WordPress has proved itself as the Best Blogging Platform in the blogosphere, and the demand for WordPress Hosting has been increasing exponentially, with each passing day.
I am going to present a WordPress Hosting Review for bloggers to take informed decision while opting for such services.
Various options available for hosting a WordPress blog -
WordPress.com by Automattic, the Official Company behind the WordPress platform.
Self-Hosted by various hosting service provider
Managed WordPress Hosting
1. WordPress.com
On WordPress.com, you can host your blog for free, with a basic level of shared hosting. But you will get a sub-domain, like yoursite.wordpress.com.
If you want your own domain name, then it costs between US$ 18 to 25 per year.
Upgrading to WordPress Pro Bundle costs between US$ 99 to 166 per year. By upgrading, along with a domain name you will be able to upload audio and video, 10 GB extra space, no Ads and theme customization options.
A WordPress only Premium theme costs around US$ 70. Which is non-transferable if you choose to self-host at a latter date.
Automattic provides excellent security and back-up features for blogs hosted on WordPress.com.
Suitable for: Casual bloggers, who treat his blog as a personal diary without any intention of commercialization.
Cons: You can’t add plugins, themes and few other features, which are available for free on WordPress.org.
2. Self-Hosted
If you want to host your site yourself instead of WordPress.com, then there are plenty of Hosting Service Providers available at affordable rate.
But your site will be hosted on a shared server, along with other websites.
Few Best and Affordable Web hosting Service Providers are JustHost.com, HostGator.com, BlueHost.com and GoDaddy.com.
Self hosting is quite affordable and costs as little as US$ 2 Only.
Suitable for: Serious and Professional Blogger, who might consider blogging as his sole profession later on. Suitable for Casual Bloggers also for the freedom of using Plugins, Themes, Uploading audio/video, Theme customization etc.
Cons: Due to shared hosting you may experience slow uploading of your WordPress blog. You have to arrange your own security and back-ups.
3. Managed WordPress Hosting
This is just like self-hosted, but with the guidance and help of people who know WordPress better. They will take care everything, including security and back-up.
Few market leaders are WPEngine.com ( $29 / m ), HostGuts.com ( $12 / m ), Synthesis.com ($27 / m ) and Page.ly ( $25 / m ).
Suitable for: Established blog or large corporate Official Blog.
Cons: There is no cons except the high price. Affordable for high earning WordPress blogs or Corporate blogs, who seeks quality.
Are you happy with your WordPress Hosting Type? Share your experience in comments below.
About Nandita B.
My name is Nandita B, and I’m a SEO practitioner and part-time blogger. My sheer passion for sharing knowledge a webmaster needs drove me to create “A Webmaster’s Magazine” called SEOHour.com
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HostGuts, I haven’t heard about them before. Thank you for letting me know.
BlueHost, HostMonster and JustHost are the sister companies. All the features are exactly identical. So mention these three companies together. There is no any difference. You can confirm by chatting with them..
Hey Animish,
Just think about this – Vijay Mallya has 2 famous companies: Kingfisher and United Spirits. You can’t go to United Spirits and ask for an Air Ticket to Timbuktu
Just kidding 
Now be serious – Have you had Burger @ McDonald anytime? The taste and flavor of Burger @ every McDonald outlet is almost same. That doesn’t mean Obama will order all the McDonald outlets to group @ One place (due to their similarities).
But people know that all the McDs are same. Old JustHost was disaster. But since BH bought it, it’s doing really amazing. I wanted to let the visitors know that these three companies are the same. Even this can happen that on a single server there are sites of all the four (JH, HM, BH and fastdomain) hosts. So there is no any difference between these four hosts.
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Thanks for sharing! That to great a big choice of hosting list here. But I already choose Ipage because the special offer plan. I spent only $1.99 per month. And especially, $450 marketing this is imagine for my new site.
Anyway, thanks for sharing!
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