WPEngine Review: Does It Really Make Your Site Load Any Faster?

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WordPress currently powers just over 26% of the web — a pretty amazing statistic.

From TED to TechCrunch to an 11th grader’s short poem blog — WordPress provides an endless list of possibilities.

Part of what makes WordPress so amazing is that not only can it power TED.com, but it’s also suitable for an 11th grader’s blog. From millions of visits daily to just a few visitors per month — WordPress can get the job done.

If your website generates serious traffic, you should definitely consider managed WordPress hosting. WordPress.com VIP hosting is perfect for MNCs like BBC and Time, but it requires a substantial investment — plans start from $3,750 per month.

Enter one of the most reputed and popular WordPress managed hosting solutions — WPengine.

In today’s article, I’m going to try and produce a fair, all-around review of WP Engine.

WP Engine was founded by Ben Metcalfe and Jason Cohen back in July 2010. Their current CEO is Heather Brunner who has moved up from the COO position. Heather Brunner was previously COO at Bazaarvoice and according to WPEngine, “She’s been an amazing force to help us grow and keep improving our customer service as we grow.”

And that’s true, considering that fact that they have have emerged into one of the most reputed WordPress-only managed hosting companies in the industry. In just a little under three years, they’ve generated over 21.7k Twitter followers and 9.3k Facebook fans.

WPEngine Review

We’re more likely to remember the stuff we see — than the stuff we read. I’m going to bore you with more reading later 😛. To grab your attention, I thought it’d be a good idea to start off with the gallery first! Some of the images are resized, so please click on ’em for a full-screen preview.
The WP Engine Combined Dashboard gives you a bird’s eye view of the WP Engine’s capabilities– clearing the database cache, CDN control, user role permissions, error logs, and some other advanced configuration.
The User Portal allows you to view and manage (add/delete) users in your WPengine account. It’s clean, easy and gives the stuff you need to work in a collaborative project.

The Installation manager is another great tool that lets you add/manage multiple WordPress installations and configure advanced options for each of them.

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