BEST WORDPRESS HOSTING GUIDE 2019 #Best Education Page #Online Earning

- In this video,

I'm going to be talking about WordPress hosting.

This is my best WordPress hosting guide for 2018/2019.

I've tested out a load of different

WordPress hosting packages,

and I think I've found the best.

So let's get started.

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Hello, it's Alex here from WP Eagle.

Hope you're all well.

Thanks for watching.

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So let's get on to the WordPress hosting.

I've been running some hosting tests

over the last 30 days or so

from a number different companies

and a number of different setups.

I've collected lots of data,

and I've done lots of comparison tables

and all that kind of stuff.

And you'll find all the information over at wpeagle.com.

You'll find a link in the description

that you can click, and it'll take you straight there.

Yeah, and on that article,

you'll find all of the results.

You'll find links to all of the test sites,

so that you can take a look for yourself

how well they load, and how well they work,

and basically everything that I talk about in his video,

you will find over there,

and you can use that article as a reference point.

So this video is mainly about shared WordPress hosting,

which is the kind of normal usual type of hosting

that you get.

But I also wanted to compare the share hosting

with the other services that are available,

so I've tested out the managed WordPress hosting service

from WP Engine.

And I've also tested out a couple of VPS setups.

That stands for virtual private server,

which is a bit different to shared hosting,

but, in theory, gives much better performance.

So you'll find that stuff towards the end of the video.

And again, I've included all the info on that

within the article,

which is linked to in the description.

Speaking of links,

you'll also find links to all of the hosting providers,

featured in this video, in the description.

Now they are affiliate links,

so if you use them,

I will earn a commission,

I'd like to say thank you very much.

I managed to secure a few discounts

with some of the companies,

so use those links,

and you will get a discount.

And I think, on a couple of them,

I've even got some promo codes as well.

So you'll find them below,

and feel free to use them.

Now I have had to spend quite a bit of my money

to get all the hosting stuff set up.

So if you enjoyed this video,

and you found it useful,

I would really appreciate if you use those links below.

It's not going to cost you any more,

and in fact, as I said,

you're probably going to get a saving,

and it help fund all the hosting

that I'm paying for right now

'cause I signed up for like 12 months

with loads of companies.

Really appreciate if you use those links.

Right let's get on with this.

First thing I'm going to talk about

is exactly how I tested the different companies,

and then we'll get on to the winners and losers.

Let's go.

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So to test the different hosting.

I basically went up,

and I set up an account with the different companies.

I went for the entry level standard hosting.

I didn't go for any WordPress specific hosting

or anything like that.

Just the basic one site, simple, vanilla hosting.

Signed up with all the different companies,

and then I took a copy of the site

that I use in a number of my videos.

If you're regular, you'll have seen them.

The site is bowwowtech.co.uk,

which is one of my amazon affiliate websites.

By the way,

I've got a tutorial on how you can build a site

exactly like that on the channel,

if you're interested.

I chose this site because it's quite resource intensive.

It's got quite a lot of content on it.

It uses WooCommerce.

It uses the WooZone plugin,

which I know that a lot of you guys are running,

and whole load of other stuff is going on on that site.

So rather than just instal a vanilla instal of WordPress,

and test that out,

I thought I'd use a real world site

similar to number of sites that you guys are running,

and I thought that would give us a better idea

in terms of which hosting is the best.

So when I was looking to each of the companies,

I was looking at four key areas.

I was looking at the performance,

which obviously is very important.

That's how fast your site's going to load.

I was looking at the technical support

or the customer service that they offer.

So how helpful are they when things go wrong.

Or if you've got a question.

Third thing I was checking was the number of features

that you got for your money,

and that included things like the amount of bandwidth,

the amount of storage you got,

whether you go a SSL certificate, all that kind of stuff.

And then the final thing was whether they offered

good value for money,

and I kind of summed that up

by taking everything into account.

Performance, support, and features,

and then looking at how much the service cost.

So I judged each company on those four areas.

Now in order to test the performance,

I installed a plugin.

It's called the Hosting Performance Testing plugin,

or something, I don't remember the exact name.

I'll put a link to it in the description.

And basically, that gives you an idea

of how fast the site is loading,

the server response time,

and the level of technology that the server is running.

It gives you an indication

of how up-to-date everything is.

As well as running that tool,

I put each site through the Google PageSpeed insights tool,

which actually changed while I was doing this test,

which is a bit of a pain.

So if the screen that I show you looks a little different

to the PageSpeed screen that you see when you do a test,

it's because Google updated it

right when I was making this video.

Bit of a pain, nevermind.

Now the third way that I tested performance,

was I put each site into a browser tab within Google Chrome,

refreshed them all exactly the same time,

recorded my screen, while I did this,

and then played it back to see

which ones actually loaded fastest.

And I ran this a few times to get a good idea.

And when it came to support,

I basically got in touch with all of the companies.

Asked them a technical type question

either via their live chat system

or via the ticketing system,

depending on what they offered,

and I then measured how quickly they responded,

whether the response was helpful,

and generally how good they were at giving me support.

Now in terms of features,

you'll find detailed comparison tables

around the different features offered by the companies

in this video,

again, over at that article wpeagle.com,

link in the description.

So that's how I tested out

all the different hosting companies.

Lets take a look at the results.

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So for each award,

I've chosen two companies,

I've chosen a winner and a runner up,

and the first award is for the best overall hosting company.

So this is when everything is considered.

Performance, support, features, and value for money,

Which one is the best?

Which one would I choose,

if I were to choose some hosting for my WordPress website?

And if I was going to,

the company would be SiteGround.

They are my number one choice

for the best overall hosting company.

When everything is considered,

they delivered fantastic performance.

They're great value for money

because they're not the most expensive company out there,

not the cheapest either, but as I say,

for what you get for your money,

they provide fantastic value,

and the technical support was prompt,

and it was helpful,

and it basically answered my question.

So with all that considered SiteGround,

certainly my number one recommendation,

when it comes to WordPress hosting.

Runner-up in the best overall

WordPress hosting company award is A2 Hosting.

Now A2 Hosting delivered some fantastic performance results.

I found their customer support to be really good,

but they just missed out to SiteGround

based on their price.

They're slightly more expensive than SiteGround.

And in some performance tests,

they weren't quite as fast.

So still an excellent hosting company.

If you were to choose A2 Hosting, you'd be fine.

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Next award is for the best performance WordPress hosting.

So this is where I'm just purely looking at

the speed results, and choosing a company based on that.

So the winner for the best performance WordPress hosting

is SiteGround again.

They outperformed all of the other shared hosting companies.

Again, you can find all the results over on wpeagle.com,

if you want to compare and contrasts

the different load times or PageSpeed scores.

Fantastic load speeds, and fantastic PageSpeed scores,

and the site was quick

whenever I refreshed a page

or was navigating through pages.

The site loaded really quickly.

And it was noticeable different

compared to some of the other packages.

So if you just want some pure speed

then SiteGround is for you.

The runner up in this category

for the best performance WordPress hosting is A2 Hosting.

This video is getting a little bit repetitive.

Isn't it?

Don't worry, there are some other companies

that I'm going to talk about in a minute.

But, yet again, when it came down to performance,

and just looking at performance alone, A2 Hosting,

they were only a fraction behind SiteGround,

If I'm honest.

In fact, sometimes when I was doing the browser reload test,

the A2 site would actually load slightly quicker

than the SiteGround one.

So again, if you're looking for performance

then A2 Hosting is a great choice.

Now as I said,

towards the end of this video,

I'm going to be talking about the VPS setup and WP Engine.

But I just want to quickly say now

that the speed from SiteGround and from A2 Hosting

was comparable to a VPS or virtual private server,

and it was way faster than WP Engine,

which surprised me because WP Engine, kind of,

market themselves as a super fast, super WordPress set up.

But yeah, these guys were just leaving WP Engine

in the dust so much faster.

So that was kind of interesting,

but do check out the end of this video

for more info about WP engine and about the VPS server.

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This award is all around the best value,

so that's what you get for your money

because the price between companies,

it does vary quite considerably.

And the winner in this category is

FastComet.

Now FastComet, the reason why they get this award

is they got a really low price point

just because they're a little bit cheaper

does not mean that they compromise on performance,

or features, or anything like that.

In fact, the performance was still really good.

I mean, it wasn't as fast as SiteGound or A2 Hosting,

but perfectly acceptable,

and faster than a number of the other companies

that charge a lot more.

The thing that really did it for me, in terms of value,

is that with FastComet,

they provide a free domain name,

so that can save you a bit of money.

With every hosting package,

you can register a .net or .com,

whatever you like,

and get yourself a domain name,

and they don't comprise on any other features either.

So if you're on a bit of a budget,

but you still want a really good hosting company

that delivers some good performance,

and some good features,

and you get a free domain name,

then FastComet are highly recommended.

And the runner up in this category is SiteGround again.

Yeah, SiteGround have done it.

They are the runner up in the best value

WordPress hosting award,

and the reason for that is that they're a great price.

They're not the most expensive company that I used.

They're not the cheapest either.

But for that money, you get fantastic performance.

You get great support,

and you get loads of good features.

So if you've got a little extra cash,

and you're not on a complete budget,

and you can afford to spend a bit more,

then SiteGround would be my recommendation for you.

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So the final award is for the best support

from a WordPress hosting company.

And I tested this, as I said,

by sending messages, and seeing how well they responded,

how quick they responded, all that kind of stuff?

And the winner is WP Engine,

which I know is not one the shared companies,

but I wanted to give them a special mention,

when it comes to support

because I've used them for quite a while now.

I've had a number of sites with them,

and they are really helpful.

They offer a live chat system,

which is pretty much instantaneous.

There's very rarely a waiting time on it,

and they will help you with pretty much anything.

It doesn't even have to be hosting related.

It could just be a WordPress question.

It could be related to a plugin or a theme.

They will roll their sleeves up,

and they will try and help you out.

Now the one caveat with that

is that WP Engine are expensive.

They're a lot more expensive

than the shared hosting companies.

So you've got to really, really need some support

to justify the money because as I said,

they weren't the fastest in my tests,

and the support is really the only thing

they've got going for them.

So if you need someone to hold your hand,

and you want that kind of WordPress expert available

24/7 on live chat, then yeah,

WP Engine might be a good choice for you,

but they are really expensive,

and the support that you get from the other guys,

it's good too, but anyway.

I'm going to give the award for best support to WP Engine.

The runner up in the best support category is,

can you guess, yeah it's SiteGround.

Yeah again, for the money,

the support from SiteGround was excellent.

And when I coupled that with their performance

and the features, yeah, it's a no brainer.

SiteGround, they're the winner of the award

for best support from a WordPress hosting company.

So overall then, SiteGround are the winner.

You can't go far wrong with them.

They offer fantastic performance speeds,

loads of features, great support,

and they're really good value for money.

If it support that you need,

and you want that person to hold your hand

with pretty much anything to do with WordPress,

then WP Engine might be a good choice for you.

But you are going to need quite a lot of money

in order to pay for that service

'cause they are a lot more expensive than everyone else.

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Now before we go on to the VPS,

and a little bit more about WP Engine,

maybe we just mention a couple of hosting companies

that I think are best avoided,

and I'm drawing on past experience,

when I say this.

And those two companies are, number one is GoDaddy.

Now I use GoDaddy a lot for domain names,

and I find them really good for domain names.

I've got loads registered with them,

and it's always worked fine.

However, their hosting is pretty bad,

and I'm talking from experience.

I have had GoDaddy hosting in the past.

It's slow.

Their support isn't very helpful.

Stuff doesn't work on it.

It's just a nightmare.

So avoid GoDaddy hosting,

but they're fine for domains.

In fact, I would even go as far to say

I recommend them for domains

because it's really easy, they're good prices,

and you've got a good domain control panel.

The second company that I would avoid is iPage.

It's just they're just so slow, really slow.

The technical support isn't too bad,

but the performance from iPage is terrible.

So iPage another one to avoid.

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So let's just talk about the other companies very quickly

that I did test out.

I'm not going to go into all the details about each one,

but basically they weren't as fast,

and they weren't as good as the companies

that I've given the awards to.

And those companies were HostGator, bluehost,

DreamHost, and MDDHOSTING.

You can find, as I say,

full details about those companies over on the blog post.

But yeah, basically they didn't do very well

in the performance tests,

but when it comes to support

they're are all pretty much the same.

They did all reply to my questions

within a reasonable timeframe and were fairly helpful.

And in terms of the features and things that you get, again,

it's all very similar.

There's a few dollars here and there on the pricing.

One thing I will say about those companies,

one in particular, and that's HostGator,

if you're a regular on my channel,

you know that I generally recommend HostGator,

and I did that in good faith.

I've got a number of sites with HostGator,

and I've found them to be okay.

But doing this test has really opened my eyes.

So now going forward,

the host that I'm going to be recommending

within my tutorials

will of course be SiteGround.

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So let me talk about WP Engine.

They basically offer this managed WordPress hosting service.

And I've been using it for quite some time.

I thought it was really good

until I started running these tests.

I thought it was fast,

you got great support, which it is.

But when I ran these tests on other companies,

I found companies like SiteGround and A2 Hosting

were outperforming them by quite some margin.

So I'm now in the process of moving my websites

away from WP Engine.

I honestly just don't think they're worth

the prices that they're asking for.

And they are high.

It's like $25 a month or something for one site,

which is as I say is way more than the other companies.

So deep down, if I'm honest,

if you don't need the support,

then there is no reason to go for WP Engine.

I'm sorry WP Engine,

and I do really love you in terms of your support,

but you're just too expensive.

What I'm going to end on now is the VPS setup

that I was running.

What a VPS is,

VPS actually stands for Virtual Private Server.

It's basically like having your own server.

So rather than with the shared guys,

you're kind of on a server with loads of other customers,

the VPS, it's all yours.

Now this does have a few drawbacks.

You kind of need to know what you're doing with servers.

It hasn't got the nice interface

that you get with the shared hosting.

You need to know what you're doing,

and you need to be able to kind of run back-ups,

and all the maintenance, and support and stuff

that goes with servers.

So it's not for everybody.

The benefits of using a VPS are mainly performance.

They're generally a lot faster than shared hosting

because, as I say,

you got the server all to yourself,

and you haven't got other people's websites using resources.

Now, I was kindly given a couple of VPS setups to test out.

They were given to me by a company called SpiderWeb.

They're sort of offering a bit of a hybrid solution,

when it comes to VPS.

What they're offering is a kind of managed service.

So they'll take care of running the VPS for you.

And then they are breaking it down,

and selling sections of it to individual customers.

Now, the difference between this and a shared set up,

I know it sounds quite similar,

is that they're going to limit the number of customers

on a server to around 30 or so.

So where shared hosting companies,

especially some of the big ones,

they stick thousands of sites on a server.

With these guys,

there's only going to be a few of you on each server.

So therefore,

you're not going to compromise on any performance.

They're also going to be there

to help you get stuff set up and all that kind of stuff.

So really is a good solution.

You'll find details and pricing on their service

over on the blog post,

which again you find a link in the description.

So be sure to check them out,

and just let them know your requirements,

and they'll give you a quote.

Now, it is a bit more expensive

than the shared hosting as you'd imagine.

But what you get for the money is super fast performance.

So I tested the two servers they offered me.

They had one that was powered by Amazon.

They had another one that was powered by 1and1.

By the way, they're not actually using their own servers.

They're taking on servers from other big companies,

which is fine.

And in the tests,

the Amazon powered one did outperform everything else.

It was the fastest server on the block.

And that was before it even kind of been optimised

on all that kind stuff.

So you can probably get it going even faster.

So if you want the fastest service possible,

then a VPS could be for you.

Anyway that brings the end of this video.

Hope you found that useful and you're now confident

in choosing a WordPress hosting company for your needs.

Be sure to check out the blog post over on wpeagle.com

for all the details around my testing,

and all the results, and all that kind of stuff.

I'd love to hear who you've been using for your hosting,

and how good or bad they are.

Do leave a comment below,

and I'll do my best to read and reply

to as many as I possibly can.

If you fancy watching something else,

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but until next time, bye for now.

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