by jeff | Aug 13, 2018 | 2016, 2018, Hosting and Domain Name, Wordpress
There is only a handful of top wordpress webhosting providers in the hosting niche for popular blog software wordpress and then there is a big list of small hosting companies. Below we have compared the 2018 prices for webhosting and also sorted out features of the most popular hosting providers with the best price and plans – Post Updated 01/08/2018
All of these blog/website hosting providers in this list provide support for wordpress blogging software. [checkout our current special deal for Hosting + Free Domain names in 2018 ]
With the release of Word Press 4 which is is now available,more and more people are using the word press blogging platform . It is also becoming increasingly popular with small businesses and corporate companies and eCommerce stores , due to the agility of this CMS to be a proper website as well as a blog or online store.
In fact wordpress is so flexible, all you need is a good word press theme to dress up this website CMS to become a Photography website , or change it into a news magazine. You can check out my more detailed ultimate guide to creating a wordpress website which is here
Word-press hosting for websites and Blogs
WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time and most hosting providers provide this website software for free when you purchase their hosting plan, So you dont have to buy it separately or go through a long process installing it yourself . WordPress is also knows as a CMS content management system.
You would have to buy a hosting plan if you want to start a website and you will also need a domain name. There are free platforms like Blogger and Tumblr but they do not give you the freedom to customise your blog as you please and they have the authority to delete your blog at any time if you have violated any of their terms and conditions.
Word press is so easy to manage and use that many small businesses and corporations are switching to this format for their websites in increasing numbers. The “Wall street Journal, Ford , Techcrunch, ebay and boing boing are among some well known names that are jumping on the word press bandwagon to promote their stuff to the internet.
How to get a wordpress blog up and running ?
To sum it up quickly, i can say
It’s Easy As…
- Find a Web Host and sign up to a hosting provider with WordPress.
- Download & Install WordPress with their 1 click install. Done. Feel like a rock star.
- Or Read the Documentation and become a WordPress expert yourself, impress your friends.
But one of the basic things you will always need to start a blog is hosting for your blog or website and so below i have given a detailed comparison of popular and reputed hosting providers from which you can decide which one is suitable for you. A full comparison of required features and price are given below.
Price and Feature Comparison for top blog and website hosting companies
A comparison chart between some top us WordPress hosts. Most of these hosts also cater or provide access to other popular website software like JOOMLA, DRUPAL, MAGENTO and more.
If you are looking to host a wordpress blog there can be a bit of confusion, as there are two popular services and websites with the name wordpress( www.wordpress.com and www.wordpress.org ) I get this question all the time… from bloggers, entrepreneurs, small business owners
What is difference between hosting with wordpress.org and wordpress.com ?
[ The difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org ]
According to the figures fromteh top blogging software website wordPress.com, there are currently over sixty million WordPress-based websites or blogs in the world. Half of them are hosted on WordPress.com and the rest on other platforms.
About 100,000 new WordPress websites are created every day. In realtion to difference between wordpress.com and .org – the WordPress.com website hosts the site on their servers ( so its a free blog service like blogger.com), so you don’t really need a hosting account, but tehre are limitation as any free service and your blog can be banned at any time if it goes against one of their hundreds of policies that you should be aware off.
I know this is a risk you will take with “free blogging services” has happened to me with two major blog services and they didn’t have the courtesy to tell me why they banned my blog and i didn’t know why it was banned as well.
Cons of wordpress.com free blogging service
- WordPress.com provides a limited amount of space and customization options.
- WordPress.com does not allow you to include advertisements of any kind.
- Your blog is at risk of being banned if you inadvertently break on of their rules
WordPress.org is the website that provides the software for wordpress. This wordpress software is available free from wordpress.org and can download it and use it for free. However as most hosting companies already have a 1 clickinstall in their hosting account for this free software , tehre is no real need to download it , if your buy a hosting account with one of the hosting providers.
WordPress as a self hosted blog
As a wordpress blog with a hosting account is called a self hosted blog , and you have paid for your own hosting , you are free to customise the wordpress as you wish to your needs. and then install on a separate web host (or ISP).
Advantages of Self hosted wordpress blog
- You can have your own customised domain.
- NO banning of your blog.
- You can customise the look of your blog
- You can install which plugins you like
- You can upgrade services through your hosting provider if more needs arise
Extra information you can consider before making a final choice of webhost service provider
How to Pick a Good Web Hosting Service
What is cpanel ?
Cpanel – Most WordPress blog hosting companies provides a cpanel which make sit much easier to navigate the inner bits of where your blog resides, In the cpanel which is the backend of you blog admin area , you can create ftp accounts to transfer files directly to your website, change passwords and update the software, but a lot of these tasks can also be done via login through the blog interface (http://www.yourblog.com/wp-admin).
Script library & windows Vs linux hosting
This is no biggie, both Windows hosting and linux hosting does the job, though most providers have linux hosting and they do a good job. Script library is of importance if you think you will start a forum , or a email list , or a subscription blog .Many hostingservice providers provide an array of easy script installs via their backend like forums , blogs, email list software.
International Hosting-Providers
Personally I believe there is not much more to consider, with the exception of obvious time delays for support when choosing a hosting provider in another country vs. US hosting as US hosting is mostly cheaper and you will always get a lot of USA traffic (irrespective of which country you are based in) making US a good choice for hosting.
I have already discussed why I prefer US hosting to other countries hosting earlier ,but I do wish to stay transparent and give people who still wish to explore other options like a local hosting choice, so here are a few popular hosting solutions from CANADA, UK, South Africa , India, Europe, South America and more..
CANADA HOSTING PROVIDERS
Canadian web hosting is a growing force to be reckoned with, with many new webhosting providers recently hitting the market. We have listed a few Canadian based hosting-companies with affordable prices below.
Hostupon
Bandwidth: Unlimited
Disk Space: Unlimited
Addon Domain: Unlimited
Free Domain: Yes
Servers in Toronto, Canada
Price:$3.95 a month ( which is comparable with US hosting prices)
WebHostingCanada
WebHostingCanada web hosting – the name says it all! Web Hosting Canada is proudly Canadian. They have fast servers based in Montreal, Quebec and Canadian technical support – in both official Canadian languages.
Price $7.95 a month (Canadian Dollars)
Canadian Web Hosting
Vancouver-based Canad
ian Web Hosting is 100% Canadian owned and operated. A solid featureset and three package options (including a spacious business plan) are backed by a 60-day money-back guarantee.
Price $7.95 a month (Canadian Dollars)
UK Hosting & European hosting
Some of the European hosting is also mainly UK hosting with clook.uk, evohosting, pacwebhosting, icdsoft being some popular hosts being mentioned around forums. Let me know if you have a favourite one that has worked well for you
Clook.uk(clook.net)
Prices start from £5 pounds a month to £260 pounds a month and they support word press. Uptime is fantastic and the service is good and better than what I have experienced with other hosts
India hosting Companies
India has hundreds of cheap hosting companies and so we have listed yahoo for now which is a reliable host and will add more to this list soon
Yahoo Small Business Hostingplan Starter
Unlimited Web Hosting & Domain (supports wordpress blogging and 99.9 % uptime)
- No hidden costs: truly unlimited hosting
- Easy-to-use site builder
- Unlimited web pages
Price: 250 Rupees a month ( xe.com)
South Africa hosting companies
Some popular companies in south Africa are Cybersmart hosting, Ample hosting, Elite host and hostking and there are still many more good ones we will cover later
Cybersmart
It’s the cheapest out there. You just need to pay for a domain. Not recommend for a business but for a private site or blog there’s nothing wrong with it except for maybe being a little bit slower than the other packages.
Pricing: They got packages tarting with free Pick package to blue package to aqua package . The Blue basic package starts at R18 (rand) to Aqua R98 (rand)
More details here – https://www.cybersmart.co.za/hosting.cgi
Hostking – Price R9
You get a free domain (what else you want) and you can only host one website( not good) with which you get 10 email addresses(good). The 500 MB should be enough for most small websites and you also get unlimited bandwidth.
It’s ideal for a small website where you pay less than R10 a month and have your domain included in the price.(can’t go wrong)
More technical info…..
Where are the datacenters Located.
Many big companies like google, Microsoft their major data centres in different countries but they basically use their datacentres or servers for their own use. Datacentres if used by a hosting company and is based can be a benefit to you based on where the datacentre is and where you are..if you want more speedy loading times for your website for your local area or country. But if you are getting traffic from all over the world this is not important at all and you could just choose a cheap US host or then a cheap host from any country.
Microsoft’s has their mirror server in Hong Kong one datacenter….which is called HKNET… Australia bandwidth not bad at all, i can boost it like 600kb/s and USA more than 500kb/s with multithreading.
Some of huge data-centres that we believe are the largest found anywhere- range between 400,000 and 1.1 million square feet. Here are some of them
Range International Information Hub
Langfang, China
6.3 Million Sq. Ft.
Switch SuperNAP
Las Vegas, Nevada
2.2 Million Sq. Ft
Utah Data Center
Bluffdale, Utah
1+ Million Sq. Ft.
Lakeside Technology
Chicago
1.1 Million Sq. Ft
QTS Metro Data Center
Atlanta
970,000 Sq. Ft.
I hope i have provided enough information for you to choose and pick a suitable webhosting service and good luck to you – Dont wait – take action now _start a blog today!
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by jeff | May 31, 2017 | Hosting and Domain Name, Web Hosting
What’s the difference between a $1 hosting plan and a $29 hosting deal. Its obvious isn’t it ? Its quality.
You get what you pay for. The difference is obliviously here is speed of server, quality of support, premium features like wordpress optimized servers , staging areas provided and more. We are talking about wp engine hosting over here.
Quality vs Price for Hosting – WP Engine
They are a premium wordpress optimised hosting company and currently have a plan going on for 3 months free hosting, when you sign up. Get it here.
If you not hellbent on quality and just want a decent host that will do the job then check out this $2.95 bluehost weekly special that is on just this week.
But if you want a good solid WordPress host, then WP-engine is way better.
WP Engine: A Developed Web Hosting Service with Specialised Plans
WP Engine is one of the most reliable and popular web hosting companies assisting the clients. This company has developed outstanding recognition and reputation by delivering quality services in all aspects.
Based on the modern hosting programs, packages and technologies, WP Engine has captured the attention of almost customers of all levels. With this web hosting service, it is easy to find the attractive plans that fit your requirements. Worthy web hosting plans offered by WP Engine are listed below.
Personal: This plan is suitable for websites and bloggers. It is also useful to test the hosting services of this company. Buying this plan costs around $29 per month. Buyers get the single installer, 10 GB storage, free SSL certificates and 25 k visitors per month.
Professional: This plan is suitable for the online users looking for great speed and growth. Buy this plan and get 10 installers, 100 K Visits per month, 20 GB storage, unlimited data transfer and cost-free SSL. The monthly cost of this plan is only $99.
Business: This is the second name of business passion. Buy this passion and enjoy 30 GB storage, 400 K visits per month, 25 installs, free SSL certificates and unlimited transfers. This plan included the latest technologies such as GEOIP. Enjoy all these features just for $249 per month.
Design hosting plans:
Are you interested to create special hosting plans according to your needs? Well, WP Engine offers this amazing facility to its clients. Now it is very simple to create need specific hosting packages. Call now and ask for the Premium and Enterprise Grade to enjoy whatever you need.
Money back guarantee:
Users who experience anything wrong can return the services within 60 days. It means that you can get refunds of any package in case of any problem. WP Engine is very polite in the matter of customer dealing.
Special bundle for migration:
Those who are interested to shift the WP websites to WP Engine are treated with best services and features. WP Engine has started a campaign “Free Automated Migration” in order to encourage the WP users looking to shift. Enjoy special plug-ins, web traffic, dedicated servers and other gifts right now.
Improved SEO:
With the help of Free SSL Certificates, it is easy to enjoy specialised search engine optimisation. Buy hosting plans and web services at the platform of WP Engine to get additional support.
Active customer support:
Customer support unit of WP Engine is efficient and user-friendly. This service is ready to assist the clients 24/7. Enjoy quick response sin the form of emails, live chats and telephone calls.
A team of experts:
WP Engine is among the leading web hosting services having a team of qualified and experienced persons. Meet with our experts if you are interested to learn more about the web hosting and other options.
Background of WP Engine:
Startup of WP Engine was dated on 1st March 2010 in Crunchbase. With a small but experienced staff of 15 members, this hosting service is assisting more than 50,000 loyal clients in 136 countries.
by jeff | Nov 28, 2016 | Coupons, Hosting and Domain Name
[updated 28/11/2017] . Everybody likes a good deal and if you are looking for a good hosting deal with domain you will surely like this. If you are searching for Hosting coupon , Promos, 2017 Deals or offers for blog or website hosting you have come to the right place.
My preferred hosting company
My preferred website-hosting provider bluehost currently has a good offer (42% 60% off) for new signups for website-hosting which is also further reduced from the previous discounted price, so grab it while it lasts.
Today only, your visitors can claim a Bluehost account for only $2.95 a month (for 36 months).*(expired)
I have provided the discount link below but do read my hosting renewal story if you have some time (just one of my rants).
If you just want to go ahead and grab the 60% discount ($2.95 hosting deal) – Grab it here via my link (60% off -$2.95). This deal is just for their 1 day sale on August 17th 31st 2017. After this it will revert back to the next best deal available with bluehost-hosting.
Story of my bluehost hosting renewal
My bluehost hosting just came up for renewal today , and I was shocked to see that my hosting actually would cost me $10.99 a month on renewal, if I renewed it for 24 months($263.76).
I was more shocked because I normally give discount offers for blue host hosting to my site visitors like you for just $3.49 $2.95 a month right now (grab the promo 2017 discount deal here).
So I decided to explore further on the difference of prices. I’m not complaining about the service because I love blue host and have been using them for 6+ years now with excellent customer service and would like to continue using them, so I decided to give them a call.
Turns out the customer service was closed for the weekend being a Saturday, so I logged into their live chat help and asked about the price difference.
The sales rep told me that the special prices that was there currently being offered by me was only for new users to blue host, and all users have to pay the basic normal rate after the first year special discount offer.
I found out this to be normal practice among most big hosting companies and was not too fussed about it, but asked him if he could do a reasonable deal for me.
He said he would enquire and come back to me (pic here), He came back in a minute and told me that he could do a deal of the basic current rate $7.95 month due to being a loyal customer but could not give the current discounted special offer of $3.95.
I settled for this offer which was good enough to me where I would normally get charged $10.99 a month instead.
He adjusted the rate on the renewal and I got to save at least $70 approx on my hosting deal. This once again proved that my hosting service was actually looking after their customers and I renewed for another 24 months.
To cut a long story short, I do recommend bluehost and if you are looking for blog or website-hosting – here is their special current offers that I have listed below.
The Bluehost Hosting discount offer
Web Hosting & Domain 2017
Normally rates are $5.99 a month for new sign ups – Get a 56 % discount with our special rate of $3.95 a month by buying from our referral Start-a-website.info promo link here . + free domain if you get a 1 year or 2 year hosting plan
You do not need any discount coupon or deal code to claim the offer , just click on the above link and go get the deal in your checkout cart
Currently what you are getting with Blue host hosting
- 1-click WordPress installations
- Free domain [for *1 or 2 year hosting plan]
- A money-back guarantee
- And over $200 in marketing offers from Google/Facebook/Twitter/Bing
- Hosting is unlimited – so you can host more than 1 website on your plan
If you do run into any problems with claiming or redeeming the discount offer link or with setting up your blog, do get in touch with me via the contact button on the top menu and I will be happy to help you out.
Bluehost also provides many other add-ons like,
– SEO service to promote you blog on Google search , Bing and yahoo
– Quickstart can get your site off the ground with one on one expert training , if you are interested in getting more from your blog or website
Good luck and happy blogging!
Disclaimer: Start-a-website.info is a Bluehost affiliate partner, which means that in addition to using their service, we also receive a commission for referring new customers.
To be fair, though, we would still use Bluehost even if we weren’t an affiliate. Ergo, we don’t recommend Bluehost just because we’re an affiliate (every hosting company offers a similar affiliate program); we recommend Bluehost because they are the best, most reliable option. Plus, because we’re a partner, Bluehost offers a special price for Start-a-website.info readers: only $3.95 a month.This website content is also copyrighted in Philippines , Vietnam , Brazil and UK
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by jeff | Mar 7, 2015 | eCommerce, Hosting and Domain Name, MakeBlog
A successful and Popular blog with always need these 3 Components if you are in UK, Australia , US , Canada or any other country
- A good domain name
- A good hosting company
- And a Good Looking Design or WordPress theme.
Start a Successful blog in 2016
You may ask Why these Three – because a good short domain name is easy to remember, a good hosting company will always make sure your site is up with no server problems and a good design will always install trust in viewers and help your blog look more professional and popular.
Getting the first two factors sorted out is pretty straightforward – Just choose the right provider (I have provided a link to comparison of providers both hosting and domain names ). To get a good design for your blog or website easily the word press blogging software is a must as you can install a good paid design (wordpress theme) in minutes
Luckily most hosting providers already support wordpress blogging software.
When I say , word press is a must for good blog design, it is because it’s one of the most popular website /blogging software. It also has one of the highest number of free designs available to install in your blog in just a few clicks . The bonus is that there are also a lot of cheap yet professional designs available at affordable prices for wordpress blogs . It’s called wordpress skins – themes or templates.
Once you purchase a good design that suits your blog-subject , you can download that theme and just click and upload it within your blog admin area and your blog has a new good looking professional design. The entire website look or design is changed in an instant.
If you want to compare this task – Changing the design and look of you word press website and blog is as easy as changing you dress if you want a comparison. You wear a nice looking dress/clothes and you look good and people show appreciation and want to talk to you, the same way you get a good word-press design theme and people will come to your blog because it looks good and professional . The difference is with wordpress it takes a mere minute or less to change a template design or theme to your wordpress blog ( and in real life changing your dress/shirt can probably take much longer 😉
Professional WordPress themes and templates are available from prices as low as $69 for 80 + professional themes from some providers. WP themes or templates are also available for free from within your wordpress blog in the admin area. Go to appearance once logged in and search for themes and just add them and activate ( but I dont recommend installing wordpress free themes if you are serious about blogging)
I remember I recently helped a friend set up a blog, and after 3 months he comes back and tells me that his blog is hardly getting like 4 to 5 visits a day. I checked his blog and saw that he had written only 4 short articles( 300 words) in those three months and had done no promotion of his blog. I explained to him that this was the reasons why he was not receiving more visits, make content at least 500 words minimum( if not longer) for each article , write at least 2 to 3 interesting articles each week in the first couple of months with attractive relevant images in the posts and also promote the blog .
Within next three months he was close to 100 visits a day following my tips, which is pretty good for a new blog.
2016 and Making money from your blog
Once you get the traffic rolling in , you can start to make money, because there is only one basic rule (traffic = Money). Saying that you need a decent amount of traffic to make money, I have made money from blogs with 100 unique visits a day but to have a more consistent and reasonable income to start with you will at least need anywhere from 400 to 500 visit s a day depending on your niche.
So you ask how to make that money from your blog , they are 101 ways to make money from your blog for eg . putting google ads on your blog( adsense) , promoting other products for a commission ( affiliate marketing), accepting sponsored posts from companies etc .
These are some of the more popular methods .but there are still many more ways you can make money on-line. I will surely cover this on a detailed post later , to show you how to make money from your blog but if your wanna get there the professional way and quickly maybe you can check out this clickbank training course
Back to the main topic, once you have sorted out your domain, hosting and design the only thing you need on a regular basis is good content written to attract viewers to your blog and keep them coming back. To ensure that this is taken care of, make sure you start a blog on a topic that you are passionate about, so that you don’t get bored after a while. Once you start to make money from your blog (yes it’s possible) you can (outsource) the content writing if you are short on time.
After this is taken care of, you should get viewers visiting your blog as you add more interesting articles to your blog (install stat counter to measure visits /traffic). If traffic to your blog is not increasing you probably need to make it more visible on the internet, and you can do this by promoting your blog content through social media like Facebook, twitter and pinterest etc. and also researching how to do SEO for blogs on Google.
Here are some links to choose/compare the right providers for Blog domain buying, Blog templates/Themes or design and Hosting companies for blogs.
I have written detailed posts on Comparison of different webhosting for blogs and websites and price comparison and also detailed posts on providers for reviews/ comparison on domain providers and wordpress themes providers for your blog.
You can visit the external website posts links above to check out which service will suit your budget and if you want to check out some detailed articles on website hosting comparison and best wordpress themes for your blog check out his link (hosting) + this link(themes) on our blog.
Below are some Hosting providers if you are looking for UK website hosts, I prefer to use the Us hosting companies for my Australian websites
UK Hosting & European hosting
Some of the European hosting is also mainly UK hosting with clook.uk, evohosting, pacwebhosting, icdsoft being some popular hosts being mentioned around forums. Let me know if you have a favourite one that has worked well for you
Clook.uk(clook.net)
Prices start from £5 pounds a month to £260 pounds a month and they support word press. Uptime is fantastic and the service is good and better than what I have experienced with other hosts
US Hosting Companies
Bluehost
www.bluehost.comWeb Host – 24/7 USA-based support.Install WordPress with a click of a button!Price: $5.99 Now $3.49 a month(60%off Link)
Godaddy
Reliable Web Hosting and their 24/7 tech support is always handySpecial deal now :Just $1 to $6.99 a month
Happy Blogging.
Let me know if you need any help with setting up your blog or any specific help with SEO or any other blogging related issues . Good luck!
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