I’m a big fan of being transparent and open with our clients regarding our service.
Once thing I feel is particularly important is explaining how much value we bring at such a small cost.
Although there are many companies that provide managed WordPress Hosting, we are different.
We do it better, we do more for you, we do it with more care and being a small company we can do things for significantly less than our competitors.
This ensures our clients get the best possible price for a feature rich service that will be hard to match anywhere else.
So without further ado, let’s take a look at the 3 main competitors.
We’ll look at WP Engine, WordPress.com and Go Daddy.
| Hive&Host | WordPress | GoDaddy | WP Engine | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost per month | £25pm All inclusive |
£30pm Starting from |
£9.99pm Starting from |
£41pm Starting from |
| Web hosting | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Email hosting | Included | Extra | Extra | Extra |
| Email backups | Included | Extra | Extra | Extra |
| WordPress Core updates | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| WordPress Plugin updates | Included | Extra | Extra | Extra |
| Manual Theme updates | Included | Extra | Extra | Extra |
| Visual check after Theme update | Included | Extra | Extra | Extra |
| On site backups | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Off site backups | Included | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Website Security (Proactive) | Included | Extra | Extra | Extra |
| Daily Malware Scans | Included | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Website uptime monitoring | Included | Extra | Extra | Extra |
| SSL renewal monitoring | Included | Extra | Extra | Extra |
| Caching | Included | Included | Included | Extra |
| CDN (Content Delivery Network) | Included | Included | Included | Extra |
| Web acceleration Suite | Included | Unknown | Unknown | Extra |
| Manual PHP upgrades | Included | Extra | Extra | Extra |
| Monthly Report | Included | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
| Premium support | Included | Unknown | Extra | Unknown |
(All pricing (ex VAT) and features as of 20th September 2022)
Key differences (What will cost extra)
Below are the key differences between our services and others and what you’ll pay extra for beyond the base service.
WordPress do a great job but they aren’t proactively monitoring your website or updating your website theme.
Their plans
Business plan – £27 pm (Our Price: £30pm + VAT)
Ecommerce plan – £47 pm (Our Price: £60pm + VAT)
Extras
- Email services
These extras are included in our plans
Not included in their plans
- Site monitoring
- WordPress will not update premium Themes.
- No pro-active website monitoring or enhanced security.
These are are included in our plans.
Overall saving for you
Although no monetary saving on paper. Email services would cost an average of £3 to £6 per email address.
In addition there’s many tasks not included in their plans as mentioned above that would require a technical person to handle for you adding further costs.
Go Daddy’s plans don’t offer too much more than WordPress hosting, as you’ll see below if you need any maintenance carrying out on your site each credit to request work is £37.99.
Their plans
Deluxe plan – £9.99 pm* (Our Price: £30pm + VAT)
Ecommerce plan – £19.99 pm* (Our Price: £60pm + VAT)
* Go Daddy works on discounted first year model, so we’ve worked the full costs from the 2nd year onward.
Extras
- WordPress support – £37.99 pm (for 1 credit)
Every time your sites needs some form of maintenance you’ll need a credit.
These extras are included in our plans
Not included in their plans
- Site monitoring
- Updating of plugins
- Updating premium Themes.
- No pro-active website monitoring or enhanced security.
These are are included in our plans.
Overall saving for you
Difficult to say what the savings are her as you would need to purchase credits each time. So we’ve based this on 3 credits.
Our Business plan – Saving you £93.96 pm
Our Boost plan – Saving you £73.96 pm
This doesn’t include email costs.
WP engine is the closest to what we offer. The big difference is that they don’t manually update premium themes.
Their plans
Managed WordPress plan – £41 pm (Our Price: £30pm + VAT)
Ecommerce plan – £87 pm (Our Price: £60pm + VAT)
Extras
- Plugin updates (£2 pm)
- Site monitoring (£3 pm)
- Website security & CDN (£12 pm)
These extras are included in our plans.
Not included in their plans
- Updating of your site Theme.
These are are included in our plans.
Overall saving for you
Our Business plan – Saving you £28 pm
Our Boost plan – Saving you £44 pm
This doesn’t include email costs or costs associated with updating your website theme.
Other providers
There are lots of other providers and in general if you’re paying under £15 pm then you’ll be getting hosting only and no managed services. The hosting is also generally deemed to be lower quality and can affect the performance of your site along with extended periods of downtime.