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WP Engine

Managed WordPress host founded in 2010 in Austin, Texas, running customer sites on public cloud infrastructure behind a CDN.

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WordPress, and nothing but.

WP Engine is a managed WordPress host founded in 2010 in Austin, Texas, with an office in Limerick, Ireland. It has been majority-owned by the private-equity firm Silver Lake since 2018 and has acquired a large slice of the WordPress ecosystem along the way: Flywheel, the Local development app, the Genesis framework and the Advanced Custom Fields plugin. Customer sites run on Google Cloud and AWS behind a Cloudflare-based CDN and security layer.

The platform is WordPress-only and fully managed: core and PHP updates are applied by the provider, caching sits at server level, backups run automatically, and staging and development environments come with every plan. Developer tooling includes SSH, git push and WP-CLI. Plans are fixed tiers metered by monthly visits and by the number of sites included, billed annually.

Worth knowing

A disallowed-plugins list blocks caching and backup plugins that conflict with the managed stack, so some widely used WordPress plugins cannot be installed.

WP Engine has been in a legal dispute with Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, since 2024 over trademark use and WordPress.org access.

Identity

Founded
20103
Reach
↑17,3002
Ownership
Private-equity owned7
Parent
Silver Lake7
Status
Active
Wikidata
Q199038191

Regions and law

Headquarters
United States3

Automation

API
Public6

Sources

  1. 2026-09-09: Wikidata
    www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19903819
  2. 2026-09-07: Reach
    majestic.com/reports/majestic-million
  3. 2026-08-01: Founded, Headquarters
    wpengine.com/about-us/
  4. 2026-08-01: links, Paid, Exit
    wpengine.com/legal/terms-of-service/
  5. 2026-07-31: Entry price, Typical ceiling, Currencies, Billed, Pricing model, Backups, Minimum contract
    wpengine.com/plans/
  6. 2026-08-09: API
    wpengine.com
  7. 2026-08-21: Ownership, Parent
    www.silverlake.com/portfolio/
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