WP Dev
One place for all your WordPress projects
Install, clone and manage your clients' WordPress sites from a single development environment - only order hosting once the site is ready to launch.
New WP install
Install, clone and edit
Develop several WordPress projects at once - straight in the cloud
Control Panel
Centralized login and user permissions
As a designer, you can see all your clients' subscriptions in the Hostaan control panel and log in to all services with a single account. As a customer, you can define who has access to your services.
Plesk
Versatile Plesk control panel
The Plesk server software running on our servers integrates seamlessly with our control panel. Through Plesk you log in to WordPress, manage your emails and backups.
Hostaan Plugin
Hostaan WordPress plugin
Every WordPress installation on our servers includes the Hostaan plugin, which optimises site settings for compatibility with our server platform and maximises speed.
Nginx caching
Super-fast caching technologies
Hostaan servers use Nginx caching technology, which caches requests at the server level. Combined with the Hostaan plugin's frontend and backend caching and image compression, this makes WordPress lightning fast.
Cloud-based servers
Super-fast, stable and European
Hostaan services are built on fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure from UpCloud and Hetzner, with servers located in Europe. All data is stored in Europe.
Continuously monitored
We anticipate and react
Hostaan services are not just fast - they work with extreme stability. We monitor operations 24/7 and react to potential issues, often before they have time to become problems.
Statistics
Real-time visitor statistics
Every one of our hosting plans includes modern GoAccess visitor statistics by default - see your traffic, top pages and visitor sources in real time.
And the most important
Excellent customer service
We are simply known for the best customer service. When you need support, you reach us quickly. We answer the phone during business hours immediately and respond to tickets within minutes rather than days.
No separate hosting order needed
Develop first, order hosting once the site is ready
WP Dev is a centralized cloud environment for designers and agencies building WordPress sites. A new install is ready in seconds with a couple of clicks, and you can keep several client projects in development side by side under one account.
Centralized control panel
Every development project in one view
See every WordPress install you are developing at a glance. Clone a site to a staging environment to test changes safely, and hide in-progress sites from search engines until they're ready to launch.
Publish work in progress on your own subdomain, e.g. site.youragency.fi or yourname.hostaan.tld/site - your client can see progress even during development.
Start now
Start now - get 12 months for 0€!
Choose a name for your development environment - get the Dev 10 plan on a .hostaan.tld suffix completely free for the first 12 months.
You're not committing to anything - cancel free of charge after the year, or keep going from 5.00 €/mo.
Once a client's site is ready
Four ways to launch a finished site
The Dev environment is meant for development. Once a site is ready to go live, pick whichever path fits your business best - the most preferred and most rewarding one is the first.
Partner program
Order it directly for your client - and earn 20% commission
Order your client their own web hosting plan directly from Hostaan and earn a 20% commission every billing period through our partner program - on the bigger plans (WP 30, SmartWP 20, SmartWoo) the commission is even permanent, not just one-off. You focus on design, we handle billing and support.
Under your own account
Resell hosting at your own markup
You can also order a WP, SmartWP or SmartWoo plan on your own WP Dev account and enter the client as the domain owner at order time. We invoice you, and you resell the service onward at whatever markup you like.
Note: partner program commission doesn't apply to this route.
See web hosting plansManaged Cloud
When regular hosting isn't enough
If a client's site is exceptionally large - a big WooCommerce store, for example - a dedicated Managed Cloud server gives it more resources than regular web hosting.
Explore Managed CloudReseller Cloud
Build your own hosting business
If you manage multiple clients on an ongoing basis, Reseller Cloud gives your agency its own white-label server with unlimited customer accounts and domains.
Explore Reseller Cloud
Manage every client at once
Bulk actions across every site you manage
Install, update or remove a plugin across every WordPress install you are developing at the same time - no need to go through sites one by one.
See every project as one list and run an action across selected sites at once, whether it's a core, theme or plugin update.
Included as standard
The same cloud infrastructure, even in Dev plans
Unlike a local WordPress development tool on your own computer, WP Dev is fully cloud-based and runs on the same server environment as your production site. By the time a site is ready to launch, it's already been tested in an identical environment - no compatibility surprises during the move.
Finnish UpCloud cloud
Fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure, data in Finland
Let's Encrypt SSL
Auto-renewing SSL certificate
HTTP/2 + Nginx caching
Pages load in as little as 0.3 seconds
Daily backups
Restore any project anytime
ModSecurity and ImunifyAV+
Malware is blocked automatically
Plesk and WordPress Toolkit
FTP, SSH, DNS and WP installs from one place
PHP 8.5
7.4-8.4 selectable per project
MariaDB databases
A database for every WP project, no extra charge
WP Dev plans
Choose the dev environment for your team's needs
Every plan runs the same development platform - the difference is how many WP projects, how much storage, and how much power.
Free for the first 12 months on a *.hostaan.tld subdomain (normally 5.00 €/mo).
- 1 user account
- Free *.hostaan.tld subdomain only
- 5 MariaDB databases
- WordPress ready to install with a click
- Clone to a staging environment
- Hidden from search engines during development
- Centralized control panel for every WP project
- Let's Encrypt SSL
- PHP 8.5 (8.4/7.4 selectable)
- Nginx + HTTP/2 caching
- ModSecurity, fail2ban, ImunifyAV+
- Plesk control panel and WordPress Toolkit
Most popular - enough for a small agency running several client projects.
- Unlimited user accounts
- Your own domain supported (site.yourdomain.fi)
- 10 MariaDB databases
- WordPress ready to install with a click
- Clone to a staging environment
- Hidden from search engines during development
- Centralized control panel for every WP project
- Let's Encrypt SSL
- PHP 8.5 (8.4/7.4 selectable)
- Nginx + HTTP/2 caching
- ModSecurity, fail2ban, ImunifyAV+
- Plesk control panel and WordPress Toolkit
For a larger team with many concurrent client projects.
- Unlimited user accounts
- Your own domain supported (site.yourdomain.fi)
- 20 MariaDB databases
- WordPress ready to install with a click
- Clone to a staging environment
- Hidden from search engines during development
- Centralized control panel for every WP project
- Let's Encrypt SSL
- PHP 8.5 (8.4/7.4 selectable)
- Nginx + HTTP/2 caching
- ModSecurity, fail2ban, ImunifyAV+
- Plesk control panel and WordPress Toolkit
For managing several concurrent agency projects.
- Unlimited user accounts
- Your own domain supported (site.yourdomain.fi)
- 30 MariaDB databases
- WordPress ready to install with a click
- Clone to a staging environment
- Hidden from search engines during development
- Centralized control panel for every WP project
- Let's Encrypt SSL
- PHP 8.5 (8.4/7.4 selectable)
- Nginx + HTTP/2 caching
- ModSecurity, fail2ban, ImunifyAV+
- Plesk control panel and WordPress Toolkit
For a large agency developing dozens of client projects.
- Unlimited user accounts
- Your own domain supported (site.yourdomain.fi)
- 40 MariaDB databases
- WordPress ready to install with a click
- Clone to a staging environment
- Hidden from search engines during development
- Centralized control panel for every WP project
- Let's Encrypt SSL
- PHP 8.5 (8.4/7.4 selectable)
- Nginx + HTTP/2 caching
- ModSecurity, fail2ban, ImunifyAV+
- Plesk control panel and WordPress Toolkit
For the largest project count - dozens of clients on one account.
- Unlimited user accounts
- Your own domain supported (site.yourdomain.fi)
- 50 MariaDB databases
- WordPress ready to install with a click
- Clone to a staging environment
- Hidden from search engines during development
- Centralized control panel for every WP project
- Let's Encrypt SSL
- PHP 8.5 (8.4/7.4 selectable)
- Nginx + HTTP/2 caching
- ModSecurity, fail2ban, ImunifyAV+
- Plesk control panel and WordPress Toolkit
Need even more room or projects? Contact our support team - we'll tailor a plan to fit.
We offset your development environment's CO2 emissions by planting trees in Finland.
Start now
Start now - get 12 months for 0€!
Choose a name for your development environment - get the Dev 10 plan on a .hostaan.tld suffix completely free for the first 12 months.
You're not committing to anything - cancel free of charge after the year, or keep going from 5.00 €/mo.
Start for freeFaster than you think
A new WordPress install ready in under a minute
No need to wait for a server to spin up or an order to process. WP Dev uses the same UpCloud infrastructure and Nginx caching as our other WordPress products, so your development environment stays fast no matter how many projects you run.
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Why WP Dev?
Excellent reasons to centralize your WordPress development on Hostaan
Start with no risk
Dev 10 is free for 12 months - try the platform in practice before committing to anything.
One account, every project
No need to juggle dozens of separate hosting orders - manage everything under one WP Dev account.
Earn from your client relationships
The partner program's 20% commission or your own resale markup - pick whichever fits your business.
See also
Other tools for professionals
Frequently asked
Questions about the WP Dev environment
Start WP Dev for free
Dev 10 is free for the first 12 months - install your first WordPress project today.
