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  • What Is The Best WordPress Hosting Site?

    What Is The Best WordPress Hosting Site?

    Best WordPress hosting site. I’m sure the answer varies and it is highly dependable to individuals. For me, I have my fair share of experiences using shared hosting, managed WordPress hosting and even virtual private servers (VPS). In this post, I’m going to share with you the best WordPress hosting sites based on price and more importantly, server performance.

    The Best WordPress Hosting Site

    Top choice: WP Engine – Excellent performance and customer support

    Plans: As low as $35 per month (25,000 visits)

    Advantages using WP Engine

    • VPS environment for speed and performance
    • Inbuilt cache feature
    • One-click automated migration
    • Bulletproof security
    • 24/7 chat support
    • Staging environment
    • Transferable installs
    • PHP 7 ready
    • LargeFS
    • Automated SSL certificates
    • Content Delivery Network (CDN) (optional and higher plans)
    • GeoTarget (higher plans)
    • Content performance (higher plans)
    • Launch readiness assessment (higher plans)
    • Multisite ready (higher plans)

    Limited Time Offer – 2 Months Free

    Disadvantages using WP Engine

    • Pricing is higher than traditional shared hosting

     

    Secondary choice: FlyWheel – Affordable pricing and unique billing feature

    Pricing: As low as $14 per month (5,000 visits)

    Advantages using FlyWheel

    • No overage charges (only automatic upgrade to next plan)
    • Free site migration
    • Free SSL certificate
    • Free staging sites
    • Transferable billing to clients
    • Content Delivery Network (CDN) (optional and higher plans only)
    • Multisite (higher plans only)
    • 24/7 support via email only

    Try FlyWheel today!

    Disadvantages using FlyWheel

    • Smallest plan only suits for really small websites
    • Pricing is higher than traditional shared hosting
    • Lack of live chat feature is a game changer

     

    Third choice: SiteGround – Excellent pricing with a scaled down performance

    Pricing: As low as $3.95 per month

    Advantages using SiteGround

    • 24/7 live chat
    • Super affordable web hosting plans
    • Scalability

    Try affordable WordPress hosting with SiteGround.

    Disadvantages using SiteGround

    • All plans are based on shared hosting
    • Server performance is based on plans you had signed up
    • Advanced support is considered ad-hoc services and chargeable

     

    New entry: Kinsta Hosting – Blazing fast servers powered with Google Cloud Platform

    Pricing: As low as $30 per month

    Advantages using Kinsta

    • Powered by Google Cloud Platform (VPS)
    • Blazing website speed
    • Scalability and powerful web hosting for both small and enterprise websites
    • Staging area
    • Inbuilt cache system
    • 24/7 live chat

    Click here to see all the benefits using Kinsta!

    Disadvantages using Kinsta hosting

    • Pricing is steep for small website owners/beginners

     

    What is the best WordPress hosting site?

    Personally, I would choose for WP Engine as my first choice. For the price of $35 a month, I can rest assured that my sites are always protected and secured. More importantly, downtime is never a problem and the support team over at WP Engine is willing to go beyond simply because they could. For me, this is definitely a deal breaker as I do not want to be charged for every support I require. Take a look at this post and you will understand why.

    If you are a web developer, FlyWheel (or GetFlyWheel) is a great choice for you because it provides easy billing features. In other words, you can transfer the charges over to your client through FlyWheel’s dashboard. There is no more mess and you can focus on the thing that you are best in … which is designing the site. The downside of FlyWheel is the plans are pretty much similar to WP Engine and therefore, you will get a better deal when using WP Engine instead. The Tiny plan from FlyWheel allows up to 5,000 visits in a month and let’s be real honest — that is really insufficient for most bloggers.

    SiteGround is the lowest in the comparison tier. While the low plans are great for starters and beginners, the servers are optimized for WordPress hosting but they are still shared web hosting. This means that it is NOT managed WordPress hosting and you will get lower performance servers when compared to WP Engine and FlyWheel.

    Last but not least, the newest entry is Kinsta hosting. Kinsta offers a simple solution for both entry level websites and business websites. With pricing starts at $30 per month, Kinsta offers top notch VPS performance (thanks to Google Cloud Platform) and inbuilt cache plugin that makes your website loads insanely fast. Plus, the support team is available 24/7 via live chat to answer all your doubts and challenges you may face in web hosting.

    What do you think? Leave a comment below and tell me which web host you are currently using!

  • 4 Steps To Build A Brand For Your New Blog

    4 Steps To Build A Brand For Your New Blog

    Do you know that branding is as important for bloggers as it is for big names? The process of building a brand is often overlooked by many bloggers, and as a result, they will lead to many ‘˜challenges’ such as infringement and trying to be different as they move along their blogging journey.

    According to Entrepreneur, the definition of branding is ‘The marketing practice of creating a name, symbol or design that identifies and differentiates a product from other products.’
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  • 14 Ways To Prevent Your WordPress Website From Being Hacked

    14 Ways To Prevent Your WordPress Website From Being Hacked

    How to secure WordPress website from hackers?‘

    As a blogger (now, freelance writer), the above is one of the most common questions asked by new bloggers and website owners.

    My answer to them often goes into the deep conversation as I am a huge believer that securing WordPress website from hackers requires more than just one step. As a matter of fact, there are many steps you need to take to secure WordPress website from hackers.

    Two years back, I wrote an article on WordPress security, and it was a huge success. Not only that post became one of my most popular blog posts, but it was also featured on Harvard University’s blog!
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  • WP Engine Automated Migration – A Game Changer In The Industry? #60DaysBloggingChallenge Day 2

    WP Engine Automated Migration – A Game Changer In The Industry? #60DaysBloggingChallenge Day 2

    Before we talk about the all new, WP Engine Automated Migration plugin, let’s talk about WordPress migration process.

    The process of migrating to a new host is messy. Believe me; it is not pretty and chances of error is high.

    Throughout my blogging career, I have been migrating from one host to another, to find a web host I can truly call ‘home.’ You are in the industry for some time; you would know that some web hosts will provide free migration while others provide paid migration services.
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  • Why I Moved To A Fully Managed WordPress Hosting? #60DaysBloggingChallenge Day 1

    Why I Moved To A Fully Managed WordPress Hosting? #60DaysBloggingChallenge Day 1

    I’m not going to lie to you. Moving to a fully managed WordPress hosting, WP Engine is probably the best choice I had ever taken in my life (after marrying my lovely wife).

    You know that I’ve long been a huge fan of fully managed WordPress hosting, and I did quite a few reviews including WP Engine review a couple of years back.

    On and off, I move from one web hosting company to another, trying to find a place I can truly call ‘home.’ Through my years of blogging, I was lucky to be able to try a huge number of fully managed WordPress hostings such as:
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  • Thrive Themes vs Genesis Theme Framework: Which is the best now?

    Thrive Themes vs Genesis Theme Framework: Which is the best now?

    Being a WordPress user myself for over a decade, choosing the best WordPress theme is always a huge challenge. Thankfully, I stumbled upon Genesis Theme Framework (also known as Genesis Framework by StudioPress). Until today, Genesis Theme Framework is my go-to choice when it comes to awesome design and flexibility. Apart from Genesis, I am also an avid user of Thrive Themes.
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