What is the best, reliable, cheapest web hosting provider for small eCommerce business (Wordpress)?

[RorySD]

What is the best, reliable, cheapest web hosting provider for small eCommerce business (Wordpress)?





I'm a new on eCommerce business (Wordpress). So i'm looking for the best, reliable, cheapest web hosting provider for my small eCommerce business (Wordpress). Now i know only hostgator and godaddy. Hostgator and godaddy web hosting are best, reliable, cheapest or not ? Please advice me.

 

[fisicx]

Best. Cheap. Reliable.

Choose any two out of three.

How cheap do you consider cheap? £1/week? Paying a little more for hosting can make a massive difference to performance. Not going to recommend anyone but I will say: avoid 1and1, godaddy, host gator and anyone else who plies them high and sells them cheap.

 

[BarnaB]

After some recent test by other WP online companies the golden middle seams to be Siteground (Wordpress.org recommended too). Not cheapest but most who had enough of crap hosting will go with them for proper hosting environment and superb support.

 

[threenine]

Best. Cheap. Reliable.

As @fisicx says, you're working in a triangle there and you'll need to find your own happy ground!

If you want cheap, any hosting package will do, they all range from £5.99 to £69.99 per month, depending on scale.

However, if you want reliable, you will need to define what you think is reliable. Do you just want your servers up and running all the time, or do you want to pick up the phone and speak to a human 24/7 . What you want and what you need are all answerable by cash.

Best, well the best don't come cheap.

If those are the only 3 criteria you have for choosing a hosting company, then you still have a lot to learn about e-commerce, I can assure you the lessons are going to cost you money

 

[RorySD]

thank you ^_^

 

[Jolt.co.uk]

After some recent test by other WP online companies the golden middle seams to be Siteground (Wordpress.org recommended too). Not cheapest but most who had enough of crap hosting will go with them for proper hosting environment and superb support.

The WordPress.org recommended hosts are the ones that pay WordPress a large 6 figure sum every year

 

[ryedale]

Take your time choosing - there's lots of reviews online of companies.. as said above, avoid the big names in the industry because the support is generally poor and generic.

Try and find a company that you can call on the phone for support as well if you need it. (UK based) rather than just email/ticket support.

 

[Jolt.co.uk]

Not just support availability (and test out out of hours - at weekends and at night) to see how responsive the host is but also look into:

- Are they an established company?
- Registered company? VAT registered? (Most of the fly by nights are neither)
- Accounts available at CH?
- Own hardware/infrastructure or reseller?

Some, not all, of the smaller guys are not in a sustainable business model. Some, not all, of the larger guys fail to deliver on customer service. Somewhere in the middle is probably your best bet

 

[marble_pars]

Best, cheap, reliable. Cloudways + Vultr

 

[webhostuk]

For your Ecommerce Website you need to make sure of market you wish to target ? And the hosting companies you specified both use US servers for hosting so incase your target market is UK then you are at loss,its better to select UK based company.

 

[NathanPayne]

Hosting depends on what your need for the website to run fast for your customers. If your UK based and the website doesn't have massive amounts of traffic then a host like tsohost.com/ would be fine.

 

[CyberHour.com]

Going cheap means you ask for trouble.

And since we are talking about eCommerce business website you should focus on the speed , stability and security.

So you should look for SSD storage , Premium Bandwidth and DDOS protection.

 

[profitxchange]

I used TSOHost their support is excellent and they are uk based.

 

[Jolt.co.uk]

There are many web hosting providers that can give you cheapest even free services, The examples are: sitebuider, website builder.com, ehost.com and many more.

You do not want to use a free service for anything business related, let alone e-commerce.

It looks like you didn't really read the OP or the thread and just want to build your post count here.

 

[Rakesh Yadav]

Do yourself a favor and choose Bluehost instead of godaddy, your developer will thank you for that. As a developer i had face many difficulties on godaddy hosting due to their configuration settings. For example: they have limitation on how big a variable can be sent using POST. In laymen terms you will face problem when you create a big menu with lots of submenu and subsubmenu. Whenever you try to save it you will see only half of the menu get updated because of this limitation.

There are many other limitations also. Never ever use it for an ecommerce website on wordpress.

Hostgator was my choice before bluehost but their customer support and support after hack is very bad, their executives are not knowledgeable enough or maybe they are overloaded.

 

[19ninety]

https://mattwservices.co.uk/resources/small-package.33/

Great guy, top level customer care.

TSO Cloud Hosting (to May) vs MattW's hosting (May on):

 

[qurttlfqrq]

For a dedicated IP I would go with Digital Ocean.

 

[webhostuk]

But they offer unmanaged VPS server which can be tough to handle for new users.

 

[qurttlfqrq]

But they offer unmanaged VPS server which can be tough to handle for new users.

There support content is probably the best I've ever seen. Lots of step by step guides on how to do things like install CPanel.

 

[fisicx]

Except most people don't want to do this, they want everything setup and looked after by their hosting company.

 

[webhostuk]

Right and a 24x7x365 days monitoring is impossible by single user, who don't want to loss traffic or orders incase their is downtime when they are not available to monitor the server.

 

[Barry O'Neill]

we use TSOHost and as the guy above said - their support is excellent.

decent prices too

 

[webhostuk]

Keep a watch on recent activities ..as TSO is now a Godaddy company many changes occurring in service recently.

 

[Cromulent]

Linode are great. Their cheapest plan is $5 a month and they are very reliable. Considered one of the best VPS providers out there.

They have datacentres in London and Frankfurt. Obviously support is 24/7.

You do need to know how to use Linux though. Although they have some very good documentation on their website for doing common tasks (installing Wordpress is one of them).

 

[Cromulent]

Except most people don't want to do this, they want everything setup and looked after by their hosting company.

Why when you can do it yourself and have full control over what software you install on your server? Want to run Wordpress? No problem. Want to run a Django CMS? Go right ahead. Want to run a Ruby on Rails project? Go for it.

I spend $12.50 a month on web hosting. For that I get 2GBs of RAM, 30GB SSD storage, 2TB of Transfer and a 1Gbps network connection plus daily backups of my site handled by my host to a different machine.

 

[Teaguen Scott]

I personally use webconsultancy for all my web design and hosting needs, they have a great team and reasonable prices.

 

[tukhnet]

You can always read a comparing website <snipped>
And then you can also read some reviews, but you should be aware that the same server could be satisfying for one and totally not enough for another person. So, it depends on each person and his/her websites.

 

[Jolt.co.uk]

You can always read a comparing website <snipped>
And then you can also read some reviews, but you should be aware that the same server could be satisfying for one and totally not enough for another person. So, it depends on each person and his/her websites.

Which really only ranks the hosts based on their affiliate commissions?

 

[tukhnet]

I can't agree with that, of course there are some websites which are ranking the providers based only on their commission, but I see some others that are really picking only serious companies with a lot of history in the business. That's why I also mentioned that you should read some reviews too as you can't trust 100% everything written in Internet. At least, that's what my opinion is.

 

[TODonnell]

A bunch of US webhosts who were cheap, reliable and good got bought out by one company and are now are purgatories for bargain-hunters.

Apparently, the acquirer web-host decided that one way to grow big, fast, and make money was to buy good small-ish companies and then coast on their old reviews, while running support and service into the ground.

Inmotion have not yet succumbed. I have used them in a private capacity.

Tip: Type 'company name' problem into a search engine and see what comes up.

 

[bigbuzzbelfast]

Two guys on here I have used and can say their support has been awesome speed of sites also awesome. They are in no particular order https://www.hostxnow.com/ and also https://www.hihosting.co.uk/ if you want people who will look after you then try either of these guys.