Best WordPress Hosting For Serious Bloggers

Starting With your first WordPress blog, our WordPress guide will surely help any newbie and here in this guide, I will help you to select best WordPress hosting for your next blog. In my 4 years of Blogging journey,  I have used over 12 WordPress hosting and 2 managed and 1 unmanaged VPS servers. I host almost 12 WordPress blog, 2 static sites and instead of sticking to one hosting, I tried many new and recommended WordPress Webhosting companies, to see how good and how bad they are. There are many Webhosting services which literally sucks and security is always a major concern.

One of the worse hosting nightmare is losing your Website to a hacker and that’s one reason I always recommend to avoid free WordPress hosting and stick to premium hosting. Shared hosting is the best to start with WordPress and here we will look into how to get started with it.

Some of them gave me great hosting experience and some of them made my cry blood. Anyways, I learned it hard way but by the end I’m happy to stick with my Webhost Hostgator. Anyways, in this post I’m not going to ga-ga about one Webhost which I use, instead I will be sharing list of all those top WordPress hosting companies, which have given me best of experience.

Just to let you know, this post is written by keeping Wordress specific Hosting and servers in mind. Specially, with the evolution of WordPress and being one of the most downloaded self hosted blogging platform, it requires powerful servers. More over, without a powerful WordPress caching mechanism, you won’t be able to run a WordPress blog smoothly. You should check out W3 total cache or Super cache plugin, both of them work out of the box. Though for under powered and shared hosting environment, my recommendation would be Super cache and for VPS WordPress hosting or dedicated WordPress hosting, you can opt for W3 total cache.

Requirement for best WordPress hosting:

I have set some basic ground rule in terms of software, cPanel, security, WordPress optimized, PhP version, MySQL version and so on. Though, before I share my list of top WordPress hosts, lets look at official requirement needed to run WordPress software smoothly on any hosting environment.

One major factor on which I’m going to make this list of WebHosting sites is Support. WordPress is a memory hungry site and requires a database and php. Common errors like “500 Internal error“, blank homepage, all posts deleted are some of the common issue which you will face with a bad hosting.

Along with above mentioned factors, I also considered what all these hosting companies are offering in package. Is it enough for you to host a medium server site or a high traffic site.  Do they have a limit in terms of bandwidth and a simple Digg or Stumble effect will take your site off from InterNet.

Now, geographical location is very important for any server these days for two reasons: Speed and latency. Server location, have a positive effect in site speed and that’s the reason people suggest to use CDN or Cloudflare, to server files from nearest server location.

Best WordPress Hosting for Bloggers:

I’m not going to share a big list of 10 or top 100 hosting. I’m going to share couple of hosting with their feature and my experience with them. I will also share these hosting discount coupon if possible, which you can use to save money on hosting. All of the below mentioned shared WP hosting cost below $10/month and I have added discount coupon link, so that you can save extra money. Specially, if you are looking to buy hosting for 2-3 years, all these below mentioned Web hosts are reliable and have a great reputation in the market of WordPress Web-host.

Hostgator : (Shared)

Hostgator is my current Webhosting company and it was a huge jump for me to move from a VPS server (Linode) to Hostgator and expecting it to handle my server load. But, W3 total cache and Hostgator powerful server did the magic. It’s been 5 months that I’m on Hostgator baby plan without any down time or any issues. Site is running as smooth as it was earlier and one thing, which I should add about Hostgator is their excellent support. If one company, that I have to nominate for “Best customer support”, Hostgator would definitely be one of them. I have shared a quick start tutorial for beginners on WordPress and Hostgator here. Hostgator shared hosting also offers quick CloudFare integration from cPanel, which adds another level of security.

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Bluehost (Shared )

Bluehost is one of those webhosting company which has been really consistent with their quality WordPress hosting. They have won many awards for their quality hosting. I have used Bluehost for many of my clients and have been really surprise with their quality. They offer Unlimited hosting, Unlimited bandwidth, 1 free domain, cPanel and everything else you need to get started with a WordPress blog. I have already shared a complete tutorial on How to Install WordPress on Bluehost and this will get your started. Bluehost is also an official recommended hosting by WordPress.

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Dreamhost: (Shared)

I started my career with Dreamhost and it didn’t disappointed me for almost 1.6 yr. My experience was smooth and Dreamhost unlimited bandwidth and storage never stopped my site to grow until one black day, they decided not to host my site or asked me to move to VPS. Reason was: one of my plugin was causing memory issue, according to them it was “All in one SEO” and “YARPP”, which were two essential plugin back at that time. So, I decided to change my hosting and move to knownhost.

Anyhow, later after my experience with WordPress I realized, most of time hosting issue comes because of some faulty script or plugin and YARPP was reported as one such memory consuming plugin that time. For now, Dreamhost is a cheap and reliable hosting that you can opt got. They have scaled their server with Nginx and latest update for high traffic WordPress sites. Another interesting fact about Dreamhost is, they offers custom cPanel instead of default one. And also, you can quickly upgrade from shared to VPS and dedicated and that’s something which is very helpful for growing WordPress blog. Something, which other webhosting are missing.

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I will do a seperate post for Best VPS hosting for WordPress, as I have used couple of them like Linode, Knownhost, Hostgator, but that’s for some other post. For now, these are some of the best WordPress hosting that I can recommend and if in future, I will get to know about any notable hosting for WordPress, I would update the page. If you find this information useful, don’t forget to share it on your Social network. If you have any specific concern about any WP hosting companies, you can drop us a message on Google plus page.