WPOven is a more simpler and affordable WPEngine alternative . Here are a few reasons why you should consider switching
The Smarter WPEngine Alternative
WPOven vs WPEngine
Unlimited Visits
Unlike WPEngine which offers Visits based pricing WPOven offers bandwidth based pricing, Visits based pricing is problematic as bots, search engines and even people hotlinking are counted as visits. Due to this you may easily run over usage charges as its quite easy to run out of visits. While Bandwidth based pricing is much simpler and most will never run out of it unless hosting large multimedia content.
Unlimited Sites
From our experience most people have on average 3 – 5 sites , which would require a Professional plan on WPEngine even if those sites have little to no traffic. While on WPOven you may start with the smallest plan and grow as you need.
More Storage
One can never have enough storage, for the same value plans WPOven offer storage which is in factors of magnitude being offered by Kinsta. Buisness 1 plan ($100) from Kinsta comes with 10 GB storage which we think is simply too less, while a similar plan from WPOven charged at $79.95 comes with 80GB SSD storage.
Performance Comparison
Given below are the excerpts from a comprehensive hosting performance test done by Review Signal.
Test 1 : Blitz.io 1-1000 Concurrent Users over 60 seconds
| WPOven | WPEngine | |
|---|---|---|
| Hits | 26,687 | 26,281 |
| Error | 0 | 69 |
| Timeouts | 0 | 0 |
| Average Hits / Second | 445 | 438 |
| Average Response Time (ms) | 103 | 117 |
| Fastest Response (ms) | 101 | 114 |
| Slowest Response (ms) | 104 | 127 |
Test 2 : 500-2000 Concurrent Users over 30 Minutes, 10 Minutes at Peak
| WPOven | WPEngine | |
|---|---|---|
| Total Requests | 288,369 | 348,796 |
| Errors | 0 | 26,572 |
| Requests / Sec (at Peak load) | 217.85 | 270.23 |
| Average Requests / Sec | 160.21 | 193.78 |
| Response Time at peak load (ms) | 5815 | 15091 |
| Average Response Time (ms) | 283 | 311 |
Annual Cost Comparison
To put things into perspective we have done a small cost analysis of owning a 3 Sites on WPOven and WPEngine with CDN and SSL on them.We assume the sites in total receive about 100K visitors per month.We have given costs of both the Hobby and a Personal plan as both can handle such traffic and sites but depends on number of plugins and the type of site.
Plans for Personal use |
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WPOven Hobby | WPOven Personal | WPEngine Professional |
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| Basic Plan Cost The Basic Amount you have to pay | 19.95 USD | 39.95 USD | 115 USD |
| SSL Cost / Site / Month The Basic Amount you have to pay | Free | Free | Free |
| Over Usage Charges If your site goes over 400K Visitors | None | None | $1 per 1000 views |
| Annual Cost Annual Cost for 3 | 239.4 USD | 479.4 USD | 1380 USD |
| For a Freelancer or an Agency with about 15 Clients with 300K traffic. | |||
WPOven Professional | WPOven Agency | WPEngine Scale |
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| Basic Plan Cost The Basic Amount you have to pay | 79.95 USD | 149.95 USD | 290 USD |
| SSL Cost / Site / Month The Basic Amount you have to pay | Free | Free | Free |
| Over Usage Charges If your site goes over 100K Visitors | None | None | $1 per 1000 views |
| Annual Cost Annual Cost for 3 Sites | 959.4 USD | 1,799.4 USD | 3480 USD |
Feature Comparison
Given below is a feature comparison between WPOven and Kinsta.
Features | WPOven | WPEngine |
|---|---|---|
Server Setup |
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| Dedicated VPS All plans come with a dedicated Virtual Server optimized for WordPress | Dedicated | Shared |
| Dedicated Resources RAM, IP, CPU and Network resources are allocated from the start | Dedicated | Shared |
| Server Stack The selection of best tools for best performance | Nginx+Varnish | Custom |
| Hardened Server Security best practices with firewall and DoS protection | Yes | Yes |
| Server Location Pick a location for the best load times | US,Europe,Asia ,& Australia | US, Europe and Asia |
WordPress Setup | ||
|---|---|---|
| Number of Sites Build as many sites as you like, performance is limited only by VPS resources | Unlimited | Limited |
| Number of Visits Visits limited only by bandwidth, if required more is available at low rates | Unlimited | Limited |
| Daily Offsite Backup & 1-click Restore Amazon S3 based backup system in case things go south | Yes | Yes |
| Daily Malware Scanning Anti virus and malware scanning, so you are not caught by surprise | Yes | Yes |
| Premium Plugins Selection of best paid plugins available to give you that edge | Yes | No |
| Premium Themes Premium themes for WordPress to get your site looking amazing | Yes | No |
| Site Builder Custom built recipes having themes and plugins to create sites quickly | Yes | No |
Client Manager | ||
|---|---|---|
| White label client Panel Manage client sites using WPOven and let them mange them. | Yes | No |
| Support System Integrated support system for your clients . | Yes | No |
| Invoicing Basic invoicing to collect payments. | Yes | No |
Support and Management | ||
|---|---|---|
| Uptime monitoring We make sure your sites stay online no matter what | Yes | Yes |
| Optimization Support Together we can help make your sites faster for you | Yes | Yes |
| Developer Tools Developer tools like GIT , WP-CLI , SSH Access | Yes | Yes |
| Advanced Setup Free Custom setup with tools like PageSpeed,Redis,MemCache etc | Yes | No |
| Anti-Hacking Support Got hacked ?, Malware warning on your site ? ... no problem let us sort it out | Yes | Yes |
| Custom WordPress Dev Support We handle all issues from troubleshooting plugins / themes to DB related issues | Yes | No |
| Free Migration Service Free migration of all sites to your server | Yes | Sometimes |
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