Features
Everything between a bare server and a WordPress site that stays up.
WPShift builds the machine, installs the stack, runs the sites, watches them and backs them up. The pages below are the whole of it — there is no enterprise tier hiding the useful half.
Infrastructure
Cloud servers
You open an account with a cloud company like Hetzner or DigitalOcean, and give WPShift permission to use it. We build the server, install everything WordPress needs, and look after it from then on. The server sits in your account, on your bill, and stays there if you ever stop using us.
ReadPHP versions
PHP is the programming language WordPress is written in, and newer versions run the same site noticeably faster. The catch is that an old plugin or theme can break on a new version. WPShift installs several versions of PHP on one server and lets you choose one per site, so you can move a site forward on its own — and move it straight back if something misbehaves.
ReadServer statistics
We record how hard each server is working — processor, memory, disk space — every few minutes, and keep it. It is not an exciting screen, but most server problems announce themselves days in advance, and this is where you see them coming.
ReadSecurity & firewall
A new server has everything closed except the two doors websites use. Nobody can log in with a password. Nobody can log in as the all-powerful root account. Each site runs under its own user, so a break-in on one cannot reach the files of another. This is done during setup, not left as homework.
ReadDatabases
Everything you write in WordPress — pages, posts, orders, customers, settings — lives in a database. WPShift creates one for each site, along with a login that only opens that one. Cheaper hosting often shares a single login across every site on the server, which turns one break-in into all of them.
ReadWordPress
WordPress sites
Pick a server, pick a domain, and WPShift installs WordPress, sets up a database, gets the security certificate and puts the site online. You can also copy a site you already run here, or move one across from your current host.
ReadStaging & copies
A staging site is a private copy of a live site that you can break without anyone noticing. WPShift copies the whole thing — content, images, plugins, theme and settings — onto the same server or a different one, so what you test on is genuinely the same as what your visitors see.
ReadSSL certificates
An SSL certificate is what puts the padlock in the address bar and turns http into https. Browsers warn people away from sites that do not have one. WPShift gets a free certificate when your site is created, renews it before it runs out, and tells you loudly if a renewal ever fails.
ReadCaching
Caching means keeping a copy of work already done so it does not have to be done again. WPShift does it in two places: finished pages are kept by the web server and handed straight to visitors, and the answers to common database questions are kept in memory. Both are set up for you, and both can be switched on or off per site.
ReadProtection
Backups
WPShift copies your content and your files on whatever schedule you set, and keeps those copies somewhere other than the server they came from. Putting one back is a normal thing you can do on a quiet afternoon, not a procedure you read about for the first time while a client is on the phone.
ReadUptime monitoring
Every five minutes we load your site from outside your server and record what came back. If it stops answering, you hear about it. And because we are also recording how hard the server is working, you usually get to see what led up to it instead of just being told it happened.
ReadSpeed & Core Web Vitals
Every day we run your site through Google PageSpeed Insights, on mobile and on desktop, and keep the score. Instead of arguing about whether the site feels slower, you can look at the day the number dropped and go and find out what changed.
ReadDomains & email
Domains & DNS
DNS is the address book of the internet. It tells browsers which server your domain lives on, and tells mail systems where to deliver your email. Run it here and the entries for the sites you host are written and kept up to date for you, including the ones that decide whether your email arrives at all.
ReadEmail hosting
Real inboxes at your own address — you@yourbusiness.com — that work in Apple Mail, Outlook, Gmail on your phone, or the webmail here. Not forwarding to a personal address. And the settings that decide whether your mail arrives instead of landing in spam are written for you.
ReadWorking together
Team access
Instead of one account whose password is written down somewhere, each person gets their own, and you decide what each of them can do. Group your work so a client can see their own sites and nobody else's. When somebody leaves, you remove them without changing anything for anyone else.
ReadAI Copilot
Copilot can read your servers, your sites and the record of everything that has run on them. So when something fails, it can tell you which step failed, what the server said, and what to change — about your site, rather than about websites in general.
ReadConnect a server and move a site.
Seven days is enough to provision a server, move a site across and watch it run. No credit card required.