Top 3 Shared Hosting Providers For Starting A WordPress Blog

By Faruque Ahamed Mollick

There are a lots of shared hosting providers where you can start your WordPress blog. I have already tested a number of shared hosting providers and noticed their speed and performance for a WordPress blogging site. First time I installed a WordPress blog on BigRock in 2013. And then give a try on Godaddy in 2015. Then I tested Dreamhost, Siteground, Hostgator, Bluehost and a lots of other shared hosting providers. Well, I got this opportunity due to my work as a freelance WordPress developer. Client started their hosting plan on different hosting company and I have to work on their hosting plan. I am still working as a freelancer on Fiverr at the time of writing this post and learning a lots of new things about hosting during my freelancer work.

In this post I am going to tell you which 3 shared hosting providers are best to start a WordPress blog. Well I know that this is not easy to choose the 3 best shared hosting providers for a WordPress blog from a lots of hosting providers. But I have tried my best to choose and rank them as top 3. May be my ranking may not match with some other experts. But this ranking is according to my experience and after giving a lots of time in thinking.

According to me, the top 3 shared hosting providers for a WordPress blog is given below:

Top 3 Shared Hosting Providers For Starting A WordPress Blog

1. DreamHost

DreamHost is a award winning hosting providers that is in the industry since 1997 and host over 1.5 million websites, blogs and apps. They are now providing one click WordPress installer. This hosting provider is also recommended by official wordpress.org site for running a WordPress site. Well, I have checked WordPress on their shared hosting plan and I saw that it was really good for WordPress hosting. Speed and performance was also fine and reliable with nice up time. According to me DreamHost shared platform is really fantastic and best shared hosting provider for running a WordPress blog.

2. SiteGround

SiteGround is also a great shared hosting platform for a WordPress blog and recommended by official wordpress.org site like DreamHost. SiteGround has tools which help to manage WordPress sites easily. Some of these tools are one-click install, managed updates, WP-Cli, WordPress staging and git integration. I really like the page loading speed and server response time that SiteGround provide with a great up time. they also providing free site migrating for WordPress.

 3. Hostgator

Hostgator is one of the best shared hosting provider for WordPress blog with one click install WordPress feature. This hosting provider is great choice for you if you want to go with a shared hosting plan. Hostgator also has good up time with fast loading speed of WordPress blog.

In the end I want to say that I was really so confuse during choosing the best 3 shared hosting providers for WordPress blog site. At first I was confuse in thinking of that which one should be the first choice between DreamHost and SiteGround. After spending lots of time in thinking I choose DreamHost shared hosting as the best for WordPress and keep SiteGround in number 2. Also I was in a little bit of confuse with Hostgator and Bluehost. Bluehost is not in this list. But I was in confuse for thinking which one should I put in number 3. I also tested Bluehost and their shared hosting is also fantastic. In other hand Hostgator is also a great choice for anyone for its speed and performance with a nice up time. After thinking a lots of time I choose Hostgator. But I always recommend Bluehost also and if you want to start your WordPress blog on Bluehost then your choice is always welcome.