The smart thing here was recognizing that it's such an obvious pain point to people in purchase decision advising roles. As a Wordpress dev, do you advise your clients to save a few bucks by using shared GoDaddy Wordpress hosting @ ~$5/month, knowing you'll end up needing to field support calls for GoDaddy problems and spend ongoing time securing and updating the site (and _still_ end up p0wned because some other GoDaddy customer hasn't updated), or do you tell the client "You can have inexpensive hosting, but the support comes at $~100/hr, or you can buy business-grade hosting from wp-engine and you'll almost _never_ have security/uptime/speed problems".
I know what _I've_ advised people recently (especially since the lowest wp-engine plan dropped to $30/month. That's a no-brainer in my opinion!)
The smart thing here was recognizing that it's such an obvious pain point to people in purchase decision advising roles. As a Wordpress dev, do you advise your clients to save a few bucks by using shared GoDaddy Wordpress hosting @ ~$5/month, knowing you'll end up needing to field support calls for GoDaddy problems and spend ongoing time securing and updating the site (and _still_ end up p0wned because some other GoDaddy customer hasn't updated), or do you tell the client "You can have inexpensive hosting, but the support comes at $~100/hr, or you can buy business-grade hosting from wp-engine and you'll almost _never_ have security/uptime/speed problems".
I know what _I've_ advised people recently (especially since the lowest wp-engine plan dropped to $30/month. That's a no-brainer in my opinion!)