{"id":9507,"date":"2022-08-10T17:45:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T09:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.websproutconsulting.com\/?p=9507"},"modified":"2022-08-10T17:45:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T09:45:26","slug":"how-to-choose-wordpress-hosting-8-must-have-criteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.websproutconsulting.com\/how-to-choose-wordpress-hosting-8-must-have-criteria","title":{"rendered":"How To Choose WordPress Hosting (8 Must-Have Criteria!)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are so many hosting companies available in the market for WordPress and so many reviews recommending various hosting companies, so how do you choose the best WordPress hosting for your website?<\/p>\n
In this post, I will share with you the 8 must-have criteria that you can use to select the best WordPress hosting for your site. If you find any hosting company that fulfills the following criteria, then you can sign up with them safely!<\/p>\n
IMPORTANT: This post does not contain any affiliate links<\/span>. All the links below are the original website of the hosting companies themselves. This is the assurance I wanted to give you to make this post as neutral as possible!<\/strong><\/p>\n So let’s get started!<\/p>\n I highly recommend you get cloud hosting for your WordPress website instead of the normal shared hosting. Yes, the price will be slightly higher but in the long run, you will pay lesser because less hacking will take place! There are mainly two reasons why I recommend cloud hosting over shared hosting.<\/p>\n First, it is the speed!<\/strong> Cloud hosting is way much faster than shared hosting. The reason because you are the only one that is using that certain part of the cloud server and no other websites are sharing the resources with you.<\/p>\n If you are using shared hosting, it means there are other websites also using the same resources as you. This is why sometimes you will notice your website loads fast (because other websites are idle) and sometimes your websites load slowly (because other websites are also loading and executing scripts etc).<\/p>\n In recent years, (and moving forward) Google has always focused on website loading speed. Thus, it is highly recommended to get cloud hosting!<\/p>\n The second reason for choosing cloud hosting is security.<\/strong> I used to subscribe to shared hosting for more than 10 years and my experience is that there will surely be cases where my website is infected by malware or some suspicious hacking activity and the shared hosting company has to suspend my website. If such things happened, then you either have to pay the hosting company to fix the malware for you or you have to hire someone outside to fix it for you (or you can fix the malware yourself if you know how!).<\/p>\n However, I don’t have the above concerns after I switched over to cloud hosting. The chance of being hacked is higher if you use shared hosting because there are so many websites using the same server. But if you use cloud hosting, only your website is using that part of the resources.<\/p>\n To summarize this point, cloud hosting is more expensive (I am paying USD$24\/mth now for all my websites) as compared to before if I were to use shared hosting, it only costs me USD$10\/mth. However, speed and security are much worth the additional investment!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The second must-have criteria is that you should select a hosting plan that allows you to add on multiple domains\/websites.<\/p>\n The following screenshot shows that Kinsta’s starter hosting pla<\/a>n only allows one WordPress installs. Thus, if you need more than one website, then you will need to choose the higher-tier plans.<\/p>\n Alternatively, there are other hosting companies, for example, Cloudways.com<\/a> and Runcloud.io<\/a> allow you to host multiple domains\/websites without additional fees.<\/p>\n1. Choose cloud hosting over shared hosting<\/h2>\n
2. Able to addon multiple domain names\/websites<\/h2>\n