WP Engine revisions limit

[Kyle Sorkness]

I'm in the process of migrating to WP Engine. Fortunately, before I migrated any sites, I noticed a support article from WP Engine stating that they disable revisions by default. That article and other information I've seen from them also, thankfully, state that revisions can be enabled by request.

When I requested that unlimited revisions (normal WordPress behavior) be enabled, a support agent said they would only enable up to five revisions.

In addition to arguing that this limit is not stated anywhere in any of their articles, pre-sales information, or anywhere else (they only state "recommended" limits and that more than those recommended limits can be enabled, implying there is no limit) and telling him all the reasons (unlimited) revisions are crucial for me, I'm wondering if I could also say something about the lack of logic in placing a limit on revisions when there is no limit on the number of posts or pages allowed. Someone whose sites have thousands or tens of thousands of posts and five revisions enabled will cause far more "database bloat" (the reason they say they disable/limit revisions) than my little sites with only hundreds of posts and unlimited revisions ever would.

First, am I correct about that policy inconsistency, or is there something I don't know about revisions that cause them to "bloat databases" and "impact servers" more than posts or pages do?

Second, have any of you who use WP Engine successfully had more than five revisions enabled?

Finally, if I absolutely can't get them to enable more revisions, do any of you know of any way I could automatically save old revisions before they get deleted by the sixth and subsequent revisions?

Thanks.

[Nicholas Ciske]

Don't waste your time trying to change WP Engine's policies -- just take your business elsewhere. You likely won’t change their minds, even with your (correct) logic that limiting revisions but not limiting page counts is inconsistent. They work well for a certain type of site -- if you don't fit, don't fight it.

e.g.

Web Synthesis - no limits like this that I know of

FlyWheel

Pressable

etc.

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[barbara schendel]

Somebody in this thread had recommended Lightning Base. Anybody else work with them before? 

I have a client that gets around 40,000 visitors per month, so he wants something that can allow that but not charge too much since he only makes money on the site with adsense. I think he would do $50/month but probably not more. 

[Nicholas Ciske]

They've come up in a few spots for me - here and on the Advanced WP Facebook group. Considering moving a project there from WP Engine due to WPE's hard limits on visits - so we're thinking the same way.

So, no direct experience, other than validation that they appear to be a lower cost WPE, sans the staging server functionality. Which I can live without for a significant lower monthly cost.

Web Synthesis does page views per day and has higher limits than WPE -- so look at them as well.

Both LB and Synthesis I believe aren’t hard limits - just suggestions to help you choose the right plan -- so they are resource constrained -- meaning an efficient, well cached site could server more page views than listed.

Support would seem to be the wildcard...

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[CarrieRocha]

I'm with Synthesis and get about 120,000 visitors per month (thanks Nick for the recommendation). Their support is OUTSTANDING. I recommend them to my blogger friends all the time. Yes, their limits are soft, not hard rules. They have been very reasonable to work with.

[jus...@foell.org]

Carrie,

Are you on the "starter" plan which is supposed to be around 2500 visits/day (75k/month)? If so, have they ever razzed you about going over the normal allotment?

Justin

[Nick Ciske]

FYI- You can change this yourself in the wp-config.php file. I imagine you'll only hear about it if your revisions get out of control... i.e. I doubt they actually monitor it.

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