Best WordPress hosting

To bring your first website to life the first thing you need is WordPress hosting. Many websites that offer hosting services offer customized packages designed specifically for the most famous CMS, WordPress, included. If you already know the basics of opening a professional website and just want some advice on which are the best WordPress hosting services, you will be happy to know that you have come to the right guide.

In the course of this tutorial I want to talk to you about what I believe are the best companies that offer a hosting service dedicated to the CMS in question. I will tell you in detail about the packages that can be purchased, explaining the features offered.

However, keep in mind that in this guide I will refer to the best paid hosting services: for the creation of a professional website I think it is first necessary to make investments. If, on the other hand, you would like to create a blog with WordPress in an amateur way and you need advice on free hosting, I suggest you read my guide dedicated to the subject. All clear? Yup? Perfect! At this point I would say to start immediately with the “roundup” of what are the best services offered. I wish you a good read as usual.

Index

• Aruba
• Ergonet
• it
• Xlogic Hosting
• Vhosting Solution
• Italian companies
• GoDaddy
• Other popular hosting services

Aruba

The first company I want to talk to you about in this guide dedicated to the best hosting for WordPress is Aruba, a historic company that deals with domains, hosting, cloud, dedicated servers, e-security and online practices.

In its catalog there are various solutions dedicated to the famous open source CMS. That base is called WordPress Hosting and includes: unlimited space, domain, unlimited traffic volume, daily backups, malware detection, DV SSL certificate, five 1GB mailboxes, and free 24/7 support. It costs 24.99 euros + VAT per year.

Alternatively, there are Aruba’s Managed WordPress Hosting plans which also offer automatic updating of WordPress, themes and plugins, specialist assistance, on-demand backups and more. Here they are listed in detail.

• Smart Managed WordPress Hosting– for 79 euros + VAT per year discounted at 29 euros + VAT the first year offers unlimited space on SSD with pre-installed WordPress, domain, automatic WordPress updates, themes and plugins, staging environment (to test changes to the site by creating a copy of the same), dedicated MySQL database (1GB), specialist support with 1 free credit, 2 on-demand backups with one-click restore, daily backups with data retention up to 7 days, DV SSL certificate for use of the HTTPS protocol, malware detection, 5 1GB mailboxes, free 24/7 assistance and 3 dedicated instances. Optionally, it also allows you to have unlimited email accounts and PEC on domain. It is recommended for sites that have up to 50,000 monthly visitors.
• Premium Managed WordPress Hosting– for 129 euros + VAT per year discounted to 39 euros + VAT the first year offers unlimited space on SSD with pre-installed WordPress, domain, automatic WordPress updates, themes and plugins, staging environment (to test changes to the site by creating a copy of the same), dedicated MySQL database (2GB), specialist support with 2 free credits, 4 on-demand backups with one-click restore, daily backups with data retention up to 30 days, DV SSL certificate for use of the HTTPS protocol, malware detection, unlimited 1GB email accounts, free 24/7 assistance, 5 PEC on domain and 6 dedicated instances. It is recommended for sites that have up to 500,000 monthly visitors.
• Top Managed WordPress Hosting– for 229 euros + VAT per year discounted to 119 euros + VAT the first year offers unlimited space on SSD with pre-installed WordPress, domain, automatic WordPress updates, themes and plugins, staging environment (to test the changes to the site by creating a copy of the same), dedicated MySQL database (2GB), specialist support with 3 free credits, 4 on-demand backups with one-click restore, daily backups with data retention up to 30 days, DV SSL certificate for use of the HTTPS protocol, malware detection, unlimited 1GB email accounts, free 24/7 assistance, 10 PEC on domain and 12 dedicated instances. It is recommended for sites that have up to 1,000,000 monthly visitors.

If you want to know more, don’t hesitate to check out my tutorial dedicated to Aruba WordPress hosting services.

Ergonet

Ergonet is an Italian company with two offices, one in Viterbo and the other in Turin, in existence since 2006, which has conquered the first position in Italy in the Web hosting category on the Trustpilot review platform (the most used by companies in the sector ). It stands out for the use of a patented technology for the separation of CMS resources – including WordPress – between backend and frontend and for an exclusive staging system that allows you to test changes made to websites without “affecting” the versions in production (i.e. the versions of the sites viewed by users) and without using subdomains.

In its catalog there are various offers for WordPress hosting, with increasing performance characteristics, all including unlimited web space on SSD, free .it domain, unlimited databases on SSD, 10 mailboxes (with 10GB of total space) , unlimited HTTP2 traffic, pre-installed WordPress, Multi PHP 5.3 to 7.3, unlimited Cron, free Cloudflare CDN, Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates (with certificate for both domains and subdomains) and an FTP account.

To underline, then, the fact that there is a proprietary control panel, different from the “usual” Cpanel or Plesk, extremely flexible and which allows Ergonet to meet customer needs in a dynamic way, without having to wait for implementation. of new features from third party products. That said, here are the WordPress hosting plans offered by Ergonet.

• Equilibrium Profile– is the basic performance profile of Ergonet WordPress hosting services and is recommended for corporate/personal websites with regular traffic on which you invest sporadically in digital marketing activities. Provides dedicated access to static resources (e.g. images, Javascript and CSS) with reverse proxy technology based on NGINX Web server. It costs 30 euros + VAT per year and is recommended for sites with up to 10,000 monthly visitors and about 400 daily visitors.
• Progress Profile– is the intermediate performance profile of Ergonet’s WordPress hosting services. It is recommended for corporate/personal websites with recurring visitors and moderate traffic from social and e-commerce sites linked to promotional activities (eg newsletters, DEM, advertising in general). The Progresso profile also provides dedicated access to static resources (for example images, Javascript and CSS) with reverse proxy technology based on the NGINX Web server but in addition it increases the computational power (CPU) by 200% and the RAM memory by 200% compared to the Balance profile. It also provides dedicated PHP cache (OPcache Technology) to improve the speed of your website by up to 30%, thus ensuring the availability of basic resources for simultaneous users. It costs60 euros + VAT per year and is recommended for sites with up to 30,000 monthly visitors and about 1,000 daily visitors.
• Success Profile– is the most powerful performance profile of Ergonet’s WordPress hosting services. It is recommended for corporate/personal websites with very frequent visitors and peaks of important visitors and on which important digital marketing activities are activated. The Success profile includes the performance technologies present in the previous profiles, therefore dedicated access to static resources with reverse proxy technology and the dedicated PHP cache (OPcache Technology) to improve the speed of your website up to 30% but in addition increases by 400 % computational power (CPU) and 400% RAM memory compared to the Equilibrium profile. It also provides object caching in RAM (memcached technology) to improve both the speed of database queries and cache entire pages, thus ensuring the maximum availability of resources for simultaneous users. It costs120 euros + VAT per year and is recommended for sites with up to 100,000 monthly visitors and about 3,000 daily visitors.

All the hosting plans described above are enriched by a series of value-added services available to all users, such as those listed below.

• Nirvana ™– is a unique technology that separates the resources between the backend and the frontend of WordPress to ensure that the visitor traffic of the public part of the site does not adversely affect the speed of administration of the backend (wp-admin). Through the latter, the resources are dedicated and isolated for both the frontend and the backend, as if they were two separate hosting but which speak perfectly with each other. More info here.
• Live Staging ™– Is a staging system for testing changes to a website and bringing them online without risking malfunctions or downtime of the production site. Unlike the staging systems offered by other hosting providers, it is not based on subdomains: the site is cloned entirely on a hosting service identical to the one in production and, by entering the IP address, the customer is directed to the staging platform, without changing the domain name. More info here.
• Fireshield®– is a security system based on NGINX and APACHE web servers that protects websites from DoS attacks directed at a single domain, bots that search for known web application vulnerabilities, attempts of automated hacker attacks and bruteforce password attacks on backends, contact form. More info here.
• Vision ™– is an anti-bot system that blocks all malicious and useless bots on the Internet, passing on the ones you really need, such as those from Google and Bing. It eliminates about 30-40% of the dirty traffic that arrives on the site, ensuring that resources such as CPU and RAM are always available for traffic from real visitors. More info here.

To learn more about Ergonet’s WordPress hosting solutions, I invite you to consult the company’s official website.

Host.it

Host.it is an Italian Hosting Service Provider that I highly recommend you take into consideration. It has 3 proprietary data centers (located in Turin, Pisa and Lucca) with 10,586 installable servers, 2.6 Megawatts of power and 600 gigabits of connectivity. Among its main strengths, there is certainly the Customer Service: active 365 days a year (including holidays), it is accessible via telephone, chat, email and social network and guarantees immediate responses, with specific support for WordPress. and all the most famous CMS used for the creation of websites.

Host.it’s offer adapts to all needs: whether you need only a domain or dedicated servers and cloud hosting services, you will surely find what is right for you. Below, I will list all the solutions currently available in the company’s catalog.

• Only Domain with DNS Management– with.it extension for only  6 euros/year, forever;
• Domain + Mail– which allows you to add 10 mailboxes with 10GB of total space to your domain;
• Multidomain hosting with unlimited domains– ideal for Web Agencies in promotion at  50 euros/month;
• Dedicated Servers and  Cloud Hosting – dedicated to very high traffic sites, starting from  70 euros/month.

As for WordPress hosting, Host.it allows you to choose between 3 different profiles, which differ on the basis of how many monthly visits the website must support: here they are in detail.

• HOST AGILE(starting from 59 euros/year) – the ideal solution for those looking for a starting point for their online presence. It supports websites with about 10,000 monthly visits with guaranteed resources, therefore with the possibility of having your site always online with the best performance available.
• HOST SMART(starting from 109 euros/year) – the ideal option for those who have already started an online project and see their website’s monthly traffic increase. It is meant for around 25,000 monthly visits.
• HOST GENIUS(starting from 159 euros/year) – the most advanced Host.it profile for WordPress hosting. It supports 100,000 monthly visits with the best performance.

All the above solutions include: unlimited web space on SSD, unlimited MySQL databases, 10 mailboxes with 10 GB of space, HTTP / 2 and SSL certificates, daily backup, domain registration/maintenance and DNS management and WordPress installation and updates in 1 click. There is also a staging environment, which allows you to test site changes without affecting production sites (with the ability to activate unlimited free hosting profiles useful for this purpose).

It should also be noted that Host.it analyzes in real time all traffic directed to customers’ websites, guaranteeing their security and performance: around 15 million Layer7 attacks against applications such as WordPress are blocked every day. And for those who already have a site on another hosting, the possibility is offered to migrate both its contents and email boxes for free, without service interruptions.

There is also the possibility of attending courses to learn how to use WordPress from scratch: this initiative is called Host Academy and allows you to access over 130 video lessons in Italian to learn everything you need to know about WordPress installation, its customization with plugins, SEO optimization and the use of WooCommerce to create an e-commerce.

You can try the HOST AGILE basic plan at the promotional price of 30 euros for the first year and get 1 month of Host Academy for free by connecting to the Host.it website, choosing the HOST AGILE profile and entering the discount code  HOSTWP30 during the purchase phase. In the product activation email you will receive instructions to activate the Host Academy free month and access many other contents.

Xlogic Hosting

I recommend that you also seriously consider the WordPress hosting plans offered by Xlogic Hosting, an Italian company founded in 2011, based in Collegno (TO), known for its high quality hosting services offered at extremely competitive prices.

Xlogic uses  Litespeed, a high-performance Apache replacement, which allows you to have a fast, stable and secure site. The operating system is  CloudLinux which, together with  CageFS, provides a Web Hosting environment with virtualized system files, in which each user can only act on their own area, without “seeing” other users on the server and without running the risk of spreading any viruses or malware between the various accounts.

An integrated LiteSpeed ​​cache system ( LSCache ) and an SSL certificate  (Comodo) for all domains/subdomains are also included in all Xlogic Hosting plans. The possibility of managing the PHP version and its parameters through the cPanel control panel, which is the most popular and used on the Web, is also to be underlined. Furthermore, it is possible to let technicians configure the  Cloudflare CDN for free.

All WordPress Xlogic hosting plans offer NVMe SSD hard drives which, unlike SSD hard drives, are more performing and allow a significant increase in website speed.

In addition, they are fully managed: this means that they offer the installation or transfer of the website, the configuration of the main plugins, the SEO configuration, dedicated support on WordPress (every day, even via chat) and much more.

Below, you can find the detailed list of all WordPress Xlogic hosting plans – I bet you won’t struggle to find one that’s right for you too.

• WP01 hosting (starting from 64 euros/year)– 10GB of disk space, unlimited traffic, 10,000 monthly visits, dedicated resources (1.1 Xeon CPU, 1GB of RAM), sending 500 emails per hour, Staging environment, automatic backup, malware detection , 1 domain that can be hosted.
• WP02 hosting (starting from 84 euros/year)– 20GB of disk space, unlimited traffic, 25,000 monthly visits, dedicated resources (1.3 Xeon CPU, 1GB of RAM), sending 750 emails per hour, Staging environment, automatic backup, malware detection , 2 domains that can be hosted.
• WP03 hosting (starting from 104 euros/year)– 30GB of disk space, unlimited traffic, 100,000 monthly visits, dedicated resources (1.5 Xeon CPU, 2GB of RAM), Staging environment, automatic backup, malware detection, sending 1,000 emails per hour , 3 domains that can be hosted.
• WP04 hosting (starting from 164 euros/year)– 50GB of disk space, unlimited traffic, 200,000 monthly visits, dedicated resources (2 Xeon CPUs, 3GB of RAM), Staging environment, automatic backup, malware detection, sending 2,000 emails per hour , 5 domains that can be hosted.

Finally, the presence of addons, such as Jet Backup (to perform a daily backup of the website on a remote server), Imunify Security (to perform a malware scan of the site in real time every day) and Softaculous 1Click Install ( script and CMS installation software).

Take advantage of the Xlogic Hosting promotion now and buy the plans at 20% less for the first year.

The promotion is valid for new customers only and can only be used once per customer. It cannot be combined with other discounts and is valid only on the purchase and not on the renewal or upgrade of the following Hosting plans: Hosting Shared | WordPress hosting | Dedicated Hosting | Reseller hosting.

Upon renewal of the hosting service you can choose to pay the total amount of the plan or not to renew it without any penalty. Use the exclusive Promotional Code immediately by inserting it when ordering: XL-Aranzulla.

For more information on the WordPress hosting plans offered by Xlogic Hosting, visit this web page.

Vhosting Solution

Now I want to talk to you about VHosting Solution, an Italian company with over 10 years of experience that has always stood out for its excellent hosting services, ever faster (now they are on NVMe SSDs) and its advantageous prices.

VHosting Solution has numerous data centers located in Europe, provides technical assistance in Italian (accessible via chat, email and telephone) and bases its principles on 3 factors: performance, i.e. the continuous search for the most suitable technology to increase the performance of websites it hosts; the specificity, i.e. the possibility, for each individual product, of having the service suitable to support the technical specifications of each website; and last but not least, the ease of use, with the control panels of all the services offered that have been designed to be as intuitive as possible.

Below you will find all the VHosting Solution packages for WordPress hosting. Using my Aranzulla-VHosting coupon code you can get a 15% discount on all hosting services in the catalog (except for reseller hosting services ). The discount is automatically applied to renewal, it cannot be used to renew existing hosting plans and/or upgrade them, while it can be reused several times by those who used it.

• WordPress Veloce 01 (45 euros/year)– includes 20GB of space on NVMe SSD (hosting + email), free domain, 1 managed domain, free migration of 1 WordPress site, Varnish Cache, unlimited mailboxes, unlimited databases, automatic backup, free SSL certificate, SSH access and 30 day money back guarantee.
• WordPress Veloce 02 (60 euros/year)– includes 30GB of space on NVMe SSD (hosting + email), free domain, 1 managed domain, free migration of 1 WordPress site, Varnish Cache, unlimited mailboxes, unlimited databases, automatic backup, free SSL certificate, SSH access and 30 day money back guarantee.
• WordPress Veloce 03 (69 euros/year)– includes 35GB of space on NVMe SSD (hosting + email), free domain, 1 managed domain, free migration of 1 WordPress site, LsCache, unlimited mailboxes, unlimited databases, automatic backup, certificate Free SSL, SSH access and a 45 day money back guarantee.
• WordPress Veloce 04 (85 euros/year)– includes 50GB of space on NVMe SSD (hosting + email), free domain, 1 managed domain, free migration of 1 WordPress site, LsCache, unlimited mailboxes, unlimited databases, automatic backup, certificate Free SSL, SSH access and a 45 day money back guarantee.

Then there are the following multidomain plans, which allow you to reduce costs by hosting multiple sites on the same Web space.

• WordPress Multidomain Silver (155 euros/year)– includes 50GB of space on NVMe SSD, free domain, unlimited managed domains, free migration of 1 WordPress site, Varnish, unlimited mailboxes, unlimited databases, automatic backup, free SSL certificate, SSH access and 45 day money-back guarantee.
• WordPress Multidomain Gold (269 euros/year)– includes 100GB of space on NVMe SSD, free domain, unlimited managed domains, free migration of 1 WordPress site, Varnish, unlimited mailboxes, unlimited databases, automatic backup, free SSL certificate, SSH access and 45 day money back guarantee.

For more information, I invite you to consult the pages of the VHosting Solution website dedicated to WordPress hosting and multi-domain WordPress hosting.

Italian companies

Companies Italia Srl is an Italian Cloud Provider operating since February 2002 and has datacenters in Rome and Prague (in the Czech Republic). The company is active in the provision of Hosting services, Dedicated Servers and Virtual Servers, Cloud Solutions and advanced e-mail services with an offer aimed at both business and private users.

• Shared Hosting– The professional Hosting service line for showcase or institutional websites
• Multidomain Hosting– Fractional plans to meet the needs of Web Agencies and hosting service resellers.
• Cloud Hosting, Managed VPS and Dedicated Servers – These are multi-domain environments with dedicated resources, for sites that require high performance.

If you manage sites in WordPress, I recommend the Managed WordPress Hosting offer which is divided into three versions, and is designed for Web Agencies and Webmasters who need to administer all aspects of a WordPress site in a professional but at the same time simple way. it’s fast. Here are the various plans in detail: Using the coupons reserved for my readers you will also have a promotion valid for the entire first year.

• WordPress Silver– with AranzullaSilver couponcosts 34.50 euros + VAT/year (in promo compared to the standard price of 69 euros + VAT/year) and includes reseller program, redundant cloud infrastructure, WordPress Toolkit, advanced WordPress management, SSL certificate, 15GB SSD space, 5 x 5GB email addresses, Webmail Open Xchange, Web Application Firewall (WAF), anti-malware, automatic backups, specialist assistance and free migration.
• WordPress Gold– with AranzullaGold couponcosts 38.50 euros + VAT/year (in promo compared to the standard price of 110 euros + VAT/year). It includes all the benefits of the Silver plan but with 25GB of space and 10 5GB email addresses.
• WordPress Platinum– with AranzullaPlatinum couponcosts 175.20 euros + VAT/year (in promo compared to the standard price of 219 euros + VAT/year). It includes all the benefits of the Gold plan but with 40GB of space and 15 5GB email addresses.

It should be emphasized that the Managed WordPress hosting offered by Imprese Italia includes a development and test environment ( Staging ) to clone entire WordPress installations, features to automate the procedures for updating WordPress, the theme and plugins, as well as the SEO Toolkit. which improves the indexing of the site on search engines.

Each plan also includes incremental daily backups, WebAccelerator to speed up site loading, real-time monitoring and blocking of cyber threats and attacks. An SSL certificate is also included to make the site compatible with current security standards.

Finally, for those who already have a site, the possibility is offered to migrate WordPress and emails automatically (they take care of the whole procedure).

GoDaddy

Historical company for the registration of web domains and for the purchase of hosting spaces in the United States, for some years GoDaddy has also arrived in Europe and has made available an Italian version of its website. GoDaddy is certainly the most expensive among the hosting services listed so far but the positive reviews of this company certainly leave no room for doubt regarding the quality.

Unlike other hosting services, GoDaddy’s target is not only the expert user in creating websites. GoDaddy stands out for its varied offer of hosting services with sitebuilder included for amateur users. Customer assistance takes place in Italy via a telephone number active from Monday to Friday from 9:00 to 19:00. Alternatively, you can consult a guide in Italian to independently seek a solution to the problems encountered. Below are the hosting packages dedicated to the WordPress CMS.

• Starter: Includes 30GB of storage for 1 website, 256MB of RAM, 1 database, unlimited bandwidth, and free one-click WordPress installation. It costs 3.65 euros / month for 1 year and then 4.87 euros / month.
• Economy: Provides 100GB of space for 1 website with standard performance, 10 databases, unlimited bandwidth, and free one-click WordPress installation. It costs 4.87 euros/month for 1 year and then 9.14 euros/month.
• Deluxe– Offers unlimited storage, unlimited websites, and unlimited bandwidth with standard performance, 25 databases, and free one-click WordPress installation. It costs 6.09 euros / month for 1 year and then 12.19 euros / month.
• Ultimate: Includes unlimited space, websites, database and bandwidth with double the processing power + free one-click WordPress installation and lots of promo options for 1 year. It costs 9.75 euros / month for 1 year and then 20.73 euros / month.

Other popular hosting services

• Tophost– this is an Italian company founded in 2004 with the aim of providing affordable Internet hosting with high quality standards. It offers various plans, suitable for all needs: the most suitable for WordPress are Topweb Plus from 99 euros + VAT/year with domain always free, unlimited traffic, unlimited third levels, hosting of 30 GB SAN + SSD, 6 MySQL databases (1 GB), 50 emails with unlimited aliases, PHP 7.2 and 7.3 Fast CGI and HTTPS + HTTP 2.0 at high speed (ideal up to 800,000 visits/month) and Topweb Ultra from 44.99 euros + VAT/year, which adds hosting of 50 GB SAN + SSD, 6 MySQL databases (2 GB), dedicated redis, PHP-FPM 7.x dedicated pool and PHP OPcache (ideal up to 5,000,000 visits/month). Alternatively, you can evaluate the Topweb entry level plan from 14.99 euros + VAT / year which includes domain always free, unlimited traffic, hosting of 20 GB SAN + SSD, 4 MySQL databases (500 MB), 30 email accounts, PHP and HTTPS + HTTP 2.0 (ideal up to 100,000 visits / month).
• ServerPlan: equally valid is the WordPress hosting service offered by ServerPlan which offers different prices to meet different needs. In fact, it starts with a hosing of 2 GB of space at a cost of 24 euros (excluding VAT) per year up to the plan designed for companies. The latter offers 50 GB of SSD space, 100 professional email accounts as well as a Let’s Encrypt SSL Certificate certificate. The price is 210 euros (excluding VAT) per year.
• Register: Another hosting company that I absolutely recommend is Register which offers a hosting service for WordPress with 10 GB of disk space. The other services offered and included are the Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate and cache services offered by the Varnish plugin. The included domain is free for one year and you are offered 5 email accounts of 2GB each. The price is 99 euros per month.
• Siteground: excellent service that offers basic hosting for small and medium-sized sites, managed WordPress hosting, WordPress hosting for ecommerce and many other solutions starting from 99 euros/month up to 13.99 euros/month, with the plan intermediate from 9.99 euros/month with multiple websites and 20GB of webspace. All plans are discounted for the first year, then increase.