Built for your biggest
day, every day
Auto-scaling infrastructure. 99.99% uptime SLA. Managed by the engineers who build WordPress.
Trusted by organizations that can’t
afford downtime
WordPress VIP is the enterprise WordPress platform that scales automatically with traffic. Pages serve
from a global network of edge servers close to every reader. Reliability is part of the platform,
not a job for your team. The result: your biggest traffic day looks like any other one, your developers
spend their time on the build, and your operations team sleeps through the night.
28
global data centers give readers fast, responsive pages anywhere in the world
Sub-100
ms
time to first byte, 20–50% faster than other platforms
99.99
%
uptime during election nights, Super Bowl, and NASA landings
2.4T
requests served a year, equal to
almost half all Google search traffic
125PB
of data delivered annually, equal to
62.5 billion pages printed text
545M
pageviews tracked in 24 hours on
2024 eclipse day
Auto-scaling infrastructure
Your highest traffic day looks
like any other
Traffic spikes are unpredictable. With WordPress VIP, you won’t be left scrambling. No outages, no overages, no last-minute planning.
Capacity scales automatically with traffic. Images, scripts, and styles stay live through every release. And a product launch doesn’t need an engineering ticket. AccuWeather serves 750 million API calls a day on VIP without anyone noticing.
Global CDN
The kind of speed that
feels effortless
Slow pages cost sessions and rankings. That’s why we include our proprietary CDN, designed for frequent updates, dynamic content, and media-rich pages. No delays, no extra fees.
- 28 global data centers give readers responsive pages wherever they are
- 20–50% faster time to first byte than other platforms, independently verified by Review Signal
- Image optimization, caching, and CDN configuration come set up by default
Managed reliability
Uptime should be infrastructure, not a job
Worrying about uptime keeps your team from the work they want to do. The engineers that build WordPress
also run the infrastructure beneath your site, so they catch problems before users do.
99.99% uptime SLA
Backed by managed infrastructure and
around-the-clock monitoring.
Self-healing infrastructure
The platform fixes itself. When something breaks, it gets resolved before users notice.
Application performance monitoring
See exactly what’s happening and
where to optimize your site.
Infrastructure events logged
Send the data wherever you keep it: your S3 bucket, your security tools, or your analytics stack.
Easier to stay current
VIP handles WordPress core and server software. For your own code and plugins, tooling makes the updates faster to ship.
DDoS protection at all times
Non-stop network-level DDoS mitigation keeps your site prepared for any threat.
See what your biggest day looks
like here
A walkthrough with a VIP engineer covers the dashboard, the deployment pipeline, and
how the infrastructure handles real traffic spikes.
VIP Dashboard
One control plane for every
site you run
Multiple brands, teams, and regions don’t have to mean multiple setups. Run every site in the VIP Dashboard to scale operations without adding complexity.
- Manage deployments, access, and environment settings without switching tools.
- Run multisite networks where shared themes and plugins deploy once, while each site keeps its own rules, content, and launch timing.
- Restore from encrypted backups taken every hour and kept for 30 days. Stored onsite and offsite.
- Spin up new sites without rebuilding infrastructure. The platform handles provisioning.
Developer tools
Get back to the fun
part of building
Most of the time between writing code and pushing it live isn’t the work itself. It’s everything around the work: environments, pipelines, testing, rollbacks. That’s already part of the platform, so developers can spend their time on the build.
- Connect GitHub or your favorite repository directly. Tests, staging environments, and security checks run on a pipeline that’s fast, scalable, and easy to work in.
- Roll any release back in seconds. A bad deploy isn’t a bad day.
- Build with WordPress themes the way your team prefers. VIP supports the standard WordPress development model to get you up and running faster.
- Scan every plugin for security and performance issues before it goes live.
Performance is just one layer.
The platform is the rest.
DOUBLE-CLICKING ON PERFORMANCE
Why VIP is a high-performance CMS
The engineering choices behind 99.99% uptime, 20–50% faster page delivery, and trillions of requests served every year.
zooming out on the platform
Get to know the rest of the platform
Editorial tools, governance, security, and content operations alongside the infrastructure you just read about.
These teams stayed up when it counted
New York Post
Went from 11 hours of downtime in one month on another platform to zero after migrating.
“Whether from a performance standpoint or in terms of speed metrics, downtime, or the traffic pre- and post-launch, all the data supported the decision we made.”
Remy Stern
Chief Digital Officer, New York Post
City A.M.
Launched on WordPress VIP with none of the performance loss associated with a CMS migration.
“You always worry about issues or a loss of traffic when rolling out a site refresh. We experienced none of that. In fact, within days we saw our site traffic increase.”
Miriam Keck
Digital Director, City A.M.
The Times
Revamped workflows using WordPress VIP, improving efficiency by 34% and lowering CMS training from 2 days to 30 minutes.
34%
more workflow
efficiency
Hachette Book Group
Now runs without an internal operations team, freeing developers to focus on creative work instead of infrastructure.
Zero
ops headcount required
iOne Digital
Rolled out 60 live sites in 3 weeks by standardizing on WordPress VIP.
“Uptime was one of the biggest selling points of WordPress VIP. We have huge spikes of traffic, and VIP’s infrastructure is able to sustain those with no changes on our end. It just works!”
Grant Cerny
Chief Product Officer, iOne Digital
Frequently asked questions
What is WordPress VIP’s uptime SLA?
WordPress VIP offers a 99.95% uptime SLA on the Standard plan, and a 99.99% uptime SLA on Enhanced and Signature plans. It’s backed by managed infrastructure, continuous monitoring, automated failover, and self-healing systems that resolve issues before they affect users.
How does WordPress VIP handle traffic spikes and high-traffic events?
WordPress VIP uses containerized infrastructure that scales automatically with traffic. No manual capacity planning or pre-provisioning is needed. The platform served more than 22 billion requests on U.S. election night 2024 with 100% uptime, and reached 132,000 requests per second during the 2020 election.
How does WordPress VIP’s performance compare to other managed WordPress hosts?
Independent testing by Review Signal found that WordPress VIP delivers pages 20–50% faster than competing managed WordPress hosts. The platform is built for dynamic, media-rich enterprise content and consistently ranks highest in performance benchmarks across Review Signal’s annual hosting reviews.
What CDN does WordPress VIP use?
WordPress VIP includes its own content delivery network — a global network of edge servers that store and serve your pages from a location close to each reader. Pages are cached at the edge, which means they load fast no matter where your readers are. You can also bring your own CDN, like Cloudflare, if you prefer.
Does WordPress VIP support WordPress multisite networks?
Yes. The VIP platform runs multisite networks with per-site governance configuration, access controls, and deployment management from a single dashboard. Each site in a network can have brand-specific settings without needing a developer for each change.
What developer tools does WordPress VIP include?
WordPress VIP includes GitHub integration, CI/CD pipelines, local development environments, automated testing, VIP CLI, and open APIs (REST and GraphQL). The full developer workflow — from local build to production deployment — is built into the platform.
How does WordPress VIP compare to self-hosting WordPress on AWS or Azure?
Self-hosting WordPress on AWS or Azure means your team is responsible for everything: scaling, uptime, security patches, plugin updates, edge caching, and the on-call rotation when something breaks at 2am. WordPress VIP gives you the same cloud infrastructure with the operations work taken off your team’s plate. Updates, scaling, security monitoring, DDoS protection, and incident response are all part of the platform.
How easy is it to migrate to WordPress VIP?
Bring your database (SQL import) and your media (via the VIP CLI), and your environment can be running in a matter of hours or days, depending on your setup. The VIP team supports migrations from other WordPress hosts and self-hosted setups, including content modeling and redirect management.
Make your next traffic spike a non-event
The infrastructure is documented. The SLA is real. And the team that maintains it also builds WordPress.