MaintainHQ and 20i
20i gives agencies white-label reseller hosting. MaintainHQ gives them an engineer for every WordPress site on it.
Facts checked on 4 November 2026. Prices taken from each vendor's own website.
The short answer
MaintainHQ
MaintainHQ works with WordPress sites on any host, and also offers its own hosting at $5 a month per site with MaintainHQ built in. On whichever host you use, it looks after the WordPress layer: Gus diagnoses and fixes problems (your approval for every fix, staging or production as you choose, coding-standards checks, verification and automatic rollback), safe updates with pre-update testing, backups, malware scanning, uptime with incident autopilot, team roles and white-label reports across every site you manage.
Choose MaintainHQ if
- You want an engineer that diagnoses and fixes WordPress problems on your 20i sites
- You want safe auto-updates with pre-update testing and automatic rollback
- You want white-label PDF reports, status pages and client seats
20i
20i is a UK hosting company popular with agencies for reseller hosting. Its white-label control panel, StackCP, has no cPanel licence fees. UK reseller plans list a £1 first month, then from £39.99 a month for 50 hosting accounts up to £99.99 for unlimited (excluding VAT). Hosting includes Timeline Backups with off-site redundancy, daily malware scanning with one-click removal, a WordPress manager and staging; the Website Turbo add-on adds a global CDN and faster compute per site.
Choose 20i if
- You need reseller hosting with a white-label control panel
- Server-level backups and malware removal from your host cover what you need
Use both
MaintainHQ does not ask you to leave 20i. 20i runs the servers; MaintainHQ and Gus look after the WordPress layer on top, across every host your clients use. MaintainHQ also offers its own hosting if you want servers and maintenance in one place, but for many agencies the right answer is to use both.
Side by side
- Included
- Paid add-on
- Not available
| Feature | MaintainHQ | 20i |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting | Connects to WordPress sites on any host, and offers its own WordPress hosting ($5 a month per site, on servers MaintainHQ runs) with MaintainHQ built in. | Reseller, WordPress and cloud hosting with the StackCP control panel |
| Backups | Scheduled and on-demand, incremental between full backups, retention you control with pinning, restore with a safety backup and automatic rollback | Timeline Backups: automated and on-demand, unlimited restore points |
| Off-site backups | Off-site copies to Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, SFTP or your own S3-compatible bucket | Off-site redundancy for Timeline Backups |
| Point-in-time and granular restore | Point-in-time restore, restore of single files or tables, and automatic backup verification | Restore from any Timeline Backups restore point |
| Security | Daily read-only malware scan of files and database, vulnerability alerts matched to installed versions, firewall, hardening, login lockout and core file integrity checks | Daily malware scanning with one-click removal |
| Staging | Link staging and live sites; copy down and deploy up with a backup, health check, automatic rollback and live tables (orders, forms) kept | WordPress staging in the control panel |
| CDN | MaintainHQ Edge: a built-in CDN for connected sites | CDN included; Website Turbo add-on for a global CDN |
| AI that fixes | Gus diagnoses and fixes: your approval for every fix, on staging or production as you choose, WordPress coding-standards checks, a backup, verification and automatic rollback | Not offered for fixing sites |
| Pricing model | Flat plans: Starter $2.99/mo (1 site), Starter Plus $29/mo (5), Pro $79/mo (25), Agency $199/mo (unlimited). 7-day free trial. Gus is on every plan, with an allowance that resets every 6 hours and a weekly allowance, bigger on bigger plans. | UK reseller from £39.99/mo ex VAT (first month £1) |
Pricing
20i charges for hosting (UK reseller plans from £39.99/mo ex VAT after the first month). MaintainHQ charges for maintenance in US dollars, from $29/mo.
Adding MaintainHQ to 20i sites
Step 1: Keep your sites on 20i. Nothing moves.
Step 2: Add the sites in MaintainHQ (one by one, or paste a list of addresses into the importer) and install the connector plugin on each one.
Step 3: Decide which tool owns updates and backups on each site. Many agencies keep 20i's server backups as a second copy and let MaintainHQ run updates, monitoring and Gus.
Questions
Is MaintainHQ a replacement for 20i?
It does not have to be. Your sites can stay on 20i (or any other host): MaintainHQ connects to them with a plugin and handles maintenance and fixes on top. If you would rather have servers and maintenance in one place, MaintainHQ Hosting is $5 a month per site, on servers we run, with MaintainHQ built in.
Do I need MaintainHQ backups if 20i already backs up my sites?
Not necessarily. Many agencies keep the host's backups and also use MaintainHQ backups, because MaintainHQ takes a backup before risky updates and Gus fixes and can restore with automatic rollback. You can switch MaintainHQ backups off per site.
Can I run MaintainHQ alongside 20i?
Yes. The MaintainHQ connector is an ordinary WordPress plugin and runs alongside other plugins, 20i included. The one thing to avoid is two tools auto-updating the same site, so pick one to own updates on each site.
Facts about 20i checked on 4 November 2026 from their public websites. Prices and features change; if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it. Product names belong to their owners.
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