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5wire (5wire.co.uk) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 .
WP Engine (wpengine.com) has been added on 📅 and last updated on 📆 . Trusted and verified by WHTOP on 2016.

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5wire.co.uk logo
Profile completion status:
Things done
✓ Company address location is complete
✓ Company phone/fax is added
✓ Company Twitter and Facebook accounts are added
✓ Forum, Blog/Announcements, Knowledgebase or FAQ URLs are added
✓ Products (plans) are added, but some are not updated from over 2 years
Note: Add a promotion or coupon

Things to do
✗ Company descriptions is too short. Minimum 500 chars
✗ "About page" URL or "Contact page" URLs are missing
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VISIT WEBSITE		wpengine.com logo
Profile completion status:
Things done
✓ Company descriptions is fine
✓ Company address location is complete
✓ Company phone/fax is added
✓ Company Twitter and Facebook accounts are added
✓ "About page" URL or "Contact page" URLs are added
✓ Forum, Blog/Announcements, Knowledgebase or FAQ URLs are added
✓ Products (plans) are added, but some are not updated from over 2 years
✓ Promotions are added, but some are not updated from over 2 years

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VISIT WEBSITE
 
5wire
86 – 90 Paul Street
London ec2a 4ne
UK

5wire.co.uk
WP Engine
Irongate House, 22-30 Duke's Place
London EC3A 7LP
UK

wpengine.com
📧 Emailsupport@5...sales@w...
☎ Phone+442476980702020 3770 9704
Ranks🏆 Alexa Rating 4,226,595▼-1,803,442 (lower is better)
Alexa Rank in GB 103,272
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 18/38🔗 Links 96,980		🏆 Alexa Rating 2,347▲227 (lower is better)
Alexa Rank in US 1,175
🏆 SEO MOZ DA/PA 80/65🔗 Links 363,755
Languagesen-GB en-US
📄 Info5wire Networks - UK Dedicated Hosting & Web Design | Professional, Quality Hosting Solutions providing a broad range of services to cater for your business needs. Read full reviewWP Engine is a hosting platform that is rather new in the hosting industry. They claim to offer powerful hardware architecture and high speed. They are partners with Google, New Relic, Amazon, BigCommerce and Cloudflare.

They specialize in WordPress hosting and their plans are dedicated for both beginners and enterprises that need customized plans. Backups are made automatically, security is guaranteed with Cloudflare and speed is improved by CDN and their multiple data centers. Site [...] Read full review
📡 Established20082010
🏁 Site speed-Average, load time 2.3 seconds 39% sites are slower
SEO Links count 21,165
📣 Social Media
📣 Social Media
🔃 User Shares
5wire.co.uk Icon5wirehosting
Started from: June, 2010
  • Tweets: 2,867
  • Followers: 356
  • Friends: 472
  • Last activity:
wpengine.com Iconwpengine
Started from: March, 2010
  • Tweets: 27,503
  • Followers: 44,328
  • Friends: 45
  • Last activity:
https://www.facebook.com/5wirehosting (inactive)wpengine.com IconWP Engine
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  • People talking about them:
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5wire
  • Followers: 13
  • Entity type: Self Owned
  • Founded: 2008
  • Employee Count: 2-10
  • Industry: Computer Networking
company/wpengine/
5wire Blog
  • Blog Posts: 181
  • Software Wordpress version 6.5.2
  • Blog added on: Mar, 2012
  • Language: en-GB
  • Last written post:

WP Engine Blog
  • Blog Posts: 1,237
  • Software Wordpress version 6.4.3
  • Blog added on: Jan, 2015
  • Language: en-US
  • Last written post:

🔧 Shared Hosting - 4/0
💡 Plan NameEssential Hosting [Linux]-
💰 Price£ 1.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space500 MB-
📶 Data Transfer10 GB-
🔌 Hosted domains -
🆓 Free Domain -
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server Location -
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)500MB SSD Storage Space
10GB Bandwidth
Free Daily Backups
1 Unique Websites
cPanel Control Panel
7 Day Money Back Guarantee		-
📅 Date PlanNov 2015-
💡 Plan NameAdvanced Hosting [Linux]-
💰 Price£ 3.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space2 GB-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domains -
🆓 Free Domain -
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server Location -
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)2GB SSD Storage Space
Unlimited Bandwidth
Free Daily Backups
5 Unique Websites
cPanel Control Panel
7 Day Money Back Guarantee		-
📅 Date PlanNov 2015-
💡 Plan NamePremium Hosting [Linux]-
💰 Price£ 5.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Space10 GB-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domains -
🆓 Free Domain -
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server Location -
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)10GB SSD Storage Space
Unlimited Bandwidth
Free Daily Backups
10 Unique Websites
cPanel Control Panel
7 Day Money Back Guarantee		-
📅 Date PlanNov 2015-
💡 Plan NameProfessional Hosting [Linux]-
💰 Price£ 10.00/mo.-
💿 Disk Spaceunlimited-
📶 Data Transferunmetered-
🔌 Hosted domains -
🆓 Free Domain -
🔨 Control Panel -
🌏 Server Location -
📜 DescriptionINFO (mouse over)Unlimited SSD Storage Space
Unlimited Bandwidth
Free Daily Backups
Unlimited Unique Websites
cPanel Control Panel
7 Day Money Back Guarantee		-
📅 Date PlanNov 2015-
🔧 Cloud - 0/4
💡 Plan Name-Custom [Linux]
💰 Price-on request
💿 Disk Space-50 GB
📶 Data Transfer-500 GB
🔌 Hosted domains-30
🆓 Free Domain-0
🔋 RAM- 
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)For large businesses and mission-critical sites. This dedicated environment delivers high performance, with managed onboarding and our fastest support response.

Call +1-512-201-4819
to talk to a sales specialist

Local storage: 100 GB – 1 TB
Bandwidth / month: 400 GB+
Visits / month: Millions

[...]
📅 Date Plan-Nov 2021
💡 Plan Name-Startup [Linux]
💰 Price-€ 23.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space-10 GB
📶 Data Transfer-50 GB
🔌 Hosted domains-1
🆓 Free Domain-0
🔋 RAM- 
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)All the basics for starting a small website or blog.
Risk-free for 60 days.
Visits / month 25,000

Genesis Framework
35+ StudioPress Themes
24/7 chat support
Dev, Stage, Prod Environments
Transferable Sites
PHP 7.2 ready
LargeFS
Global CDN
Page Performance
[...]
📅 Date Plan-Nov 2021
💡 Plan Name-Growth [Linux]
💰 Price-€ 140.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space-20 GB
📶 Data Transfer-200 GB
🔌 Hosted domains-10
🆓 Free Domain-0
🔋 RAM- 
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Features you need for a growing business.
Risk-free for 60 days.
Visits / month 100,000

Genesis Framework
35+ StudioPress Themes
24/7 chat support
Dev, Stage, Prod Environments
Transferable Sites
PHP 7.2 ready
LargeFS
Global CDN
Page Performance
[...]
📅 Date Plan-Nov 2021
💡 Plan Name-Scale [Linux]
💰 Price-€ 350.00/mo.
💿 Disk Space-50 GB
📶 Data Transfer-500 GB
🔌 Hosted domains-30
🆓 Free Domain-0
🔋 RAM- 
📌 Dedicated IPs-0
🔨 Control Panel-
🌏 Server Location-United States
📜 Description-INFO (mouse over)Higher capacity and site limits to scale your experiences.
Risk-free for 60 days.
Visits / month 400,000

Genesis Framework
35+ StudioPress Themes
24/7 chat support
Dev, Stage, Prod Environments
Transferable Sites
PHP 7.2 ready
LargeFS
Global CDN
Page [...]
📅 Date Plan-Nov 2021
💻 Supported Operating Systems
  • Linux
  • Linux
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