In this article we will analyze which are the best cheap web hosting for WordPress , as you will have seen on a million articles currently it is the most used CMS with a world market share that exceeds 30% of the websites currently present on the network, the numbers also seem to continue to grow.
Each of these sites must be hosted on a server, these servers are managed by companies that have the virtual space and not to contain all the resources necessary for your website.
How to choose the best cheap web hosting?
Finding the right cheap web hosting for your website isn’t easy at all.
Because?
Plenty of cheap web hosting companies use very aggressive pricing strategies , aimed at attracting new customers by offering packages at really low prices.
Obviously in this way the company launches the so-called hook to make you bite, once you have bought the package and have used it for the whole year, the cost of the renewal will be 2 or 3 times higher than the cost of the first purchase.
Fortunately, not all hosting companies use these strategies, in fact, before signing up with a cheap host , it is essential to check the renewal prices and features.
In fact, in addition to the price, it is also essential to check the features of the package you are buying, sometimes they have limitations to the storage rate , insufficient bandwidth or the absence of the SSL certificate.
While most providers enter a domain name and SSL certificate for free (at least for a year), some don’t.
In this article we have decided to classify the best Web Hosting based on some characteristics listed below:
- Price: a fundamental factor in this by now Hosting tend to offer you more and more similar products, moreover this article is suitable for those who have a low budget and cannot afford to spend a lot.
- Cache system : this aspect is often overlooked as those who buy do not always inquire about the cache system and yet in my opinion it is one of the fundamental aspects for the speed of a website
- Hosted sites : many providers allow you to install multiple sites within a package, however we believe that it is an added value that we cannot fail to mention.
- Speed : The faster your site goes the less money you will lose
- web space : how many resources can I put on my site? is one of the questions we ask ourselves most often
For those who are in a hurry and do not have time to read the whole article we make a brief summary of the best cheap hosting for WordPress through a table of all the functions of the Hosting compared starting from a cost of around € 50 for 12 months or 1 year.
| Hostinger | SiteGround | Bluehost | Serverplan | |
| cache system | LiteSpeed | Ngix direct delivery | Varnish cache | Opaque |
| Hosted sites | unlimited | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Average response time | 275ms | 651ms | 523ms | 590ms |
| Web space | unlimited | 10GB ssd | 50gb ssd | 10Gb ssd |
| Assistance | high competence | high competence | average competence | high competence |
| site transfer | free | free | free | free |
| data center | Italy | Holland | London | Italy |
| backup | weekly | daily | daily | daily |
| price | € 54.90 | € 57.93 | € 79.30 | € 69 |
| review | review | review | review |
the Best web hosting for WordPress
We have decided to consider the following web Hosting as we consider them the best at least for the Italian market, know that there are Hostings that have better characteristics than those listed in this article but we remind you that we are only considering providers whose cost around € 50 per year
1) SiteGround – the most reliable
Siteground is considered as one of the most promising web hosting thanks to their marketing that has repeatedly brought the name of the company on everyone’s lips, in the meantime let’s start by saying that this provider has data centers around the world, the closest to ours. region, however, is in the Netherlands (a server in this position compared to an Italian site could generally increase the loading time by + 60ms
Despite everything SiteGround has invested and still invests a lot in the infrastructure, in fact all the sites hosted within this provider can enjoy a cache system based on NGINX direct delivery, this method allows you to serve the static content of your site using the try_files functionality of NGINX, this allows you to remove static content from server memory and find and serve it super fast directly from NGINX, skipping communication with the Apache web server.
You are rightly wondering what all this stuff means?
Long story short this process allows you to serve static content superfast from the SSD, this allows you to store more dynamic content in RAM and even for longer periods.
coming to the point, the average response time verified by hosting a website on one of their servers was 651ms .
read our Siteground review
SiteGround’s average response time
In the following photo we can see the uptime of the servers in the last 10 months with the relative response time.
In conclusion, we can say that SiteGround’s servers for an average site are quite fast, given their renewal cost, however, let’s say we expected slightly more.
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2) Hostinger – the best value for money
Hostinger is actually the cheapest web hosting company ever that I have reviewed to date, it will seem strange and yet it is the provider that I like the most of all
Usually, very affordable hosting providers where they offer packages at very low prices are slow, unreliable or with practically no customer support and bad uptime.
Yet Hostinger is just the opposite. In the last 23 months the uptime was 99.95% , I challenge you to find a hosting with better features at a more price that has a better uptime than this, if you find it contact me at the “contact” page and I will offer you a virtual coffee, I swear!
The amazing thing is that besides having excellent uptime it is among the fastest web hosts with an average load time of 275 ms .
They also offer 24/7 customer support via live chat, the nice thing is they are a lot of fun operators, they send Gifs all the time!
Speaking of pricing, if you sign up for the cheapest plan, it will only cost you € 0.80 / month for 4 years . That makes a total of only € 56.80 for a 4 year hosting and domain (sadly not included in the “single web hosting” package – not bad. Hostinger’s cheapest plan renews at € 2.15 / month after the initial registration period.
However, considering that in this article we want to consider hosting whose cost is around 50 euros per year, it is right to consider the premium package
Here we have the domain included in the package and we can enjoy the following functions:
- Unlimited hosted sites
- Unlimited traffic
- Litespeed cache
- 516MB ram
- inode 400’000
- 3GB database
Hostinger uses Litespeed Cache technology which according to many benchmarks is much faster than its competitors, thanks to its structure it is able to return more hits to the server and therefore this decreases the loading time, as you can see in the next image it has been done a comparison hosting on 3 different sites 3 cache systems with the related plugins and Litespeed obtained a much higher performance than the rivals Apache and Nginx .
benchmark between Litespeed, Apache and Nginx
In conclusion, in our opinion Hostinger is among the best cheap web hosting for WordPress and we believe it is the best “best value” you can buy.
if you want to know more about this Host read our Hostinger review
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3) Serverplan – the best hosting for Italian WordPress
Serverplan is an excellent completely Italian hosting, in fact their datacenters reside in our country , unfortunately we have not had the opportunity to test the speed of this hosting directly, in this the only site we have on this provider is not a test site but it is a site already well developed and started, so it did not seem right to carry out a test and compare it with other hosting as the data would not be true.
However, we rely on what our colleagues tell us on their portals where they reported that the tests showed an average loading time of 590ms .
For more information read our Serverplan review
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4) Bluehost – Recommended directly by WordPress
Bluehost currently hosts over 2 million websites on its servers . Do you think that Bluehost is the only provider recommended directly by WordPress, in fact if you go to the official website you will see that together with Dreamhost they are the only recommended hosting , 2 out of how many in the world? 100k ?. This makes them one of the most popular hosting companies , thanks to their cheap and multifunctional packages they are a favorite choice of many bloggers, web marketers etc …
From the last 24 months of Bluehost activity we have seen an uptime of 99.98% (with only 2 hours of inactivity, not bad! You don’t know how much money you are avoiding losing!). In addition to their reliable performance, their average speed is also faster than their competitors, in fact the average load time is 380 ms .
All plans include 1 year free domain name, one-click installs for different website builders and WordPress.
The biggest downside to their offering is that the cheapest plan ($ 2.75 / month) comes with a 36-month commitment . If you decide to use their services for less than 12 months, you will have to pay $ 4.95 / month . The SSL certificate is included for free as well as the domain, but the package renews for $ 7.99 / month after the initial registration period, almost $ 3 more for each month.
- sites hosted only 1
- unlimited traffic
- 50GB of storage
Bluehost’s pain points
There is one thing we have noticed in Bluehost and it is NOT transparency of the packets, the public information is not complete, for example I cannot see how much RAM I have, I don’t know what are the input processes and the maximum active processes I have at arrangement.
Above all, the thing that bothers me most is not knowing how much CPU I have available , it is true that it is still a cheap web hosting but I think that everyone must be transparent and write in detail what they offer.
