WordPress VIP – Expensive Fees = VaultPress

Posted by on September 1, 2010 in Internet, Money, WordPress | 1 comment


I know there is a lot of people who think VaultPress is expensive. In fact I completely agree!

However in my honest opinion VaultPress is the poor man’s version of WordPress VIP Support, whose prices start at $5,000.

Even if I were to upgrade to VaultPress Premium across all 4 of my blogs (which would be $60/month per blog) it would still be cheaper than WordPress VIP (as I would be paying $2,880/year).

I currently have 2 blogs being protected by VaultPress (my personal site as well as my space blog), and once the service exits beta I’ll add 2 more.

I’m only going to have 2 blogs upgrade to VaultPress Premium though, as I’ll have my two personal blogs (this one plus my micro blog) use the basic plan instead.

Total bill: $155/month or $1,860/year (one blog will be grandfathered in the beta prices, otherwise it would be $160/month or $1,920/year).

Still expensive? Yes!!

But I consider my blog(s) to be a living diary of my experiences, views, etc. in life, one that I hope will live on long after I’ve change locations, iDevices, and molecular status (as in death).

Hence the reason why I’m will to pay the price…at least until someone can offer me something of greater value (that is at least semi affordable).

–Posted from my iPhone

  • http://www.darnellclayton.com Darnell

    Truth be told Vasken I thought the same thing. I actually went "shopping around" for other alternatives, and most either only did Amazon S3 (which is okay but not perfect) or recommended using Gmail (which is not okay as Google never intended Gmail to be used as storage, so things can suddenly "change" without warning).

    VaultPress is the best service out there, and the fact that they are the only ones to keep a history of backups (at least beyond one month) is the one reason why I use their service instead of rivals (despite the price).