Hi Roger – Thanks for sharing your experience with WP Engine. I agree with your opinion that new players tend to try harder. Like any company, when you become one of the major players in the industry, your resources are typically prioritized for the big customers and sacrifice the tiny bloggers/businesses by putting issues they are experiencing to less-urgent. Although I am not saying it is always the case. Any business may go through a bad phase and lose the trust of their customers.

I stumbled on WPOven while doing the research and found it to be interesting too. I just decided to limit to only 5 companies at the time, but hearing your recommendation I want to put them back on. Maybe I can create a separate post for all managed WP hosting under $20/mo 🙂

Cheers.

Good to see you include the relative new hostings like lightinbase and flywheel.
I was with WP-Engine, they had good support at the begin but lately during the last year or so there support really went down hill. I had by site down several of times and a couple of times down for about the whole day.
I then moved to WPOven and found firstly there prices to be very fair as compared to the high prices of WP-Engine and the sites run super fast. I would definitely recommended new hosting services as oppose to WP-Engine. The new guys try harder and provide a better service at a better price IMO.

Thanks

Hi Chris – I personally love small(er) hosting companies, as long as they are committed to provide the best service, hardware and have the right team behind it. That is probably why you can offer an attractive plan that are usable for smaller projects.

Thanks for dropping by and sharing your comment.

– Chris