I don’t make hosting recommendations lightly. I’ve been using WPEngine myself for over two years which is about as much time as it takes to convince me they can consistently deliver a high level of service.
Web hosting is a mission-critical service and hosting relationships usually last years. Ideally it’s a service you set up and forget about, but all too often that’s not what happens. Your site goes down, or slows to a crawl. Maybe you get hacked. You try to contact your hosting company for help and you either can’t get through to a person, or you speak to someone who is reading from a script and who knows less about hosting than you do, or you have to wait hours or days for any meaningful response. Meanwhile, your business is on hold. None of those experiences is likely to occur if WPEngine is hosting your site.
Here are the main reasons I advise small business clients use WPEngine for hosting their WordPress sites.
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