Faster WordPress. New Revenue.
AccelerateWP gives hosting providers automated performance optimization for WordPress they can enable for customers for free, plus premium features to monetize.
What is AccelerateWP?
AccelerateWP is a component of CloudLinux that’s included with all licenses. It is an optimization suite for WordPress, combining automated caching, asset optimization, and intelligent performance recommendations.
The WordPress Challenge
WordPress sites are often slow out of the box. Site owners expect fast load times but many of them lack the skills to add caching and optimization properly.
For hosting providers, this creates support tickets. Customers complain about slow sites, support investigates, and the root cause is often just missing optimization basics.
How AccelerateWP Helps
Hosting providers can roll out AccelerateWP server-wide so customers get optimized WordPress automatically. Site owners don’t have to configure anything.
AccelerateWP analyzes each site’s actual performance data and recommends specific improvements. Instead of generic settings, customers get recommendations tailored to what will genuinely help their site.
SmartAdvice: Automated Recommendations That Drive Upgrades
SmartAdvice is AccelerateWP’s recommendation engine. It analyzes each site’s performance and identifies specific improvements based on actual data.
For site owners
Site owners see recommendations in the WordPress admin or hosting panel. Each one explains what it does and offers activation, often with a single click.
For hosting providers
SmartAdvice creates a natural upsell path. When it recommends a feature not included in the customer’s current plan, it prompts them to upgrade. You set the pricing. SmartAdvice handles the customer education and drives the conversion.
Free Features
Included with CloudLinux at no extra cost.
Site Caching
Serves static HTML to visitors, reducing server load and speeding up page delivery.
Website Optimization
Minification condenses the content of CSS and JavaScript files to increase website performance.
Content Optimization
Loads images, videos, and iframes only when visitors scroll to them, reducing initial page load time.
Premium Features
High-value addon features with monetization options. Billed to hosting providers per active account.
Critical CSS generation
Extracts and prioritizes the CSS needed to display above-the-fold content.
Image optimization service
Converts and compresses images to reduce file size and speed up asset downloads.
Object caching
Stores database query results to deliver dynamic content significantly faster for site visitors.
Pro CDN service
Distributes static content globally through an integrated CDN. Multiple data plans available.
Pricing
AccelerateWP Premium features are billed to the hosting provider per end user account, when:
- The end user has been granted access to premium features by the server administrator.
- The end user is actively using the premium feature on one or more websites. (installed manually in the hosting panel or by accepting SmartAdvice in WordPress UI)
Hosting providers can set their own retail price for premium features.
New end user activations include a 30-day trial. Cost to hosting providers can be found in your CLN account on the “Purchase” tab within the “Billing” menu.
Monetization Options
You are in full control of how to monetize AccelerateWP’s premium features to your end customers.
Include in all plans
Make all features available to every customer at no extra charge. Use performance as a competitive differentiator. Customers expect fast WordPress – and you deliver it automatically.
Include in premium plans only
Bundle advanced features into higher-tier hosting packages. Customers on lower plans see SmartAdvice recommendations and are prompted to upgrade their hosting plan to unlock them.
Sell as addons
Offer features as individual paid addons. Customers can purchase specific optimizations without changing their hosting plan. You set the price.
Automated Billing with WHMCS
The CloudLinux Advantage module for WHMCS automates AccelerateWP monetization.
When a customer accepts a SmartAdvice recommendation for a feature they don’t have, they’re directed to your WHMCS upgrade page. The purchase processes through your billing system and the feature is automatically provisioned.
You configure the retail pricing. WHMCS handles the transaction. AccelerateWP provisions the feature. No manual fulfillment required.
Take Performance Further with
MAx Cache
MAx Cache works in tandem with AccelerateWP to take performance optimization one step further by serving cached pages directly from Apache, bypassing PHP entirely.
The combination delivers performance that plugin-only solutions can’t match. It’s included at no extra cost for CloudLinux customers.
AccelerateWP FAQs
Both LS Cache and AccelerateWP provide critical performance functions such as page caching, CDN integration, and object caching, but differ in the following ways:
- Compatibility: LS Cache is designed for optimal use only with LiteSpeed web server. Many features (including object caching) will not work on other servers. In contrast, AccelerateWP is fully supported on Apache, NGINX, and LiteSpeed.
- Smart Analysis: AccelerateWP includes automated analysis of issues causing performance degradation and generates advice with one-click solutions.
- Upsell Capabilities: AccelerateWP empowers hosting providers to build an automated, data-driven upsell flow for premium performance features.