WPClientHub launches on Product Hunt today. If you run client WordPress sites on care plans, this is the short, honest version of what it does, what it does not do yet, and what it costs, so you can decide in five minutes whether it is worth an afternoon of your time.
No launch discount, no countdown timer. Just the product as it stands on 5 October 2026.
Why it exists
I run an agency. For years our stack looked like most agencies' stacks: one dashboard for updates, a separate backup plugin per site, an uptime service, a help desk nobody liked, a reporting tool, and Stripe glued to all of it with invoices and goodwill. Every tool was fine on its own. Together they meant five logins, five bills that grew with every new site, and backups sitting in somebody else's cloud.
Three things annoyed me enough to build something. Pricing that punishes growth: per-site add-ons look cheap at 10 sites and stop looking cheap at 60. Backups the agency does not own: if your archive lives in a vendor's bucket, leaving that vendor means leaving your history behind. And client work scattered across inboxes: the client emails, texts and calls, and the request lives with whoever happened to answer.
WPClientHub is the attempt to put the operational side of an agency in one place without becoming your host or your landlord.
What is live today
Here is what you can use right now, with no "coming soon" padding:
Sites and health. Every site gets a health score from 0 to 100, built from pending updates, backup freshness, offsite coverage, vulnerabilities, uptime, PHP version and SSL. Each score expands into its exact deductions, and the portfolio sorts worst first, so the site that needs you is at the top.
Safe updates. Every update run takes a restore point first, then applies the updates, then takes real-browser screenshots of the pages you choose and compares them with the before shots. Over your threshold, the batch is held for review or rolled back, your choice per site. An approval queue is there for clients who want a say.
Backups you own. Backups are built on the client's own server and copied to your own S3-compatible storage (Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2, Wasabi) or SFTP. We receive the manifest and checksums, not the archive. Restore is one click, with a safety backup taken first.
Security and uptime. Vulnerability scanning with plain-English explanations of what each finding means and how to fix it. Uptime checks every 60 seconds with a confirm-and-recheck before anyone is alerted, plus SSL certificate monitoring.
The client side. White-label PDF reports and, on the Agency and Scale plans, a help desk with a magic-link portal so clients never need a password, plus an AI diagnosis step that suggests likely causes from the site's own data. Client billing runs through your own Stripe account with a 0% platform fee on every plan.
Everything around it. Activity log, performance trends, SEO health, AI Visibility scans, team roles and two-factor authentication.
What it does not do yet
I would rather you read this here than find it in week two:
- Google Drive and Dropbox are not backup destinations. S3-compatible storage and SFTP only, for now.
- Uptime checks run from one region. The recheck removes most false alarms, but there is no multi-region quorum yet. If a client contract requires it, use a dedicated multi-region monitor alongside.
- Backup archives are not encrypted at rest by us on the destination. Your bucket's own encryption applies, so turn it on.
- Client emails do not go out from your own domain yet.
- The agency-branded client ticket portal with AI fix estimates is early access, not generally available. Do not plan a client rollout around it this month.
If any of those is a deal-breaker, that is a fair reason to wait, and we would rather you came back later than left angry.
What it costs, with the arithmetic
The pricing is flat by tier, not per site. Free is $0 for 3 sites. Studio is $19/month for up to 25 sites, Agency $49/month for up to 100 and adds the client help desk and portal, and Scale $99/month for unlimited sites (fair use). Yearly billing gets two months free. Every signup starts with a 14-day Agency trial, no card needed. (We updated these prices on launch day and raised the Studio and Agency site limits on 22 October; these are the current ones.)
Worked out per site at the top of each tier: Studio is $0.76 a site at 25 sites ($19 / 25), Agency is $0.49 a site at 100 ($49 / 100), and Scale is $99 flat however many sites you add, so $0.66 a site at 150 and $0.33 at 300. The awkward spot is just over a tier boundary: 101 sites costs the same $99 as 400.
To be fair to the competition: self-hosted MainWP Pro ($199/year) is cheaper than any of our paid tiers if you are happy to host and patch the dashboard yourself, and WP Umbrella's per-site rate is cheaper at a few small site counts. At around 100 sites, ManageWP's all-in-one bundle is listed at $150/month per 100 websites (pricing page, checked October 2026, ManageWP pricing), against our $49 for up to 100 sites. I did the full comparison across ManageWP, MainWP, WP Umbrella and WPMU DEV in what 25, 50 and 100 sites cost.
How to test it properly in an afternoon
Do not connect your easiest site. Connect your two most awkward ones: the store on cheap shared hosting and the brochure site with the page builder nobody dares update. Then:
- Install the WPClientHub One plugin on both sites and connect them.
- Add your own S3-compatible bucket and run a backup. Check the archive is actually in your bucket.
- Restore that backup to a staging copy. An untested backup is a hope.
- Run one safe update and look at the screenshot diff.
- Send yourself a white-label report and read it as a client would.
If those five steps work on your worst two sites, the rest of your portfolio is the easy part. If they do not, tell us what broke; that is the feedback we want most this week.
Product Hunt, and what we would like from you
The launch page is WPClientHub on Product Hunt. We are not asking for upvotes. We are asking for honest comments from people who run WordPress sites for clients: what is missing, what is confusing, what would make you switch or stop you switching. The team is in the comments all day and will answer every one.
Where this leaves you
WPClientHub is a host-neutral operations hub for agencies that want to own their backups, keep client requests in one place, and pay a flat price that does not punish growth. Some things are not there yet, and they are listed above rather than hidden. If that sounds like the tool you would have built yourself, it is free for 3 sites, paid plans from $19/month.