Local (LocalWP) is a great free tool for running WordPress on your machine. SiteShift covers the same local workflow — and then pushes your site to any SSH-reachable host, not just one hosting company.
The biggest difference is where your sites can go. Local's one-click deploys connect to WP Engine and Flywheel; SiteShift pushes files and database to any host you can reach over SSH — shared hosting, a VPS, or managed WordPress hosting.
The subscription funds host-agnostic push/pull, hosting integrations and priority support. There's one plan with everything included, prices are excl. 21% VAT, and you can cancel anytime from your account.
Yes. SiteShift is host-agnostic by design: if your server speaks SSH/SFTP, SiteShift can deploy to it and pull production back down for local debugging.
Yes. Like modern Local, SiteShift doesn't use Docker — it bundles static PHP and MySQL binaries, ships as a single binary and runs on macOS and Windows.
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