Good Host for WordPress Website

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Hello All,

I've been hosting with 123 Reg on a business package for a while and i'm tired of how slow my WordPress website loads.

When speaking to their support, it seems that you have to buy a VPN to have a decent loading speed.

Can anybody suggest a good host for a WordPress website?

The website currently takes 6 seconds to load on 123 Reg.
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  • You probably have a bloated site. WP is bloated, fat, slow, and
    full of junk.

    No web host in 2013 should be telling you such nonsense.

    Find a local host that you can talk to in person. Best advice
    anyone can get if they really want good hosting. Local,
    independent hosts give the best service.

    Either that or code by hand, use a real CMS, etc.

    Paul
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    • Did you try wp super cache or quick cache
  • Based on personal experience, I can recommend both Hosting Source and Blue Host for WordPress.
  • I have been using HostGator for a very long time, and never had any issues.
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    • Same here, or CROC host, which is a canadian web host.

      Not had one single problem with either web host.

      Regards,

      Lee
  • Mind posting a link to your site or possibly PM'ing a link to me? I'd love to take a look and make any recommendations.
  • Take any lowest plan over any hosting provider. I think that would be enough for WP as they dont make much queries with DB etc to make hosting load a lot...
  • Go for Digitalocean cloud hosting. They offer very cheap linux servers. I normally host my all wordpress websites here with having my website loading within 1-2 seconds. ( with the help of varnish and caching )
  • Synthesis Web Hosting.

    It's hosting built specifically to accommodate Wordpress. I switched to them about 6 months ago and my load time went from something like 8 seconds to almost instant.

    I'm on the Advanced plan which is $147 but comfortably deals with my traffic of 150,000 page views per day. And in the 6 months I've been with them I think my website has been down once - for about 3 minutes.

    James
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    • Try speedhost.in, I have a couple of sites hosted with them and they offer good packages for linux or windows with unlimited space and bandwidth. I never faced any issues with speed or watsoever and all my sites are running on WP platform.
  • I always doubt to take the web hosting with the domain registrars. There are complaining about hosting with the companies who specialize in Domain Registration.

    VPN is not for speeding up your site. It's for surfing the net by using other location virtually etc.
    It should CDN - Content Delivery Network.

    You should be fine with shared hostings such Hostgator, BlueHost, etc... if your site doesn't have large amount of traffic.

    To improve, you could reduce CPU/Memory consumption by using Cache plugins such W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache, Optimize your images , ... etc

    Check out sites like GTmetix or Pingdom Tool to see the site performance and recommendation to optimize your site speed.

    If you really want the hosting dedicated to Wordpress, These 2 hosts, WPEngine & Synthesis, will be your best bet as well MediaTemple. But, I doubt about their hight price.

    You should not host your site with the Companies who specialize in Domain Registrar.
  • Thank you for the suggestions guys, I think i'll try host gator again.

    I spoke to 123 reg support and apparently Super Cache actually worsens the speed due to it being shared, I did test this and it's true. It took 9 seconds with Super Cache.

    My website is a simple text page with a revolution slider on the top.
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    • That's insane unless you have an outdated version. How exactly did you test this? Keep in mind it will slow down a bit while it rebuilds the cache. I'd enable it and then test a few hours later after browsing your entire site.

      We have always recommended WP Supercache and after having some customers with 100+ page sites loaded with small images and static content, the loads on their servers & load times were drastically decreased.

      I'd also recommend looking into a CDN in addition, such as CloudFlare.
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