We will go over the 9 top WordPress Hosting companies one by one and talk about the pros and cons of these companies. By the end of this article, you will know precisely which company you should go with to host your WordPress website. As a bonus, I have special discounted pricing for all these companies. I have the hookup! In each review, the links will get you discounts on your WordPress hosting, no matter which company you go with. But, at the end of this article, I’m going to share which one of these companies I actually recommend that you go with for your WordPress hosting.    

Let’s get started first with SiteGround.  

SiteGround 

The first pro for SiteGround is they’re actually one of the three companies recommended by WordPress themselves as a recommended host. The second pro is it’s effortless to set up a WordPress or a WooCommerce website using SiteGround as your host. I’ve done many tutorials on this site showing you how to set up your WordPress website in as little as four minutes. They also have very affordable pricing, though they are not the most affordable host. Hostinger, which I’ll discuss later in this article, is the most affordable host. They’re also really high quality. SiteGround is also very reliable and they have fast servers. If you sign up with SiteGround, you also get a free SSL certificate. An SSL certificate will ensure that all communications via your website are secure. You especially need an SSL certificate if you’re planning on taking credit card payments, having passwords, or doing anything that needs protection for your users. Some hosting companies charge you for an SSL certificate, but SiteGround will give you this for free. 

As for cons for SiteGround, their pricing is mid-tier, though recently they did lower their prices a little bit, but typically their prices are quite a bit higher. Another massive con with SiteGround is they have pretty low plan limits. With their lowest plan, you can only have one website, and you only get 10 gigabytes of web space. You’re only allowed 10,000 monthly visits, so if you’re planning on uploading many images and videos to your website, SiteGround might not be the best option. They also have high renewal fees. SiteGround is also not available in every country; it’s not available in India, for instance. SiteGround used to be my favorite Hosting company. Still, I recently changed who I would recommend as my favorite Hosting company, and I will share who that is later in this article. Throughout this article, I’ll explain some terms like bandwidth, uptime, and page speed and why they’re so important that you know before paying for hosting for the first time. 

Bluehost 

The second Hosting company we’ll be talking about is Bluehost. Bluehost is also recommended by WordPress themselves, and it’s also probably one of the most popular Hosting companies. Because of that, it’s one of the most trusted hosting companies. In fact, the first time I ever purchased hosting, I purchased it from Bluehost. But, if I were to purchase WordPress hosting again today, knowing everything I know, I would not choose Bluehost, and I’ll get to why that is in just a minute. They do have relatively cheap plans. They can offer such cheap plans partly because they go around. They buy smaller hosting companies, and they aggregate them into this giant conglomerate of a company. But the biggest problem with Bluehost is I actually think that they’re overpriced. I’ve had a ton of issues using Bluehost in the past, including really slow page speed. Page speed is how fast your website loads when someone goes to your website. In the past, when people would go to my website, it would take them five, six, or seven seconds before it would actually load up. That might not seem like a long time, but if someone goes to your website and it’s not loading after a few seconds, a lot of times, they’ll just leave your website and go on to do something else instead. This could cause lost sales and people never coming back to your website. In addition to that, they have bad uptime. Uptime is what percentage of the time your website is available, and no Hosting company has 100% uptime. Almost all companies have issues every once in a while, but most uptime is around 99.99%. With Bluehost, I’ve personally had a ton of issues with uptime. People will go to my website, and it’s not working, which again has lost me thousands upon thousands of dollars in sales. 

One of the biggest cons with Bluehost that nobody talks about is that it got so popular because they were one of the first Hosting companies to offer an affiliate program. This is where people would create websites promoting Bluehost, which made it so that people would favor Bluehost over other better companies. Nowadays, pretty much every hosting company out there has an affiliate program.  

GoDaddy 

The third company we’re going to review is GoDaddy. There are not many pros with GoDaddy; I don’t recommend using them. The one pro I could think of is they have phone support. But there are a lot of cons. First off, they are overpriced. GoDaddy spends a ton of money on marketing and getting people to buy the domain name. Their domain names are relatively affordable. But they make money by upselling people like you to buy not just the domain name from them but also the Hosting and all kinds of extra features you don’t need. The plans and pricing don’t really make sense, and the user interface for creating a website is confusing, to say the least. On top of all that, support can be rude, and I know many people that have had bad experiences with GoDaddy support. 

A2 Hosting 

A2 Hosting is one of the fastest Hosting providers, so if you want a website that’s going to be really fast, A2 Hosting is a good option. They also have decent pricing for the kind of speeds that they’re offering. However, for cons, they have relatively poor uptime. They’re still at around 99.96%, which sounds good, but other companies are much better. I don’t recommend them because they got hacked a few years back, and it seems like they never fully recovered from that hack. The backend of A2 Hosting can also be relatively confusing, and it’s not the most beginner-friendly Hosting company to start your first website. 

HostGator 

HostGator is another popular WordPress Hosting website. They have good customer service and relatively affordable prices. But here’s a dirty little secret about HostGator: they’re owned by the same parent company that owns Bluehost. Since HostGator is usually a bit more expensive than Bluehost and offers relatively the same plans, I don’t see any reason to go with it over Bluehost. Now, sometimes the prices of HostGator are lower, and sometimes Bluehost is cheaper. If you decide between these two, just go with whoever has the lower prices. 

WP Engine 

WP Engine is fast, reliable, and has great customer support. Overall, it’s probably the most professional and arguably the best Hosting company out there, except that it is 10 times the price of all the other Hosting companies. Overall, it’s really a great host if you don’t want to get involved in technical things, you want great customer support, and you have a lot of money and don’t want to deal with any issues. WP Engine could be a good option, but I would not recommend them because I think they’re overpriced.  

InMotion 

InMotion is another popular Hosting company, but I couldn’t find many pros for them. They do have good speed and good uptime. Still, compared to many Hosting companies out there, they’re just more expensive, and you don’t get anything extra for that extra money you’re spending. InMotion is also one of the slower Hosting providers out there. 

Just two more Hosting companies left, including Hostinger, which I think is the most affordable company out there.  

But before we get to that, let’s discuss about DreamHost.  

DreamHost 

DreamHost is the third company that’s recommended by WordPress itself. But other than that, I don’t see any advantages to going with DreamHost. They’re more expensive, slower, and less reliable than most other companies we’ve talked about. They also have poor uptime, and the prices continue to increase, although their service isn’t great. 

That brings us to Hostinger. 

Hostinger 

Which is the most affordable Hosting option out there. I have the hookup with them; they gave me a coupon code. If you use “Travis” at checkout, you get an extra 10% off, so Hostinger costs just a little over two dollars per month. But the crazy thing about this company is they’re actually pretty good. They’re fast, reliable, and have an easy one-click setup for setting up your WordPress or WooCommerce website. It’s so easy to create a website with them that I could create one in just a few minutes. They also operate almost all over the world and offer services in 40 languages.  

But there are some cons with Hostinger. First off, they don’t offer phone support. So if that is important to you, Hostinger is probably not the right option. The backend can also be a bit glitchy; they have their own patented H-panel, and it works really well for the most part, but sometimes you might run into issues. Another thing to note is they have a relatively high renewal fee, so I recommend signing up for a longer-term plan because, after your plan is over, you’ll have to start paying that higher renewal fee.  

And for the winner, which hosting company you should go with depends on what you want. If you want the fastest Hosting company, I will go with A2 Hosting. If you want the most reliable Hosting company, go with WP Engine. But when it comes to the best overall Hosting company, it comes down to these two companies: SiteGround and Hostinger. And Hostinger wins for the best Hosting company because they allow you to store 100 gigabytes of data, create a hundred different websites even with their cheapest plan, and get a free domain name, email, and unlimited free SSLs. But I will share that one of the big cons with Hostinger is they’re constantly increasing their pricing. When I first learned about them, it was only 99 cents a month; now it’s over two dollars a month. So if you want to create your own WordPress website, I’ll link below to all the different hosts. Again, I recommend going with Hostinger; you can use coupon code ROOSHO to get an extra 10% off. So click on the link, start your WordPress website today, and I guarantee you’ll be so happy that you did.  

Our top recommendations: 

• Fastest hosting: A2 Hosting 
• Most reliable hosting: WP Engine 
• Best overall hosting: Hostinger (use coupon code ROOSHO for an extra 10% off!) 

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I am Rakib Raihan RooSho, Jack of all IT Trades. You got it right. Good for nothing. I try a lot of things and fail more than that. That's how I learn. Whenever I succeed, I note that in my cookbook. Eventually, that became my blog. 

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