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What are the best sites to host a WordPress blog?

13

Options
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Mar 17, 2022

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12 Options Considered

Best sites to host a WordPress blog	Price	Server locations	ISOs
-- DigitalOcean	-	New York (3); Amsterdam (2); San Francisco (2); Singapore; London; Frankfurt; Toronto; Bangalore	Ubuntu; Fedora; Debian; CentOS; CoreOS; FreeBSD
54 Wordpress.com	-	-	-
-- Heroku	-	-	-
-- RamNode	-	Los Angeles; New York; Atlanta; Seattle; Amsterdam	CentOS; CloudLinux; CoreOS; Debian; FreeBSD; OpenBSD; Fedora; openSUSE; Gentoo; Ubuntu; Arch; Alpine; NetBSD; Vyatta; MikroTik; GParted; System Rescue; Grml; Scientific; TurnKey; Elastix; Oracle; PBX; iPXE; NixOS; FreePBX; AsteriskNOW; Windows Server 2008 R2
-- WP Engine	-	-	-

DigitalOcean

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Top Con

Terrible support

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Competetive starter-level pricing

With pricing that starts at $5/month. It's a pretty cheap VPS provider. See More

John Taylor's Experience

It is very easy to use, as there is a one-click option for WordPress hosting. See More

Specs

Server locations:New York (3); Amsterdam (2); San Francisco (2); Singapore; London; Frankfurt; Toronto; Bangalore

ISOs:Ubuntu; Fedora; Debian; CentOS; CoreOS; FreeBSD

Virtualization:KVM

Top Con

Setup is not as fast as advertised

A person who wants to set this up, set that up, configure this and so forth - and who has minimal time pressures would be okay. But the time it takes to be set up can be crucial for people who want to get up and running as fast as possible. See More

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Beginner-friendly

DigitalOcean has a control panel that's intuitive and easy to use, new servers (Droplets) can be spun up in under a minute and they offer stock "apps" (LAMP, RoR, Wordpress) that can be deployed instantly. There's also an extensive documentation for people new to VPS. See More

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$50 credit for students

Available with the Github student developer pack. See More

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Great customer support

Quick and knowledgeable customer service, extensive documentation and helpful community. See More

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Pay-as-you-go with multiple payment options

Billing is done per hour. Each month has a 672 hour (28-day) billing cap with server runtime past that point being free of charge. DigitalOcean accepts payments via Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and PayPal. See More

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Flexible backup mechanism

Automatic backups can be made for 20% of the droplet price and an unlimited amount of snapshots at $0.02 per GB of storage can be made manually. See More

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Good API

DigitalOcean has an API for creating and destroying droplets and replicating droplet control panel functionality. The API is RESTful, uses oAuth, supports IPv6 and comes with an extensive documentation. See More

Heroku

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Excellent error logs

When your deploy fails you see a legitimate error log. Many of the other PaaS give you nondescript messages and debugging is a pain. Debugging Heroku wins by comparison. See More

Top Con

Really expensive

Heroku starts getting really expensive once you leave that the tier. It's not just the bare Heroku service that is costly, the addons as well are very pricey. See More

Top Pro

Add-ons let you easily add features and technologies

Heroku has a vast list of plugins and services that can be added to an instance. These plugins cover things from databases to email systems. This remove the task of having to install services and setting them up manually. Heroku does it all for you. See More

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Free option available

Heroku offers a free tier which contains a single dyno instance and is available for up to 18 hours per day. It offers 512MB of memory and 100MB swap space. See More

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Easy to start with

Getting started with Heroku is very easy. It's a very straightforward procedure and a beginner can set up their first app in two minutes. Often it's just a matter of a couple of git commands and it's all set up and running. The official Heroku docmentation also helps a lot. See More

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Simple scaling

Heroku instances can easily be scaled up or down by increasing or decreasing the number of available dynos for that instance. This can be done through the CLI or through Heroku's web UI. See More

RamNode

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Cheap

Ramnode is a very cheap VPS provider. With its cheapest plan being only $15/yr for 128MB of RAM. Which is not much but for a small website not expecting a lot of traffic is pretty good. Plus, not many other VPS providers offer this kind of option. See More

Top Con

Doesn't give you many advanced functionalities

Compared to other VPS providers, the Admin interface for RamNode is rather limited. For example, scaling your instances up and down is not as advanced. See More

Specs

Server locations:Los Angeles; New York; Atlanta; Seattle; Amsterdam

ISOs:CentOS; CloudLinux; CoreOS; Debian; FreeBSD; OpenBSD; Fedora; openSUSE; Gentoo; Ubuntu; Arch; Alpine; NetBSD; Vyatta; MikroTik; GParted; System Rescue; Grml; Scientific; TurnKey; Elastix; Oracle; PBX; iPXE; NixOS; FreePBX; AsteriskNOW; Windows Server 2008 R2

Virtualization:KVM; OpenVZ

Top Pro

Good performance

RamNode usually has some pretty good performance according to benchmarks. Of course, VPS benchmarks are not very reliable but RamNode consistently ranks pretty high in them. See More

SiteGround

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Cloudways

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WordPress migrator for quick and free migrations

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One click website clone and server cloning

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Easy multi SSL integration and one click free let's encrypt SSL installs

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SSH and SFTP access

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Scalable servers

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1- Click installations

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Optimized and managed cloud servers

The optimization technique used is Nginx, Varnish, Apache, PHP-FPM, Memcache, MySQL, PHP 5.6. Provided is 4 options of servers, which are DigitalOcean, Vultr, GCE and AWS EC2. Each one of them uses the same optimization. It all comes with automated backups, 24/7 chat support, scalable cloud servers, and no restriction on WordPress sites. See More

Blogcoli.com

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