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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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.
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.
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2018: Price comparison Table for hosting companies |
| Hosting Provider | Price (/mo) | Disk Space | Bandwidth | Domain Name | |
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 Bluehost (Recommended) Click Here | $3.49 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Free | Free |
 Hatchling Plan - 25% off | $3.95 | Unlimited | Unlimited | No | Free |
 Hostmonster Starter Plan - Check it | $5.99 | 100 gb | Unlimited | Free | Free |
 Godaddy Economy Plan - 54% off Get Deal Millions of Domain Names | $4.99 | 100 gb | Unlimited | Free | Free |
 Spark Starter Plan Webhosting hub - Hosting Downunder | $4.99 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Free | NA |
Ipage Essential Plan | $1.99 | Unlimited | NA | Free | Free |
 Dreamhost (40% off) DreamPlans | $5.95 | Unlimted | Unlimited | Free | Free |
Yahoo Small Business Hosting  | $3.99 | 50 gb | 5000 GB | Free | Free |
Digital Pacific (AU) https://www.digitalpacific.com.au For Personal blogs and Business. | $4.90 | 1 gb | 10 GB | NA | Free |
Crucial Hosting (AU) https://www.crucial.com.au/ | $20.00 | 50 gb | Unlimited | NA | Free |
Host Papa http://www.hostpapa.com.au/ *Limit 2 websites Hosted | $3.95 | 100 gb | Unlimited | Free | Free |
 Recommended Starter Plan $35 Fast WordPress + Baked in CDN Get The Deal | $35 | 10 gb | Unlimited | Free SSL | NA |
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.
Jeff
Blogger
Digital Grog
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Australian Web Hosting Comparison: Top 5 Recommended |
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]
- 1 click Install 90%
- Good Pricing Plans 91%
- Performance 95%
- Ease of use 89%
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]
- 1 click Install 90%
- Good Pricing Plans 91%
- Performance 95%
- Ease of use 89%
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)
- 1 click Install 90%
- Good Pricing Plans 91%
- Awesomeness 90%
- Ease of use 89%
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.
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.
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.
Features that most hosting plans need
Disk storage
Uptime
Bandwidth
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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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Channel
Thanks for sharing such a wonderful post
I was looking for free hosts and could not find any for WordPress do, you know of any good ones thanks?
Yes blogger and tumblr are free blog platforms but they dont work on wordpress, which i recommend as a bloggin platform
dude is yahoo even alive .. I though that website was taken over
The hosting part was taken over by a subsidiary, but it is still alive and kicking as in yahoo7.com.au
Hey jeff
I was planning to make a photography portfolio website. Do you think this hosting is suitable and the platform.
Im just starting out, so on a budget
Jared
There are some awesome free themes for photography on the wordpress platform as well as on elegant themes and for sure, if your starting out , you can try Bluehost or godaddy from above. They will do the job
jeff