As a highly competitive industry, the top web hosting plans change frequently, with new companies such as eHost emerging on the market, and veteran web hosts doing all they can to claw back their market lead.
Because of this, finding the right solution for your new WordPress website isn’t always easy. That’s why we tasked our hosting experts to find us the top deals of the year, and present them to us in this easy-to-read guide to 2015’s best web hosting plans for WordPress.
Ehost
eHost haven’t been around for quite as long as some of the other WordPress hosting plans we’ll mention below, but the new kids on the block are certainly doing all they can to leave their veteran rivals in the dust when it comes to providing customers with low cost, high performance shared hosting suitable for WordPress and other kind of websites.
Currently ranked number one at trusted hosting review sites like Best Web
Hosting Now, the Endurance International owned hosting brand currently provide a completely unlimited hosting package for a rock bottom first term price of only $2.99 per month from hosting companies such as eHost. Read their customer reviews here to help aid your decision.
For that price, you’ll have access to unrestricted disk storage space and data transfer, as well as unlimited domain-based email accounts, MySQL databases and the kind of high level performance, reliability and uptime you need for such as powerful web platform as WordPress.
As if that wasn’t enough, one of the reasons eHost is getting such a good rep this year is that they offer a free domain name ‘for life.’ In other words, as long as you host your site with them, you’ll never have to pay a penny for your .com domain.
iPage
Once the undisputed king of solid WordPress hosting, iPage were only recently knocked off their throne by eHost this year. Even still, the company still provide an awesome deal for WordPress website owners, who basically have two options to choose from.
For starters, you could opt for their iPage Essential hosting plan, which for a first term fee of just $1.99 per month includes unlimited storage and bandwidth, plus a free domain name for the duration of your first term. Uptime and performance standards are above industry average with iPage essentials, meaning this is a great value package for starting your first site.
Alternatively, the company do offer dedicated WordPress hosting solutions the $3.95 per month WP Starter and the WP Essential package for three dollars more at $6.95 per month.
Both come with WOrdpress already installed, making them ideal for those with no previous WordPress experience. Enhanced security and performance features are also included here.
Bluehost
The only hosting provider on our list today that comes with an official endorsement from WordPress itself, the cost of Bluehost specialist WordPress packages are competitive with other plans of this type, starting at $3.49 per month for unlimited bandwidth, a free domain name and 100GB of disk space.
Things do get a little more expensive if you want unlimited everything, with higher level plans ranging from $5.95 up to $13.95 per month for their ‘Business Pro’ plan, but for that price, you do get the kind of outstanding performance and 99.9% uptime guarantee that earned Bluehost its official WordPress recommendation.
inMotion
One of the more expensive WordPress specialist hosting companies, plans with inMotion range from $4.89 to $10.49 per month, which may rule them out for those who need a budget hosting solution.
For the rest of you though, inMOtion are well worth a look. All of their WordPress plans come with a free domain name, WordPress pre-installed, SSH access for smarter, faster working and a choice of data centers for better performance and reliability.
