Are you looking for web hosting to build a WordPress website today?
In this article, we're to compare the best WordPress web hosting for your new website. We'll compare and review the top companies like GoDaddy, Bluehost, HostGator, SiteGround, and DreamHost. In the end, we'll rank each company based on price and performance, including the best overall value to save you money. WordPress is the software or the CMS that we're going to use to make our website. And over 33 percent of the entire worldwide web runs on the WordPress platform. That means that one-thirdof all website traffic is on a WordPress website. Now in order to installWordPress, we need web hosting. Web hosting is simplyservers which allows us to put our website online,live on the internet for other people to visit. The third component ofany WordPress website is a website name, AKA, a domain URL. Luckily, with a lot ofthe web hosting companies we're gonna look at today, you actually get a free domain name upon sign up. So without further ado,let's jump right in to the best web hosting for WordPress. Now the first step to findingthe best WordPress web hosting is to consult with theofficial WordPress.org itself. So here we at WordPress.org/hosting. And you can actually seethe official recommendations from WordPress, the software that we're going to be using today. As you can see here, wehave three companies. The first one is Bluehost. Second is DreamHost,and third is SiteGround. And that wraps up the listof the official WordPress.org recommended web host companies. Now many of you have probably heard of HostGator and GoDaddy. Now you'll notice thatHostGator and GoDaddy are not feature on theofficial recommendation list. We will look into GoDaddy andHostGator later in this video, but for now, we're gonna focus on the top three official recommendations and compare them among each other. All right, so here at WebsiteHelper, we've actually created an infographic to help easily compare these top three official WordPress recommendedweb hosting companies. You can see we have Bluehost,SiteGround, and DreamHost. Now the first thing you'regonna see is the pricing. And we're gonna diveinto the pricing plans for each and every one of these hosts by going on to the actualwebsite themselves. One thing I wanna say is that the pricing that you're seeing here may be special partnership pricing that is available via WebsiteHelper.ai. Some of the links thatwe have on our website and in the video description below are actually partnershiplinks that may save you up to 60 percent off the normal pricing. So what you're seeing here is that special pricingreflected on this infographic. So the main features that are going to be most important for you are whether or not there isa WordPress auto-install, whether or not you get afree domain name or not, whether you get a customemail address included, the performance of eachof these web hosts, and last but not least, the tech support, which is so important whenyou're creating a website. And sometimes you're goingto need to have someone to help you along with the process. So when it comes toWordPress auto-install, you can see that Bluehost and DreamHost both have WordPress auto-install, which is an amazing featurethat basically means once you sign up for the web hosting, WordPress automatically gets installed and you start creatingyour website instantly. You don't have to do anything. You don't have to modify anything, whereas with SiteGround, youdo need to click a button. Now, it is a one-click install,so it is simple enough, however, it's not assimple as an auto-install. So next is a domain name. Now on WebsiteHelper.ai/domain, we have a domain checker tool. So you can actually look upyour desired website name and desired URL and seeif it's available online. This tool is actuallyprovided by Bluehost, one of the web hosting companies that you see on this page here. And if your website domain is available, you can immediately startsigning up for Bluehost and creating a WordPress website. So as you can see, bothBluehost and DreamHost come with a free domain name for one year. Now you can see in the middle, SiteGround does not include a free domain name, and this will cost about $15.99 extra. Now the next feature isthe custom email address. If you want to have an email address that features your name atyour website domain dot com, then this is a featurethat you will surely want.
And the truth is, once you have a website, you would like to havethat custom email address to have a really professional look versus a free Gmail email account. As you can see here withboth Bluehost and SiteGround, you get that custom emailaddress included for free. With DreamHost, this isgonna cost an additional fee. And this will bring your monthly total up to $4.26 a month starting price. Now looking at the regularstarting price for DreamHost at $2.59 a month, it is the cheapest, but it also does not includethe free custom email address. So this is something that you should note. If you want that, it's gonna actually bring the total up to $4.26 a month. Next, let's talk about performance. Now, the prices here actually do reflect the performance of each web host. SiteGround, being the mostexpensive starting price at $3.95 a month is the fastest performance between these three. The reason being isbecause SiteGround uses some of the techniques that the managed web hosting companies such as WP Engine and Kinsta,which start at $29 a month, SiteGround uses some of these techniques in their WordPress serversto make them faster and more efficient thanthe typical shared hosting. Next up when it comes to performance, Bluehost has fast performancefor a shared hosting server that's less than three dollars a month. And third on the performancelist is DreamHost, which has about average performance compared to Bluehost and SiteGround. Now the last category is tech support. So with Bluehost and SiteGround, there's top notch, 24/7 tech support. Now having used both tech support for both of these web hosting companies, I can attest that the response is amazing. Whenever I want somethingdone or something fixed with my website or with the servers, I have someone that Ican contact via live chat literally 24/7, around theclock, and they can take care of any issue within minutes. Never had an issue witheither of these tech supports. Now with DreamHost, it'sclear that their tech support isn't quite of the same levelas SiteGround and Bluehost. You can tell with Bluehost and SiteGround that they really invested intotheir tech support platform and they offer amazinglyquick response times. And the technicians areusually pretty knowledgeable and they're able to take careof basically any problems you may run into within just minutes. Now we're gonna dive intoeach and every single one of these individual web host pricing plans to see what's actually the best value. Because the pricesyou're seeing right here are just the starting prices, but there are actually better values if we choose to upgrade now. We can actually have access to creating unlimited websites ratherthan just a single website, which is what these prices reflect. Again, if you want to take advantage of this special pricing that you see here that may be up to 60 percent off, then make sure you use thelinks in the description or you use the links on WebsiteHelper.ai. All right, so here we are on Bluehost.com looking at their shared hosting options. And as you can see right here, the basics actually starting at $2.65 a month, and this is because a limitedtime Black Friday sale. Now, the usual saleprice is $2.95 a month, which is still very affordable. Now the thing with the basic plan is that it allows you to create a single website, and you can see here, one website. You get 50 gigabytes SSD storage, and you get unmetered bandwidth, which means unlimitedtraffic, theoretically. Now the plus plan, if you were to upgrade to this $4.95 a month plan, which is less than five dollars, you can actually create unlimited websites for one low monthly price. So for just a couple of dollarsmore than the basic plan, you can literally createunlimited websites with the plus plan. This will also bump youup from 50 gigabytes of website storage tounlimited SSD storage. And again, you get unmetered bandwidth, which means unlimited website visits. Now as you can see here, there's actually a special promotionbecause the choice plus is the same exact price asthe plus plan right now, which in addition to all of these things and the unlimited websites,unlimited traffic, unlimited storage, you alsoget domain privacy protection, site back up with codeguard, and you also get a free trial of Office 365. All right, so now we'relooking at SiteGround.com and looking at theirshared web hosting options. You can see they start at $3.95 a month. This gives you access to one website and 10,000 visits monthly. So versus Bluehost, whichis unmetered bandwidth, which theoretically meansunlimited traffic and visits, with SiteGround, you do have a cap of only 10,000 visits monthly. If you upgrade to the growbig plan, which starts at $5.95 a month, you get,again, unlimited websites, 20 gigabytes of space,and 25,000 visits monthly. If you go back to Bluehost over here, you can see that foraround the same price, a dollar cheaper, youget unlimited websites, unlimited storage andunlimited traffic as well. And here you have the go geek plan, which is $11.95 a month,unlimited websites, 30 gigabytes of web space,and 100,000 visits monthly, which is plenty for most beginners. Now here we are on DreamHost website, and you can see that theseprices are for a three year plan, which is actually the same as Bluehost. So the starter plan is $2.59 a month. You get one website, free domain included, unlimited traffic. And again, this does not include a custom email address for you domain, which will cost anadditional $1.67 a month, which brings this total price to over four dollars a monthfor the most basic plan. Now if you wanna upgradeto unlimited websites with DreamHost, it'sactually a bit more expensive than Bluehost and the same price as SiteGround at $5.95 a month. You get unlimited websites,a free domain's included, unlimited traffic, and you also get unlimited emails at your domain. You also get unlimitedemails with Bluehost as well. And with SiteGround you alsoget the unlimited emails, but starting at the lower plans and not just the upgraded plan. All right, so we alsomentioned HostGator and GoDaddy because those are two very popular WordPress web hosts as well. So we're gonna dive into the pricing plans of each of them and also talkabout the performance of each. So we're here atHostGator.com and you can see they start at $2.75 a month, which is about in line withBluehost and DreamHost. You can see here that that hatchling plan, which is the most basic plan, only has a single website domain, but it does have unmetered bandwidth, and it does have a freedomain name included. Now if you were toupgrade to the baby plan, you get unlimited domains,one click WordPress installs, unmetered bandwidth, whichmeans unlimited traffic, and also the free domain included. Now one thing to note isthey haven't mentioned anything here about gettinga free email address or custom email address with your domain, so that may be anadditional charge as well. But as you can see, pricingis pretty attractive. However, I do wannaremind you that HostGator is not an official WordPressrecommended web host. Now being an officialWordPress recommended web host means that WordPress themselves stands behind this company, and they work with this company to ensurethat they always maintain compliance and the higheststandards of performance and compatibility withWordPress the platform. Now moving on to GoDaddy, we're looking at GoDaddy'sWordPress hosting here. And you can see that it'squite a bit more expensive starting at $6.99 a month. And this is for one website,30 gigabytes of storage, and up to 25,000 monthly visitors. Now you do get the free business email, but that also comes withBluehost and SiteGround. And in DreamHost if you wereto upgrade that as well. Now you can see here withGoDaddy that even upgrading to the highest e-commerceplan at $15.99 a month, it's still just one website. You do not get to createunlimited websites for a low monthly price, just like all the other web hosts before. So that's one reason why GoDaddy is quite a bit more expensive. And again, GoDaddy, just like HostGator is not an official WordPressrecommended web host, so when it comes to creatinga WordPress website, you probably want to stick with an official WordPress recommendation. Now we're gonna rank thesetop five web hosting companies in terms of what is the best overall value and the best bang for the buck. Now at number one, wehave to go with Bluehost. Bluehost, although notquite as fast as SiteGround, is quite a bit cheaperwhen it comes to each of the comparable plans. At $4.95 a month, you canactually get the choice plus plan which comes with the unlimited websites, unlimited SSD storage,and unmetered bandwidth which means unlimited traffic. You'll also get a free SSL certificate, which means your websiteis gonna have this lock right here in the top left, and it's also going tobe secured and encrypted. In addition to that, you do get the free custom email address,you get the free domain, which SiteGround does not include. Now at number two, we haveto go with SiteGround. SiteGround has the best performance out of these five web host, but italso costs a little bit more. It does not include the free domain name, so your overall cost is goingto be be a little bit higher, but $5.95 a month, the growbig plan is an awesome value. You get to create unlimited websites. It is capped at 25,000 visits monthly, but that's actually a very large number for most beginners to even reach. Third, we're gonna go with DreamHost, which is also the third recommended web hosting company onthe recommendations. Now DreamHost is a third comparedto Bluehost and SiteGround just based on the performance,based on the tech support. DreamHost has always been athird to Bluehost and SiteGround in terms of popularity. And as you can see with the pricing here, it's about the same price as SiteGround, but it also does not havethe same level of performance or the same level of support. So if you're looking for the best value, then Bluehost is easily thebest value amongst these three. At fourth, we're gonna go with HostGator over GoDaddy because again from day one, HostGator is a web hosting company. GoDaddy started as a domain registrar for people to just buy dot coms and to buy their website name, but not to actually create a website. HostGator is used onplenty of websites online, however it is not officialWordPress recommended, so we have to put it at fourth. It is a decent value for the price, but again the performanceis not as good as Bluehost or SiteGround, and thepricing is close enough that I would rather go with Bluehost than HostGator and get an official WordPress recommended host. At number five, we'regonna go with GoDaddy. Highest prices, lowest features. You can only create onewebsite even with the highest $15.99 a month plan, you canonly still create one website. Whereas with all these other web hosts, you can make unlimited websites for four to five dollars a month. All right, so that wraps up our best WordPress web hosting companies. If you got value from this,make sure to like the video and comment below letting us know. Again to take advantageof the special pricing that you see throughout this video, make sure to use the links inthe video description below or visit WebsiteHelper.ai/webhosting to also get access tothe special discount. You can also visit WebsiteHelper.ai and go to discounts on the top navigation to access this special pricing. Last but not least, makesure to join the giveaway by typing "Best WordPress webhosting" in the comments below and also liking the video, subscribing, hitting the notification bell, make sure to get notified of all uploadsso you never miss a thing. And last thing, here at WebsiteHelper, we help you with much morethan just the initial set up of your website. Now if you do want to set up your website, we have a step by step WordPress tutorial, which we'll link to you right here. You can visit this WordPress tutorial and it will walk you step by step on every single step of settingup your WordPress website. But after setting up yourwebsite, if you wanna learn how to increase yourwebsite's performance, secure your website and toget more website traffic, visit WebsiteHelper.ai today.
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