# Liquid Web > Managed WordPress, VPS and dedicated server hosting for businesses Liquid Web sells managed WordPress and WooCommerce hosting, managed and self-managed virtual private servers, and dedicated servers, with 24/7 support. Its pages are signed Liquid Web, LLC by Nexcess Corp., and the same group makes the Kadence, LearnDash, Give and The Events Calendar WordPress plugins. WordPress plans are priced by sites and monthly visits; VPS plans by memory, processors and storage. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** Liquid Web, LLC - **Website:** https://www.liquidweb.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026 ## Pricing Liquid Web is a paid product, starting at $17 per month (self-managed VPS); managed WordPress $17.10 a month, billed annually. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Self-Managed VPS, 4 GB | $17 per month for 2 vCPU and 4 GB RAM, billed monthly | 80 GB SSD, 3 TB bandwidth, root access and a dedicated IP. You look after the operating system, security and software yourself. | | Pro WordPress | $17.10 per month for 1 site, billed annually ($19 billed monthly) | Up to 50,000 visits, 15 GB storage, 14 days of daily backups, staging and visual comparison. $35.10 at 150,000 visits. | | Elite WordPress | $26.10 per month for 1 site, billed annually ($29 billed monthly) | Up to 50,000 visits and 15 GB, with 30 days of backups and migration done by a person. $53.10 at 150,000 visits. | | Managed VPS, 4 GB | $72 per month for 2 vCPU and 4 GB RAM, billed monthly | The same server fully managed: 24/7 support, updates, firewall setup and Acronis backups, with cPanel, Plesk or InterWorx and Windows available. | | Pro WordPress, 10 sites | $89.10 per month for 10 sites, billed annually ($99 billed monthly) | Ten sites with up to 50,000 visits each. Plans for 25 sites start at $179.10 a month, billed annually. | Read from https://www.liquidweb.com/wordpress-hosting/managed-wordpress/ on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Liquid Web before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **10% off WordPress plans billed yearly** (Annual discount): Annual billing saves 10% on managed WordPress plans: Pro for one site is $17.10 a month instead of $19 billed monthly. Source: https://www.liquidweb.com/wordpress-hosting/managed-wordpress/ ## Key features - **Managed WordPress platform:** WordPress core and plugin updates are handled for you, with Object Cache Pro, a Cloudflare-powered edge CDN, a web application firewall and DDoS protection. - **Staging with visual comparison:** Pro and Elite WordPress plans include staging sites and visual comparison, which previews how plugin updates change pages before they go live. - **Security layers:** WordPress plans include daily malware scans, Kadence Security Pro and Patchstack virtual patching for known plugin flaws. - **VPS with root access:** VPS plans give root access on a 10 Gbps network, with cPanel, Plesk or InterWorx control panels, Windows servers and an API. - **Self or fully managed:** The same VPS can be self-managed or fully managed, where Liquid Web also handles system updates, firewall setup, PHP support and restores. - **Migrations:** A self-serve tool moves WordPress sites over, and Elite plans add migration by a specialist. Managed VPS moves include email and control panel accounts. ## Good for - Businesses that expect to move from WordPress hosting to their own server - Teams that want a fully managed VPS with cPanel or Plesk - Developers who want a cheap self-managed VPS with root access ## Worth knowing - Dedicated servers, Magento hosting and white-label plans for agencies are sold separately from the plans listed here. - WordPress prices rise with traffic: one Pro site with up to 400,000 visits is $71.10 a month, billed annually. - The $17 VPS is self-managed; the same server fully managed costs $72 a month. - Autoscaling and CDN overage are billed by use, and Performance Shield is an optional add-on; the plan page does not give their prices. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. Liquid Web covers both ends: managed WordPress with staging, visual comparison of updates and layered security, and VPS servers you can run yourself or have fully managed. One WordPress site is $17.10 a month billed yearly, cheaper than every managed WordPress specialist here bar WPX. Just watch the traffic tiers, as prices climb with visits. - **Value for money: C.** Pro WordPress is $17.10 a month billed yearly for one site, with no intro price to expire, so two years cost $410.40. That sits between the cheaper and dearer quarters of hosts. More traffic costs more: 400,000 visits is $71.10 a month. - **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing free: no free plan and no trial on record, so you pay from the start. - **Features: B.** Managed WordPress with Object Cache Pro, a Cloudflare-powered CDN, a firewall, daily malware scans, Patchstack and staging with visual comparison, plus VPS plans with root access. Nothing in the core hosting job is missing. - **Ease of use: C.** No app store rating to go on. Managed WordPress is looked after for you, but the cheapest VPS is self-managed, so there you'd run the server yourself. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** A web dashboard with no app on record. VPS plans come with an API and cPanel, Plesk or InterWorx, and Cloudflare and Kadence are named too. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Liquid Web's own pages on 17 October 2026. Its WordPress plans page showed no prices to our reader when we checked it again that day. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among web hosts - Liquid Web's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 7 of the 21 other web hosts we grade, and level with 7. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 12 of 21) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $17 a month, against a middle price of $10.99 for the category: 11 of the 16 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4, and no tool on the category's chart scores higher without costing more. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Liquid Web you would be making servers kept running, patched and backed up for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $204 a year. - You could not: Servers kept running, patched and backed up for you. - You could not: An engine that recognises new malware as it appears. - You could not: It plugs into other products, WordPress, WooCommerce and Magento among them, and has an API. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, cPanel, Plesk, InterWorx, Cloudflare, Kadence **Tags:** Managed WordPress, Public API, Malware protection ## Alternatives - [Nexcess](https://toolgpa.com/tools/nexcess): Managed cloud hosting for WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento and VPS. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/liquid-web-vs-nexcess) - [WP Engine](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wp-engine): Managed WordPress hosting sized by sites and monthly visits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/liquid-web-vs-wp-engine) - [Cloudways](https://toolgpa.com/tools/cloudways): Managed cloud hosting on DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS or Google. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cloudways-vs-liquid-web) - [ScalaHosting](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scalahosting): Shared and cloud VPS hosting with its own SPanel control panel. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/liquid-web-vs-scalahosting) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026: - https://www.liquidweb.com/wordpress-hosting/managed-wordpress/ - https://www.liquidweb.com/vps-hosting/managed-vps/ - https://www.liquidweb.com/vps-hosting/self-managed/ - https://www.liquidweb.com/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/liquid-web Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).