“Hosting… the provision, administration, and maintenance of servers and related equipment, the provision of bandwidth at the hosting facility, and the operation of the Application (WordPress, in our case) for access by Customer Users to be provided by the relevant hosting service provider.” ~ Law Insider
- Rocket.net
- Superb hosting + Enterprise CDN + WPRocket + WPUmbrella
- Free SSL, CDN, WAF, SSH, SFTP, and Staging.
- Gridpane Peakfreq (optimized WP cloud hosting GUI interface)
- enterprise capable high performance WP hosting
- for high-traffic WooCommerce
- for stores, LMS, and large Multisite installations.
- SiteGround
- CPU / Resource Limits: strict daily or monthly CPU usage limits
- can cause unexpected account or site suspensions if your traffic spikes.
- recommended by many developers
- renewal prices are high
- adequate support
- unethical sales & marketing reported
- WP Engine
- Managed WP cloud hosting
- Cloudways – [No longer recommended, see Peakfreq]
- proprietary GUI & Digital Ocean cloud servers
- Digital Ocean – cloud servers
- Hetzner Cloud – German company, with Oregon & Virginia data centers
- Vultr cloud hosting – cloud servers
- WP hosting benchmarks – proprietary GUI & Digital Ocean cloud servers
- Hosting your website
- Notes from a Portland WordPress Meetup panel discussion.
Avoid these services
- [Do not use] Blue Host and all EIG hosting companies
- slow, weak support, configuration issues, DNS issues
- Beware EIG Hosting and Newfold Digital!
- Endurance International Group (EIG) Hosting – Review Hell
- [Do not use] Godaddy
- support often a nightmare
- always selling you services you don’t need
- charges for services other hosting provides for free