So, you’ve finally decided to invest money and start a blog.

Two of the must-purchase when starting a WordPress.org-powered website are domain name and webhosting.

Typically, the domain name is offered for free for the webhosting plan. Likewise, it is best to purchase both items on a single company for easier management.

But, if you want a recommendation for a company to purchase your domain name, you should select Namecheap. Namecheap is known for their cheap domain names.

For webhosting, meanwhile, there are a huge list of options to choose from. So, how to find the best webhosting for your website?

BTW, I recommend you purchase the Managed Hosting plan as even though they are commonly more expensive than shared hosting, this type of plan is hosted under an environment that is best fit for WP and the company manages security, speed optimization, updates, and more – enabling you to focus on contents.

Hostinger

Hostinger has been in the webhosting business since 2004 as Hosting Media, hence a company with long reputation. They are popular for providing affordable hosting plans for long-term contracts.

This means, you need to opt for at least 48 months or 4-year-contract to avail of the $3.29/monthly for their Business plan for WP. The offer is generous with the ability to create of up to 50 websites, 50GB NVMe storage, and extra perks such as AI agent, affiliate tools, free CDN, daily backups.

Their managed plan offers quicker load times (LiteSpeed servers and smart caching), 99.9% uptime guarantee, automatic content optimization for search, and 24/7 WP expert support.

Ionos

Ionos was founded in Germany in 1988 as 1&1 Internet. Having been in the industry for long, it holds second in ranking of the market share of global web hosting providers (September 2019).

The hosting biz offers AI-powered tools, fast loading, and leading security. It is known for very affordable first-year offer, thus allows you to fully experience their services for a whole year at the price of 1-month.

For one, their Grow plan costs $1/month for a 1-year term for the first year. Succeeding price would be the regular at $12/month. This plan includes 50GB SSD storage, free domain and SSL, 5 email addresses, enhanced performance, standard database, WP website cockpit, vulnerability scans and malware detection.

They have 99.99% uptime guarantee, and service is 100% powered by renewable energy.

Siteground

Siteground is a Bulgaria-based hosting company. Its managed hosting plan provides automated setup, migration and updates, multi-level security for extra peace of mind, and top rated 24/7 expert support.

Their most affordable plan is priced at $3.99/month prepaid for 12 months and renews at $17.99/month. This plan has 10GB web space, approximately 10,000 monthly visitors and unmetered traffic.

Siteground provides one-click WP installation, their expert can help with migration of WP sites to their servers, provides performance-optimized solutions, protects website security and updates via custom patches and system firewall, automatic daily backups and can keep up to 30 copies, anti-spam protection, one-click staging, complete dev toolkit, and collaborate and ship sites easily.

Namecheap

Namecheap is known for their affordable domain names, and their managed WP hosting plan is quite affordable for long-term users. Their providing is almost as-is, the difference between the initial cost and the renewal is minimal, they won’t offer a very low starting price only to receive a huge bill at the next billing period.

Anyway, if computing on regular prices, their plans are affordable.

Their cheapest called Starter is initially priced at $48.88 annually and renews at $68.88 annually. It has 10GB SSD storage, 50k visitors/month, free CDN, free SSL, WP Auto Updates, and HackGuardian.

Their managed WP plan is hosted on their own optimized cloud technology. They generously provide 50k monthly visitors for the starter plan, 3x blazing fast storage vs. traditional hosting, and 99.9% uptime guarantee.

Bluehost          

The team behind the WordPress.org CMS has long been officially recommending Bluehost as the company for WP hosting. Since 2005, the recommendation is because the company apparently meets WP.org’s strict standards for speed, security and customer support.

The most affordable Bluehost plan for WP managed hosting is called Starter. It is priced at $3.99/month for a 36-month term and renews at $9.99/month. It can power up to 10 websites, has 10GB NVMe storage, ideal for 40k visits/mo, AI creation tool, free domain for first year, free CDN, free site migration tool and more.

Bluehost provides lightning-fast performance (with LiteSpeed servers and ultra-fast NVMe SSD storage), enterprise-grade security (powerful firewall, daily malware scanning), and expert WP support.

Final Thoughts

Choosing a webhosting which will host your website is like looking for an area to build a house. It requires a thorough study before deciding.

Factors to consider pricing, company reputation, services for the plan.

There are many webhosting companies offering different kind of plans. It’s a decision which will impact the future of your website.