Liquid Web vs. Pressable

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Liquid Web and Pressable compared across Company facts, Pricing, Performance & infrastructure, WordPress management, Support & security and Platform & integrations — every fact sourced and re-verified from each vendor's public material.

Liquid Web

Managed WordPress and ecommerce hosting (formerly Nexcess), on Liquid Web's own datacenters with Cloudflare Enterprise and a 100% uptime SLA.

HQ Lansing, MI

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Pressable

Managed WordPress hosting from Automattic, with Jetpack and a global CDN included.

HQ San Antonio, TX

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Liquid Web

Pressable

Company facts

Headquarters

Lansing, MI Lansing, Michigan (Liquid Web HQ; Nexcess consolidated under the Liquid Web brand)

San Antonio, TX Automattic-owned; distributed/remote-first team

Employees

750 Approx. company headcount (LinkedIn 500–1,000 range, midpoint)

125 LinkedIn shows 51-200 employees (midpoint)

Pricing

Starting Monthly Price (USD)

$6 Spark – Launch plan, the entry managed WordPress tier (1 site, 15 GB), billed monthly

$25 Signature 1 plan, billed monthly

Entry Plan WordPress Sites

1 sites 1 WordPress site on the entry Spark – Launch plan

1 sites 1 WordPress install on Signature 1

Entry Plan Monthly Visits

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30k 30,000 monthly visits on Signature 1

Entry Plan Storage (GB)

15 GB 15 GB storage on the entry Spark – Launch plan

20 GB 20 GB storage on Signature 1

Free Trial Length (Days)

0 days No free trial offered on managed WordPress plans

0 days

Money-Back Guarantee (Days)

0 days No money-back guarantee; the current Terms of Service state fees are non-refundable

30 days 30-day money-back guarantee on all plans

Performance & infrastructure

Underlying Cloud

own datacenters Runs on Liquid Web-owned, staffed Tier-4 datacenters

own datacenters Runs on Automattic's WP Cloud platform

Datacenter Locations

9 9 Liquid Web datacenter locations across the US, UK, EU, and Australia

4 4 origin regions: Los Angeles, Dallas, Ashburn (VA), Amsterdam

Free CDN

Cloudflare Enterprise CDN included on every managed WordPress plan

Pressable Edge Cache included on every plan

Web Server

Apache Apache application server (with a Cloudflare Enterprise / NGINX edge-cache layer in front)

NGINX NGINX with PHP-FPM

Built-in Object Cache

Redis object caching (Object Cache Pro) enabled by default on all new sites

Persistent object cache (Memcache) enabled by default

Latest PHP Version

8.3 PHP 8.3 selectable via the Client Portal (newer releases may also be available)

8.4 PHP up to 8.4, selectable per site

Free SSL Certificate

Free SSL certificate included on all plans

Free Let's Encrypt SSL on every site

WordPress management

Automatic WordPress Updates

Host-managed automatic WordPress core (and security) updates

Automatic managed WordPress core updates

Staging Environments

Free staging site included on every plan

One-click staging on all plans

Automatic Daily Backups

Automatic daily backups on every plan

Daily file backups, hourly DB backups, one-click restore

Backup Retention (Days)

7 days 7-day backup retention on the entry Spark – Launch plan (30 days on Thrive/Elevate)

30 days Automatic backups kept at least 30 days

Free Site Migration

Free self-serve migration on the entry plan (assisted migration on higher tiers)

Free White Glove migrations + free migration plugin, any number of sites

SSH & WP-CLI Access

SSH (Secure Shell) access with WP-CLI on managed WordPress plans

SSH/SFTP access and WP-CLI on all plans

WordPress Multisite Support

WordPress Multisite supported (subdomain or subdirectory networks)

Multisite supported (path-based all plans; domain-based on 5+ site plans)

Support & security

Uptime SLA (%)

100% 100% uptime SLA (network and power), with service credits

100% 100% network uptime guarantee (SLA with credits)

24/7 Support

24/7/365 support on all plans

24/7 WordPress support on all plans

Malware Removal / Hack Fix

Malware remediation is a paid one-time service ($200/incident), not an included guarantee

Free malware cleaning & hack recovery assistance

WAF / DDoS Protection

Web application firewall + DDoS protection (Cloudflare Enterprise) included on every plan

WAF + DDoS protection included via Jetpack Security on all plans

Platform & integrations

Control Panel

custom Custom Sites & Stores portal (sites-portal.liquidweb.com), not cPanel/Plesk

custom MyPressable Control Panel

White-Label / Agency Features

Reseller / white-label hosting and client management for partners

White-label, collaborator permissions, agency/reseller hosting

Email Hosting Included

Email hosting not included; mailboxes require a paid add-on or third-party provider

Professional email hosting powered by Titan

The verdict

Liquid Web

Best for low entry price and wider geographic reach

Liquid Web starts at $6/mo versus Pressable's $25, the cheaper way onto managed WordPress. It also spans 9 datacenter locations (US, UK, EU, Australia) against Pressable's 4 origin regions. Trade-offs: no money-back guarantee, 7-day backup retention, and malware removal is a paid $200/incident service rather than included.

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Pressable

Best for safer onboarding and included recovery extras

Pressable backs the $25/mo plan with a 30-day money-back guarantee (Liquid Web offers none), 30-day backup retention versus 7, free malware cleaning and hack recovery (Liquid Web charges $200/incident), and bundled Titan email hosting that Liquid Web treats as a paid add-on. It also ships PHP 8.4 versus 8.3 and 20 GB entry storage versus 15.

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