An Ultimate Guide to WordPress Hosting for Beginners

WordPress is a popular CMS (Content Management System) that powers around 43.5% of websites or nearly 478 million websites. Every two minutes, a new WordPress website is created. This makes WordPress a first choice for people creating their websites for the first time. WordPress is not just for blogs. It powers e-commerce platforms, news portal, agency websites, government websites and much more. WordPress has a rainbow of use cases that can satisfy maybe one of your needs.

WordPress is beginner friendly and in minutes without prior knowledge, one can have a WordPress website running after reading this Ultimate Guide to WordPress Hosting for Beginners. 

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Selecting the right hosting service is very important for performance, reliability, ease of use, and security for a WordPress website as these are some of the determinant features to have a successful WordPress website fulfilling the need for which it is created. There are some minor considerations to be taken seriously when choosing a WordPress hosting provider. These are the basic foundations to have a well performing WordPress website.

Essential considerations when choosing the right WordPress hosting:

1. Security: 

   Security is paramount when one is establishing an online presence. One must ensure that the hosting provider provides security out of the box for the websites they are hosting. 

2. Ease of use

   The control panel should be easy to navigate. Providing things like one-click install, user manager, plugin and theme managers and WordPress settings right from the control Panel. Hey Hosting provides such across its various hosting packages. 

3. Reliability

   The web hosting  should be reliable with 99.99% uptime and no downtime.

4. Performance

   Having a well performing hosting provider for your WordPress Hosting is important. Running on the latest SSD technology with an unlimited metered bandwidth is what you should be looking for. 

5. WordPress updates

   WordPress releases updates for bug fixes and security patches. Having a platform that can update WordPress with no breaking functionalities and no manual intervention is ideal. This keeps your WordPress website up-to-date.

 

Types of WordPress Hosting

1. Shared hosting:

   This is the most cost effective WordPress hosting and it's ideal for beginners and small websites.

   1. Advantages:

      1. Cost effective: It's the cheapest web hosting
      2. Most providers offer one-click install (like Hey Hosting)

   2. Disadvantages

      1. Shared Resources: Resources in a shared hosting environment are shared amongst different websites (This is taken care of by our auto-scaling capabilities at Hey)

2. VPS hosting:

   Virtual Private Server (VPS) provides more resources and more control over Shared Hosting. It has sudo privileges and more apps can be installed.

   1. Advantages

      1. Root access: Root access means more control to customise the server
      2. Better performance: The performance is based on the virtual resources like CPU and RAM. The more the better
      3. Scalability: You can upgrade the resources available. 

   2. Disadvantages

      1. Cost: It's a bit costly more that a shared hosting. We offer the best price on our VPS
      2. Technical Knowledge: It requires technical know-how to manage the server

3. Managed WordPress hosting

    

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