Pressable gets expensive at the edges of a tier
Pressable sells Signature plans by site count, billed per year. Signature 1 covers 1 site at 250 USD, Signature 2 covers 3 sites at 450 USD, Signature 3 covers 5 sites at 600 USD, Signature 4 covers 10 sites at 900 USD, Signature 5 covers 20 sites at 1,550 USD and Signature 6 covers 50 sites at 3,500 USD. For an agency sitting in the middle of a tier, that is a low price per site.
The trouble starts at the boundary. An agency with 10 clients on Signature 4 pays 900 USD a year. Client number 11 moves it to Signature 5 at 1,550 USD, an extra 650 USD per year for one new retainer. The same jump happens at site 6 (600 to 900 USD) and site 4 (450 to 600 USD). If you sign clients one at a time, budget for the step, not the average.
Usage is the second pressure point. Signature 4 includes 150,000 visits and 50 GB across the portfolio, which averages 15,000 visits and 5 GB per site. Pressable lists 1.20 USD per 1,000 extra visits and 1 USD per extra GB. One client with a busy campaign can add 50,000 visits and 60 USD to the bill in a single month, even if nothing else changed.
The third reason is cash flow. Pressable's published prices are yearly. If your own clients pay month to month, you carry a 900 or 1,550 USD commitment against revenue that arrives in smaller pieces. That is a cost of the model, and it is why some agencies look at hosts with a monthly option.
What 10 client sites cost on each host
These are published October 2026 plan figures in USD. Yearly equivalents require annual billing; they are not monthly payment offers. Storage is shared across the listed portfolio.
| Host and plan | Monthly billing | Monthly equivalent billed yearly | Visits per month | Storage | Bandwidth and extra usage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pressable Signature 4 | Monthly billingCheck monthly option | Monthly equivalent billed yearly75 USD, 900 USD per year | Visits per month150,000 | Storage50 GB | Bandwidth and extra usageExtra visits 1.20 USD per 1,000, storage 1 USD per GB |
| Rocket.net Agency Tier 1 | Monthly billing100 USD | Monthly equivalent billed yearly83 USD | Visits per monthUnmetered | Storage50 GB | Bandwidth and extra usage200 GB bandwidth; storage 2 USD per extra GB, bandwidth 0.08 USD per extra GB |
| Kinsta WP 10 | Monthly billing225 USD | Monthly equivalent billed yearly188 USD | Visits per month315,000 | Storage40 GB | Bandwidth and extra usageExtra disk 20 USD per 20 GB monthly; extra site 30 USD monthly |
| WP Engine tier for 10 sites | Monthly billingConfigurator price | Monthly equivalent billed yearlyConfigurator price | Visits per month100,000 | Storage20 GB | Bandwidth and extra usageConfirm bandwidth and overage terms in the configurator |
| NowHosted Agency | Monthly billing149 USD | Monthly equivalent billed yearly74 USD, 888 USD per year | Visits per month600,000, soft limit | Storage150 GB | Bandwidth and extra usageNo overage fees; confirm bandwidth suitability for the workload |
Pressable and Rocket.net both average 5 GB per site at 10 sites. NowHosted Agency provides 150 GB across up to 20 sites, so a 10-site portfolio averages 15 GB per site and still has 10 empty slots for the next signed clients.
What changes at 20 client sites
At 20 sites, Pressable Signature 5 costs 1,550 USD per year, about 129 USD per month, with 400,000 visits and 80 GB. The alternatives change as follows.
| Plan for 20 sites | Price per month | Visits per month | Storage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pressable Signature 5 | Price per monthAbout 129 USD billed yearly, 1,550 USD per year | Visits per month400,000 | Storage80 GB |
| Rocket.net Agency Tier 2 | Price per month200 USD monthly or 166 USD billed yearly | Visits per monthUnmetered | Storage75 GB |
| Kinsta WP 20 | Price per month340 USD monthly or 284 USD billed yearly | Visits per month500,000 | Storage50 GB |
| WP Engine tier for 30 sites | Price per monthMulti-site configurator price | Visits per month400,000 | Storage50 GB |
| NowHosted Agency | Price per month149 USD monthly or 74 USD billed yearly | Visits per month600,000, soft limit | Storage150 GB |
At 20 sites Pressable is no longer the cheap option. NowHosted Agency costs 888 USD per year against 1,550 USD, with 600,000 soft visits against 400,000 and 150 GB against 80 GB. Our Kinsta alternatives for agencies guide covers the full 20-site comparison in more detail.
An agency with 11 sites
An agency with 11 client sites cannot stay on Pressable Signature 4. It needs Signature 5 at 1,550 USD per year, about 129 USD per month. Rocket.net needs Agency Tier 2 at 200 USD monthly, because site 11 doubles its Tier 1 price. Kinsta WP 10 plus one extra site costs 225 USD plus 30 USD, or 255 USD monthly. WP Engine needs a quote for its 30-site tier.
NowHosted Agency costs 149 USD monthly or 888 USD yearly, equivalent to 74 USD per month, and the same plan still has room for 9 more sites. For this agency, moving saves 662 USD per year against Pressable on annual billing, before any overage on either side.
This is a base-plan comparison. Add measured visit and storage excess to Pressable, and measured storage and bandwidth excess to Rocket.net. Compare annual commitments separately from monthly payments so a low advertised equivalent does not hide a payment schedule your agency cannot use.
What to check before switching
Pull twelve months of visits and disk use per client. Find the one site that consumes the largest share of each allowance. A single image-heavy store or video-heavy portfolio client usually decides which plan fits, not the average.
Compare staging and backups. Pressable gives each install a staging site, and NowHosted includes staging on every plan with daily off-site backups kept for 30 days. Confirm restore access and who can trigger a restore, because that matters during a client emergency.
Check client access with the people who actually use it. NowHosted Agency includes a white-label client portal with your logo, billing transfer, owner, developer, billing and client roles, plus priority support. Ask each candidate host what clients see and which roles are included on your plan.
Reselling hosting also means paper. Keep the hosting resale terms next to your retainers, and manage client contracts and renewals so the host's renewal date and your client's term line up. The reseller hosting for agencies page explains NowHosted's client-facing setup.
How to move client sites off Pressable with zero downtime
Work in batches, beginning with sites that have straightforward content and no live checkout. Lower DNS TTL to 300 seconds before the move and let the previous TTL expire. Record the current DNS settings so you can restore them if the destination has a problem.
Copy each site into staging on the destination. Test forms by submitting them and checking delivery. Test orders, payment callbacks, logins, redirects and scheduled tasks where applicable. Keep staging out of search results and stop test copies from emailing real customers.
For WooCommerce, agree on a final data sync that preserves orders arriving during the change. DNS alone does not synchronize databases, so coordinate writes during the handoff.
Point DNS to the destination only after testing. Keep Pressable serving the old copy while DNS caches expire, then verify SSL, forms and checkout on the live destination. Because Pressable bills yearly, check your renewal date and cancel after the new sites are verified, not before. NowHosted includes free website migration on every plan.
Match the host to the constraint
Stay on Pressable if your sites fit one tier with room to spare, your yearly traffic is predictable and you are happy to pay annually. Signature 4 at 75 USD a month equivalent is hard to beat at exactly 10 modest sites.
Choose Rocket.net when one or two clients have very high traffic and visit counts worry you. Its bandwidth and storage caps still apply, so check them against your largest client. Choose Kinsta when you prefer paying per added site and your portfolio is close to a plan boundary.
Choose WP Engine when its site tiers match your pipeline and its configurator quote works. Check the 20 GB included with its 10-site tier against your media libraries.
Choose NowHosted when you want a monthly payment option, shared storage that covers growth and predictable charges with no overage fees. Agency includes 20 sites, 150 GB and soft visit limits. Compare terms on the WordPress hosting plans page before choosing monthly or annual billing.