While going through my Facebook feeds, I realize newbie’s who just started with WordPress often miss out the disadvantages of free Hosting companies and later on Face issues like Website hacked, server compromised, Internal server error and so on. Here I’m not going to talk about free Webhosts but rather for newbie’s and budding bloggers about cheap WordPress hosting which offers quality service at reasonable price.
I started Blogging in 2008 and that’s the time, I started with Self hosted WordPress blog on Dreamhost server. Reason, I opted for DH that time because of its low-cost, used by many popular sites like Labnol and 1 free domain and Dreamhost discount coupon, added more reasons to opt for it. With time, when my site traffic increased I moved to better server and later on VPS and again back to shared hosting. So it was a journey and experience of lots of Hosting. I also tried Hostable which was like a free host but my experience with them was pathetic and I realize it’s a good idea to create a post with the list of cheap WordPress hosting companies, that a newbie can refer to and start their Internet career with. I will also add coupon code of various host, which will make them dirt cheap.
Reliable & Cheap WordPress Hosting Companies:
Here I’m listing only those WP Hosting which I have used in the past for my sites or for my client sites. These hosting are globally renowned Web host and are popular in Social media and for their quality services. There are many other cheap hosts like Fatcow, which couldn’t make in this list because of negative feedback. Also, Namecheap is a good option but based on Amit’s experience (My Experience in Withstanding a Hosting outage), I’m not including Name Cheap here. So, lets started with the list:
Hostgator:
I will start the list with Hostgator as I’m using it now and certainly it’s not the cheapest here in this list but their outstanding support and server quality make them stand out of the game. At the time of writing, ShoutMeLoud is hosted on Hostgator (Baby plan) and they are handling our server load on their shared hosting. Hostgator offers various hosting packages, and for a beginner I would suggest to start with Shared hosting packages for WordPress hosting. One of the reliable PHP/MySQL hosting.
Hostgator shared hosting offers following shared hosting packages with discounted price after applying coupon code:
- Hatchling plan: 1 Website hosting
- Baby plan : Unlimited site Hosting
- Business plan: Free Private I.P. + Private SSL
They are one of the premium Hosting service provider which also offers reseller hosting, VPS and dedicated servers. This makes it easier for clients to quickly upgrade to higher server package, when traffic increases. I have already shared about Hostgator 1 cent hosting deal for those, who would like to try before buying hosting. You can check out more detailed review on Hostgator baby plan post.
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Pointers:
- Unlimited Hosting
- Free Site migration
- Free 1 year domain registration of primary domain
- 24*7 live Chat and Telephone support
- Payment via Paypal, Credit card.
- $100 Adwords Credit
- Rating : 5/5
Bluehost:
After Hostgator, Most of my clients on WordPress are hosted on Bluehost. Some of them are getting close to 20K Traffic per day, and Bluehost WordPress optimized servers takes care of maximum up time. Bluehost offers unlimited resources for hosting and also 1 free domain which makes it one of the cheapest hosting for WordPress.
Bluehost offers Simple scripts, which will let you Install WordPress on Bluehost with few clicks.
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Pointers:
- WordPress Specialized hosting
- Free 1 year domain
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- Unlimited Space
- One click WordPress Installation
- $100 Adwords credit
- Rating: 4.5/5
Dreamhost:
Some how, when ever I talk about Dreamhost, I feel happy. Probably, because this is the first server where ShoutMeLoud was hosted. I had a good experience with Dreamhost for a year and later I moved to VPS server, as some of my scripts were causing issues on their shared hosting environment. Dreamhost is one of those cheap WordPress hosting company, which offers custom cPanel and their cPanel is designed in a way so that any newbie user with less technical skills can operate it.
Dreamhost offers only one shared hosting package, which cost around $119/year but these Dreamhost discount coupon, makes it dirt cheap by offering hosting for $22/year with one free domain. Dreamhost also integrated
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Pointers:
- Unlimited Bandwidth/Storgae
- Custom cPanel
- Free Adwords Credit
- 1 Free Domain
- 1 Year free who.is Gurad
- Payment via Credit card only.
- 14 days Complete free trial
- Rating 3.5/5
WpWebHost:
Wp WebHost is one of those Web hosting companies which are dedicated for WordPress Websites. They claims to be one of the best optimized server for WordPress. They offer different plans like Shared, VPS and dedicated and offer hosting at as low as $3.48/month. Though, like above hosting companies, they don’t offer unlimited Webhosting resources.
I have used WpWebhost for one year when I got it at some special discount offer, and I was running a micro-niche site with little traffic. I never faced any issues with them and after learning from the people’s review and feedback on forums, WpWebHost looks like a reputed and cheap WordPress hosting company. Apart from their hosting, I like the way WpWebHost is doing their branding and the way they are active on Social media sites.
There are many more such cheap hosts for WordPress like Hostmonster ( Sister concern company of Bluehost), iPage and many more. I also tried Godaddy hosting for a client and I can’t really recommend them because of their complicated cPanel and servers are poorly optimized for WordPress sites. Out of all DreamHost and BlueHost, are listed as one of the recommended Webhosting by WordPress.
My suggestion and recommendation is to instead of saving couple of Dollar’s on Web hosting, go for some premium but reasonable hosting company as mentioned above, which not only offer quality but your site will remain up all the time. You might find many $1 cheap cPanel hosting, but I suggest to avoid them as usually they over sale hosting space and you will often face issues with site down time. For a serious Blogger, I suggest you to create a free account at AremySitesup here, which will let you monitor your site uptime in real-time.
For now, do let us know: Which web hosting service are you using on your WordPress blog and which one will you recommend to others? I will keep updating the list, with new and upcoming cheap servers for WordPress sites, but for now don’t forget to join our Email newsletter for quick updates. Also, if you find this post informative and useful, don’t forget to give us Google plus.
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Nice to hear that you are using HG Babay Plan Harsh
I thought SML is on Dedi Server. BTW on 12th May i bought HostGator(BabyPlan). I want to ask you how much traffic it can afford per day? And any Suggestion if you have for sharing with us about Baby Plan. As i am using it first time so would like to hear some suggestion from you.
Thanks.
@Amit I’m currently making some design changes and as soon as it’s done…Will be moving to VPS…Already have VPS purchased from KnownHost.
Hostgator Baby plan is good enough to hold 20K/per day visits…Though you should make sure to use any good cache plugin like W3 total cache or Super cache plugin.
Rest, make sure not to use too many plugins and too many php calls…Most of the time server goes down due to high execution time of any script…So try to keep your theme as simple and list of plugins to as low as possible…Also try this plugin P3 plugin performance profiler, which will help you to find out which plugin is consuming maximum resources…
Thank you so much Harsh for your quick reply. I removed W3TC the time of Moving my Domain but i’ll install it soon. P3 Plugin sounds cool. I will install it too.
Thanks again for your advice.
Hi Harsh, i think Hostgator is good, I won’t comment on the others.
I’m on a nice dedicated at HG and there have been problems but not nearly as much as some of the other hosts I have been with. I think I’ve been with at least 6 different hosts in the last 10 years, but HG is good.
@David
Hostgator is certainly good with their quality, and the best part about their VPS and dedicated servers are they are managed.
hey Harsh it is very surprising that SML is on shared Hostgator’s server. my website was also hosted on shared hostgator server but they were not able to handle the load and traffic. So i moved to Hostgator india with VPS. it really is amazing how shoutmeloud is on shared servers. Am am very much impressed with the kind of optimization you wud have done to keep things going smooth.
but now even vps server of hostgator cant handle the load and traffic.So to make things smooth, I change the theme to light one whenever the load increases so that less memory is consumed of server.
but now even vps server of hostgator cant handle the load and traffic.So to make things smooth, i change the theme to light one whenever the load increases so that less memory is consumed of server.
Hey Harsh,
I am surprised seeing BlueHost in your recommended shared hosting list. Honestly BlueHost sucks in case of CPU and RAM limitations. There are several customers got suffered with hosting account ban by BlueHost and the reason is only a few consumption of CPU and RAM by client website.
There are a lot of negative customer reviews scattered all around the internet regarding resources issues in BlueHost shared hosting.
A website needs a Domain name,Hosting Provider and a Blogging Platform to start with wordpress.org is the best and free platform I recommend users register their Domain name with name cheap or Go-daddy to get their website domain name and select a Reliable hosting provider to host their free WordPress blogging platform on it. The advantages are many if your host after charging you in advance as usual to host your site for a year is found not doing his work well you can easily transfer your domain to another host which is under your complete control because you have registered it directly and now free to make the needed changes beneficial to you but if you have registered your Domain through your Hosting provider and want to move to a new host you may not easily get your Domain as the former hosting provider does not want to lose you and lose his Business.
The HostGator.com may be good but Indian HostGator.in is worst. I have used it for 7months, its the worst so far. The wordpress site is taking more than 20 sec to load.
When i shifed to godaddy, the same wordpress site is taking max 1.27 sec to load.
what did you mean for “wordpress hosting” , can we only host wordpress blog on these hostings?
HG is the #1 choice and it’s the best service provider in the list(as far as I know). And for the I dint know that it can handle 20k visit/day, it means a lot of capacity(for me
).
Thanks for sharing your views.
Bluehost has a pro plan which is great in comparison to the hostagators VPS plan. If you have just one domain root, then i think its worth checking the bluehost’s pro plan.
I dont wanna comment on others anyway. Also i have used webfusion’s VPS its also good.