own slice (which won’t scale with traffic) just isn’t worth it.

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   Kyle Tunney says July 29, 2010

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   I see your point Jason but in all honesty I don’t think it’s as much hard work as you’ve mentioned. It doesn’t take too long to do all of those things and for that price I think I’d want a flying donkey.

   Then again I guess that’s just my inner geek coming out. I hope the guys do really well in their new web venture, I really do!! :-D

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   Sally Strebel says July 31, 2010

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   Thanks Alex for another excellent post regarding Page.ly. As an FYI, we have a white screen eliminator and we launched a #shutthefrontdoorbecausethisistrulyawesome enterprise package about 3 months ago. There’s been a lot more going on and a lot in the pipeline. We’re really excited to share this with you and give this to the public. =)

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