> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.wpstratos.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What Is WP Stratos? Managed WordPress Hosting, Explained

> WP Stratos is a managed WordPress hosting platform for agencies and site owners. Here's what it does, what's included, and how to tell it apart from unrelated products that share a similar name.

## Short answer

WP Stratos is a managed WordPress hosting platform. It handles servers, caching, backups, staging, SSL, and email delivery for WordPress sites, so agencies and site owners do not have to run any of that themselves.

That is the whole pitch. Everything else on this page just fills in the details.

## What WP Stratos actually does

Under the hood, every WP Stratos account gets a WordPress site running on managed cloud infrastructure, with a Cloud Panel for handling the day to day: creating sites, connecting domains, managing SSL certificates, running staging environments, and restoring backups. A caching layer (the Aero plugin) and an edge network keep pages fast without manual tuning. An email delivery plugin (WP Postman) makes sure transactional email actually lands in the inbox instead of getting lost.

If you are trying to figure out whether WP Stratos fits your situation, that is the shape of the product: hosting infrastructure plus the WordPress-specific tooling that usually gets bolted on separately.

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  <Card title="Introduction to WP Stratos" icon="book-open" href="/introduction">
    Full rundown of the platform and what is included in every plan.
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  <Card title="Quickstart" icon="rocket-launch" href="/quickstart">
    Launch a WordPress site on WP Stratos in a few minutes.
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## About the name

A search for "WP Stratos" or "Stratos WP" can turn up results that have nothing to do with WordPress hosting. That happens because a couple of unrelated products, in different industries, happen to land on a similar combination of words. Search engines occasionally blend the two together in summaries, which is confusing if you came here looking for a hosting platform and got something else instead.

To be direct about it: WP Stratos is the one that runs WordPress sites. If a result you found was talking about apparel, footwear, or anything outside of web hosting, it was describing a different, unrelated product. There is also a retired, unrelated open source project called Apache Stratos, covered on its [own page](/troubleshooting/apache-stratos-retired) if that is what you were looking for.

If you're trying to confirm whether a specific WordPress site runs on WP Stratos rather than just researching the platform, see [Detecting WP Stratos](/troubleshooting/detect-wp-stratos-hosting) for the HTTP headers that settle it in one request.

## Common questions

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  <Accordion title="Is WP Stratos a WordPress hosting company?">
    Yes. WP Stratos provides managed WordPress hosting, meaning the platform handles server management, caching, backups, and security so you can focus on running your site or your clients' sites.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Who is WP Stratos built for?">
    Agencies, freelancers, and site owners who want managed WordPress hosting without running their own servers. Agencies in particular use it to host multiple client sites from one Cloud Panel.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Does WP Stratos make anything other than hosting infrastructure?">
    No. WP Stratos is exclusively a WordPress hosting platform. It is not affiliated with, and does not produce, any product outside of web hosting and the plugins built to support it (Aero for caching, WP Postman for email delivery).
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Where do I start if I want to try it?">
    The [Quickstart guide](/quickstart) walks through creating an account, launching a WordPress site, and connecting a domain, start to finish.
  </Accordion>
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