WPengine vs WordPress

Internet of today massively depend on WordPress. When company wants to build its internet presence, influencer – his/her blog, entrepreneur – a landing page for new business idea, WordPress is the default go-to solution for many of them to solve their problem.

For most of us, websites aren’t an option but a necessity. On average[1] we spend more than a 3rd of our waking time browsing the web, and WordPress-powered web-sites are a huge[2] part of it.

How WordPress took its Internet ground is a 21-year-long story, but, for the sake of brevity, we can boil it down to 2 major factors: the rise of internet blogs and massive collaborative effort of an open-source community.

During it’s journey, WordPress amassed huge number of fans and contributors world-wide. Multi-million businesses depends on the code contributed by thousands of developers across the globe, as WordPress license allows free use for both personal and commercial purposes.

One example of such a big businesses built around WordPress in WPengine – company providing hosting and management services for a WordPress-based websites. With number of sites hosted on this platform exceeding 1 million we can visit some of them at least once a month. 

It does not comes as a big surprise, that all WPengine branding is built around WordPress. So much that a lot of people hosting their websites on WPengine believe its an actual company building WordPress. 

And this is where events of the past two weeks starting to unfold.