As you may have heard four web hosts – Bluehost, DreamHost, Flywheel and SiteGround have been selected to be listed on the official wordpress.org hosting page. While this is a good source for new WordPress users to find a suitable web host, I believe the list is a little biased since there are so many better options out there for WordPress blog hosting.
When you are looking for the best WordPress blog hosting, you need to take some factors into account like price, speed, security, server uptime, overall performance etc. But when you think about all that it becomes harder to find a suitable web host. I think the choice comes down to what you really want the most. If expensive hosting is a deal breaker for you, you might need to settle for a comparatively lower performance hosting. The same goes for the server uptime and website speed.
Cheapest WordPress Blog Hosting
1. BlueHost ($2.95/month)
What you get,
- Free domain (Save $14.95/year)
- Free Website Builder
- cPanel & SSH Access
- 50 GB web storage
- Unmetered bandwidth
- Standard website performance
- 30-Day Money-back Guarantee
- 5 parked domains and 25 sub domains
- 5 email accounts with 100 MB storage per account
- 24/7 Technical Support
- Free Daily, Weekly or Monthly Backups (Save $99/year)
- Free Let’s Encrypt SSLs (Save $49.99/year)
- Free CloudFlare CDN (Save $20/year)
- 99.92% uptime
2. SiteGround ($3.95/month)
What you get,
- Free Domain Name (Save $14.95/year)
- Free Website Builder
- cPanel & SSH Access
- Free Setup & Transfer
- 24/7 Technical Support
- Full SSD Storage
- Free Daily Backup (Save $99/year)
- 30-Day Money-back Guarantee
- Unlimited Traffic, Emails, DBs
- HTTP/2 Enabled Servers
- Free Let’s Encrypt SSLs (Save $49.99/year)
- Free CloudFlare CDN (Save $20/year)
- 99.9% uptime
Performance WordPress Blog Hosting
1. WP Engine ($29/month)
What you get,
- 1 WordPress install
- 10 GB web storage
- Unlimited data transfer
- 60 days money back guarantee
- Free automated migration
- In-RAM caching
- 24/7 chat support
- WordPress staging environment
2. SiteGround ($14.95/month)
What you get,
- All of the above
- Priority technical support
- SuperCacher caching
- 1 year free wildcard SSL (Save $126.15)
- 30 backup copies of your site
- Free PCI compliance (essential for an e-commerce store)
- WordPress staging environment
- One-click GitHub repository creation
3. HostGator ($9.95/month)
What you get,
- Up to 3 websites
- 3x CPU power that can take 500,000 monthly visitors
- 2.5x faster page speed
- Unlimited web storage
- Free site migration
- Global CDN
- Automatic malware removal
- Built-in varnish and WordPress caching
- Unlimited email accounts
- $100 Google Adwords credit
I’m looking for a hosting. Thanks for the reviews.