Which web hosting company’s name comes into your mind when you hear the term WordPress web hosting? I bet it is either Bluehost or HostGator.
WordPress has been in existence for decades now and with it has risen different and famous web hosting companies. Some of these prominent companies are the likes of HostGator and Bluehost which dominate the WordPress web hosting arena.
While these two companies offer good hosting services, their popularity has blinded the wannabe WordPress website developers and owners into accessing the services of some fantastic web hosting companies. Additionally, the dominance of these companies has made them start offering poor services especially delayed customer support.
How to evaluate web hosting?
Uptime
A generous uptime guarantee backed by reasonable terms of service is a good indication of a hosting provider who will work hard to keep your website online.
Speed
Speed is everything! The faster the site, the more traffic and conversions and more income to your business.
Support
This is a very important factor! How fast is that support? Is it supported by system admins or is it outsourced?
Price
Some hosting promote their prices on 3-year plans and they look much cheaper, but on a year plan, it looks very different.
Below is a list of some of the best tried and tested web hosting companies in 2020. Read all the way to the end, and you will be surprised by how cheap yet fantastic these hosting companies are.
You will wish you knew them before!
FastComet
FastComet is a new fish in the web-hosting ocean, having been started in 2013. Their desire to become sharks has made them develop and provide incredible offers at a free cheap price.
For example, a free domain forever, cPanel Powered hosting which is currently the ruling web hosting control panel due to its ease of use, free daily and weekly data backups which you have to pay for in other providers, free Cloudflare CDN for speeding up your website, SSD-Only Cloud which is 300% faster than non-SSD hosting providers, unmetered traffic on all plans, and free 24/7 customer service and I mean online live chat, support tickets which are answered between 15-30 minutes, and phone. It mind blowing!
And the best of them of all, they offer a 45 days money-back guarantee. That’s how confident they are in the quality of their services.
They have three types of plans. A Start Smart plan costs $2.95 a month, a ScaleRight plan that costs $5.95 a month, and the SpeedUp plans cost $9.95 per month. Head over to their website to get a glimpse of the features that each plan offers.
They also support different apps such as Joomla, WordPress, SocialEngine, OpenCart, WooCommerce, and Magento among tens of others. Visit Fastcomet.
NameHero
NameHero is also another company that is aggressively making its name in the web hosting arena, thanks to its fantastic services and features.
It offers incredible hosting services such as VPS hosting, Reseller hosting, and Shared Hosting; all with mind-blowing uptime speeds. Talking of speed, they use True cloud hosting which is powered by SSD Raid 10 drives, LiteSpeed web servers, and Cloudflare integration. Their customer support is also incredible and very reliable.
Additionally, they offer free domain migration and support hundreds of apps such as WordPress, Magento, Drupal, and Joomla.
However, unlike FastComet, NameHero has more expensive subscription plans. They offer three subscriptions; Web Hosting which costs $3.29 per month, Reseller Hosting costing $11.17 a month, and VPS Hosting which costs $29.96 a month. This is almost 4 times as expensive as FastComet. You can visit their website here to compare the different plans.
SiteGround
I should have started with this company because it is the best and most popular web hosting company on this list. The others are just near alternatives. However, the better the quality of services the more expensive it is.
What sets SiteGround apart is its ability to focus on providing certain few and critical services. For example, they only host 6 applications; WordPress, WooCommerce, Joomla, Magento, Drupal, and PrestaShop. Compare this with NameHero which supports 400+ applications.
What to expect from SiteGround is easy and fast website building for supported applications, free and smooth website transfer, managed services for WordPress users, and excellent flexibility for WordPress developers.
Their customer support is also out of this world; 24/7 customer support either by phone, chat or ticket. Their pricing depends on the type of application you want to use. For example, normal web hosting has three plans which you can check out on their website.
To learn more about SiteGround, you can visit their website here.
A2 Hosting
A2 Hosting has been in business for over a decade now. But its rise to glory has more dramatically been in the last few years due to their super improved services.
A2 Hosting subscriptions plans start at only $3.92 a month and promise up to 20X faster web hosting in the form of; unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, 1-click script installs, free solid-state drives, up to 99.9% uptime speed, Linux and window hosting, 30-day money back guarantee, and 24/7 guru crew support.
Just like other web hosting companies on this list, A2 hosting supports applications such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and OpenCart.
To learn more, you can visit the A2 hosting website.
Knownhost
If you are inclined more to quality than price, Knownhost is the best option for you. They offer only high-performance virtual private servers (VPS) and specialized server hosting, for faster connections, unlimited storage space, and reliability.
Their subscription plans start at $3.47 a month for shared web hosting all the way to $135 a month for managed dedicated servers. But no matter the package you select, be guaranteed up to 99.96 uptime speeds, maximum data security, free data backups, user-friendly services, free instant setup, a 30-day money-back guarantee, and excellent 24/7 customer support.
You don’t need to be a tech whiz to run your website on Knownhost. They do all the heavy lifting for you so you can focus on the most important thing which is traffic and profits.
To learn more about Knownhost, you can visit their website here.
Final verdict
All I can tell you is to visit each of these companies' websites and try to compare the service you are looking for and the price.
However, do not stress yourself, you cannot make a mistake whichever company you pick from the above list.
Happy hosting!
