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Startup
All the basics for starting a small website or blog.
Annual discount applied!
Starting at
$30/mo
$25/mo 00 (USD)
Billed at $360 $300/yr.
- 25,000 visits / month
- 10GB storage
- 50GB bandwidth / month
- 1 sites included
You're saving $60 by getting 2 months free with annual prepay.
Included for free
- Genesis Framework
- 10 StudioPress Themes
- 24/7 chat support
- Dev/Stage/Prod Environments
- Transferable Sites
- PHP 7.4 ready
- Evercache
- LargeFS
- Global CDN
- Page Performance
- Automated SSL certificates
- SSH Gateway
Available add-ons
- Smart Plugin Manager
- Global Edge Security
- Page Speed Boost
- Genesis Pro
- Additional Sites
Growth
Features you need for a growing business.
Annual discount applied!
Starting at
$115/mo
$95/mo 83 (USD)
Billed at $1380 $1150/yr.
- 100,000 visits / month
- 20GB storage
- 200GB bandwidth / month
- 10 sites included
You're saving $230 by getting 2 months free with annual prepay.
Included for free
- Genesis Framework
- 10 StudioPress Themes
- 24/7 chat support
- Dev/Stage/Prod Environments
- Transferable Sites
- PHP 7.4 ready
- Evercache
- LargeFS
- Global CDN
- Page Performance
- Automated SSL certificates
- SSH Gateway
- 24/7 phone support
- Imported SSL certificates
Available add-ons
- Smart Plugin Manager
- Global Edge Security
- Page Speed Boost
- Genesis Pro
- Additional Sites
Scale
Higher capacity and site limits to scale your experiences.
Annual discount applied!
Starting at
$290/mo
$241/mo 67 (USD)
Billed at $3480 $2900/yr.
- 400,000 visits / month
- 50GB storage
- 500GB bandwidth / month
- 30 sites included
You're saving $580 by getting 2 months free with annual prepay.
Included for free
- Genesis Framework
- 10 StudioPress Themes
- 24/7 chat support
- Dev/Stage/Prod Environments
- Transferable Sites
- PHP 7.4 ready
- Evercache
- LargeFS
- Global CDN
- Page Performance
- Automated SSL certificates
- SSH Gateway
- 24/7 phone support
- Imported SSL certificates
Available add-ons
- Smart Plugin Manager
- Global Edge Security
- Page Speed Boost
- Genesis Pro
- Additional Sites
Custom
For large businesses and mission-critical sites. This dedicated environment delivers high performance, with managed onboarding and our fastest support response.
- Millions visits / month
- 100GB – 1TB storage
- 400GB+ bandwidth / month
- 30 sites included
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Included for free
- Genesis Framework
- 10 StudioPress Themes
- 24/7 chat support
- Dev/Stage/Prod Environments
- Transferable Sites
- PHP 7.4 ready
- Evercache
- LargeFS
- Global CDN
- Page Performance
- Automated SSL certificates
- SSH Gateway
- 24/7 phone support
- Imported SSL certificates
- WordPress Multisite
- GeoTarget
- Consultative onboarding
- Launch readiness assessment
- 1 Smart Plugin Manager License
Available add-ons
- Smart Plugin Manager Multi-Pack
- Global Edge Security
- Page Speed Boost
- Genesis Pro
- Application Performance
- Dedicated Dev. Environments
- Customer success management
- 24/7 ticket support
- High availability