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In this article, we will take a look at three popular WordPress hosts: InMotion, SiteGround, and Hostinger, and determine which is the best, based on performance, security, support, price and more.
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\nThis article was originally written a few years ago, but we have recently gone through and updated it for 2023, as many things have changed in the hosting industry. <\/b><\/p>\n
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Before we get started, here’s the table of contents in case you want to skip to a particular section of this (long) review.<\/p>\n
Table of Contents<\/p>\n
Other articles in this series:<\/p>\n
Now, without further ado, let’s get started.<\/p>\n
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Are you a website investor<\/a> or blogger who is creating a new site? Or migrating a purchased site? If you’re still unsure about why you should have a good WordPress host? You may be considering AWS for your hosting solution at the moment. Or you may have stumbled upon a cheap web host that lets you install WordPress with no additional cost.<\/p>\n But when your site starts to gain some traffic, it becomes inevitable that you’ll have to deal with persistent updates, traffic spikes, caching, CDNs, and definitely, hacking!<\/p>\n If you site is inaccessible to users, you can be sure that you will be losing money. But even if your site is just slightly slower than your competitor’s speed, you can lose your visitors. Thus, setting up all the caching, proxies, and web server to make your WordPress site run fast and reliably is vital.<\/p>\n We learned this the hard way. Initially, we hosted our sites on an AWS instance, and we handled it ourselves. As software engineers, we were actually very positive that we could beat any hosting company using our own custom installation. But when we ran a benchmark, we were dumbfounded to find out that our sites, compared to our large AWS server, ran faster on our medium SiteGround account.<\/p>\n And it gets worse: Did you know that even moderately popular sites can be targeted by hackers? WordPress and WordPress plugins are notorious when it comes to security issues that require constant patches. If you don’t you want to get hacked, you must patch vulnerabilities right away. And sitting around performing patches takes you away from your actual business.<\/p>\n With all of this complexity, you’ll save yourself a lot of heartache by finding a good profession WordPress host.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For our ultimate test, we decided to look at the three most well known WordPress hosts: Hostinger, SiteGround, and InMotion. Here’s a quick background on each of them.<\/p>\n In total, Hostinger has over 29 million users and operates in nearly 200 countries.<\/p>\n It is based out of Bulgaria, and has data centers worldwide.<\/p>\n InMotion Hosting is based in California and is fully focused on hosting. They provide a wide range of hosting options from dedicated servers to basic web space.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We wanted to create the most comprehensive, grueling WordPress hosting test of them all. Our testing scheme focuses on a set of criteria that we think are vital to running a WordPress site. Some of these criteria includes: performance, support, and reliability.<\/p>\n We tested every platform so we can determine if it is easy to provision and setup a WordPress blog. For each host, we also checked the control panels\/administrative dashboards to see which is easiest to use.<\/p>\n We all know that performance is key to a successful WordPress site. This is because sites that are slow are a turn-off to users. Slow response time also negatively affects your Google ranking. As a matter of fact, even the slightest, millisecond difference in page speed can signify the distinction between a #1 ranking page and a lower ranking page.<\/p>\n If you are running your business on a host, then it should reliable. We looked and scored the historical reliability of SiteGround, Hostinger and InMotion.<\/p>\n Since there are so many attack vectors online, we cannot stress enough the importance of security for a WordPress site. Again, we scored the security of each of the hosts in this article.<\/p>\n Another vital aspect of a WordPress host is its support. This is because it is inevitable that you’ll have to contact support at some point. We test each host to determine who has the best support.<\/p>\n Every host publishes the price for their hosting packages. However, the total cost of using a particular host isn’t always evident. What’s not always obvious are costs like provisioning fees, support charges and other costs. These costs can actually add up quick. So we decided to take a look at what you will actually spend if you host with Hostinger, SiteGround, and InMotion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n The following tests show the comparison of each host’s advertised $5-$7.50\/month plan (since Hostinger’s top plan is advertised at $3.45, we used that). In case where there are multiple plans that meet the above guideline, we picked the lowest non-promo cost. Take note however, that these plans are all based on long-term commitments, which we will also note.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ease of use and administration is the first thing we tested for each host. We performed this test by setting up and attempting to administer identical WordPress sites. We took notice of what didn’t work, or what was confusing\/complicated for each host. Moreover, we also note the things that we think were useful.<\/p>\n For each host, below are our ratings:<\/p>\n<\/a>2. The Competitors<\/h2>\n
<\/a>2.1. Hostinger: An Introduction<\/h3>\n
\nHostinger is made up for a few different hosting brands, including 000webhost and Hosting24. They were started in Lithuania in 2004. They have data centers in the US, UK, Netherlands, Asia, and South America.<\/p>\n<\/a>2.2. SiteGround: An Introduction<\/h3>\n
\nSiteGround has been in existence since 2004, albeit, a bit smaller than some of the other hosts listed. It only provides hosting, but the WordPress community recommends it.<\/p>\n<\/a>2.3. InMotion: An Introduction<\/h3>\n
\nInMotion is one of the smallest of the hosts we have tested, but just like SiteGround, it has won many awards for its WordPress hosting.<\/p>\n<\/a>3. Tests<\/h2>\n
Ease of Setup and Administration<\/h3>\n
Performance<\/h3>\n
Reliability<\/h3>\n
Security<\/h3>\n
Support<\/h3>\n
Cost, Terms, and Cancellation<\/h3>\n
<\/a>4. Ease of Setup and Administration<\/h2>\n