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A WordPress hosting comparison: where WPShift fits
WPShift is software for people who want to choose the infrastructure their WordPress sites run on. You connect a cloud account at DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Linode, AWS, Google Cloud or Vultr. WPShift sets up the server there and manages the sites, domains, mailboxes and backups on it.
Free plan available. Paid plans include a 7-day trial. Server costs are separate.
Comparisons
WPShift next to five other products
Each comparison was written from the other company's own pages and states the date they were read, 30 September 2026. Each one also says when the other product suits better.
- FlyWP vs WPShift Another panel for servers you control.
- Kinsta vs WPShift Hosting plans on a managed platform.
- Laravel Forge vs WPShift A server management platform for many stacks.
- RunCloud vs WPShift A panel for web applications in general.
- WP Engine vs WPShift Three tiers on a managed WordPress platform.
The model
WPShift sets up the server in your own cloud account
WPShift
The dashboard that sets up the server and manages what runs on it.
sets up and manages
- Site
- Site
- Site
- Staging copy
- Nginx serves the pages
- PHP runs WordPress
- MariaDB stores the content
- Redis keeps frequently used data in memory
- Firewall allows HTTP, HTTPS and SSH only
- Provider and location
- You choose one of the six supported providers and one of the regions it offers.
- Server setup
- WPShift installs Nginx, PHP, MariaDB and Redis and applies the firewall and access settings.
- Infrastructure billing
- Your provider invoices you directly for a server in your own account. WPShift adds nothing to that bill.
- WordPress management
- WPShift for the hosting tasks, the WordPress admin for the website itself.
- Access
- Dashboard controls for services, PHP settings, firewall rules, sites and databases, and SSH for the exceptions.
- Capacity
- Two separate limits: the server's CPU, memory and disk, and your plan's site allowance.
- Other services
- WPShift is not a CDN, a page builder or an analytics platform. Use the ones your sites need.
Support
Check what support you need
WPShift's support covers the platform and its infrastructure features. If you need someone to repair theme code, debug a custom plugin or commit to a particular incident-response time, find out where that will come from before you choose a setup.
The bill
Count the whole setup
When you compare WPShift with a hosting plan, count the server, the software subscription, backup storage, email, a CDN and support on both sides.
A plan: Free €0, Solo €5,99, Studio €14,99 or Scale €29,99 a month, excluding VAT. Mailboxes, backup storage and DNS hosting are part of it. A server in your own cloud account is billed by your provider, with nothing added. A WPShift Cloud server is billed by WPShift.
Test a site before you switch
Migrate a copy and see how it runs on the server you picked. Your current hosting keeps serving the live site until you move DNS.
Free plan available. Paid plans include a 7-day trial. Server costs are separate.
The setup, in three steps
- Connect your cloud account
- Choose the region and size
- WPShift sets up the server