How to choose WordPress hosting?
Often overlooked, web hosting is one of the key components of any successful website.
Choosing the best WordPress hosting for your needs can improve your SEO and increase sales and website traffic.
There are different types of WordPress hosting options such as free, shared, VPS, dedicated, and managed WordPress hosting.
In this guide, we will help you choose the best WordPress hosting for your website.
Since we have years of experience with WordPress hosting, we know the importance of choosing the best WordPress hosting company.
Our goal with this guide is to share our experience over 17 years and insights into things you should consider when choosing a hosting company for your business.
The main issues to consider before purchasing web hosting:
- Allocation of resources in a package
- Server location
- Level of service and support
- Service price
- VPS or shared private server
- The storage company’s seniority and experience
- Allocation of resources in the package: First you need to check what exactly you are getting in return for your money.
- Memory resources – 1.5GB of RAM and above is recommended
- CPU – preferably one or more processing cores
- Disk – depending on the size of your site and local backups if you make any.
2. Server Location: Server location is quite important when it comes to choosing a web hosting company:
It is advisable that the location of the servers be in accordance with the location of your website’s audience.
If the surfing audience is mainly from Israel, then it is trivial that the server should be in Israel.
This is also true for SEO purposes, so that Google Israel understands and promotes that site in searches in Israel.
It is worth noting that there is another solution called CDN that optimizes storage by referring to Cloudflare , which allows the site to be displayed from a server in the same country where the surfer accesses the site, even though the site is physically stored elsewhere, but we will elaborate on this in another article of ours.
3. Level of service and support for WordPress website hosting:
It is very important that on the other side there is someone who provides professional technical support and has experience in hosting WordPress websites.
You can read another article on WordPress website hosting here.
Sometimes it’s a new company starting out or a one-person business run from home. Today it’s there and tomorrow is uncertain 🙂
Therefore, you should pay attention to who you are going to do business with and what kind of home you are going to give your website.
It’s also important to check the telephone response. Most companies provide support only via email or chat, etc.
Sometimes you need to talk to your “banker” :)…
A WordPress hosting company that provides telephone support and solves problems online = a huge advantage!
A hosting company that has WordPress programmers is another huge advantage.
Not every web hosting company has a WordPress programmer who knows how to resolve problems with your WordPress site.
Most hosting plans do not include support for problems with the WordPress site or the site’s programming code.
But if there is a WordPress programmer at the hosting company, it can be helpful because he can give you direction or an idea of where a problem with your site is coming from when it arises.
4. Price of the service: An important component, but what you pay is what you get…
Cheap storage of 10-30 NIS per month can’t give you too many resources.
For 10 shekels a month you will receive a level of service or a server for 10 shekels.
There are no free gifts, yes, even in the field of web hosting.
A decent package starts at around 50 shekels and is encrypted per month.
In packages of 50 shekels and above, you can receive resources that justify the resources needed for your website.
You can read another article on how to choose web hosting.
Also, companies that sell packages for 10-20 shekels per month are unable to maintain a team of employees who will provide you with real-time support.
Unless it’s a server located overseas, which can indeed reduce costs for you but also harm the browsing experience. The site will simply move more slowly due to the distance of the server located overseas.
Yes, technology also has limitations.
In the following article you can read about choosing between hosting websites abroad or in Israel.
5. Private VPS or Shared Server? – FAQ
Shared server = a server where other websites share the resources of the server with you.
VPS server = your own private server where all resources are allocated exclusively to your website or websites.
Shared server prices range from 50-150 NIS per month.
VPS server prices range from 150 NIS per month and up.
If budget is not an issue, a VPS server is undoubtedly better.
Both for the browsing experience and the level of performance and security.
If there is a limited budget here, then hosting on a shared server, but not a package that is less than 50-60 NIS per month, otherwise it’s “not who knows what” hosting.
You can also read a more extensive article about shared hosting or a VPS server.
6. And of course, a topic no less important than most topics – what is the seniority of the hosting company?
A veteran web hosting company is a company that has a lot of experience and has likely gone through quite a few scenarios to gain that experience.
A veteran web hosting company is knowledgeable in the most advanced technologies and knows how to handle malfunctions quickly and efficiently, this is relative to a company that is just starting out, of course.
So in the end, how to choose WordPress hosting?
If the article does not answer the questions that arise – we will be happy to answer any questions or advice for free.
Article author: Tzachi Bengiat – CEO and founder of Host Center, website and server hosting.
