I’m currently looking into a new hosting package for Search Engine Journal and reviewing the recommended Wordpress hosting companies as provided by Wordpress.
Their top Wordpress Hosting recommendations which I am looking into are as follow:
Yahoo Small Business Wordpress Hosting :
Focus on posting to your blog, not managing it. Let Yahoo! Web Hosting and WordPress take the pain out of blog hosting and administration so you can concentrate on what matters most: your message and your audience.
* 200 / 400 / 500 GB data transfer per month
* Support for up to 1 million page views per day
* 5 / 10/ 20 GB disk space for your posts, graphics, and more
* Support for PHP, Perl, and MySQL
* 24-hour toll-free phone support
WordPress Auto-Install, 10 GB disk storage, FREE Domain Name, 2500 POP / WebMail addresses, 200 GB/mo transfer, Host 6 Domains on 1 Account, 20 Subdomains, 50 mySQL databases, Free Control Panel, Free Fantastico, 24/7 Network Monitoring, 99% Uptime Guarantee, Mirrored Storage Backups, No hidden fees, Voted Best Support in 2004.
WordPress auto-install and upgrade, 20GB disk storage, 1000GB bandwidth, free domain, unlimited databases, 3000 email accounts, unlimited domain forwarding, Jabber support.” Dreamhost supports mod_security. (They call it “extra web security” in their control panel.)
Before taking the dive, if any readers have recommendations on web hosting solutions for a high profile high traffic Wordpress Blog, please feel free to list them below in the comments.
Better yet, if you have dealt with any of these companies, your reviews and experiences are very welcome. Thanks!
Hi Loren,
what do you think about this plan…
* » SPACE = 10 GB
* » BANDWIDTH = 50 GB
* » DOMAINS ALLOWED = 50
* » SUBDOMAINS UNLIMITED
* » MSSQL DATABASES UNLIMITED
* » MYSQL DATABASES UNLIMITED
* » ASP,ASP.NET,PHP & XML SUPPORTED
It would be great to visit this site at least once… It’s cheap and affordable.
managed dedicated hosting :p
But Sushubh, what are the perks to dedicated?
I mean, it seems like management would be a large time crunch.
Oh, man. I used that same list and was very disappointed. Stay away from those.
After months of looking, I finally found Mosso and really like them. I wrote about them here.
perks?
u get the WHOLE server resources.
you decide what runs on it.
you customise it to ur site’s requirement.
you control the restart button.
bad things?
expensive
can be cumbersome
would take sometime away from blogging…
overall, the experience can be much better than dealing with shared hosting which would ultimately fail to serve popular websites.
you can’t go wrong with dreamhost or bluehost. I tend to lean towards dreamhost.
I use dreamhost. It’s fine, to me, and I was pleased by a good help desk support while struggling with the transfer of a domain I own. I can’t say anything about “high volumes” anyway. Just my 2 cents.
Ciao, f.
I’m also satisfied with Dreamhost, and just recommended them to a fellow blogger (hi PS) who’s had enough with Yahoo hosting.
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I’d stay away from Yahoo! I had a client that tried, and the optimal word is tried, to use Yahoo! for WP hosting. Google “Yahoo Hosting”+”Wordpress” and you’ll see what I mean.
Also, I emailed them once about a question, this was like 4 months ago, still haven’t heard back so their customer service is, uh, lacking.
I’ve been hearing great things about “A Small Orange” hosting.
TextDrive – there servers are well configured to withstand a slashdot / digg onslaught.
My brother has a site hosted by Dreamhost – he says they’re excellent. Chris Pearson says MidPhase is the best choice for WP. Who decides?
I point to .
I point to some reasons to like Dreamhost
34sp.com have continually hosted all my wordpress blogs, prices start at £17 for the year with all the necessary bits as standard.
Cant be beaten and easy to upgrade if needed.
I have hosted wordpress on a friends server as well as a second domain with Yahoo as kind of a pilot test for possible migration and recently decided against Yahoo basically because I wanted to host multiple domains on a single account with a single monthly fee. I also limited my choices to those recommended on the Wordpress site and decided to go with Bluehost. I was very impressed with them right away and have since moved over to them entirely. They have a very clean setup, have snappy (yea I said that) servers, and good support. I couldn’t be happier.
Well you can’t really beat DreamHost right now, if not for anything other than their use of mod_Security.
I’m hosted there and love it.