WordPress VIP vs. WP Engine

Our commitment to open source

The developers and product engineers at VIP are some of the foremost WordPress experts in the world. Why? VIP is part of Automattic, which is dedicated to giving 5 percent of its resources back to the WordPress project as part of the Five for the Future commitment.

Our organization learns from WordPress as we give back to it, and that gives us the expertise to build for complex enterprise needs.

WordPress VIP contributes to every single WordPress release. This involvement sometimes runs deep—with WordPress 5.5, for example, we would be second in the world for contributors if VIP was counted separately from Automattic.

Enterprises need bigger, better features

Intelligent content authoring: Our smart AI tools help you generate more clicks and engagement by learning from your top-performing content.

Out-of-the-box tools: WordPress VIP enhances the best tools from our community for enterprise scale, including Enterprise Search, content collaboration, and SEO. 

Performance at scale: We maintain industry-leading site speed, even on the busiest days of the internet. Our platform scales to support the biggest sites on the web.

Unmatched security: WordPress VIP is the only WordPress-powered platform with FedRAMP authorization. We help keep you safe from the most modern and sophisticated threats.

Rich feature set

Multisite support: The VIP Platform fully supports multisite, empowering customers to rationalize their infrastructure across all brands, subsidiaries, and locations.

Developer toolkit: Our development workflow is optimized for speed and safety, with a built-in dashboard and command-line interface to manage your application. We’ve engineered industry-leading tools to improve developer agility, including enhanced database access with phpMyAdmin, deployment rollbacks, Slow Query Logs, on-demand database backups, custom deployments from your own repositories, and cloud development environments with GitHub Codespaces. 

Secure cloud platform: We support Single Sign-On (SSO), Two Factor Authentication (2FA), DDoS protection, and full encryption of traffic from edge to origin. We also run parts of our production file system in read-only mode, protecting applications against many frequent forms of attack. Reduce risk and exposure with the only dedicated enterprise WordPress provider with FedRAMPⓇ authorization. Our servers are also SSAE SOC 2 compliant.

Enterprise-ready: WordPress VIP standard features include multiple caching layers, a world-class Content Delivery Network (CDN), built-in enterprise search service, horizontally scaling application infrastructure, hourly backups, and 24/7 monitoring.

Superior customer success

WordPress expertise: As part of the Automattic family, many of our employees have been with WordPress since its inception. As stewards of the largest WordPress sites, our experts know better than anyone else how to optimize WordPress for enterprise functionality.

Proactive service: Our Fortune 500-level support and services means our customers are free to focus their technical resources on critical business objectives—we handle the rest.

Technical and strategic consulting: Our architectural consultants help customers assemble the best enterprise solutions, experts, and global agencies from the large open source community to build a technology stack that actually solves their digital experience needs.

Human-centered support: Far beyond simple ticket-based support, WordPress VIP customers enjoy a dedicated support team of experts to help meet business objectives and bring a product roadmap to life.