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What reasons would a client have to pay the developer to host their site on WP Engine if they could do it themselves? Assuming that WP Engine is managed and the site just stays running and always works – what would the developer actually be getting paid for?
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Updating plugins, WP versions. I also host quite a few sites on WPE so I get a discount; so if clients host with me they pay less than if they purchased their own account. Lastly, I use the same premium plugins on most of my sites, so the monthly maintenance includes the plugin costs.
WPEngine is managed hosting in the sense that they take care of the infrastructure and spin up containers for you with a nice interface and reliable systems behind that interface. A site won’t just always run and work because you have a managed hosting provider. They just manage your development/staging/production environments not what you actually push to those environments.
Your managed hosting, WPE in this case, could for instance give you the heads up that they are deprecating a PHP version and you should prepare for it. That means you still need to do the test driving of your site on this new PHP version yourself and ensure it doesn’t throw a fatal error when they change the PHP version on your server.