WP Engine Wins MarTech Breakthrough Award for Best Overall Web Hosting Service

At WP Engine, we are committed to providing our customers with innovative technology and solutions that empower them to succeed online. 

Today, we are proud to announce that WP Engine has been honored with a MarTech Breakthrough Award for Best Overall Web Hosting Service, which recognizes our WordPress^Ⓡ[1] Managed Hosting platform and dedication to innovation, performance, and delivering a world-class customer experience.

“The MarTech Breakthrough Award is a testament to our team’s relentless pursuit of innovation and our unwavering commitment to our customers,” said WP Engine CMO Darcy Kurtz.

“This award celebrates the efforts of our teams who help build, optimize, and support our customers as we work to ensure our managed hosting product becomes the most trusted platform for WordPress builders and users.” 

Read on to learn more about the MarTech Breakthrough Awards and how our services, tools, and support made this recognition possible.

What are the MarTech Breakthrough Awards?

The mission of the MarTech Breakthrough Awards is to celebrate innovation, inspire progress, and foster excellence by recognizing standout solutions that push the boundaries of marketing technology. The program highlights the companies and individuals driving significant advancements in marketing, sales, and advertising through breakthrough technology.

Judging for the MarTech Breakthrough Awards includes a detailed, multi-step process that evaluates solutions and achievements across various categories, including marketing automation, AI-powered insights, and customer experience. 

Entries are submitted by organizations globally and undergo an initial screening before entering evaluation. A panel of industry experts chooses winners based on core criteria: innovation, performance, ease of use, functionality, value, and impact. 

After careful review and scoring narrows the field to a shortlist of finalists, one winner is chosen per award to ensure that only the most impactful companies are recognized.

A history of performance and innovation

This award underscores WP Engine’s position as a leader in providing highly trusted WordPress products and solutions for businesses, brands, and agencies of all sizes. 

Our managed platform for WordPress offers specialized solutions for all types of site owners and builders, including eCommerce solutions, enterprise-grade performance, and headless site solutions, alongside developer-centric tools. Our focus on performance, innovation, and expertise empowers customers to create, manage, and optimize their WordPress websites with confidence.

WP Engine’s unmatched performance is a cornerstone of the user experience. Our platform guarantees speed and reliability with a 99.95% + server uptime (equivalent to less than five hours of annual downtime). WP Engine is consistently ranked among the top managed hosting providers for its backend server response times and proactively blocks billions of attacks annually.

Our commitment to relentless innovation is demonstrated by our focus on improving usability, productivity, and capabilities on WordPress. Most recently, the launch of our new Smart Search AI and AI-Powered Recommendations and Managed Vector Database offerings is helping our users deliver faster, more accurate on-site search results while keeping site content AI-ready automatically and effortlessly.

Powering the freedom to create through hosting excellence

We are honored to receive this MarTech Breakthrough Award, which validates our brand promise and instills confidence in our customers. Our mission is to power the freedom to create, and we will continue to innovate and deliver the best possible managed hosting experience. 

Whether you’re hosting your own website or trying to get your hosting at budget prices, your hosting plan may be costing you more than you know—whether it’s in hard costs like infrastructure or security, or hidden costs like losing valuable time to tedious updates. 

Talk to an expert today to learn how WP Engine’s managed hosting for WordPress can help reduce the total costs associated with operating and maintaining your WordPress website to help unlock the next stage of your growth, whatever it looks like!