Manage unlimited WordPress sites from one lean dashboard.
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 pain of managing WordPress at scale
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.
Per-site fees that punish growth
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: unlimited sites free, and Pro is one flat price. No per-site fees, ever.
Dashboards that crawl at scale
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 that fail silently
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.
Updates that break sites silently
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.
Stop paying by the site.
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). Basic monitoring on Siteward is free at any number of sites.
The essentials done properly
Every feature earns its place. No dashboards full of things you’ll never use.
Solid uptime monitoring
Parallel checks across your whole fleet, retry-then-alert to avoid false alarms, and instant notifications by email and Zapier, free on every site.
Fleet-wide updates
See every pending core, plugin and theme update in one place. Select sites and bulk-update, by plugin or by site, with live progress.
Vulnerability monitoring
See every plugin, theme and core version with a known vulnerability across the whole fleet, with the version that fixes it. Free, no API key, and nothing about your sites leaves your server.
Critical-error detection
Catch fatal errors, white screens and auto-paused plugins within minutes, and see exactly which plugin or theme broke the site.
Backup visibility
UpdraftPlus status at a glance, with flags for missing, stale or failing backups before they become a problem.
Secure & self-hosted
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.
Built for scale
A parallel engine checks and updates hundreds of sites in seconds, not minutes, with concurrency you control.
Tags & segmentation
Label sites by client or server, filter the fleet and scope bulk actions, so you can update everything except the sites you tag “do not touch”.
Leaner than MainWP.
Cheaper than ManageWP.
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.
Three steps to a managed fleet
Install the dashboard
Install the free Siteward plugin from WordPress.org on one central WordPress site, your control panel.
Connect your sites
Install the lightweight Siteward Child plugin on each site and paste its secure connection key.
Monitor & update
Watch uptime, run bulk updates, and get alerted the moment something needs you.
Hundreds of sites.
Seconds, not minutes.
Siteward checks and updates your fleet in parallel through a curl_multi engine, so adding more sites doesn’t slow you down.
What’s coming next
We’re building the highest-impact requests from agencies, openly.
SSL & domain expiry alerts
Watches every certificate and domain registration and alerts you days before either lapses.
Fleet plugin management
Activate, deactivate, uninstall or install plugins across selected sites at once, including premium plugins.
Fleet vulnerability monitoring
Every vulnerable plugin, theme and core version across all sites, checked against a feed of nearly 39,000 known vulnerabilities. Free, no API key, and the matching happens on your own server.
Safe updates & one-click rollback
Pre-update snapshots and automatic rollback if an update breaks a site.
White-label client reports
Branded monthly reports so your maintenance work is visible, and your care plans stick. Included with Pro, no per-site fee.
Performance & PageSpeed scores
Track Core Web Vitals and PageSpeed per site over time, surfaced right in your client reports.
More backup providers
Backup monitoring beyond UpdraftPlus, for popular plugins like BackWPup, WPvivid and Duplicator. Sites with server-level backups can already be marked as covered.
Frequently asked
What is Siteward?
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 sites from one dashboard.
Is Siteward a good MainWP alternative?
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.
Does Siteward charge per site?
Never. Unlimited sites are free, and Pro is one flat price, unlike per-site cloud tools that bill ~$1–$2 per site per month for each feature.
Where is my data stored?
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.
Will it tell me when an update breaks a site?
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.
See it on your own sites.
Monitor unlimited sites free, or start a 14-day trial of Pro and connect your first site in minutes.