HostGator Vs WPEngine (2023) – Which Web Hosting Is Best?
HostGator Vs WPEngine – Which Hosting company is the Best one?.
Are you struggling to make a decision about which Web Hosting company you can switch over?.
Let us see in detail about these 2 Web Hosting companies features and find out which one beats the other.
HostGator Vs WPEngine – Overall Comparision
Sites hosted in HostGator are huge in volume.
HostGator deals with a large number of servers.
They are in the industry for a long time and they are the well known reputed player with awesome features like easy to use control panel, cheap hosting plans etc.
Hostgator comes with different types of hosting namely Dedicated Hosting, VPS Hosting etc. but WPEngine doesn’t offer the similar type of Hosting and their hosting plan is specifically built for WordPress Sites.
WP from WPEngine stands for WordPress. This hosting is for WordPress sites and provides Enterprise-level WordPress hosting, built in caching and staging and unlimited data transfer.
Below table helps us to compare features of both HostGator and WPEngine.
| HostGator | WPEngine |
| Control Panel is very easy to use | Not very easy when comparing with HostGator |
| Free Weebly site builder | Free SSL and CDN |
| Unlimited Disk Space, Emails, and Bandwidth on all Plans | Limited Disk Space 10 GB – 30 GB |
| 45-day money-back guarantee | 60-days money-back guarantee |
HostGator plans start at very less price
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WPEngine plans price is somewhat costly
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| Hostgator offers different types of hosting like Dedicated Hosting, VPS Hosting, Cheap Hosting, WordPress Hosting, Windows Hosting etc. | WPEngine offers only one type of hosting namely WordPress Hosting. Other types of Hosting, WPEngine not yet started offering. Might be in the future they may offer. |
| Hostgator is there in the market for almost a decade. So obviously they are more experienced than WPEngine. | WPEngine came into the market after HostGator only. They yet to offer multiple features like HostGator and make things easier for starters. |
| HostGator is recommended for both beginners and experienced users as well. | WPEngine is recommended for experienced users only as they only able to use features like development staging areas, CDN compatibility, multiple server locations, GII integration etc. |
| Installing WordPress theme, bringing the site up and running it is easy even for beginners. | Doing the same, won’t be easier especially for beginners. |
| 99.9% Uptime Guarantee. Your site will be always up. | Here also Uptime is not bad because they are focussing only on WordPress sites. |
| The number of sites hosted in HostGator is more than WPEngine. | Number of sites hosted in WPEngine is less than HostGator. |
| Speed: Based upon the comparison in the speed test, it is found that HostGator is 18% faster than WPEngine | Less speed than HostGator |
| Customer support with HostGator is good. | WPEngine also provides good customer support |
HostGator Vs WPEngine – Who is the Winner?
If we compare HostGator vs WPEngine features, the winner is pretty clear.
HostGator beats WPEngine in most of the factors.
So we declare ‘HostGator is the Winner‘
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