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How UNC Greensboro Cut Hosting Costs by 67% While Managing 250 WordPress Sites

Organization: University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Previous Host: WP Engine

Current Host: Pressable powered by WP Cloud

Sites Migrated: 250 WordPress sites
Results: Native hosting with Pressable yielded 67% cost savings, virtually zero downtime, and improved scalability

The Challenge

Before migrating to Pressable, UNC Greensboro faced significant operational challenges with their previous hosting solution at WP Engine. Managing 250 WordPress sites across campus required stability and performance. But their hosting partner was falling short.

The problems were mounting

  • Persistent performance issues affecting multiple departments
  • Frustration within the IT team struggling to maintain stability
  • Inadequate support response from WP Engine, unable to identify root causes or provide sustainable solutions.

The Results: Pressable with WP Cloud has already solved this for UNC Greensboro:

  • 67% cost savings
  • Virtually zero downtime
  • 250 sites managed seamlessly

We’ve experienced virtually zero downtime since the migration to Pressable with WP Cloud. The stability issues that plagued the WP Engine environment are gone.

— Brook Tester, Lead Web Developer, The University of North Carolina At Greensboro

What is WP Cloud Native Hosting? 

WP Cloud native hosting is designed specifically for organizations that need to manage multiple WordPress sites at scale. Unlike traditional hosting solutions, WP Cloud offers native hosting capabilities that allow organizations to deploy and manage thousands of WordPress sites with the same tools and efficiency as a hosting company. Pressable is a WP Cloud partner that has extended this capability to it’s clients.

Native hosting is like building your own neighborhood on top of a world-class foundation. You don’t have to lay the pipes, roads, or power lines — that’s all handled — but you decide what to build, where, and how fast to grow.

— Vik Patel, Pressable General Manager

The platform enables blueprints for standardized site deployment, automated workflows for routine tasks, and enterprise-grade infrastructure management, all accessible through an intuitive dashboard and powerful API. This approach makes WP Cloud ideal for universities, enterprises, and any organization that needs to maintain a large WordPress ecosystem with consistency, reliability, and minimal overhead.

Traffic Surges? No problem.

For organizations like UNC Greensboro, being able to confidently manage hundreds of sites means that the team can focus on other tasks at hand.

A technical challenge is that higher education sites experience traffic surges and can be a focus for malicious hackers. Backed by WP Cloud’s bursting capabilities, Pressable is able to promise its clients that experience high-traffic periods that they will experience no downtime. Pressable has been able to deliver three straight years of 100% uptime, as tracked by independent researchers.

Pressable’s uptime benchmarks soar above rival hosts

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The Native Hosting Difference

  • UNC Greensboro reduced hosting costs by approximately 67% by migrating from WP Engine to Pressable, freeing up substantial budget for other priorities.
  • The platform’s approach to site separation addressed the core issue that had plagued UNC Greensboro’s previous setup where each site would operate independently, eliminating the cascading failure scenario they’d experienced.
  • Pressable and WP Cloud’s API interface and functionality provided the kind of programmatic control and automation capabilities that would make the platform more manageable and scalable as UNC Greensboro’s needs evolved.

One Command, 250 Sites: Pressable’s Bulk Tool Advantage

Pressable’s Bulk Tool functionality became a game-changer for the UNC Greensboro team. This feature allows them to execute wp-cli commands across all sites simultaneously, streamlining tasks like plugin rollouts and updates whenever they release new plugin or theme versions. What once required site-by-site manual work can now be accomplished across their entire network with a single command.

The combination of improved reliability, reduced costs, and enhanced operational capabilities has transformed their hosting infrastructure from a source of constant frustration into a stable, efficient foundation for their work.

Pressable boasts of a 97.4% rating average customer satisfaction score.

In a competitive landscape where larger rivals spend on Super Bowl ads and other major sponsorships, Pressable leads with the message to customers that “we don’t have the name recognition of the big guys — so we try harder” and is able to back that up with strong performance.

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