Insider Hosting
DQuinn.net + WP Engine
If you’ve built a site with me, you already know I’ve always recommended WP Engine as the #1 choice when it comes to hosting websites for WordPress. You may already be on WP Engine as a result. This is because out of all the hosts I’ve dealt with in my 12+ years building WP sites, my experience has been that WP Engine offers the best infrastructure at the most reasonable price.
WP Engine is still the best host out there for WordPress. But what if you could enjoy the performance of a dedicated server on WP Engine for a fraction of the cost and save on retained hours with me at the same time?
Become an Insider
If you’re on WPE, you’re probably on one of the shared plans. You also may have a yearly retainer with me for development work that you pay for separately.
What I’m offering in partnership with WP Engine is the chance to upgrade to a WP Engine dedicated server that I oversee. Here are the plans:
- Under an Insider Plan, you’ll benefit from all the features of a dedicated server: unmetered* bandwidth and visits; speed-boosting Global Edge Security included; and 24/7 phone support with a 99.99% uptime SLA from WP Engine.
- If you opt for a Managed Plan, you’ll also get a free monthly retainer hour from DQuinn.net for as long as you host with WP Engine, automated offsite backups on a third party server, a quarterly website health checkup call with me, and a discounted yearly retainer rate for continued development.
That’s 12 free retained hours a year (a value of $1800), plus hosting on a dedicated server with a 99.99% uptime SLA, 24/7 phone support with WP Engine, and unmetered* bandwidth and visits to your website.
Compare Hosting Plans
| What WP EnGine OfFers | SHARED PLAN | Insider | Managed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maximum number of visits / month allowed to your website | 25,000 | Unmetered* | Unmetered* |
| Maximum storage space allowed for your website | 10 GB | 15 GB* | 20 GB* |
| Maximum traffic allowed to your website | 50 GB | Unmetered* | Unmetered* |
| Get 24/7 support by chat only with WP Engine | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Get 24/7 support by phone with WP Engine | ✔ | ✔ | |
| 99.99% uptime service-level agreement with WP Engine | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Global Edge Security with firewall and CDN (savings of $30/mo) | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Option to install WordPress Multisite | ✔ | ✔ | |
| GeoTargeting pages based on visitor location (savings of $15/mo) | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Access to Genesis Pro library of themes (savings of $25/mo) | ✔ | ✔ |
| What DQuinn.net Offers | SHARED PLAN | Insider | Managed |
|---|---|---|---|
| The buck stops here: DQuinn.net oversees your environment | | ✔ | ✔ |
| All your neighbors are performant sites I personally built | | ✔ | ✔ |
| 1 hour of free development ($1800/year savings!) | | ✔ | |
| Continuous deployment through Beanstalk | | ✔ | |
| Offsite backup of your codebase in a private git repo | | ✔ | |
| A free, quarterly 30-min website health checkup video call | | ✔ | |
| Automated offsite backups of your Media Library, database, and codebase to a third party server (up to 1 TB) | | | ✔ |
| Purchase yearly retainers at $130/hr rate (savings of $240/year!) | | | ✔ |
Dedicated vs. Shared Hosting
About Shared Hosting
When you open a hosting plan by yourself, WPE does a lot of the heavy lifting: most importantly, WordPress core and plugins are automatically updated and you get nightly backups. The plan should take care of itself, especially if you don’t anticipate any future development on the site or heavy increases in traffic. If you need my help, you can open a retainer for a minimum of 15 hours at $150/hr that last for a year.
About Dedicated Hosting
On the WP Engine dedicated server, you get everything in the Shared Plan, plus my oversight and WP Engine’s 99% uptime SLA.
Unlike in the Shared Plan, I personally oversee and have built the websites of all your neighbors on the server (no bad actors and no poorly performing websites to drag everyone down). If there’s a problem with the core or a plugin on upgrade, I’m available for a fix thanks to the included monthly hour of development in your plan, even if you don’t have a retainer with me. At this level, you get 24/7 phone support from WP Engine on the front lines, and me in your back pocket.
* I hate asterisk’d sales copy too, but the word “unmetered” (or “unlimited” in some cases) means something entirely different with web hosts than it does in the real world, and it’s important you’re aware of this. “Unmetered” here means WP Engine won’t enforce overages on bandwidth or traffic, so long as your website isn’t abusing the server’s resources or breaking the terms of service. If you suddenly exceed 1 million visits, for example, this may raise alarm bells that compromise the server, and we’d need to assess if migrating you onto your own dedicated server makes sense.
How Do I Get Started?
Just reach out to me at [email protected], or sign up for a free appointment: https://calendly.com/djamesquinn so I can answer any questions and start your onboarding process.
