Why Wordpress?
I see WP Engine touted as a solution.  My limited experience with a client several months ago was &quot;hey, we&#x27;re getting really big, we need better security and better performance&quot;, they shop around, and get sold (in a literal sense) on WP Engine.  Signed up, and my friend started to try to migrate things over.  Oh... yeah, they don&#x27;t actually support many custom plugins - you could select from some blessed ones, but the client&#x27;s traffic was all using a custom theme and set of plugins.  Those wouldn&#x27;t run on WP Engine.<p>I too (and many others) could make most WP hosting really secure if I got to say &quot;you can only use these 9 plugins (or whatever the number was) and no, you can&#x27;t put any custom code on the server at all&quot;.<p>EDIT: Indeed... every moderately-sized WP project I&#x27;ve worked on ends up being dozens of plugins (more than 15 being average, and one recent one having about 45 active plugins).  Every time I mention that to anyone I know who &#x27;does&#x27; WP they all recoil in horror and say &quot;I&#x27;d never even work on that - that&#x27;s impossible!  Why would you need that many plugins ever?!&quot;  And then I think... they don&#x27;t really understand WP, or they don&#x27;t understand clients.  Or... yeah, it must be my problem, because I&#x27;m somehow not good enough to deliver everything a client asks for <i>in wordpress</i> (requirement) in the mythological &quot;3-5 plugins&quot; everyone tells me is their max.<p>EDIT2: The client project referenced above was getting tens of millions visits per month, and as such the WPengine number I was told was somewhere in the region of $1500&#x2F;month.