The site currently runs on WP Engine's Premium 1 plan at $606 per month. Pulled live from the account, the actual workload is 37 GB of storage, 347 GB of bandwidth and 56,362 total visits per cycle. The recommendation below is a dedicated server with 8 cores, 32 GB of RAM and 400 GB of NVMe — several times the power of what is running the site today, for $25.99 a month.
Figures below are read directly from the WP Engine account on 8 Aug 2026 (billing cycle 17 Jul – 16 Aug). The gap between allowance and consumption is the whole argument.
| Line | Plan allowance | Actually used | Headroom sitting idle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Storage | 100 GB | 37.14 GB35.77 GB files · 1.38 GB database | 63 GB unused |
| Visits | Premium 1 tier | 56,362 total11,902 billable, 15,716 projected | Far below tier |
| Bandwidth | Included | 347 GB / cycle | — |
| Sites | Unlimited multisite | 3hedgefundtel · leeanntwebsite · one blank install | Not used |
| Sandbox sites | 150 included | 0 GB | All 150 unused |
| Staging / dev | Included | 0 GB · 0 GB | Not used |
| Invoiced | $600.00 base | $606.00 / month | $7,272.00 / year |
Premium 1 bundles unlimited multisite, 150 sandbox sites, NitroPack, Smart Plugin Manager and Site Monitoring. The account uses none of them meaningfully — staging and development storage both read 0 GB. The plan is priced for an agency running dozens of sites; this is three sites, one of which is empty.
Live pricing, 8 Aug 2026, on the 24-month term. The promotional rate applies to the first term; the renewal rate is what it costs from year three onward. Both are shown, because a comparison that only quotes the promo price is not an honest one.
The site is already 37 GB. A 50 GB disk leaves 13 GB before backups, and uploads are growing. Rules itself out on storage alone.
Genuinely runs this site today. 8 GB is enough for MySQL, Redis and PHP-FPM — but leaves little room for the WooCommerce cleanup work or a bad traffic day.
200 GB gives 5× current storage, and 16 GB RAM means the 1.4 GB database sits entirely in the MySQL buffer pool with Redis alongside. A solid box — but half the machine for $12 less a month.
The one to take. 8 cores and 32 GB is real power under a WooCommerce store with 17,500 orders and a 1.4 GB database — reports, exports and bulk jobs stop being something you wait on. Holds all three sites with permanent headroom, and still costs less per year than WP Engine charges per month.
Order through the links on this page and the referral discount is applied at signup.
| WP Engine Premium 1 | Hostinger KVM 2 | Hostinger KVM 4 | Hostinger KVM 8 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthlypromotional term | $606.00 | $9.49 | $13.99 | $25.99 |
| Monthlyat renewal | $606.00 | $14.99 | $28.99 | $49.99 |
| Year 1 | $7,272.00 | $113.88 | $167.88 | $311.88 |
| Full 24-month term | $14,544.00 | $227.76 | $335.76 | $623.76 |
| Ongoing yearyear 3+, renewal rate | $7,272.00 | $179.88 | $347.88 | $599.88 |
| Disk | 100 GB | 100 GB | 200 GB | 400 GB |
| RAM | Not disclosed | 8 GB | 16 GB | 32 GB |
| Root access | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Saved per year vs todayat renewal rate — the conservative figure | — | $7,092 | $6,924 | $6,672 |
The promotional rate covers the first 24 months. From year three the VPS renews at $49.99/mo. Shown below including that renewal, because the saving holds up either way.
| WP Engine Premium 1 | Hostinger KVM 8 | Saved | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | $7,272.00 | $311.88 | $6,960.12 |
| Year 2 | $7,272.00 | $311.88 | $6,960.12 |
| Year 3after the promotional term ends | $7,272.00 | $599.88 | $6,672.12 |
| Three-year total | $21,816.00 | $1,223.64 | $20,592.36 |
$1,223.64 against $1,212.00. And that is for a machine with 8 dedicated cores, 32 GB of RAM and 400 GB of NVMe storage — considerably more headroom than the current plan provides, on a site using 37 GB.
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