Thanks for all the awesome comments on here. There's one more thing that WP Engine is proud to announce tonight. Along with the release of WordPress 3.7, WP Engine is announcing Automatic Update Protection.

What is Automate Update Protection? Well, we're adding an entirely new layer of management to our hosting that allows us to not only automate the updating of your WordPress site, but automate the testing and a validation of the upgrades as well.

It's pretty awesome.

From the announcement on our blog:

Here’s how it works:
First, our automation loads your site just like a browser, and ensures that everything is working normally. If that’s so, we take a snapshot backup point of your site as-is. Then we perform the WordPress core upgrade. Once the upgrade is complete, we reload your site and automatically test it to make sure everything is on a basic level running normally.

Here’s where it gets really cool.
If all the code comes back in working order, awesome. Your site is upgraded, and you didn’t have to lift a finger. However, lets say there is a code conflict that would ordinarily summon the white screen of death. The upgrade failed, but we don’t want to leave you in a failed state. Your site has to stay online, remember?

What happens next? Remember the backup point we just took? Well, we *immediately* revert your site to working order, the way it was before the update. It’s online and serving your visitors and customers like always. Your site is then automatically placed into a support queue for our technicians to have a look at so we can make sure the update gets done right.

By the way, all this happens faster than any human could test things.

For all the details, please visit: http://wpengine.com/2013/10/25/announcing-automated-upgrade-protection-wordpress-3-7/

Thanks so much to all our customers for being amazing. We hope this will be one more thing we can do to ensure your success.

-Austin