WP Engine Agency Partner Program (Preferred Partner)

# WP Engine Preferred Partner agency in Canada

If you already host on WP Engine, or you've decided that's where your WordPress site belongs, this is who we are and how we run sites there. Our offices are in Calgary and Vancouver.

Rated 5.0 out of 5,**5.0**63 Google reviews320-999 8 St. SW, Calgary

## What WP Engine is

WP Engine is managed WordPress hosting. It gives you fast servers, staging environments, daily backups and a security team watching the platform.

## Our WP Engine partnership

We're a Preferred Partner in WP Engine's agency program. WP Engine has no public partner listing, so there's no page to link to.

In practice, environments, transfers and escalations get handled by people rather than a queue.

## What we run on WP Engine

-   ### Development and staging first
    
    We work in development and staging before anything reaches production, so your team reviews changes on a real URL instead of approving a screenshot.
    
-   ### Site transfers
    
    We move your site onto WP Engine and handle the cutover. RDCK's rebuild moved 240 pages with zero broken links.
    
-   ### Monitoring after launch
    
    Redirects are mapped before launch. Afterward we watch 404s and Search Console.
    
-   ### Few plugins, safe updates
    
    Every block is code we wrote and your developers can read. With fewer plugins, updates are quick and safe to apply.
    

## Good hosting can't fix a bad build

WP Engine gives you fast servers, real staging environments, daily backups and a security team watching the platform. It can't fix what's inside the theme. Most WordPress sites that feel slow and fragile have thirty plugins stacked on a purchased theme, and caching only hides that for a while.

How we build the theme itself is covered on our [WordPress page](https://www.papercrane.ca/partners-and-software/wordpress).

## Why teams choose WP Engine

-   ### Less work for your IT team
    
    Server management and platform updates are WP Engine's job.
    
-   ### Separate environments
    
    Development, staging and production are kept apart, so changes are tested before they go live.
    
-   ### Daily backups
    
    If something breaks, there's a recent copy to restore.
    
-   ### A security team
    
    WP Engine monitors the platform for threats.
    
-   ### Support from people
    
    Problems go to a person who knows the platform.
    

## When we'd pick something else

If your procurement or data residency rules need Canadian hosting, we'd host elsewhere. For a very small site, managed hosting can cost more than it saves.

Because it's still WordPress, the site can move if you outgrow WP Engine or your rules change.

## Sites on WP Engine

-   [![Help for Dementia bloom mark on brand blue](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/0838mkru/production/2c00ada95c718d3cfeb2faf06a5534cc249f4fbc-3200x2000.png)
    
    ### Help for Dementia
    
    Alzheimer Society of Alberta and NWT rebrand, with a LearnDash learning platform, hosted on WP Engine
    
    Read the case study](https://www.papercrane.ca/case-studies/help-for-dementia)

## Also on WP Engine

-   Innovate Calgary
-   Project Forest

## Related

-   [
    
    ### WordPress
    
    How we build the sites we host.
    
    WordPress](https://www.papercrane.ca/partners-and-software/wordpress)
-   [
    
    ### WordPress plugin security
    
    Why plugin count matters.
    
    Read the post](https://www.papercrane.ca/blog/wordpress-plugin-security-ai)
-   [
    
    ### All partners and software
    
    Every platform we build with.
    
    See the full list](https://www.papercrane.ca/partners-and-software)

## Questions about WP Engine

### Can you move our site to WP Engine?

Yes. We set up the environments, transfer the site, map redirects before launch and monitor afterward.

### What does WP Engine cost compared with regular hosting?

It usually costs more than basic shared hosting, and the extra covers staging, backups and support. We'll compare the options for your site before you decide.

### Do you handle updates and security on WP Engine?

Yes. We handle plugin and theme updates and keep plugins to a minimum, which is where most security problems start. More in our post on [WordPress plugin security](https://www.papercrane.ca/blog/wordpress-plugin-security-ai).

### Where are WP Engine's servers?

WP Engine offers a choice of data centre locations. If your data has to stay in a particular region, tell us and we'll confirm the options before we plan the move.

## Already on WP Engine, or headed there?

Tell us about the site you run now. We'll tell you whether WP Engine is the right fit, and whether we're the right people.

[Start a conversation](https://www.papercrane.ca/contact)

[(403) 869-2746](tel:+14038692746)  
320-999 8 St. SW  
Calgary, Alberta T2R1J5

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