As you may have heard three web hosts – Bluehost, DreamHost, 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 could include a few more since there are so many better options out there for WordPress blog hosting.
When you are looking for the best WordPress hosting for a blog, 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. A2 Hosting – StartUp ($2.99/month)
What you get,
- 1 Website
- 5 Databases
- cPanel & SSH Access
- Support for WP-CLI (Command Line WordPress Interface)
- 100 GB SSD
- A2 Optimized Software (pre-tuned for performance in WordPress)
- A2 Optimized 6x faster page load speed
- A2 Optimized Enhanced Security
- Unlimited Transfer & Storage
- Free SSL Certificate (HTTPS) via Let’s Encrypt (Save $49.99/year)
- Free CloudFlare CDN – Avg. 200% Faster Page Load (Save $20/year)
- 99.9% Uptime
- 24/7 Priority Support
- Anytime Money-back Guarantee
2. SiteGround – StartUp ($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 SSL (Save $49.99/year)
- Free CloudFlare CDN (Save $20/year)
- 99.9% uptime
3. BlueHost – Basic ($3.95/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 SSL certificate (Save $49.99/year)
- 99.92% uptime
Performance WordPress Blog Hosting
1. WP Engine – Personal ($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 – GoGeek ($14.95/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 SSL (Save $49.99/year)
- Free CloudFlare CDN (Save $20/year)
- 99.9% uptime
- 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. A2 Hosting – Turbo Boost($9.99/month)
What you get,
- Unlimited Websites
- Unlimited Databases
- Unlimited Email Addresses
- cPanel & SSH Access
- Support for WP-CLI (Command Line WordPress Interface)
- Free SSD
- A2 Optimized Software (pre-tuned for performance in WordPress)
- A2 Optimized 20x faster page load speed
- A2 Site Accelerator (Pre-Configured Site Caching Powered by Turbo Cache, APC/OPcache & Memcached)
- A2 Optimized Enhanced Security
- Unlimited Transfer & Storage
- Free SSL Certificate (HTTPS) via Let’s Encrypt (Save $49.99/year)
- Free CloudFlare CDN – Avg. 200% Faster Page Load (Save $20/year)
- CloudFlare Plus (Free CloudFlare CDN + Faster Mobile Speed, SSL & More) – Railgun Optimizer (Up To 143% Faster Page Load Speed), Anycast DNS, HTTP/2, SPDY
- 99.9% Uptime
- 24/7 Priority Support
- Anytime Money-back Guarantee
3. HostGator – Business ($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.