What's the Best Host For WordPress sites
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Our site has gone down twice in a week...hosted by Fat Cow. So we're going to switch hosts this week.
We currently have 2 WP sites on a Fat Cow VPS. 8 GB file size and 2 GB data transfer monthly. We use a CDN and video hosting company (Wistia) so the file sizes are small. I've contacted several hosts and narrowed it down to WP Engine, Rack Space and A Small Orange.
I care about fast page load time (1 second), 99.999% up-time and great support. Price is a secondary concern.
I'm leaning towards WP Engine, but wanted to ask Moz community before making a decision. Any other hosting companies I should call?
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I've set up WP sites on both A Small Orange and WP Engine. I like them both a lot, but WP Engine is my favorite. The extra cost is recouped in time not spent doing constant backups, installing updates, jumping through hoops to set up redirects, etc.
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Branden,
My company has spent a lot of time evaluating different hosting companies. We finally settled on these guys: http://pressable.com/
Here are the reasons we selected them:
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Really easy to use interface for the developers as well as good backup/restoration tools
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automatic patch updates and testing
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Quick support response
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Extensive f5 load balancing network through Rackmount to improve performance
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Rackmount is physical back end so there is easy integration with any of Rackmount's higher end hosted database services etc,, if needed.
We are still in progress but we are moving all of our clients sites to this platform. We have been with them as our primary provider for about a year.
Ron
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My two suggestions for a WordPress specific site would be WP Engine or Pagely.
Pagely is a smaller company, but they have excellent speed, uptime, and service. They also have a deal going on right now for "Cyber Monday": http://blog.pagely.com/2013/12/cyber-monday-12-days-pagely/
You can't go wrong with either WP Engine or Pagely.
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I have about 30 sites hosted at Heart Internet and never have any issues.
I have some on shared hosting VPS packages and I have some on VPS and Dedicated.
Even on the hosting packages you can have things like custom php.ini
Plus there are no bandwidth restrictions.Check their site out all the information is there.
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Sign up for the hosting reseller package as it allows you to manage unlimited domains for one price and discounts on VPS and dedicated.Goof luck
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