In-depth reviews
Pressable and the Automattic Lawsuit
Your host owns the platform. What happens when the owner picks sides in the WP Engine dispute.
Kinsta Bandwidth vs Visits
Three meters running simultaneously: visits, server bandwidth, CDN bandwidth. You pick one to pay on. CDN overage applies regardless.
Alternatives & switching
WP Engine Staging Data Loss
Pushing staging to production can overwrite WooCommerce orders. The fix and the safe workflow.
Cloudways Markup Explained
Tier-by-tier: what you pay Cloudways vs raw DigitalOcean and Vultr pricing.
Cloudways After DigitalOcean
What actually changed post-acquisition: support, billing, providers, pricing.
Not Owned by Private Equity
The ownership map: who's PE-controlled, who isn't (it's a short list).
Leaving WP Engine
Where to go, what to avoid, and when staying is smarter.
Billing & hidden costs
Kinsta Add-On Costs
Redis $100/mo, reverse proxy $50, hourly backups $100. What $35/mo really costs.
WP Engine Visitor Counting
Why your bill is 20-50% higher than Google Analytics says it should be.
Surprise Overage Bills
How visit-based pricing works, and the break-even where you should upgrade.
Are AI Bots Padding Your Bill?
Bots are 51% of traffic. Whether they hit your visit-based bill, explained.
Is It Even Worth It?
You're not paying for speed, you're paying for the maintenance you skip.
Setup & gotchas
Banned Plugins
Why WP Engine blocks W3 Total Cache and 50+ others, and what to use instead.
WooCommerce & PHP Workers
The real bottleneck for a store isn't visits, it's PHP workers.