WPEngine vs DreamHost – Which WordPress Hosting Better in 2021

It is undeniable that both DreamHost and WPEngine offer good managed WordPress hosting services to help people build and run a blog. However, a large number of web masters are so bewildered when confronting a choice between them. Recently, many people email us for the suggestions.

With the purpose of help them choose a better one, we aim to work out a comprehensive comparison between DreamHost and WPEngine on the managed WordPress hosting packages.

During the past few months, we have not only reviewed a ton of comments over the Internet, but also respectively applied the two packages, namely, DreamPress plan from DreamHost and Personal plan from WPEngine. After the hard work, we do have gathered a lot of information and accomplished a full-round comparison as following.

Rating
Plan in Review	DreamPress	Personal
Overall
Features
Loading Speed
Reliability
Technical Support
Customer Ratings
Price	$24.95/mo	$29/mo

Plans and Pricing

The DreamPress is the new managed WordPress hosting product from DreamHost. In specific, the plan charges $24.95/mo. However, due to the promotional campaign launched by the company, you are able to purchase it at $19.95/mo with 20% additional discount. It carries with 97-day money back guarantee which is longer than WPEngine.

WPEngine provides 3 main plans covering Personal, Professional and Business for your blog need. In detailed, the packages charge respectively $29/mo, $99/mo and $249/mo. Specifically, the Personal is focused on meeting all the common needs for blogging. On the other hand, the latter ones are suitable for people who raise some special requirements. If you are not satisfied with the hosting services, you can cancel it within 60 days and receive a prorated refund.

Feature

When it comes to choosing a hosting plan, you may take features into consideration seriously. As for this aspect, it is a special strength for DreamHost to spend 12 years to develop its own control panel named hand-rolled. Especially, it includes 1-click installer for simplifying the web application installation, automated Malware Scans, cafe commerce integration, and CloudFlare integration.

Personal, an economical hosting plan, offers Git Version Control to assist you in fully integrating version control with WordPress. Moreover, WPEngine includes one-click restore points for taking a snapshot and restoring it with ease. It is a plus of this company to create a development environment with one click and help you test new plugins and updates in a staging area before applying them. If you want more details about the 2 packages, move on to the following table.

Feature
Plan in Comparison	DreamPress	Personal
Storage	Unlimited	10GB
Bandwidth	Unlimited	Unlimited
Daily backups
Money Back guarantee	97 days	60 days
Dedicated IP
Super-Fast Varnish Caching
Regular Price	$24.95/mo	$29/mo
Discount	20%	N/A
Promo price	$19.95/mo	N/A

Uptime and Speed

DreamHost with multiple data centers promises 100% uptime guarantee and fast speed to all users. In the same time, the data centre in Los Angeles downtown coming with 24×7 monitoring service utilize high-quality Dell servers and redundant power supply. During the period of testing, we have noticed that the uptime reaches 99.96% and the response time is 498ms. The hosting uptime looks great, but the server loading speed is a little bit slow, especially compared with VPS from some branded service like InMotion Hosting and BlueHost.

WPEngine co-locates 3 data centres in UK, Japan and US. In specific, it is equipped with multi-server clusters, and wicked-fast hardware to enhance the customers’ site speed under the control. However, WPEngine is still a startup, and still offers the shared web hosting service although it’s value added.

Customer Service and Technical Support

As known, considerate customer service and technical support is the key of a stable and user-friendly hosting service. Both 2 web hosts have plenty of documentation for the customers to research common problems, but telephone support is the most efficient way to describe and address an issue.

For this perspective, DreamHost has 24/7 customer support via email. However, if you want to reach the real human beings of the support team with phone, you have to pay $9.95/mo for 3 call-backs service.

There are also some shortcomings on WPEngine’s customer support. In detailed, asking for help via live chat is available for all the packages. However, the phone support, except for Personal is only reachable for another two plans from 9am to 6m central time.

Summary

From what we have mentioned above, we conclude that both DreamPress and WPEngine are good choices for blogging due to the rich features, excellent speed and uptime. However, both of them have drawbacks – these are expensive shared web hosting and lack of customer support.

Therefore, if you want a more reliable hosting server with more considerate customer service, we recommend you choosing managed VPS instead of managed WordPress shared web hosting. These 3 plans are fully tested by our editors,