For affiliate marketers, coaches, and consultants running WordPress.
$19 a month, flat. Premium themes and plugins included. Google PageSpeed 100. Plus three things no other WordPress host has built. The host that finally fits.
30-day money-back guarantee
If you've ever waited on a Bluehost support ticket while your money site was throwing 500 errors —
If your SiteGround renewal email made you do a double-take because the bill had quietly tripled —
If you've watched your PageSpeed scores tank, your Core Web Vitals fail, and your rankings slide because the host you picked five years ago is the host still serving your readers today —
Then I built OptiBlog for you. Because I built it for me first, and I'm one of you.
My name is Leslie Rohde. I've been an online marketer since 1997 — running affiliate sites for nearly thirty years, coaching since 2002, with several successful software companies along the way. I've been the guy on hold with support at 11pm while a launch is happening. I've been the guy whose renewal price quietly went from $36 a year to $360. I've been the guy whose mobile PageSpeed sat at 47 and couldn't figure out why.
Then I built the host I actually wanted. After running my own sites on it for years, I opened it up so other marketers could use it too.
Here's what I built — and why.
The $2.99-a-month plan you signed up for? That's the introductory rate. Year two, when the auto-renewal runs:
Even the reviewers who like SiteGround use the same phrase for this pattern: bait-and-switch.
You don't leave because by year two, you've built a year of content. Your readers know the URL. Your affiliate links are deep-linked into your posts. Your SEO is settled in. Migrating sounds like a weekend you don't have. So you eat the bill.
I know. I was you. I paid that bill more than once before I'd had enough.
If you've ever been told to use Bluehost (or DreamHost, or one of two others) because they're "officially recommended" by WordPress.org — here's what you weren't told:
That recommendation is paid placement.
WordPress.org has a financial agreement with the hosts on its officially-recommended page. The endorsement is based on basic WordPress compatibility and a commercial relationship — not on speed benchmarks, not on customer satisfaction, not on anything you actually care about as someone trying to make a living online.
When you find out, you feel a little stupid. You shouldn't — they sold you what you were buying. But now you know.
I have used many WordPress hosts in the past, including both Bluehost and SiteGround, and I was shocked when the renewal cost jumped massively (3.5× and 6×) in the second year. But OptiBlog pricing has remained unchanged since day 1, and it provides far more features and benefits than any other option I know of. And very shortly, I'll be moving my list building and email marketing as well.
PaulH — hosting multiple domains since 2024
OptiBlog is $19 a month. Forever.
Not $19 today and $79 next year. Not $19 promotional and "regular rates apply at renewal." The price you sign up at is the price you keep. I run a hosting business — not a pricing trap.
And that $19 includes — at no extra cost, not as an upsell, not on the Pro plan — the premium plugins and themes you'd otherwise spend $560 a year on:
Why are they included? Because I picked every one of them while running my own sites. They're not marketing-team picks. They're marketer picks. If they weren't in the bundle, the first thing you'd do after signing up is go install them — and pay separately for each.
I checked on one of my sites I'd been running for years and was pleasantly shocked to find awesome page speeds and premium tools installed that I hadn't paid for! It was off my radar because it was always up and the cost was too low to draw my attention.
AlanP — OptiBlog customer since 2022
Every WordPress host says they're fast.
Kinsta claims 200% faster. GoDaddy says "up to 2x." HostGator says "2x the speed." Bluehost doesn't claim a number anymore — the numbers got bad. SiteGround at least has the guts to publish head-to-head TTFB data on their own site, which is more than the rest of them do.
I'll do them one better. I'll let you test me yourself.
Right now, in a new tab, open pagespeed.web.dev. It's Google's free PageSpeed Insights tool. Paste in any of these URLs:
What you'll see, on every one: 100 on desktop. 90 on mobile. Including the heaviest one with the most ad slots and the longest review posts. These are real sites running real traffic. Three different niches. Same hosting.
Now paste in your current host's URL. Same tool. Same test.
If the numbers are the same — your host is great. Stay there.
If they're not — the gap between those two numbers is what your business has been paying. Quietly. Every day. In conversions you didn't catch, in bounce rate you can't explain, in search rankings that drifted down while you were focused on content.
That gap closes the day you switch.
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J.R. — info-product seller
Comparing each competitor's entry-level WordPress plan.
| Feature | OptiBlog | WP Engine | Kinsta | DreamHost | SiteGround |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $19/mo | $30/mo | $30/mo | $19.95/mo | $4.99/mo* |
| Renewal price | $19/mo (flat) | $30/mo | $30/mo | $19.95/mo | $29.99/mo |
| Marketer tools included ($560 value) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Premium themes included | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Image optimization (WEBP/AVIF) | ✓ | ✗ | partial | ✗ | ✗ |
| CDN included | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | add-on | ✓ |
| Active threat monitoring | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Daily backups | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fully managed updates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Web server | Nginx | Apache/Nginx | Nginx | Apache/Nginx | Nginx |
| 30-day money-back guarantee | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | partial |
*intro pricing — renewal at the rate shown in the row below
There are two rows in that table that no competitor checks. The marketer-tools row, because they don't include the premium plugins and themes — they sell hosting, you add the rest. And the renewal row, because WP Engine and Kinsta charge $11 a month more than OptiBlog for fewer features, while SiteGround quietly multiplies its bill by 6× the moment your first year ends.
Look at that table again. There's a row no competitor checks (marketer tools), and a row most of them lose (flat renewal). Those rows are why I wanted that table in the letter.
But there are three more things in OptiBlog that aren't on that table at all. Not as a "Yes." Not as a "No." Not as "partial." They're not on the table because no other WordPress host has them. Not at the entry tier. Not at the enterprise tier. Not as a paid add-on.
Here's what they are.
It's a server-side tracking system: click IDs generated on your blog's own domain, affiliate networks' postbacks captured and deduplicated, conversions forwarded to GA4 — and, with the paid tier, to Meta's Conversion API for Facebook and Instagram, and to Google Ads for YouTube and Search.
If that sentence didn't make sense to you, here's the translation: what ClickMagick charges you $79 a month for and what RedTrack charges $149 a month for is now built into every OptiBlog domain. The full mechanism, the event volumes, and the paid-tier specifics live in the W3Tracker letter →. The point for this letter is just that no other WordPress host has built one.
Two video landing pages. Two image landing pages. Two lead-capture squeeze pages. Six templates built in the WordPress block editor — not a proprietary builder you'd be locked into — so they're easy to update, easy to copy, easy to customize. Every click is attributed through W3Tracker. Every squeeze-page submission lands in Fluent Forms.
If you've built affiliate sites before, you know what's normally on the table here: Thrive Architect, ConvertBox, OptimizePress, or some combination of paid template libraries and form plugins that don't talk to each other. Block-editor affiliate templates that ship integrated with tracking and lead capture out of the box — that combination doesn't exist on any other WordPress host.
Other hosts give you a testing subdomain. Some give you a way to manually edit it. None of them give you the one-click copy operations that make a testing subdomain actually useful.
On OptiBlog, every domain automatically gets a testing subdomain. Push "Develop" and we instantly copy your live site — every plugin, every theme, every post, every page — onto that subdomain. Edit it like any other OptiBlog site. When you're ready, push "Publish" and we instantly copy your testing site back onto your live one. A full backup runs first, automatically, every time. If you don't love the result, one-click restore.
That two-way instant-copy workflow — automatic provisioning, push-button copy in both directions, automatic pre-publish backup, one-click rollback — doesn't exist on any other WordPress host. Not at the entry tier. Not at the enterprise tier. Not as a paid add-on.
The honest answer: because no other WordPress host is built by a working affiliate marketer.
ClickMagick built a tracking server — they're a tracking company. Thrive built page templates — they're a template company. WP Engine built staging — they're a hosting company. The thing nobody built was all three of these into one WordPress host, designed for an affiliate marketer's actual workflow. Because nobody else building WordPress hosts is actually running affiliate sites for a living.
I am. That's the whole edge.
You don't have to decide today.
Try OptiBlog for 30 days. Build a site on it. Run the PageSpeed test yourself. Install the included tools. See whether the bill stays at $19 when the second month rolls around. (It will.)
If you don't love it inside 30 days, email me. I'll refund the whole thing. No questions, no forms, no "are you sure?" upsells trying to talk you out of it. Just your money back.
The reason I can offer that without flinching: I've already used OptiBlog to run my own businesses for years. I know how this ends.
You click the button below. You spin up your first OptiBlog domain in about a minute. You install the included tools or you don't — they're licensed to you either way. You watch your PageSpeed score climb. The bill stays at $19.
If at any point in the first 30 days you're not seeing what I promised, you email me. I refund the whole thing. No questions, no forms, no "are you sure?" routine. Just your money back.
You've read the comparison. You've seen the math. You know what your current host is costing you. Click below.
To me, the real strength of OptiBlog is not one single feature. Yes, the included premium tools matter; the backups matter; the push-button WordPress setup matters; and the forms, tracking, themes, reliability, and performance all matter too! But the biggest value is that it's all part of one carefully thought-out system designed to work together. I began with Leslie years ago, and I have never had a reason to look elsewhere.
PaulW — hosting multiple domains since 2022
30-day money-back guarantee. Cancel anytime.
To your business,
Leslie Rohde
Founder, OptiBlog
P.S. The $560 in included tools breaks down like this: PixelYourSite Pro ($199) + Fluent Forms Pro Pack ($79) + Ad Inserter Pro ($56) + Converter for Media Pro ($50) + Newspaper12 theme ($59) + NewsMag theme ($49) + Neve theme ($69). All licensed to you for as long as you're an OptiBlog customer. If you ever leave, your licenses leave with you. I hope you don't, but you should know the option's yours.
P.P.S. Don't take my word for the speed claim. Right now, in a new browser tab, open pagespeed.web.dev. Paste in leslierohde.com. Then paste in your current host's URL. The gap between those two numbers is what your business has been paying. Quietly. Every day. The good news: you can close it before this weekend.
P.P.P.S. The reason OptiBlog has three features no other WordPress host has built — those are the three features only a working marketer would build. The rest of this letter is the long version of that one sentence.