What is a best hosting provider for WordPress website?
I’m very happy that you asked.
Why?
Because I’m a mid range user, probably like you, currently have 6 websites, 3 of them are mine and 3 managing for clients. I also have some landing pages and use emails, all websites are made with WordPress.
So, what’s the deal.
I’ve been using different hosting providers for 10 years now, some local, some big global companies like Godaddy and some online web builders like leadpages, wix and weebly.
What I found is that there is huge range of prices you can pay when you are subscribing to hosting service but most important, a price you see is usually not a real price you will pay.
Godaddy vs Bluehost experience
For example; I got a great offer from Godaddy which seemed to be very affordable hosting but that was first year discount. Next year I paid double price for hosting but also got charged for some other services I wasn’t really aware if I need them.
Finally, from $60 paid for first year I came up spending hundreds of dollars for hosting and other services probably didn’t need.
All hosting providers are companies trying to catch you on low entry price which later grows much higher.
But, price is not only thing that matters of course. You can actually find FREE hosting but really, you don’t want to do that, FREE is never FREE and you can’t get professional service for FREE.
You need hosting that will work safe, with good uptime, good customer service and good price. After my struggle with Godaddy and spending more than I should I went to dispute transactions on PayPal…but it never worked of course.
I said never again
And then I found Bluehost
It was a huge change right on start
Bluehost got their usual price at lower cost than Godaddy had on first, discounted year..not even to talk about second year.
I purchased their Plus plan and paid 3 years upfront and it cost me less then what I paid only second year on Godaddy. 3 years not worrying about paying subscriptions.
I can have unlimited websites, unlimited emails, storage and bandwidth and it was all much easier to use then it was on Godaddy.
On Godaddy I had 2 websites and needed SSL certificate for it. Hope you understand that website shouldn’t be without SSL anymore, there are so many reasons why it is a standard today and must have. Read my other blog post about it.
So, Godaddy charged me $70 for each certificate, $140 a year for both websites.
Plus, I asked their support to help me install it and they wanted to charge it to, I think it was $50. Actually whatever I asked Godaddy Support they came up with some offer (one of the reason I run away).
On Bluehost, FREE SSL for every website install automatically, customer support is much more helpful and not just that, by most relevant reviews and analytics bluehost is much better quality hosting for mid range users. See some examples.
So, nothing else to say. I’m using them for 2 years not and nothing but happy with everything. It was such a huge difference in experience between godaddy and bluehost that I’m dedicated to shout loud everywhere I can and recommend only bluehost as only hosting you’ll ever need.
If your current hosting is expiring soon just move to bluehost.
If need any help with migration from one hosting to another or need to build a website just ask me for assistance.