The company was started by Jason Cohen, an experienced technologist and serial entrepreneur, who develops and refines WP Engine’s technology roadmap in his CTO role:
I started WP Engine because I wanted to work on interesting, real problems experienced by interesting, real customers, and come to the office every day thrilled to be working with the people around me. Somehow, we’ve been lucky enough to make that dream a reality.
With over 600 employees listed on LinkedIn, and offices in the US, UK and Australia, WP Engine is the world’s largest specialist WordPress hosting provider, and trusted by small businesses, leading brands and agencies that have signed up to their Partner Program.
In 2018 Gartner recognized WP Engine in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management, indicating that “WP Engine scored highest in the area of cloud capabilities.”
In July 2018 WP Engine acquired StudioPress and its Genesis Framework and collection of themes to deliver “Powerful, Accelerated Development of WordPress Digital Experiences”, to integrate within its platform and expand its capability and allowing developers to build and launch website more efficiently.
WordPress Hosting Products & Services
WP Engine host over 80,000 customers on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Amazon Web Services (AWS), allowing them to quickly scale their operations globally.
They offer three managed WordPress hosting plans and a fourth customer option for enterprise:
- Startup – for 1 site – from USD $35 month
- Growth – for 5 sites – from USD $115 month
- Scale – for 15 sites – from USD $290 month
- Custom – for large businesses and mission-critical sites.
All plans come with the Genesis framework and over 35 StudioPress themes.
Enterprise customers on custom plans have access to a security product called Global Edge Security, which was launched in November 2018 in partnership with CloudFlare.
WordPress Support & Management
WP Engine has developed a comprehensive set of tools and services to help customers manage WordPress as effectively as possible, including:
- One Click Staging
- Dedicated Dev Environments
- WordPress Core Updates
- Free CDN and SSL Certificates
- Dev, Stage, Prod Environments
Customers signing up for premium solutions have access to Serviced Onboarding, a “dedicated technical and account management team ensures a smooth start and continued success on WP Engine.”
Support is handled by a large team of WordPress experts available 24/7/365.
