I do not know of a single $8 host that does the following: - We upgrade the curated plugins we offer for you (though you can use any plugins you'd like) - We

I do not know of a single $8 host that does the following: - We upgrade the curated plugins we offer for you (though you can use any plugins you'd like) - We keep WordPress itself upgraded (when ready, new releases are not always perfect) - We make sure all the standard security stuff you'd read on any WordPress developers blog is in place (file permissions, admin account, etc) - We go further by offering hardware DoS/DDoS mitigation, intrusion detection, and redundant firewall protection - Aaron Brazell (Author of the WordPress Bible, http://goo.gl/mGgi http://goo.gl/mGgi) answers your support questions - Speed. Tuning of various caches, memcache for database/object caching, modifications to your theme or plugins, and so on. - Scale. We make sure your site stays up when you receive spiky or sustained traffic. Don't get Fireballed. - On top of that, we're the only hosting company (that I know of!) who also puts your static content (images, CSS, JS) on a CDN for you as part of the base price! Which means even faster load times plus more scalability. (Granted we haven't advertised this on the site yet, something we'll be fixing soon!) - Staging feature. Again, I'm not sure of any host who has something like this. We'll be adding more cool tools soon! - We spell WordPress correctly =) At the end of the day you shouldn't compare us to an $8 host. You pay for what you get. We go above and beyond regular hosting.