Top 10 Best Hosting Providers 2021

Best Web Hosting Providers

Pricing and value for money — number of plans, price range, money-back guarantees.

Uptime — the amount of time that your website is live and accessible to visitors, expressed as a percentage.

Help and support — what support channels are available, and are they any good?

Best overall hosting provider

Best overall hosting provider

Bluehost Pros

Bluehost Cons

Bluehost’s three shared hosting plans are Basic, Plus, and Prime, all of which come with 100GB of disk space and 99.98% uptime. Signing up gets you a free domain, free backups, and access to cPanel, which is very handy for managing your site hosting. It’s fully optimized for WordPress websites, and has been recommended by WordPress itself since 2005!

Bluehost also offers 24/7 phone, live chat, and email support. We tested it ourselves and found that the live chat assistants were quick to respond with the information we needed.

Bluehost excelled in our customer service research, surpassing our expectations by 9% and beating out HostGator, A2 Hosting, and InMotion.

The live chat team’s quick, informative responses helped Bluehost stand out from the competition, surpassing our expectations the most compared to the three other providers we tested. Bluehost is a strong option if help and support are a priority for you.

Bluehost Lets You Switch For Free!

Okay, we know a lot of other web hosts offer free migration too. But Bluehost is our top-rated provider, and its free WordPress migration service just helps to sweeten the deal. All you have to do is sign up for your chosen plan, fill out the free migration form, and then let Bluehost’s team of migration experts take care of the rest!

Bluehost’s professional migration service usually costs $149.99 (for up to five sites), so having your WordPress site migrated free of charge is a real steal. It’s safe, it’s quick, it’s easy — and it’s free!

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Bluehost lets you migrate one WordPress website using its free professional migration service. Learn more about its migration services today!

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Bluehost is ideal for new WordPress sites, too. It’s been optimized for WordPress since 2014 and offers a one-click setup. Our guide will show you just how simple setup is!

Check out the cheapest introductory price for each hosting type, compared to the cheapest renewal price, below:

Bluehost’s Basic shared plan can be a bit restrictive to larger sites, but for most, it’s a great option. SSL, unlimited bandwidth, and 99.98% uptime come with each plan, so it’s really just a question of how much scalability you need.

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Best for uptime

HostGator Pros and Cons

HostGator has three shared web hosting plans: Hatchling, Baby, and Business. Although features obviously ramp up with each, the baseline offerings are strong. All plans come with unlimited disk space, 99.99% uptime (the best guarantee of any provider), and 24/7 support. HostGator takes these commitments seriously: if it falls short on uptime, you’ll get one month of credit added to your account.

The Business plan comes with free SSL, but for Hatchling and Baby, you’ll need to select SSL as an add-on (or not deselect it, to be more accurate). The variety of top-level domains (.com, .org, .tech, etc.) you can acquire as part of signing up is also impressive, though, for more niche domains like .art or .coffee, you’ll need to go to a registrar like Domain.com and register the domain separately.

Like most web hosting services, HostGator gets cheaper the more time you commit to it. Check out the cheapest introductory and renewal prices below:

A sound approach is to sign on for a month and see how the service holds up to your needs. If you’re impressed, you can renew on a longer-term contract. If not, you’re in a position to look elsewhere, and won’t be out of pocket. Just know that HostGator is no different from other web hosting services in terms of pricing commitments — and with this provider, you can rest assured that you’re committing to great service.

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Best for shared and VPS hosting

InMotion Pros

InMotion Cons

All InMotion accounts come with unlimited bandwidth and disk space. While most other companies provide limitless bandwidth across the board, unlimited disk space is rarely included in the lowest tiered pricing plans. This is a big reason why we’ve rated InMotion’s shared and VPS plans so highly. You’ll also receive free SSL, free backups, and hack protection.

InMotion prides itself on its customer support. Employees are armed with over 160 hours of training and are available via phone, live chat, and email.

InMotion offers three shared hosting plans: Lite (an exclusive plan just for WBE users!) Launch, Power, and Pro. The Launch and Power shared plans start at $4.99/month and $7.99/month, respectively, while the Pro shared plan starts at $12.99/month. InMotion’s Launch plan is ideal for hosting small business or personal websites.

That said, InMotion offers a lot more than just shared plans:

• WordPress hosting: $4.99 per month, renews at $7.99 per month
• VPS hosting: $22.99 per month, renews at $34.99 per month
• Dedicated hosting: $75.69 per month, renews at $129.99/month

InMotion is reasonably priced, but its 90-day money-back guarantee is where this provider really exceeds the limits of most competitors.

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• Anytime money-back guarantee
• Windows servers available on shared hosting plans
• Excellent cloud hosting plans
• Priced higher than larger companies like and
• Automated coupon code discounts are confusing

A2 Hosting offers both Windows and Linux shared hosting plans. Linux hosting is more common and best for basic sites like blogs. The starting Linux plan comes with unlimited storage and data transfer, free SSL security, and SSD storage for your website.

A2 Hosting offers decent introductory and renewal prices for each hosting type. We’ve summarized the cheapest prices below:

A2 Hosting also offers an anytime money-back guarantee, but this does come with some fine print: you get a full refund for the first 30 days, and a prorated refund any time after that.

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Best for green web hosting

Pricing plans from $2.95 a month

Best for green web hosting

GreenGeeks Pros and Cons

GreenGeeks Pros

GreenGeeks Cons

GreenGeeks offers shared WordPress, VPS, and reseller hosting. Often the main thing people note about GreenGeeks is its impressive 300% renewable energy match, but it’s also generous with its hosting features.

Every GreenGeeks plan comes with cPanel, unlimited MySQL databases, unlimited email accounts, and a drag-and-drop website builder. On top of that, all GreenGeeks’ shared plans all come with unlimited bandwidth and SSD storage, plus free domain registration.

Check out GreenGeeks’ cheapest prices for each hosting type (along with renewal prices) below:

All GreenGeeks plans come with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

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SiteGround Pros and Cons

SiteGround Pros

SiteGround Cons

Much like Bluehost, WordPress websites and SiteGround go hand-in-hand. SiteGround offers WordPress hosting at every plan level and deals with updates automatically. You’ll also get a WordPress hosting command line manager on every plan for extra support.

But it’s not just WordPress that makes SiteGround so impressive. This adaptive provider offers dedicated packages and one-click installations for many different content management systems. If you’re looking to move from an existing host, SiteGround will also let you transfer for free on any of its plans.

SiteGround’s cheapest shared plan is StartUp at $6.99/month. The next step up is GrowBig, which comes in at $9.99/month. GoGeek is the most advanced shared plan and costs $14.99/month. These promotional starting prices will increase in time to $14.99, $24.99, and $39.99, respectively.

We recommend starting with a shared plan, but SiteGround offers other types of hosting, too:

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Best for extra features

Best for Extra Features

GoDaddy Hosting Pros and Cons

GoDaddy Pros

GoDaddy Cons

Although its support has improved in recent years, GoDaddy is still lagging behind its competitors in this area. Its live chat feature isn’t available around-the-clock, but GoDaddy’s 24/7 phone support is very good.

GoDaddy’s cheapest introductory and renewal prices are as follows:

*This is GoDaddy’s cheapest VPS hosting plan, which only offers 1 vCPU and 1GB RAM, which is not sufficient to run a control panel. The second-cheapest plan, which comes with 2 vCPU, is more reflective of VPS capabilities and prices. It starts at $19.99 per month and renews at $29.99 per month.

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Best for discounted pricing

Best for discounted pricing

Hostinger Pros and Cons

Hostinger Pros

Hostinger Cons

Hostinger has proven itself to be a fast hosting provider, with servers spread out across seven countries. However, uptime is a bit of a low point. While we really respect that Hostinger is transparent about server performance, its uptime guarantee of 99.90% is considerably less than the industry-standard 99.97–99.98%.

Disk space is essentially your website’s storage. If you’re planning on having a fairly simple, “static” website, this won’t be a problem. However, if you want to post regularly, or add a lot of “heavy” media (like high-res images and videos), you may find you’re having to upgrade pretty regularly.

Hostinger offers plans starting from just $0.99, which is unbelievably cheap. The catch? You need to commit to a 48-month contract to lock in this deal. Still, at a total cost of $47.52, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee, this isn’t such a daunting commitment. Even after the initial promotional period is over, the renewal cost is just $2.99/month — significantly cheaper than pretty much any other provider. Check out the introductory and renewal prices of Hostinger’s cheapest plans below:

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Best for cheap plans but at the cost of speed

iPage may only have one web hosting plan, but it does vary in cost. The price is dependent on how long you sign up for: for example, if you commit to a three-year deal, you can pay as little as $2/month. After the initial period, however, this price renews at $8/month.

Two-year signups cost $2.50/month and then renew at $9/month, while one-year signups cost $3/month and renew at $10/month.

Dreamhost Pros and Cons

DreamHost Pros

DreamHost Cons

DreamHost’s shared plans offer a free domain, unlimited bandwidth, one-click WordPress install, and a free SSL certificate. If you upgrade from the Shared Starter plan to the Shared Unlimited plan, you’ll also get an unlimited email from your domain.

DreamHost offers a 97-day money-back guarantee on its shared hosting plans and a 30-day guarantee for other hosting types. DreamHost’s low-end price ranges are as follows:

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Best for big businesses

Pricing plans from $35/month

Best for big businesses

WPEngine Pros

WPEngine Cons

As you may have guessed from its name, WPEngine is exclusively a WordPress hosting platform. Its four hosting plans are geared toward large business websites, and while the first three come at a fixed price, WPEngine’s “Custom” fourth plan requires you to get in touch for a quote.

WPEngine’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) support is its most interesting feature. This is a backend service that helps deliver your website to users around the world through a geographically diverse network of servers. On top of all that, WPEngine works automatically with WordPress to keep you up to date and performs daily automated site backups.

WPEngine plans aren’t cheap. But if you’re running a big business website on WordPress, you’ll be in great hands. Prices are as follows:

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Originally published at https://www.techconnecttechnologies.com on December 31, 2020.