# WPX > Managed WordPress hosting with its own CDN and hands-on support WPX is an independent managed WordPress host founded in 2013 and operated by K Media Tech, LLC. Plans are priced by the number of sites, storage and bandwidth, with unlimited visitors, daily backups, malware scans with free cleanup and WPX's own XDN content delivery network. Its staff migrate sites by hand for free and carry out speed optimizations, and longer prepaid terms include free months. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** K Media Tech, LLC (since 2013) - **Website:** https://wpx.net - **Runs on:** Web - **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026 ## Pricing WPX is a paid product, starting at $11.99 per month for 1 site, prepaid for 5 years ($17.99 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter, monthly | $17.99 per month for 1 site, billed monthly | 1 website, 10 GB storage, 100 GB bandwidth, unlimited visitors and 9 PHP workers. | | Starter, 1 year | $14.99 per month for 1 site, prepaid yearly ($179.90) | The same Starter plan with 2 months free for paying a year ahead. | | Starter, 3 years | $12.49 per month for 1 site, prepaid for 3 years ($449.75) | The same Starter plan with 11 months free. A 2-year term is $14.24 a month ($341.81). | | Starter, 5 years | $11.99 per month for 1 site, prepaid for 5 years ($719.60) | The same Starter plan with 20 months free, the lowest rate. A 4-year term is $12.37 a month ($593.67). | | Business, 5 years | $19.99 per month for up to 5 sites, prepaid for 5 years ($1,199.60) | 20 GB, 200 GB bandwidth, business email with unlimited mailboxes and AI-based spam protection. $29.99 billed monthly. | | Professional, 5 years | $39.99 per month for up to 15 sites, prepaid for 5 years ($2,399.60) | 40 GB, 400 GB bandwidth and 15 GB RAM for freelancers and small agencies. $59.99 billed monthly. | Read from https://wpx.net/cart/wordpress-hosting/ on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with WPX before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Free months for prepaying 1 to 5 years** (Annual discount): Prepaying adds free months: 2 for 1 year, 5 for 2 years, 11 for 3 years, 15 for 4 years and 20 for 5 years. Source: https://wpx.net/cart/wordpress-hosting/ ## Key features - **WPX XDN:** WPX runs its own content delivery network, the XDN, included free on every plan, with hybrid DDoS protection in front of its servers. - **Malware scans and cleanups:** Sites are scanned for malware every day and cleaned free, with a web application firewall, brute-force protection and two-factor login. - **Manual migrations:** Unlimited site migrations are done by WPX staff rather than a tool, usually within 24 hours, including debugging and malware cleanup. - **Speed optimization by staff:** An optimization team works on customer sites to make them load faster, at no extra charge. - **Business email:** Business and higher plans include email with webmail, unlimited mailboxes, email migration and AI-powered spam protection. - **Fixed For You guarantee:** Every plan carries WPX's Fixed For You guarantee, with live chat support around the clock and daily backups. ## Good for - WordPress site owners who want migrations and fixes done for them - Small businesses that want email and hosting from one provider - Buyers willing to prepay several years for a lower monthly rate ## Worth knowing - Email at your domain needs the Business plan or higher; Starter has none. - The lowest rates need years paid upfront: Starter is $11.99 a month only on a 5-year prepayment of $719.60. - It hosts WordPress and WooCommerce only; agency and WooCommerce plans are sold on separate price lists. - Starter runs on half a CPU core and 3 GB of RAM; more sites or resources need Business or Professional. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. WPX is the cheapest of the managed WordPress hosts here, and its staff do the fiddly work: they migrate sites by hand, clean up malware and tune sites for speed at no extra charge. The low rates need years paid upfront, though, and Starter has no email and runs on half a CPU core. - **Value for money: B.** Graded against the other managed WordPress hosts. Starter's 2-year term is $341.81 upfront, so two years cost about $14.24 a month, the cheapest of that group, though not by enough for an A. Monthly is $17.99. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial on record. Prepaying earns free months, but that's a discount, not a way to try it. - **Features: C.** Its own XDN CDN, daily malware scans with free cleanup, a firewall, daily backups, and migrations and speed work done by staff. The gaps: Starter has no email and runs on half a CPU core and 3 GB of RAM, and staging isn't on record. - **Ease of use: C.** No app store rating to go on. Staff handle migrations and speed work, which takes a lot off your plate, but you still run a WordPress site. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** A web dashboard only, with WordPress and WooCommerce as the named integrations. No API is on record. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from WPX's own pages on 17 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among web hosts - WPX's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 4 of the 21 other web hosts we grade, and level with 2. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 11 of 21) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $11.99 a month, against a middle price of $10.99 for the category: 9 of the 16 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 6 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace WPX 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. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 15 of the 21 other web hosts grade higher. It costs $143.88 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. 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 **Tags:** Managed WordPress, Malware protection ## Alternatives - [Kinsta](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kinsta): Managed WordPress hosting priced by sites, visits or bandwidth. 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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/pressable-vs-wpx) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026: - https://wpx.net/cart/wordpress-hosting/ - https://wpx.net/ - https://wpx.net/page/why-wpx/ - https://wpx.net/page/terms-of-service/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/wpx Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).