6 Best WordPress Hosting Services Comparison & Reviews

• The percentage of time your site is “up” 
• Your site load speed 
• How large is your site is 
• The extent to which you can customize your site 
• Whether or not SSL is free or paid 
• Your personal privacy settings as they relate to domain registration 
• Additional services like email, spam filtering, or outreach tools 

Content management systems provide a range of functionality for created web pages, blog posts, and uploading media to a site in an organized way. The most common content management system is WordPress. 

Presently WordPress powers 30% of the top 10,000 sites. At its most basic, WordPress can simply be somewhere to save your thoughts and media online. Not that much different from a social media profile. At its most advanced, WordPress can be used to power major newspapers, international corporations, or large e-commerce initiatives. 

So what does this have to do with hosting? 

Well, with each major content management system, file storage, manipulation, and site functionality are set up in a slightly different manner. With each of these major setups, the underlying hosting needs to be optimized to truly take advantage of the speed and functionality of the major content management systems. 

Of the above hosting options, all hosts highlighted offer managed WordPress hosting. If you’re looking to use another content management platform, GreenGeeks offers managed to host for most of the major content management platforms. 

Put most simply, web hosting services provide a space that hosts your assets online. Most commonly your assets are organized into a blog or site and held on a server or a cluster of servers (as is the case in cloud hosting). 

Servers utilized for hosting perform the role of “serving” up files saved on the server. When you type BloggerSpice.com, a collection of servers associated with the domain serve you up to resources such as this page. While you can host your own sites if you have access to your own server, there are many top-tier services out there that allow you to focus on other areas of your business. 

One of the key differences between the lowest price and more moderately-priced tiers of hosting is often the difference between shared and dedicated hosting. 

Most of the cheapest hosting plans available are shared. This means that they’re placed on a server with many other sites. This form of hosting can be perfectly good for blogs below a certain level of traffic (or file size), but shared hosting is exactly that. You and a number of other sites share the same server. While servers can deal with low traffic loads across a number of sites just fine, if one of the sites is subjected to a large influx of traffic, your site’s speed or availability may suffer. 

Additionally, as a range of sites all has access to the server, if one is hacked or causes malware to be added to the server, your site could be at risk as well. 

While shared hosting is a great option for many organizations that don’t need all the “bells and whistles” there are some definite shortcomings that are remedied by higher-tier hosting plans. 
With a dedicated hosting plan, you have control of an entire server. As servers have the ability to host a range of sites, this means that you can host a number of sites from the same dedicated hosting plan. As no one else is using the server that you’re gaining hosting from, you can often choose the operating system of the server as well as exactly what software is installed. 

Dedicated hosting is generally able to provide higher uptime and many times faster site speed. While this service comes at a premium, for many organizations getting dedicated hosting is a no-brainer. 

There’s no one “right” choice for every site manager. But there are some pretty clear trade-offs among some of the most popular hosting choices. Below we’ll take an in-depth look at five of our favourite hosting choices in 2021. 

1. AccuWeb Hosting - Powerful, Secure, and Highly Fast WordPress Hosting

AccuWeb Hosting is offering a variety of reliable hosting services at a very reasonable price. Their hosting services range from shared hosting to dedicated servers, Forex VPS, and lightning-fast WordPress Hosting. 

They have nailed everything, Security, Comfort, Features, and everything else you look for in the perfect WordPress Hosting. The WordPress hosting plan is available at only $2.99/month and is renewable at the same price with a 30-day money-back guarantee, which is very rare.

AccuWeb Hosting is known for its 24*7 super speedy technical support and a 99.9% uptime guarantee. They are also offering a free website migration service and have servers in more than 15 different locations for providing the fasted accessibility of your website. In addition, they have set up kernel-level tweaks to ensure server-level optimization and protection against DDoS attacks. And on layer 2, they have a hardware firewall to protect servers against DDoS attacks.

Every WordPress Hosting plan by AccuWeb Hosting comes with a complimentary backup. This service allows you unlimited restores (contingent on the availability of the backup). It also supports the Woocommerce plugin and offers the finest compatibility and performance for Ecommerce hosting. Furthermore, the experts provide comprehensive support for your e-commerce store 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

• Min. Price: $2.99 per month
• Max. Price: $549 per month (WordPress scale + VPS) up to 3 million monthly visitors, 32 GB RAM, 200 GB SSD storage, and many more features.
• Domain purchasing & SSL certificate: Free

Bluehost powers over 2 million websites. They offer the standard gamut ranging from shared to dedicated hosting. Additionally, they offer to host that is WordPress and WooCommerce-centered, as well as all-purpose hosting. To this end, VPS hosting at BlueHost can provide you with scalable hosting space for your latest app or service. 

Bluehost is also known as being one of the fastest and most reliable “mainstream” hosting services. Over the last year and a half, they’ve offered 99.99% uptime as well as a .41 second response time. That’s across all their tiers of service, of course. 

Take advantage of their current $2.95 a month offer to get a free domain name for a year. Free WordPress install, and free SSL. This offer reverts to $15.99 a month after the first month (still a good deal for shared hosting). 

• Min Price: $7.99/month $2.95/month (60% Off for BloggerSpice readers) 
• Max Price:$119.99/month $79.99/month (67% Off for BloggerSpice readers) 
• Offerings: Shared hosting, VPS hosting, Dedicated Hosting, Managed WP hosting, Pro Managed WP Hosting, WooCommerce store hosting 
• Domain Purchasing: Free Domain for 12 Months. 

SiteGround has been a personal favourite for several years. They offer today’s standard of shared hosting, managed WordPress hosting, and dedicated hosting. Additionally, cloud hosting allows space for an application or very large site with up to 8 CPU cores. 

An introductory billing rate of $3.95/month is a great deal for shared hosting. With this plan raising to $11.95/month after the first year. 

SiteGround is known for high-performance managed WordPress hosting. They’ll help you migrate your existing domain (for free), and have a very responsive support team. 

Additionally, SiteGround is known for some of its security features including an Anti-Bot AI and the ability to rapidly silo one of your domains or accounts in the event of a breach. SiteGround boasts 99.99% uptime over the last year and a half. And fast response times, especially for managed WordPress hosting. 

• Min Price: $11.95/month $3.95/month (33% Off for BloggerSpice readers) 
• Max Price: $34.95/month $11.95/month (35% Off for BloggerSpice readers) 
• Offerings: Shared hosting, Dedicated Hosting, Managed WordPress Hosting, WooCommerce Hosting, Cloud Hosting 
• Domain Purchasing: No Free Domain. 

GreenGeeks has been around since the early days of the internet (2008), and offers most of the standard cohort of hosting products as well as some unique offerings. It’s one of the few hosting platforms we’ve surveyed for our list that is also a domain registrar. Their $2.95/month shared hosting promotion is one of the best deals on our list, and comes with a website builder, free migrations, ad credits, and a free SSL certificate. 

While GreenGeeks does offer managed WordPress hosting, they also specialize in a range of other site types including Joomla, Drupal, Wiki, PhPBB, and Magento. Additional unique tools and services provided by GreenGeeks include DDOS mitigation technologies, an IP-based firewall, a robust support portal with over 700 how-to articles and videos, and website building and templating tools. 

• Min Price: $9.95/month $2.95/month (30% Off for BloggerSpice readers) 
• Max Price: $24.95/month $11.95/month (48% Off for BloggerSpice readers) 
• Offerings: Shared hosting, Dedicated Hosting, VPS Hosting, Managed WordPress Hosting, Website Builder 
• Domain Purchasing: Free for 12 Months. 

A2 Hosting is known as a powerhouse hosting company that also performs the role of domain registrar. Offering perhaps the widest range of services among surveyed hosting options, A2 is also known as one of the fastest at its price. Average page load speeds sit at .34 seconds. With that said, availability for lower-tier plans could be better and is slightly lower than competing hosting companies. Over the last 16 months, A2 has provided uptime equivalent to 99.92%. 

Some of the unique offerings available include their reseller/white label program, their managed and unmanaged dedicated hosting, their Asia-centered server base, and their discount SSD server package. 

• Min Price: $7.99/month $3.92/month (51% Off for BloggerSpice readers) 
• Max Price: $99.59/month $99.59/month (17% Off for BloggerSpice readers) 
• Offerings: Shared hosting, Managed WordPress Hosting, ECommerce Hosting, Managed and Unmanaged VPS, White Label Hosting, 
• Domain Purchasing: Yes 

iPage presents a strong showing at both the low and high-end of hosting. On the cheaper side, individuals or businesses signing up for their shared hosting plan can get hosting for as little as $1.99 a month for their first three years. A suite of beginner-friendly tools including a drag and drop builder, eCommerce templates, and built-in analytics sweeten the pot a bit more. 

At the higher end, iPage is known for a strong uptime. Their uptime percentage for the last 16 months is presently 99.97%. Managed WordPress hosting is surprisingly affordable from iPage, with an offer of $6.95/mo for the first three years. 

• Min Price: $7.99/month $1.99/month (75% Off for BloggerSpice readers) 
• Max Price: $239.99/month $191.99/month (80% Off for BloggerSpice readers) 
• Offerings: Shared Hosting, VPS Hosting, Managed WordPress Hosting, Dedicated Hosting, a Site Builder 
• Domain Purchasing: Free Domain for 12 Months.