Two Real Care Plan Companies Compared
Your WP Guy vs WP Buffs:
What's Actually Included in the Price?
WP Buffs is a respected WordPress care plan company with strong unlimited-edits policies and 24/7 monitoring, starting at $89 a month. Hosting is not included, and neither is phone support (email only, by design). Your WP Guy includes both hosting and phone support in the plan price, starting at $119 a month.
Both are real WordPress specialists. One price includes a lot more than the other.
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Your WP Guy vs WP Buffs, Feature by Feature
Verified against WP Buffs' published plans as of August 2026.
| Feature | WP Buffs | Your WP Guy |
|---|---|---|
| What it actually is | WordPress care plans, hosting not included | WordPress care plans; hosting available if you want it, or we work with your current host |
| Starting price | $89/mo (Maintain) | $119/mo (Gold) |
| Hosting | Not included; bring your own | Included if you want it; no requirement to switch away from your current host |
| Update and monitoring cadence | Weekly updates, 24/7 uptime monitoring | 70+ signals watched around the clock, plugin changes flagged twice daily |
| Website edits and troubleshooting | Unlimited (within their defined scope), starting at Protect ($179/mo) | 1 hour/mo at Platinum ($249/mo), 3 hours/mo at Titanium; high-volume, unlimited-style support is a custom Palladium retainer starting at 5 hours/week |
| Phone support | Not offered by design; email only | Included starting at Platinum |
| Business model | Direct clients and white-label agency resellers | Direct relationship with the team managing your site |
| Total monthly cost at the base tier, with hosting | $89/mo (Maintain) + separate hosting, typically $30 to $100/mo | $119/mo (Gold), hosting included if you want it |
| Feature | WP Buffs | Your WP Guy |
|---|---|---|
| What it actually is | WordPress care plans, hosting not included | WordPress care plans; hosting available if you want it, or we work with your current host |
| Starting price | $89/mo (Maintain) | $119/mo (Gold) |
| Hosting | Not included; bring your own | Included if you want it; no requirement to switch away from your current host |
| Update and monitoring cadence | Weekly updates, 24/7 uptime monitoring | 70+ signals watched around the clock, plugin changes flagged twice daily |
| Website edits and troubleshooting | Unlimited (within their defined scope), starting at Protect ($179/mo) | 1 hour/mo at Platinum ($249/mo), 3 hours/mo at Titanium; high-volume, unlimited-style support is a custom Palladium retainer starting at 5 hours/week |
| Phone support | Not offered by design; email only | Included starting at Platinum |
| Business model | Direct clients and white-label agency resellers | Direct relationship with the team managing your site |
| Total monthly cost at the base tier, with hosting | $89/mo (Maintain) + separate hosting, typically $30 to $100/mo | $119/mo (Gold), hosting included if you want it |
Reviewed against WP Buffs' publicly listed care plans, including their own pricing and FAQ pages. Typical added hosting cost is a general industry estimate, not a WP Buffs figure. The base-tier cost comparison uses Maintain and Gold since neither includes hands-on edits, for a fair like-for-like comparison; WP Buffs' unlimited edits at Protect do not have a direct equivalent among Your WP Guy's fixed-price tiers. Plans and pricing change; if you are reading this more than a few months after the date at the bottom of this page, confirm current numbers on both sites.
What WP Buffs Actually Offers
WP Buffs is a well-established WordPress care plan company, not a fly-by-night operation. Their unlimited-edits policy is unusually well documented and generous by industry standards once you reach the Protect plan, and their 24/7 uptime monitoring is a real, standing service. Updates are applied on a weekly cadence, by their own description, and plans start at $89 a month. They also run a large white-label program for agencies who want to resell care plans under their own name.
What is not in that price: hosting. WP Buffs works with whatever host you already have and recommends partners like Kinsta or WP Engine if you want to upgrade, which is typically a separate cost. Phone support is not offered either; by their own stated design, all support runs through email.
None of that makes WP Buffs a bad care plan company. It makes it a maintenance team, not a full package.
Unlimited Edits Only Matter If You Have to Ask
WP Buffs' unlimited-edits policy at Protect is real, and it is generous. But look closely at how it works: something breaks, you notice, you write up the request, and then it gets fixed. That is the model. Unlimited refers to how many times you can ask, not to how many times you have to.
Your WP Guy is built to work in the other direction. 70+ signals watched around the clock and plugin changes flagged twice daily mean a lot of what would eventually become an edit request gets caught and fixed before it ever reaches you as a problem. Fewer things break in the first place, so fewer things need reporting, whether the ticket queue on the other end is unlimited or not.
The best support ticket is the one you never had to file.
Where the Gap Shows Up
A plugin pushes an update on a Tuesday. Something quietly breaks: a checkout button stops firing, a lead form stops sending. On a weekly update cycle, nobody looks again until the following week, which means it can run broken for up to six days, whether or not anyone happens to notice. On continuous monitoring, the same break gets caught and fixed the same day, often before a single customer ever hits it.
Then there is the invoice. If a hosting bill is being paid somewhere else too, that is two logins and two companies to contact when something goes wrong, and if it goes wrong on a Saturday night, there is no phone number for either one, just an inbox. None of that is a knock on WP Buffs. It is just what happens when catching problems is the client's job instead of the provider's.
Why Business Owners Choose Your WP Guy Anyway
A Person, Not a Ticket Queue
Real WordPress developers pick up the phone, not a rotating support desk that starts every call from zero.
Hosting Already Included
No separate hosting bill to juggle alongside a maintenance plan. It is one relationship, not two.
70+ Signals, Every Plan
The same monitoring foundation runs on every tier, including Gold. Nothing critical is locked behind an upsell.
Month to Month
No annual contract required to get the advertised price. Cancel anytime, no penalty.
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