WORDPRESS PLANS

Four WordPress plans, and the rows where they actually differ.

All four exist in the catalogue today. Switch the matrix to the differences and every security row disappears, because security is on all four and is not something we sell back to you.

Every figure in the matrix was read from the catalogue in your own currency when this page loaded, and the renewal figure is the signup figure.

Switch to the differences and the security rows vanish
Four plans, every row
20 rows
Each row says what the thing does, with the term it goes by underneath it.
WordPress Start$5.00a month, and the renewal is the same figureChoose
WordPress Pro$14.00a month, and the renewal is the same figureChoose
Most pickedManaged WP Start$12.00a month, and the renewal is the same figureChoose
Managed WP Pro$30.00a month, and the renewal is the same figureChoose
What you get
How many WordPress sites you can runSites
1sites
5sites
1sites
1sites
Room for your files, your images and your databaseStorage
20GB
100GB
20GB
50GB
How much your visitors can download in a monthTransfer
200GB
1000GB
200GB
500GB
Email accounts at your own domainMailboxes
5mailboxes
25mailboxes
5mailboxes
10mailboxes
What keeps it running
Updates applied, checked, and then watched for thirty minutesAutomatic updates
A private copy of the site to try changes on firstStaging
Go back to a chosen minute in the last thirty daysPoint in time recovery
Repeated database answers held in memoryObject cache
Run WordPress commands from the panelCommand line
Open wp-admin without typing a second passwordOne click sign in
What protects it
Checked daily against a public list of known break-insVulnerability scanning
Repeated failed sign in attempts blocked at the serverLogin hardening
If you run a shop, its pages are fetched every sixty secondsCheckout monitoring
What we operate for you
Finished pages served without waking WordPressFull page cache
A suspicious file is isolated without waiting for youMalware quarantine
A push to the live site that fails is undone for youAutomatic rollback
Only on the top tier
A second step when you sign in to WordPressTwo factor
How long your pages take, at the middle and at the slow endResponse time monitoring
What it costs, and what it keeps costing
What you pay in year two, and every year after itRenewal
$5.00
$14.00
$12.00
$30.00
Paid a year at a timeYearly
$48.00
$132.00
$120.00
$300.00
THE THREE, AND THE TWO

What the managed tiers add, named one by one.

Three capabilities arrive on the managed tiers and two more only on the top one. That is the whole difference in capability, and it is worth reading before you decide, because the capacity does not move in the same direction.

ManagedFull page cacheA finished copy of a page is served straight from the server, so a visitor does not wait for WordPress to build it again.
ManagedMalware quarantineA file that matches a known bad pattern is moved somewhere it cannot run, without waiting for you to read an alert first.
ManagedAutomatic rollback on a pushIf pushing staging to the live site goes wrong, the live site is put back from the restore point taken moments earlier, without you doing anything.
Top tierTwo factor on wp-adminA second step at the WordPress sign in, so a stolen password is not enough on its own.
Top tierResponse time monitoringHow long your pages take at the middle, at the slow end and at the very slow end, which paths are slowest, and how many PHP workers are busy.
ManagedAnd the part that is not a featureOn the managed tiers the platform operates the site rather than handing you the switches. That is what the extra buys, and the capacity rows in the matrix show it plainly.
ReadingGoodWatchAct
The middle page loadUnder 300ms300 to 800msOver 800ms
The slowest one in twentyUnder 800ms800 to 2000msOver 2000ms
The slowest one in a hundredUnder 2000ms2000 to 5000msOver 5000ms
Requests that errorUnder 1%1 to 5%Over 5%

These are the lines the panel itself judges a site by, printed rather than described. Almost every host draws a speed chart. Publishing the threshold is what makes the chart mean something.

BEFORE YOU DECIDE

Four fair questions, answered against the matrix above.

Each answer carries its concession, because the concession is what tells you the rest is true.

Why would I pay more for managed when the cheap plan already has staging and backups?

Because of five named things and nothing else. A full page cache, malware quarantine and automatic rollback on a push arrive on both managed tiers, and two factor on wp-admin plus response time monitoring arrive only on the top one. If none of those five matters to you, the shared plan is genuinely the better buy.

The concession: those five are the entire capability difference. There is no sixth thing being held back.
Do the managed plans give me more room?

No, and you should see that in the matrix rather than find it out later. Managed WP Start carries exactly the capacity of WordPress Start, and the top shared plan carries more sites, more storage and more transfer than the top managed one. Managed buys operation, not room.

The concession: if what you need is room for more sites, the shared tier is the one to buy, and we would rather say so here than after you have paid.
Is the security really the same on the cheap plan?

Yes. Vulnerability scanning, login hardening and checkout monitoring are on all four, and you can prove it by switching the matrix to the differences and watching those three rows disappear.

The concession: the two managed tiers do add malware quarantine, which is a security capability. Everything else in that group is identical on all four.
I already run WordPress somewhere else.

Moving is a copy of the files, a copy of the database, a rewrite of the old address to the new one, and a nameserver change when you are ready. Your existing site stays up the whole time. How a migration works

ALL FOUR, BUYABLE

Every one of these exists today.

Each button carries its own plan, so you land on signup with the plan you chose rather than back at the beginning.

WordPress Start$5.00a month, and the renewal is the same figure
  • You operate it, with the panel
  • 1sites
  • 20GB of storage
  • 200GB of transfer a month
Choose
WordPress Pro$14.00a month, and the renewal is the same figure
  • You operate it, with the panel
  • 5sites
  • 100GB of storage
  • 1000GB of transfer a month
Choose
Most pickedManaged WP Start$12.00a month, and the renewal is the same figure
  • We operate it
  • 1sites
  • 20GB of storage
  • 200GB of transfer a month
Choose
Managed WP Pro$30.00a month, and the renewal is the same figure
  • We operate it
  • 1sites
  • 50GB of storage
  • 500GB of transfer a month
Choose

Price parity is written into the Terms of Service, not into this page. Read clause 7.5

Pick the row that decides it, then pick the plan.

If it is capacity, the shared tier wins. If it is having somebody operate the site, the managed tier does.