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If you are looking  to start a wordpress blog or website  you need to check out  these web host’s that we have reviewed and listed below. I have  tried and tested 15 web-hosts until now for my website projects and below are some that I can recommend.

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1	BEST SOFTWARE FOR WEBSITE BUILDING

WordPress, the world’s top content management system (CMS),  is a versatile and flexible blogging platform  that is simple to use by even beginners and can be customised extensively if needed. The software has one of the largest library of free and premium themes and plug-ins  to make the task of creating and managing your website a breeze. With this  CMS, you can build professional looking business websites, personal blogs  and even large entertainment and news portals like MTV and CNN has done with wordpress.

With word-press and a  good web hosting provider you can easily build a  small personal blog  to a large business website with  little to no skills. If you’ve thought about building a website, you should definitely consider a WordPress web host.

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With the list below, there is a mix of Australian and US Webhosts that support WP hosting and “Managed wordpress hosting”. I have always used  US based hosts  due to their affordable  pricing  compared to some local aussie hosts and also the benefit of their easy website setup scripts for installing websites in minutes.

Below you can check out their features and plan prices  and choose for yourself.

 

2	2018: Price comparison Table for hosting companies

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Choosing a “hosting company” for your blog or website is  a tough decision to make. You have  to consider  to cost of the web server plan, the value you will get,  the customer service  you can expect  among many other  smaller factors.

Hosting companies dont make it easy for you,  changing their prices and features included on a regular basis making it more difficult for you to compare  and choose among different hosts. So  what we have done is  drilled down to  a few of  top 10 hosts that are already listed above and given a little bit of an overview on them below.

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Digital Grog

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3	Australian Web Hosting Comparison: Top 5 Recommended

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Bluehost is a  highly recommended web host by many bloggers and its  the same host I started  my blogging journey with. They  have good prices and plans for shared plans which is the best value option for beginners or to start an affiliate or small business website.

Bluehost is a web hosting company owned by Endurance International Group. It is one of the 20 largest web hosts, collectively hosting well over 2 million domains with its sister companies, HostMonster, FastDomain and iPage.

Bluehost Plans :

Shared Plan – $3.95 month  [ Includes free domain + 1 click WordPress install]

Cloud Hosting – $6.95 month [Free domain  + 1 Website hosting]

VPS hosting – $19.99  month [Free domain  + unlimited bandwidth]

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WP Engine is the leading WordPress digital premium hosting platform. They use premium plugins like content performance  to optimise and promote your website. They integrate with best-in-breed technology partners like Google, AWS and New Relic, and optimise their technology for WordPress.

All customers get access to 24/7/365, award-winning customer support. They  have Free months  special plans that deliver a discount for new customers. They are suitable for serious bloggers and small businesses that are starting out  with a robust host and web provider.

You can build faster, protect your brand, and grow your business with a WordPress platform built to power remarkable online experiences with WPEngine.

WP ENGINE Plans :

Personal Plan – $29 month  [ Includes free SSL]

Professional Plan – $99 month [Free SSL Certificates]

Business Hosting – $249  month [Free SSL  + 25 Installs]

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Godaddy is one of the biggest domain name registrars online and  they  offer a range of  services including webhosting, domain  name registration, transfer of domains, https (SSL certificates), domain name auctions,  Ecommerce shops and  SEO services.

They support Windows and Linux hosting and support most popular website platforms like WordPress, Joomla and many more. They also have a large number of PHP scripts for galleries, forums etc that are 1 click install. Bob Parsons founded the Internet domain registrar and Web hosting company GoDaddy in 1997.

Go daddy is popular as a wholesaler of these services and hence they have many ongoing sales and discount offers for their products on a regular basis.

The Most Popular Godaddy OFFERS :

Hosting with FREE Domain Name – $1.99

Domain name  for your website  – $0.99 cents

 

Australian .com.au Domains – $7.99/year ( 2 years minimum registration for au)

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Difference between hosting plans

 

Shared hosting

Shared hosting is one of the  most suitable plan  for  beginners  as  these plans  are normally cheap and yet have all the basic features that a  beginner blogger or webmaster needs. These plans are cheap because the servers provided are shared by many users and the load on servers is balanced.

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Dedicated or VPS hosting

This is hosting that is better than shared, as you get more exclusive use of the servers and therefore the server speeds are a bit better than shared. The basic features are the same, but you get some more freedom with the server end features. If you have some technical knowledge of servers you can take advantage of some of these features, but these additional features are not necessary  for basic running of a website.

VPS servers generally allow root access and Dedicated plans allow customisation of  your hosting environment.

The benefit  for one of these plans would be for better speed and custom backend modifications of your website. Dedicated servers can be priced higher than a lot of  VPS plans. This hosting is often the next step upgrade from shared hosting.

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Cloud and Managed wordpress hosts

Even though cloud and managed hosting is different. They both can be termed as managed hosting.

Cloud hosting is basically managed in the cloud automatically  and therefore  the main feature of this is that load balancing of your servers are all automated, to give your website the best performance according to your needs.

Managed wordpress hosting on the other hand is where the host has spent time  to modify the  server architecture to make you server optimised to load your website  quickly and keep it  running smooth and nicely with wordpress platform. They often have caching inbuilt with nginx. Some also provide CDNs with their hosting. This hosting is considered premium hosting and can cost more or even similar to dedicated.

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Features that most hosting plans need

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That’s it,  for our 2018  webhosting review.  Wish you luck in your new venture . If you have any questions,  do leave a comment below and I’d be happy to answer anything that comes up. 

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