Best Web Hosting for Wordpress in 2017

What is the best web hosting for WordPress? this is a very common question especially among people who intend to start up a WordPress blog. What you should know is WordPress requires a certain amount of resources to run effectively.

The themes and plugins you install will use a certain amount of resources on your server which could keep increasing as your visitors increase. So before you jump into starting up a WordPress blog / website or migrating to a host that provides better web hosting for WordPress you should consider a number of factors especially CPU and memory allotments.

Best Web Hosting for WordPress

If you want to test a server’s ability to run WordPress effectively try sending 50 – 100 visitors on your blog at the same time and experiment whether it will impact on the server’s performance or response time. A server that maintains a good response time and performance irrespective of the traffic is the one you should sign up for. This test will show you the best WordPress web hosting companies and believe me, all the hosting companies i listed below should appear on your list.

1 – WP Engine

Probably the most expensive on the list but trust me, they provides one of the best WordPress hosting services. If you run a high traffic WordPress site (estimate of 400,000 + users a month) you should sign up with WP Engine and be guaranteed of the best response time and performance on your website. The have similar packages for lesser views too that cost a bit less. WP Engine has 4 plans, Personal Plan, Professional Plan, Business Plan and Premium Plan. The Personal Plan allows 1 WordPress installation, allows up to 25 visits a month, gets you 10GB of local storage and allows unlimited data transfer at just $29 / Month. The other three plans are quite expensive than that but worth it. If you don’t like their services, you have 60 days to request for a full refund.

2 – SiteGround

If you can’t afford WP Engine, my next best recommendation is SiteGround. To test their server, i signed up for a 1 month hosting package and migrated one of my blogs to the server. Next thing i did was send visitors but guess what? despite having approximately 78 visitors on my web site at the same time, the performance was still great and i noticed a great response time too. Their shared plans begin from as low as $3.95 / month but also offer one of the best WordPress managed hosting services.

3 – BlueHost

BlueHost is one of the oldest and most reputable hosting brands in the industry. In fact, BlueHost is among the official recommended hosting companies for WordPress. Besides the brand, excellent services and reputation, their hosting prices are also friendly starting from just 3.95 for a basic shared hosting plan. BlueHost also offers optimized web hosting for WordPress starting at $12.49 / month.

4 – DreamHost

Besides being recognized among the best web hosting companies by popular brands like PC Tech, DreamHost provides one of the best web hosting for WordPress. You can either opt for their shared hosting plan ($7.95 / Month) or alternatively sign up for their managed WordPress hosting plan ($16.95 / Month). For shared hosting, your website will be hosted on SSD (Solid State Drives) where as the managed WordPress hosting plan lets your website to be hosted of Virtual Private Servers and lets you use any WordPress Theme or Plugin. So what do you prefer? i recommend you opt for the Managed WordPress Hosting plan if your website receives a good amount of traffic, probably 2000+ visitors a day.

5 – HostGator

HostGator is one of the most popular web hosting companies in the industry hosting millions of domains on their servers. They have been mentioned among the hosting companies that provide the best web hosting for WordPress multiple times. HostGator has three shared hosting plans: The Hatchling Plan, Baby Plan and Business Plan. They also provide optimized web hosting for WordPress for better optimized performance of WordPress sites.

If you are looking for the best web hosting for WordPress then i recommend you settle with any of the 5 alternatives above. I mostly recommend WP Engine which might be quite expensive for you but if you can handle the costs then the better. Which server are you hosting your WordPress site on and what the performance? share with us below.

2 comments on “Best Web Hosting for WordPress in 2017”

Abishek Rana
Hi,
Thanks for sharing these top web host providers. I was looking for one 🙂
Last week, I had done a Google search for “best web hosting providers” and found that there were over few 100 web host providers and over 100 different factors to consider before finding an ‘ideal’ web host that would match one’s personal requirements and budget.
For me, the most important factors were “up time,” “bandwidth,” and “customer support,” (Few months back I had received a great bandwidth and uptime offer, but a horrible customer support…)
What do you think? Which factors are important to narrow down one’s searches that matches their requirements and budget?
Thanks for sharing your best web host list … appreciate it 🙂
1. Kolo Pius
  For WordPress CPU and Memory Allotments is key. Some plugins consume a lot of memory that increase with traffic implicating if the allocated memory is not enough your site might become slow. Bandwidth is vital too!