Everything Others Hide in the Fine Print.

We’re a WordPress engineering company, not a marketing one, and the philosophy is borrowed from the best of British culture: understatement. Under-promise, over-deliver, and don’t say anything you can’t back. So no, we don’t make claims like “world’s fastest WordPress hosting.”

Anywhere you read fastest on this site, it points to independent benchmark data, not a marketing line. What we will say is that people who try us consistently tell us their sites got faster, including switchers from the expensive premium hosts.

You can read more about our philosophy here.

No, and we don’t want to be. We’re affordable for what’s underneath. 5.7 GHz CPUs, NVMe storage, DDR5 memory, enterprise networking, the LiteSpeed Enterprise stack, all independently benchmarked serving over two million uncached requests without breaking stride. We don’t know anyone matching that stack at this price without cutting support. We didn’t cut support.

Look past the marketing fluff and the paid lists, compare hardware to hardware, benchmarks to benchmarks, price to price, and draw your own conclusion. That’s the comparison we built for.

Almost none. Most “best hosting” lists are affiliate rankings, the order reflects commission rates, not performance.

The one exception is Review Signal’s wphostingbenchmarks.com, independently run for over a decade.

Any host can enter for a nominal fee, every host runs the same in-depth tests, real load testing with thousands of logged-in users, not a single speed check, and the methodology and raw data are published in full.

Nobody can buy a placement and nobody can edit a result, including us. If we’d flopped, the flop would be public. We know, because it happened, see the next question.

In 2023 we entered as resellers. The provider we resold refused to lift certain security measures for the test, citing competition concerns, and the results showed it.

We started building the moment the results landed. By the end of 2024 we’d tested hardware and software stacks and launched our own infrastructure, and users noticed the difference immediately.

We came back in 2026 on our own machines, and took Top Tier at every tier we entered. The 2023 result is still public and we’re glad it is.. Read our story here.

Because features run on machines, and the industry hopes you won’t ask about the machines. A hundred bullet points, unlimited everything, stacked on hardware that was mid-range five years ago. Features are free to print. Hardware costs money.

And not all cores are equal. The typical VPS deal sells ten virtual cores off an ageing box with two physical ones, split fifty ways, with fine print capping the sliver you actually get. It holds while pages come from cache, and folds the moment real compute is needed.

Meanwhile one modern 5.7 GHz core can outrun ten budget ARM cores on the work that matters, because a page load runs on one core at a time. Clock speed, not core count.

We went the other way: the fastest CPUs on the market, one tuned stack, everything real in the box, and an independent test to say the rest.

Yes, and honestly, it’s the work we built for before it had a name. Look at your own Tuesday: you’re in wp-admin half the day, an agent is drafting content, a form is feeding your CRM, and every visitor sees a slightly different page. None of that can be cached.

It all runs on raw machine power, which is where our benchmark record is loudest: the fastest raw compute scores in the tests and two million uncached requests served without a stumble. Cache is for the brochure. The machine is for the business. We bought the machines.

No. WP Buzz runs its own dedicated bare metal clusters in enterprise data centres. Nobody sits between you and the hardware.

Haider Shah, with Spark in the advisory role. The team behind your tickets: Adam, Omar, Sam, Kousar, Marina and Danny, led by Haider and supervised, of course, by Spark.

No, and deliberately. Most hosting recommendations online are paid for, and we’d rather be recommended by people who actually host with us. A partner programme is coming, built around genuine users rather than anyone with a link. Details soon.

We’re located at Electric Works, 3 Concourse Way, Digital Campus, Sheffield S1 2BJ, UK.

We serve users in 20+ countries, and dollars are the one currency everyone can compare. Your card handles the conversion automatically, and your renewal is locked in dollars too, so exchange rates never sneak a price rise past you.

Our German Shepherd, our best friend, and the reason “loyalty” is in the brand philosophy. He doesn’t answer tickets, but he supervises the people who do.

Genuinely, yes. The kettle’s on at the Sheffield office. And if we ever owe you a coffee under the guarantee, you’re welcome to collect it in person.

Yes. Upgrade, downgrade or switch plans any time through your self-serve Stripe portal.

Instantly, from the same Stripe portal, without contacting support. No retention team, no unfindable button, no “please call us.”

Take a full backup with you and go, your data is yours. No exit fees, no hostage negotiations. We’d rather earn the renewal.

Within 30 days, yes, in full, that’s the guarantee. After 30 days, refunds for time already used aren’t something we offer, you’ve had the service, and annual pricing is cheaper precisely because it’s a year’s commitment. Cancel any time and your plan simply runs to the end of its term, then stops. No cancellation fees, no exit friction, and your data leaves with you.

Your plan renews at the price you signed up at, discounts included. We’ve never raised a price on an existing customer in five-plus years, and any future increase applies to new signups only. If you find us through a partner offer, the renewal price is stated up front.

Only for new signups, never for existing customers. Your price is locked from the day you join. We don’t believe in renewal shock.

No, because unlimited hosting doesn’t exist. Software runs on hardware and hardware has limits. “Unlimited” is a marketing word for limits hidden in the fine print. What we do instead is simple. One limit, pageviews, published right on the pricing page, with every allowance stated in plain numbers, not hidden behind a word.

A pageview is one real page loaded by one real visitor. Bots, crawlers, static assets and your own logged-in admin work don’t count against you. In practice, most customers never think about the number.

First, the honest bit. Every host has limits, even the ones selling unlimited everything, theirs just live in the fine print. Ours are in large print, and soft, there to stop abuse, not to trip you.

How generous? In the independent load tests, our machines served 581,210 uncached requests at the first tier, 571,689 at the second and 857,083 at the third, with thousands of users logged in at once, and didn’t skip a beat. Any one of your sites could spend its entire monthly pageview quota in under an hour and the servers wouldn’t notice.

Honestly? We’re flexible. The limit is a soft one and we look at real server load, not just the counter, so spikes, viral days and growth months won’t get you switched off or surprise-billed. Consistently miles above your plan? We’ll talk like adults and find the right fit, additional plans or a custom one.

We’ll design a custom plan for you. Just ask.

Adult content, gambling, and anything against the law in your country or ours. The full list lives in our terms, which we’ve kept deliberately fair and readable.

No, but we strongly recommend one. The machines are quick on their own, but the CDN is how that speed reaches geographically distributed users.

Yes. We have native Cloudflare integration and it works flawlessly.

Yes, any CDN you like.

Just know our benchmark numbers were set on our full stack, so once you swap parts, the results become your own experiment.

Cloudflare’s free plan caches your static assets, images, scripts, styles, and does it brilliantly, with more locations worldwide than almost anyone.

QUIC.cloud caches the whole finished page at the edge, HTML included, which is the part that decides how fast a WordPress page actually feels. It’s built for exactly one thing, WordPress running LiteSpeed Cache, so the CDN, the cache and the server behave as one coherent system.

Both are excellent, and LiteSpeed Cache integrates happily with either. The short version, Cloudflare is the best general-purpose network, QUIC.cloud is the specialist for the WordPress stack we run.

Better is the wrong axis, they do different jobs, see above. What we can say honestly is this. In the 2026 benchmarks we outperformed hosts running Cloudflare on response time and full page load, but that’s a whole-stack result, not a CDN verdict, and we won’t pretend otherwise.

Normal cache means the server remembers your built page so it doesn’t rebuild it each time, but every visitor still travels to that one server to fetch it.

Edge cache stores the finished page in dozens of cities worldwide and serves it from whichever one is nearest the visitor. Same page, drastically shorter journey.

Yes, any cache plugin you like. The one gentle rule is that every site needs one. Caching is part of how the platform stays fast for everyone on it, so we ask that no site runs bare. Our stack ships with LiteSpeed Cache, and most people who try it keep it, but the choice of plugin is entirely yours.

Honest answer, we’re built for audiences in the USA, UK and Canada, and that’s where you’ll get our best performance. If your traffic is mostly cached or static, the edge CDN serves it fast worldwide.

But if your audience is mainly outside those countries and your site serves a lot of uncached, logged-in traffic, we may genuinely not be your best fit, and a quality local provider will serve you better. We’d rather tell you now than after you’ve migrated.

Yes: a UK location and additional US locations are next, and Singapore is on the roadmap. Beyond that, we’d rather ship locations than promise them.

Yes. Every single one, isolated in its own container.

Yes, free with every plan.

Small and standard sites move quickly and hands-off. Bigger or more complex sites, ones with files, folders or databases outside the WordPress tree, get a direct transfer instead.

Either way, we do the work, and every site lands in a staging environment first, so you can test everything before a single visitor sees it. Your live site stays untouched until you say go.

Small sites, 30 to 40 minutes. Large sites can take hours, and deliberately so. We transfer gently so your current host’s firewall doesn’t mistake the migration for an attack. Your site stays live throughout.

Yes. The team is mainly UK based, with colleagues in the US, and every ticket is answered in plain English by someone who actually read it.

Everything at the hosting layer: the server, the stack, performance, migrations, backups, email, DNS.

Themes, plugins and third-party integrations are outside our scope, though we’ll always point you in the right direction when we can.

No. Fully human, every ticket. (Spark supervises.)

Here’s how it works: we migrate one of your sites, tune it fully with our custom settings, and hand you the blueprint. Those settings work brilliantly for about 90% of WordPress sites, so you can roll them across the rest yourself, and we’re always here for the awkward 10%.

On a 50-site plan, tuning every site by hand isn’t something any support team can honestly promise, and we’d rather keep our answers fast than pretend. The blueprint is how you get every site optimized without waiting on us.

Yes, as a paid add-on for clients whose full infrastructure runs with us, that’s what lets our team actually fix what your customers write in about. Contact support and we’ll scope it with you.

Yes. We started as resellers ourselves, so we know exactly what it’s like to put your brand in front of clients with someone else’s machines behind it. Everything client-facing can carry your name.

No, we stay in our lane. But most of our users are web design agencies, so we’ll happily introduce you to a great one.

Yes, and Woo is exactly where our uncached performance earns its keep, carts and checkouts can’t be cached. The location honesty above applies to your buyers too.

Yes, completely. Point your DNS from anywhere.

Yes, within reason. The stack underneath is standard PHP and MariaDB, so small companion apps run happily alongside your WordPress sites, a billing portal on a subdomain, a legacy PHP tool in a subfolder, that kind of thing.

Two honest boundaries. First, this is infrastructure tuned for WordPress, so it’s not the place for heavy standalone applications, and anything resource-hungry falls under the same fair-use conversation as everything else here. Second, support: our engineers support the WordPress and hosting layer, non-WordPress code runs fine but it’s yours to manage, and we’d rather say that here than in a disappointing ticket reply.

Yes, on all plans.

Yes, on all plans.

Not natively yet, it’s on the roadmap. SSH and git work today, so git pull deployments are already yours.

Yes, Redis object caching is included on every plan.

WP Buzz is GDPR compliant.

Our data centres are certified for SOC 1 Type II, SOC 2 Type II, PCI-DSS and ISO 27001:2022, with HIPAA and FISMA alignment. Those are facility certifications, they tell you the buildings and infrastructure your sites live on meet enterprise standards.

Backups run daily, are kept for 14 days, and live in a separate data centre from your sites, so one bad day can’t take out both. You’re welcome to run your own backup plugin as well; we’d just recommend storing those copies externally, for space and for peace of mind.

No. We recommend Porkbun, they’re affordable and honest, which is our kind of company.

No. A VPS is a slice of a server sold with whole-server words: the resources are virtual, the limits live in the fine print, and that’s why VPS performance so often disappoints. Tiny resources behind big words. We run bare metal because the resources have to actually exist. And if your traffic outgrows our plans entirely, we’ll set up a dedicated machine for you on a custom plan. Bare metal, all yours.