Uptime monitoring, fleet-wide updates, backup checks and critical-error alerts for hundreds of sites, without the bloat or the per-site fees. Self-hosted, secure, and built to scale.
“We’ve struggled to find a tool that helps us properly manage our clients’ sites, having trialled MainWP, WP Umbrella and ManageWP, all of which fell short of the mark. Jason at Siteward is responsive to feedback and actually uses the tool regularly, so it keeps improving as the feature set gets richer. I’d recommend Siteward to any agency or freelancer that looks after multiple client sites.”
The tools meant to help end up charging per site, slowing to a crawl, and going quiet exactly when something breaks. Siteward fixes the parts that actually hurt.
Cloud tools charge ~$1–$2 per site per month for each add-on, backups, monitoring, reporting. At 200 sites that’s thousands a year.
Siteward: one flat price, unlimited sites. No per-site fees, ever.
Other managers bog down past ~100 sites, slow admin pages, manual “sync” buttons, special tuning just to stay usable.
Siteward: a parallel engine checks your whole fleet in seconds, fast at 200+ out of the box.
Backups quietly stop working and you only find out when a restore fails, the worst possible moment.
Siteward: backup status at a glance with flags for missing, stale and failing backups, before you need them.
A routine plugin update triggers a white screen or fatal error, and nobody notices until the client calls.
Siteward: detects critical errors and auto-paused plugins within minutes, and tells you which one broke.
Per-site tools get more expensive with every client you win. Siteward doesn’t.
*Based on published per-site add-on pricing (~$1–$9/site/month). Your mileage varies by add-ons; the point is it scales with site count, Siteward doesn’t.
Every feature earns its place. No dashboards full of things you’ll never use.
Parallel checks across your whole fleet, retry-then-alert to avoid false alarms, and instant notifications by email and Zapier, free on every site.
See every pending core, plugin and theme update in one place. Select sites and bulk-update, by plugin or by site, with live progress.
Catch fatal errors, white screens and auto-paused plugins within minutes, and see exactly which plugin or theme broke the site.
UpdraftPlus status at a glance, with flags for missing, stale or failing backups before they become a problem.
Runs on your own server. Each site is linked with an OpenSSL keypair and every request is signed, your data never routes through a third party.
A parallel engine checks and updates hundreds of sites in seconds, not minutes, with concurrency you control.
Label sites by client, server or anything you like, then filter the fleet and scope bulk actions, so you can update or sync everything except the sites you tag “do not touch”. Free and unlimited.
MainWP is powerful but adds up in paid extensions and slows down at scale. ManageWP charges per site for the features you actually need. Siteward keeps it flat, fast and self-hosted.
Self-hosted, but paid extensions stack up and the dashboard drags past ~100 sites.
Polished cloud tool, but you pay per site per add-on, every month, forever.
One flat price, unlimited sites, parallel engine that stays fast at 200+.
Install the free Siteward plugin from WordPress.org on one central WordPress site, your control panel.
Install the lightweight Siteward Child plugin on each site and paste its secure connection key.
Watch uptime, run bulk updates, and get alerted the moment something needs you.
Siteward checks and updates your fleet in parallel, so adding more sites doesn’t slow you down. One agency, one dashboard, total visibility.
We’re building the highest-impact requests from agencies, openly. Filter by area or sort by status.
Watches every site’s SSL certificate and domain registration and alerts you days before either lapses, so a forgotten renewal never takes a client site offline.
See every vulnerable plugin, theme and core version across all sites, cross-referenced against a live feed, and patch fast before the exploit window closes.
Pre-update snapshots and automatic rollback if an update breaks a site, pairs with the critical-error detection you already get.
Activate, deactivate, uninstall or install plugins across selected sites at once, from a ZIP or a URL, including premium plugins, with filters and live progress.
Scheduled, branded PDF reports so your maintenance work is visible, and your care plans stick.
Track premium plugin licences and renewal dates across the fleet, with alerts before one lapses and quietly breaks updates.
Track Core Web Vitals and PageSpeed scores per site over time, surfaced right in your client reports.
Siteward is a lean, self-hosted WordPress multi-site management tool, a MainWP and ManageWP alternative, that lets agencies monitor uptime, run fleet-wide core, plugin and theme updates, and catch critical errors across unlimited WordPress sites from one dashboard, at one flat price with no per-site fees.
Yes. Siteward offers the same core idea, manage many WordPress sites from one self-hosted dashboard, but deliberately stripped of bloat, with a parallel engine that stays fast at scale and no paid-extension sprawl. See the full comparison.
Never. Siteward is one flat price for unlimited managed sites, unlike per-site cloud tools that bill ~$1–$2 per site per month for each feature.
Entirely on your own dashboard site. Siteward is self-hosted; there’s no third-party cloud in the middle. Sites connect over signed, encrypted requests.
Yes. Siteward detects HTTP 5xx errors, WordPress’s “critical error” white screen, recovery mode, and auto-paused plugins, and alerts you by email or Zapier, naming the culprit.
Monitor unlimited sites free, upgrade to Pro for SSL & domain-expiry alerts and Zapier. No per-site fees, ever.
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