Whether you are a start-up or a mature entrepreneur, your website’s health depends on your hosting provider. You must be coming across hundreds of adverts on media regarding web-hosting companies; Bluehost, SiteGround, HostGator, GoDaddy and many others. But how do you choose the one you need? How will you come to know about their pros and cons and whether they will be able to help your business grow? No matter whichever service provider you choose you must keep in mind the key factors of WP hosting; uptime, speed and customer support. The choice of WP hosting plays a major role in boosting your business’s performance thereby skyrocketing your sales. Well, nobody wants to wait for another second when your site shows the blue circle, still rotating!
Often you have been hearing about if the hosting is shared or not? Shared hosting means the hosting service provider is sharing their server resources with multiple websites other than yours. Though they are much cheaper than the non-shared ones (best for beginners) the site’s performance at peak traffic hours must be put to check! Whereas, there is another set of hosting providers called VPS (Virtual Private Server). VPS has got a dedicated server for you all the time and has no parallel operation like the former ones. Nevertheless, this is a vital check which you need to do before buying the domain services.
Therefore, rather than hovering over their individual sites, here is a list of 11 best WordPress hosting services to give you a fair idea about them.
PS: A majority of these service providers offer coupon codes during various times of the year. To have a better deal for your website, make sure you grab one of those. Additionally, most of these offers a free domain name for a year but you must check it beforehand before purchasing a hosting service.
1. HostGator
The hosting provider that has more than ten million domains in the market is HostGator. People looking for high traffic websites that need fast loading: HostGator is your best option. This is also a wise choice for those website owners who have serious traffic from mobile users. Though it has certain positive features like reliability, free site transfer and loading time, a higher renewal fee is a major drawback of HostGator.
Load time: 369 ms
Support: 24/7 live chat
Uptime: 99.99%
2. SiteGround
Operating since 2004, SiteGround owns a network of 800,000 domain names across the globe. They offer free WordPress site transfers, a free CDN (for caching) and image optimization that helps in faster site loading. SiteGround is one of the fewer hosting providers that offers a change of data center location, from Europe to the USA. So, if you expect visitors mostly from Europe, you can definitely opt for SiteGround. The major con of SiteGround is its high renewal fee.
Load time: 629 ms
Support: 24/7 live chat
Uptime: 99.98%
3. Bluehost
Cheap starting prices of Bluehost make it a popular choice among small business owners and bloggers. All of their hosting plans (including basic) come with a free SSl unlike many others like HostGator. Unlimited bandwidth, disk space and optimized server for WordPress are its few prominent advantages among many others. It is also one of the few host providers that have been nominated by WordPress.org.
Load time: 390 ms
Support: 24/7 live chat
Uptime: 99.99%
4. Inmotion hosting
Operating since 2001, Inmotion is well acclaimed for its customer support. It offers free SSL, unlimited disk space and 200+ WordPress templates. In particular, if you are looking for a host provider that is Native American, Inmotion is the best selection for you. But a serious shortfall of Inmotion is that there is no instant account access. As a result, when it comes to account verification, you may face a slight delay.
Load time: 767 ms
Support: 24/7 live chat
Uptime: 99.95%
5. Site5
Like many other providers Site5 offers free Cloudflare CDN, 24/7 live chat and site transfers. Unwavering hosting and flexible control panel makes it a top choice among designers and developers. Though not as fast as Bluehost, but its uptime is way better than many others in the market. Site5 is little expensive than the others; its renewal cost being a bit more on the upper side.
Load time: 575 ms
Support: 24/7 live chat
Uptime: 99.99%
6. Hostinger
Having some best cheap hosting plans, Hostinger is a favourite choice of the beginners. It comes with a WordPress website builder that is of much help to all those who have just started their business. It has a giant library of WordPress guides and tutorials and offers a 30-day money-back period for its customers.
Load time: 339 ms
Support: 24/7 live chat
Uptime: 99.93%
7. Dreamhost
If you are looking for some monthly investments rather than a yearly, go for Dreamhost. It has its own customized, built-in Cpanel which most of the users find hard to operate. So, rather than shifting your existing site to Dreamhost, it is better that you start your new website with it. Though it doesn’t offer a trial period, a 97-day money-back guarantee is quite enough to steal the deal.
Load time: 648 ms
Support: 24/7 email support; live chat only during business hours
Uptime: 99.92%
8. GoDaddy
The biggest domain name registrar in the world is GoDaddy. It offers free backup and restore, unlimited disk space and bandwidth. One effective feature of GoDaddy is that it increases its hosting capacity in case of surging traffic at any point of time. In spite of having a number of pros like fast loading, good uptime and one-click installations, GoDaddy suffers some serious shortcomings like high renewal rates, unavailability of free SSL and a dubious money-back guarantee.
Load time: 544 ms
Support: 24/7 live chat
Uptime: 99.97%
9. A2 Hosting
A2 Hosting is one of the fastest and cheapest web hosting plans on the internet (it’s home page mentions ‘upto 20x faster’). It offers free SSL, Clouflare CDN and unlimited disk space. Similar to SiteGround, with their data centres in Netherlands, USA and Singapore they allow a change in the server location
Load time: 275 ms
Support: 24/7 live chat
Uptime: 99.93%
10. GreenGeeks
If you are looking some sustainable and eco-friendly hosting options, GreenGeeks is the pick for you. Though it has not yet made to the top in the list, use of renewable resources to power their hosting services has earned them the ‘eco-friendly’ tag. GreenGeeks offer you to choose from different server locations including the USA, Europe and Canada. It is one of the fast and secure hostings for WordPress. Apart from its high renewal fee, there is nothing significant mention in cons.
Load time: 375 ms
Support: 24/7 live chat
Uptime: 99.99%
11. Scalahosting
Well, it may be a new term to you but this US-based web hosting platform has 700,000 hosted domains till date. Apart from the benefits like free migration and unlimited bandwidth, you get a straight discount of 55% on buying a 12 months plan. The demerits include an inferior knowledge base and ambiguous product descriptions.
Load time: 530 ms
Support: 24/7 live chat
Uptime: 99.99%
The list has been prepared keeping in mind the budget restrictions for the beginners. But if you don’t have any such constraints, you can always have the premium hosting plans for yourself. Above all, while choosing your WP hosting provider, you must ensure that it provides an uptime of 99.94% and up and a load time less than 700 ms.
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