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WordPress Hosting Survey 2025
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| What is the name of your company, as you would like it to appear? | |
| What year was your company founded? | |
| Link to your Five For the Future pledge on WordPress.org | |
| In 60 words or fewer, why should a prospective customer host their WordPress site with you? | |
| What is the URL of the WordPress-specific landing page you'd want us to link to? | |
| What languages do you provide service in, and please link to the ideal landing pages for each language you'd like to be included on. | |
| If a customer were signing up for a single site for 12 months, what's the minimum they would pay? (Rounded to nearest $USD.) | |
| How many employees does your company currently have? | |
| How does that break down in terms of roles? | |
| Approximately how many 30-day-active paying customers do you have? | |
| How many net paying customers are you gaining or losing each month? | |
| Exactly how many WordPress installations do you currently host? | |
| About what % of your customers run WordPress? | |
| Please describe your technology stack, and why you prefer it. | |
| What version of PHP do you install by default? | |
| What is the oldest version of PHP available to customers? | |
| What is the highest version of PHP currently available to customers? | |
| Which database do you install by default? | |
| What database version do you install by default? | |
| What is the highest version of your default database currently available to customers? | |
| Do you offer direct SSH access? | |
| What is your default upload_max_filesize in megabytes? | |
| What is your default post_max_size in megabytes? | |
| What is your default PHP memory limit, in megabytes? | |
| Describe your approach to performance optimization. What features/tools/optimizations (e.g., page caching, etc.) are included or available as add-ons? | |
| Do you provide a CDN integration by default? | |
| Do you provide free SSL certificates? | |
| Is 100% of the code included or promoted with your WordPress installer GPL or GPL-compatible? | |
| Please list each plugin included with your WordPress auto-installer or onboarding experience, whether they are activated or not, and any other code that runs automatically (included) with your installer. | |
| Please provide a breakdown of which versions of WordPress you are hosting, using https://wordpress.org/about/stats/ as an example. | |
| Please describe how upgrades work (automatically or not) for your WordPress customers—including core, plugins, themes, and system software. | |
| How many hours after release is the latest version of WordPress available from your WordPress auto-installer? | |
| How many hours after release are WordPress sites upgraded to the latest version? (Skip if no auto-upgrades.) | |
| Do you make beta versions of WordPress available to customers? | |
| Describe your backup routines for your customers. | |
| Is there anything else about your technology that you want to add for us to consider? | |
| If a customer's WordPress site is hacked, how would your support help them? Please specify whether you scan proactively, or if customers discover the hack and then seek support. | |
| Do you proactively scan for vulnerabilities/CVEs and remediate compromised sites? If a customer's WordPress site is compromised, do you alert them proactively or does the customer need to contact support first? | |
| Do you provide Two Factor Authentication as an option for hosting customers? | |
| If you have had a security incident in the past 18 months that required notice to customers, provide a link to that notice. | |
| Do you disable any core features (revisions, XML-RPC, File Editor, or any others) by default? If so, which features and why? | |
| Do you provide staging environments? | |
| How many steps (clicks) are required to get from your homepage/landing page to the WordPress dashboard? | |
| Separate from bundling third-party plugins, do you customize the wp-admin experience in any way? How (e.g., custom dashboard or onboarding wizard, additional features enabled/disabled, etc.? | |
| Do you offer domain registration? | |
| Do you offer free trials (separate from a liberal refund policy)? | |
| Describe any special configurations, tooling, or add-ons available for ecommerce sites. | |
| Do you offer your own payment processor, or an integration with a third-party, as a default solution for ecommerce sites? | |
| Link to your gallery of screenshots taken from a desktop device. | |
| Link to your gallery of screenshots taken from a mobile device. | |
| How can customers contact you for support? | |
| Describe the average support response time per channel (email, live chat, etc.). | |
| Do you provide any SLAs or guaranteed uptime? Describe. | |
| Link to your public status/disaster recovery page |
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