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Why Managed Hosting Is a Waste of Money

You're shelling out too much to fund your WordPress site

If you want to ride in style when you buy a car, you have to pay for it via upgrades. These could be anything from an unnecessary but nice-to-have add-on like a leather interior, or it can be something that impacts safety, like a backup camera. Paying extra for these add-on options can be costly, but sometimes it's about more than just a luxurious ride. It's about top performance.


That's pretty much how WordPress works. It's the biggest CMS out there with 87M+ sites worldwide, but it's decentralized — which means you have to pay more to have the best (and safest) version of your site. Simply buying WordPress is like buying a stripped-down car with no extra features. It's a model that is not only super insecure, but in order for it to work at a larger scale, it requires managed hosting.

If you're currently using managed hosting, you are paying for a team of WordPress super users to take care of your WordPress site so you don't have to. Hosting companies like WordPress VIP, Pagely, and WP Engine will perform a variety of services like daily backups, site security checks, and ensuring your site is loading quickly and at scale.

RebelMouse does all the work of third-party hosting — for one price.

Think about it: You have to pay a third party just to make sure your site is secure, updated, and performing at its best. This is where the decentralized model begins to fall apart, especially for larger scale web properties. Depending on how large your site is, it's a costly endeavor. Pagely's most expensive offering is listed at $20,000 — a month .

But what if you buy a car that already comes with all of the fun and safe add-ons for the same price? That's what we love about our product. RebelMouse is a centralized CMS, so all of those must-have features aren't upgrades — they just come with our publishing platform.

Many of the perks you get with managed hosting, like constant upgrades and fast load times, happen behind the scenes with RebelMouse. We deploy multiple updates to our sites every day, all at once. So you can focus on creating content that fuels viral growth with every publish.

It's why enterprise new media companies like Axios + EcoWatch , as well as legacy brands like United + Dance Magazine, trust us to host and manage their site all at once.

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Our team is well-versed in all things product, content, traffic, and revenue, and we strategically deploy ourselves to help with each element across all of our clients. We thrive on solving the complex.

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