# WP Engine

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/wp-engine/

Managed WordPress hosting with SSH-based Git push deployment, plan-tiered site and visit allowances, and origin data centers on Google Cloud, AWS and Azure.

## Who it suits

WordPress teams that deploy with Git rather than SFTP — GitPush works over SSH — and want bandwidth overages handled by a conversation rather than an automatic charge on shared plans.

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## Adoption signals

- Detected running on 725,705 live sites (BuiltWith, checked 2026-09-12)

## iScore

61 / 100 (80% interval 57–65), rank 1 of 5 in hosting — interval overlaps the next rank, so this is an ordering, not a finding.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every hosting peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/wp-engine/alternatives/

- Price: 22 (14–30), weight 24%, 3 of 4 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: free_card_required
- Capacity and limits: 48 (36–60), weight 24%, 5 of 6 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: regions
- Capabilities: 89 (83–95), weight 14%, 3 of 6 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: containers, managed_databases, persistent_storage
- Trust and compliance: 75 (69–81), weight 14%, 10 of 10 criteria scored
- Evidence: 97 (97–97), weight 10%, 4 of 4 criteria scored
- Adoption: 80 (70–90), weight 14%, 1 of 2 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: No — Plans page advertises only paid tiers; no free plan or free trial is listed on it. ([source](https://wpengine.com/plans/), read 2026-09-14)
- Kind of free offer: No free offer ([source](https://wpengine.com/plans/), read 2026-09-14)
- Entry paid plan: Starting at $28.00/month for the Managed Hosting Platform, quoted in USD; $336.00 if billed annually. On 14 September 2026 the same URL also served a euro-priced variant at €25.60/month, to roughly one request in eight; thirty consecutive samples on 15 September returned only the dollar-priced body, so that behaviour is recorded as observed and not as current. ([source](https://wpengine.com/plans/), read 2026-09-15)
- Pricing model: Tiered subscription plans (Essential, Core, Enterprise) configured by capacity - sites, visits and storage - billed monthly or annually, with 20% off annual Essential; additional sites are $20 (USD) per month each. ([source](https://wpengine.com/plans/), read 2026-09-13)
- Egress over allowance: No bandwidth overage charge on Shared plans ([source](https://wpengine.com/support/bandwidth-cause-effects/), read 2026-09-05)
- When you exceed a cap: Not throttled or cut off; billed $2 per 1,000 extra monthly visitors ([source](https://wpengine.com/overage-pricing/), read 2026-09-05)

### Limits

- Storage (entry plan): 10 GB storage on the Essential plan at its cheapest capacity tier (1 site, 25,000 visits a month) ([source](https://wpengine.com/plans/), read 2026-09-14)
- Sites or apps included: 1 site on the entry Essential tier (1–30 across Essential capacity tiers); additional sites $20/month each ([source](https://wpengine.com/plans/), read 2026-09-05)
- Monthly visits cap: 25,000 visits/mo on the Essential plan at its cheapest capacity tier ([source](https://wpengine.com/plans/), read 2026-09-05)
- Included bandwidth: 75 GB per month on Essential plans, 550 GB on Core and 550 GB+ on Enterprise, measured as gigabytes transferred per month. ([source](https://wpengine.com/plans/), read 2026-09-13)
- Max request duration: 60 seconds ([source](https://wpengine.com/support/platform-settings/), read 2026-09-05)

### Deployment

- Git deployment: Supported — Via GitPush, WP Engine's own tool, over SSH keys rather than a connected repository. ([source](https://wpengine.com/support/git/), read 2026-09-14)
- Scheduled jobs: Supported — Alternate Cron is server-based and checks for due events every minute; default wp-cron fires on page visits. ([source](https://wpengine.com/support/wp-cron-wordpress-scheduling/), read 2026-09-14)

### Infrastructure

- Edge network: Limited — Global Edge Security is a paid add-on: Cloudflare CDN, WAF, DDoS mitigation and SSL, not included by default. ([source](https://wpengine.com/support/ges/), read 2026-09-14)
- Regions: Google Cloud: Iowa (us-central1), South Carolina (us-east1), Montreal (northamerica-northeast1), Belgium (europe-west1), London (europe-west2), Frankfurt (europe-west3), Netherlands (europe-west4) and others; some regions carry upgraded pricing. ([source](https://wpengine.com/support/servers/), read 2026-09-14)
- Uptime SLA: A 99.99% uptime guarantee from Core upward. Essential, the entry plan, does not list one. ([source](https://wpengine.com/plans/), read 2026-09-14)

### Support

- Support on entry paid plan: 24/7 technical support on Essential, the entry plan; Core adds priority support alongside dedicated infrastructure. ([source](https://wpengine.com/plans/), read 2026-09-14)

### Compliance

- SOC 2: SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 reports are available on request from an Account Manager or WP Engine Sales; they are not published on the site. ([source](https://wpengine.com/support/wp-engines-security-environment/), read 2026-09-13)
- ISO 27001: ISO 27001:2022 certified; the certification is available on request via an Account Manager or WP Engine Sales. ([source](https://wpengine.com/support/wp-engines-security-environment/), read 2026-09-13)
- HIPAA: No - the Acceptable Use Policy forbids using the Services to store or process Protected Health Information as defined under HIPAA. ([source](https://wpengine.com/legal/aup/), read 2026-09-13)
- GDPR / data residency: Hosting region is customer-selectable and includes EU locations (Belgium, London, Netherlands, Finland, Frankfurt); moves between regions by Support request. ([source](https://wpengine.com/support/servers/), read 2026-09-13)
- PCI DSS: WP Engine does not store, process or transmit cardholder data, and its Acceptable Use Policy prohibits customers from doing so on the platform. ([source](https://wpengine.com/support/wp-engine-and-pci-compliance/), read 2026-09-13)
- Encryption at rest: All data on WP Engine servers is encrypted at rest and in transit by default; backup media is encrypted as well. ([source](https://wpengine.com/support/wp-engines-security-environment/), read 2026-09-13)
- Role-based access control: User Portal roles - Owner, Full (with/without billing) and Partial (with/without billing) - scope environment, billing and user-management actions. ([source](https://wpengine.com/support/users/), read 2026-09-13)
- Dedicated infrastructure: Premium plans are fully self-contained environments not shared with other WP Engine customers; other customers get logically separate environments. The plans page separately marks Core and Enterprise environment type as "Isolated" and Essential as "Shared". ([source](https://wpengine.com/support/wp-engines-security-environment/), read 2026-09-13)

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