WordPress hosting

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If you want to publish a website, a blog or whatever based on WordPress, you need reliable WordPress hosting.

Definitions

Hosting

Hosting is the provision of hardware to store the website and the necessary infrastructure to ensure the uninterrupted operation and availability of the website.

If you “just” want to create a private blog, you won’t necessarily have the right to uninterrupted accessibility of your website. Shop operators certainly have completely different requirements that need to be met.

Depending on the requirements, the pricing is also reflected in a broader spectrum.

In addition to these circumstances, a less technically savvy website operator may be extremely reluctant to delve into the depths of server technologies, installation routines, databases, etc. Consequently, a certain (installation) service - for a fee - is helpful in order to be able to concentrate on the actual website content.

domain

Last but not least, you need one more domain, a name under which the website should be accessible. This is also subject to a fee.

The choice of domain name should be carefully considered. Because it and the content behind it are, among other things, crucial for ensuring that the page is found by interested parties.

WordPress provider

All of these services are usually combined in one package price by a service provider, which does not necessarily make it easier to compare prices. It's all too easy to compare apples with oranges. Attention is required here!

This is particularly about WordPress providers, as they specialize in WordPress hosting and have automated installations in a user-friendly way “with one click”.

Providers like to entice you with time-limited offers, which can then be up to four times the price in the later extension phase.

Nevertheless, 3-year contracts may make sense because their price is usually the same as that of offers from “cheap homes”, which, however, only offer a fraction of the service or other benefits.

If these expire, you move the domain to a - then - cheaper provider. This act also requires a fee, but it is so moderate that you can ignore it.

Conclusion

You choose an offer from a professional WordPress provider that will run for two or three years, if possible, cancel the subscription when it expires (preferably immediately after completion, so you don't miss the cancellation date) and shortly beforehand look for a provider that offers the same price/performance ratio.

My recommendation

Fastcomet LLC, Suite 300 – #846, 350 Townsend Street San Francisco, CA 94107, USA offers for 2.49 $ (regular 9.95 $) to 4,99$ (19.95 $) monthly.

The support responds very promptly, is qualified and extremely helpful, and even takes action if you show that you are not very good at using these technologies.

All services, including email, can be administered very clearly and have been running smoothly so far (in the last two years) without any failures.