How to choose a hosting service for wordpress
How to choose a hosting service for wordpress
Choosing a hosting service
Having a simple website will allow you to consider a basic package, such as a budget one, about 1-6 USD / month. A simple website can hold at least a few hundreds users easily, adding the fact that you will install a cache plugin like wp-super-cache or w3-total-cache, this will increase the numbers that will allow you to have to a few thousands.
What I said so far is related to shared service, where shared services means that you will be hosting the same website with the same other clients on the server, and believe me that there are at least 200 other users with each of them with at least 1 website.
Normal shared or Business shared?
What’s the difference between normal shared service and Business shared service ?
On a normal shared hosting service the hosting company will usually have around 200-300 hosting accounts, on an average, it is 200. On a Business shared service, the number of clients is limited, allowing the existing clients to use more resources from the server. That’s is the difference in Normal Shared and Business shared account.
By default, wordpress will not use a lot of resources, adding a caching plugins will reduce the load even more, making it really light.
However, if the traffic continues to grow a dedicated service like a VPS/VDS server or just a dedicated server will be needed.
Tips for optimizing wordpress
The first and foremost thing you need to consider is installing a plugin that will cache your pages and serve them as static content. This allow you to use only http connections instead of connecting each time to the mysql server to query for each article. Also you are making use of the users browser so this is also something that you should know.
What I’m using and I found it the best so far is wp-super-cache, I also mentioned this a little above. You can also use w3-total-cache which is really good and you can set a lot of options and is compatible with almost all servers out there.
I wrote in another article how to optimize your wordpress blog further, so you can follow that article to optimize your wordpress.
Where can I find Business Class shared hosting service ?
As I said before, there are some shared hosting services that are more expensive and allow more resources allocated per each account. This is an alternative for users who do not want to go into a dedicated service or server or believe they will not be able to manage their dedicated service.
What I recommend and used so far without problems is SecureSignup.net Business Class shared service . The premium shared hosting service is also really good.
You can also look at premium class hosting service from Ohio, USA, the service is also really good and haven’t seen any complains.