What is the best shared hosting company for PHP? WordPress

Arnav Joy answers:

I have many of my clients who are using :-

1. Hostgator
2. GoDaddy
3. BlueHost

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Navjot Singh answers:

I have used Hostgator and Dreamhost. Both the companies provide rock solid hosting and great support. Infact for Hostgator, I have had near zero downtime experiences. Their support has always been prompt and to the point. I would totally recommend it.

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Francisco Javier Carazo Gil answers:

Depends on many things, for example your location.

I have good experience with:
1. Sitios Hispanos (really cheap, they use Varnish, good assistance, good performance)
2. HostGattor (the "typical" one, I use it, unfortunately sometimes really slow)

In Spain I use with some clients two good options, prepared for WordPress:
1. http://www.webempresa.com/ really fast attention, good prices
2. http://gigas.com/wordpress-cloud-hosting.html this is not a "shared" one, this is a specific "WordPress Cloud", marketing yes, but it works and it is not expensive

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John Cotton answers:

TSOHosts (UK) do excellent packages.

WPEngine are great for pure WordPress.

My advice would be to look in the country where most visitors come from (if that's possible) as you will get a small SEO boost from being local.

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phppoet answers:

hi lawrence,
You will face some problem at some point of time with most of shared hosting companies , no matter which company you choose . It will work fine unless you have huge traffic and law resource taking script . Once you start taking their resource , they will take action .

I am currently hosted on speedhost.in (its a india centric ) . It has been around 2 years now without a problem but i had problems with them in early months when i installed some huge resource taking scripts like osdate . they have disabled my account for few days and then enabled it after few days with warning . after that i mostly used wordpress , question2answer like scripts and never faced any problem with them .

I do have a good experience of bluehost and hostgator . both are good .

regards

Gabriel Reguly answers:

Hi Lawrence,

HostGator has been bought and I have faced a lot of trouble with them lately, they were talking about new infrastructure, etc.

GoDaddy is very slow for me most of the time

There is a lot of people recommending webfaction.com lately, but I have no experience with them.


I would recommend your friend the cheapest host he can find, but pay it by month and wait for the trouble.

Then change your friend to something like wpengine, zippykid, pagely, etc...

Experience will teach him better then any advice from us ;-)

Regards,
Gabriel

Eric P. answers:

I had really good experiences with HostGator for years, and used to strongly recommend them.

They are still fairly solid on reliability, but they have done a few things over the past year or so which differs from my previous experience. Making sudden, barely announced changes and "upgrades". I still use them, but I've been looking at other possibilities. Their support and openness about upcoming events isn't what it once was.

In the past I've used BlueHost as a backup/alternate server, and had reasonably good service from them.

Except for one serious incident, I had good luck with JustHost as well. The one serious incident took down my biggest client at the time, at a business critical time for them, and the outage lasted several days. The server they were on completely died and went away. By the time they got it fixed (5 or 6 days after my initial report), I had moved the client's sites to HostGator.

Most of my clients are USA centric, so I prefer hosts in the USA with good redundant connectivity. Have you ever used RobTex.com to get graphs and connectivity maps? If you need some help determining actual connectivity for a specific hosting service, contact me by messaging here.

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Nirmal answers:

If you need a managed host, its better to go with WPEngine.
Otherwise These are some best hosting providers worth considering
NameCheap
SiteGround
Rackspace
Bluehost

James Dean answers:

I personally use the following:

in the UK = tagadab.com
in Asia: = cafe24.com < Korean
Japan: + USA = gmocloud.com

but if your taking about Wordpress hosting then you should really go for wpengine.com

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