Looking for a WP Engine alternative?
WP Engine meters your plan by monthly visits. A good month can mean overage charges. G7Cloud hosts your WordPress sites at a fixed £/mo with no visit caps, and includes the email, DNS and backups WP Engine leaves out.
Free plan forever · no card · 30-day money-back on paid plans
About WP Engine
Who WP Engine are
WP Engine, founded in 2010 in Austin, Texas, is a managed WordPress company. It owns WordPress products including Flywheel and Advanced Custom Fields, and its plans are metered by monthly visits.
If you want fixed UK pricing, a dedicated container per site, and email, DNS and tested backups included as standard, here is why teams move to G7Cloud.
The case for switching
Why people leave WP Engine for G7Cloud
Fixed pricing, a dedicated container per site, and email, DNS and tested backups included as standard. Here is what changes when you move.
Visit metering punishes growth
WP Engine plans include a monthly visit allowance, and going over it costs extra, so a press mention or a strong campaign month raises your hosting bill. G7Cloud has no visit caps and no usage billing on any plan. Your best month costs the same as your quietest.
The entry plan is one site
WP Engine starts at around $20/mo (about £16) with annual billing for a single site, and multi-site plans step up quickly. G7Cloud Business is £24/mo fixed for 3 sites; Pro is £59/mo for 10. Agencies and freelancers with a handful of client sites feel this difference immediately.
Email and DNS are someone else’s problem
WP Engine does not host email, so every client site needs a separate email provider and DNS arrangement. G7Cloud includes mailboxes, webmail, spam filtering and full DNS hosting on every paid plan: one login, one bill, one support contact.
Backups proven by nightly restore tests
G7Cloud restore-tests every backup nightly (an automatic, real restore into a sandbox) and supports full, single-file and single-database restores with off-site targets (S3, R2, SFTP). Backups you have to take on faith are not really backups.
Not locked to WordPress
WP Engine is a WordPress platform. G7Cloud hosts WordPress just as happily, plus custom PHP, Magento, Ghost, and git-deployed apps in 14 frameworks with PR preview environments. When a client project needs Next.js or a headless CMS, you do not need a second host.
Fixed GBP pricing, UK team
Billed in pounds, built and run by engineers in the UK. No USD exchange-rate drift, and support comes from the people who operate the platform rather than a large tiered queue.
G7Cloud vs WP Engine, side by side
What you get on each plan, side by side.
WP Engine starts at around $20/mo (about £16) with annual billing for a single site with a monthly visit allowance. G7Cloud prices are fixed GBP with no visit metering.
Want the full head-to-head? Read our complete G7Cloud vs WP Engine comparison.
Fixed prices, one ladder
What switching actually costs
Fixed GBP prices. The price you sign up at is the price you renew at, whatever your traffic or team size. Every plan includes the AI Website Builder, free SSL and ScaleShield protection.
Business
Up to 3 sites plus full-stack AI apps: shop, bookings, CMS.
- 3 hosted sites: any type, incl. WooCommerce & Magento
- Full-stack AI apps: online shop, bookings, CMS & more
- Database plus admin panel on AI-built sites
- Stripe checkout on your AI-built shop (your own keys)
- AI Website Builder · 5 projects, publish 3
- 1.25M AI tokens per month
- Managed PostgreSQL & Redis add-ons
- Site cloning, phpMyAdmin, WP-CLI
- Everything in Starter included
Full feature breakdown on the pricing page. 30-day money-back guarantee on every paid plan.
Moving from WP Engine
We move you. Free. You approve every step.
Our team migrates your WordPress sites from WP Engine with you: files, databases, and email/DNS if you are consolidating those too. You review everything on a preview URL while your WP Engine site stays live; DNS switches only when you approve. Free on every paid plan.
- Assisted by our team: we do it with you, not to you
- Preview everything on a temporary URL before anything switches
- Your old site stays live until you approve the cutover
- 30-day money-back guarantee if it does not work out
WP Engine alternative: questions answered
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Host your site on managed UK infrastructure from £12/mo, or build something new with the AI Website Builder on the Free plan. Fixed prices, and you own the code.