If you decided to start creating your first website or blog in 2022, you will certainly choose to use WordPress. What's more logical when you know that this CMS has 64.1% of market shares websites created on the basis of a CMS in 2021 according to a study carried out by W3Techs.
Okay, you've found the best CMS for your site, but do you know where you're going to host? Do you know what a real WordPress host is and above all, How to choose him?
No? That's good, that's exactly what we're going to see in this article. Here are some things you might consider when choosing your future WordPress hosting.
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Optimized servers for WordPress for better performance
Unfortunately, today, many hosts having gable on street clament high and strong that they offer WordPress hosting offers. However, this is often a more marketing than a technical argument.
It is important to know that you are completely free to install WordPress on any server and therefore at any host. However, this does not mean that all servers are equivalent.
Some hosters have thought to optimize in depth the settings of their servers so that they can support and provide optimal performance for your WordPress site. While other hosts preferred to use this marketing argument without making any further efforts alongside it. As a result, it may happen that you subscribe to a cheap, even very expensive WordPress hosting offer, and that your blog is slow despite everything...
So think about reading the arguments of all WordPress hosts in order to understand what they did concretely on their infrastructure for improve speed loading your WordPress and other sites.
A simple and complete management panel to manage your WordPress instances
If you are new to creating websites or want to save time in the daily management of your WordPress instances, it is essential to choose a host that offers a simple set-up panel to take in hand. This will allow you to manage your sites from A to Z independently.
Today, the interface that allows the best is, in my opinion, cPanel. Indeed, cPanel allows you to manage everything by your care and is easy to understand. For example, with this hosting control panel, you can:
- Create and manage your mailboxes
- manage your domains (DNS areas) and subdomains
- install your SSL certificates
- create your databases
- Download, edit, compress, uncompress your files with File Manager
- have access to a Terminal to run SSH command lines
- choose your version of PHP based on what host makes available to you
- etc.
Unfortunately, in recent years, cPanel has gradually increased the price of its control panel. As a result, some hosting companies, in order to preserve their margin and the rates they offered their customers, decided to switch to using a house management panel. It is therefore a software that they have developed internally. However, these home solutions are not always as complete and effective as cPanel in fact.
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Installation of WordPress in one click
Most WordPress hosts provide their clients with tools to install WordPress (or other CMS) in a few clicks almost automatically. This avoids having to go through the step, a little more technical, from the manual installation of WordPress, for example.
One of the most used tools by WordPress hosts with cPanel is Softaculous. For the simple reason that Softaculous allows to install more than a hundred CMS. This ranges from the best known CMS to the most specific CMS. This tool therefore covers the vast majority of the needs of users wishing to quickly install the CMS of their choice.
Recently, some WordPress hosts having cPanel have even made available to their customers the tool WordPress Toolkit. This is the case with EasyHoster Host, for example.
WordPress Toolkit allows you to easily install, manage and configure your WordPress sites. With this tool, you can:
- manage your admin access (passwords)
- manage your databases
- automatically enhance WordPress security (hardening)
- manage all your plugins
- manage your WordPress theme
- update your CMS, plugins and theme
- manage indexing your site in search engines
- clone your site with one click
- Put your site in maintenance mode
- repatriate a backup from your site
- set up server CRONs more effective than WordPress CRONs
- etc.
In short, as you can see, some WordPress hosters do not hesitate to put in place different tools on their infrastructures that will facilitate you the daily task if you have many WordPress sites or if you start with this CMS.
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Will technical support be able to answer your questions on WordPress?
It is essential to ask yourself this question before choosing your WordPress hoster if you think you need assistance with WordPress.
Indeed, not all hosts propose to answer all the questions related to WordPress. Simply because, sometimes, their technical support is simply not formed in WordPress because they preferred to focus on mastering their hosting technologies first.
Can a WordPress host intervene on your site?
This is a service that some WordPress hosts can offer, such as EasyHoster. However, it is true that at present it is still not very widespread. Who knows? Maybe in 10 years all hosts will propose free interventions on WordPress.
At EasyHoster, since it is a human-sized host, they can provide small services free of charge if this can help their customers. Of course, they will not create your entire website for you, but can offer free interventions, depending on your hosting plan.
It can include troubleshooting errors or malfunctions on WordPress, cleaning and securing a WordPress site that has been hacked, and internal migration to EasyHoster...
Server availability (Uptime) above 99.99% publicly monitored
Uptime is the time the server is available. This is how long the server worked. This is totally different from time out errors visible on some websites. These relate to times when the website was not working properly.
For commercial reasons, it is quite common that low cost hosts are « forced » a) host a large number of people on each of their servers. A low cost hosting company can realize that it has put too many customers on one web server. This can be a problem because the resources used by these clients (such as memory, processor and disk space) can be superior to what the server can handle.
If the server is overused, this can result in an overload of the processor and RAM that can result in a slow down of the server or even a complete crash of the server. Which has an impact on the Uptime of this one.
So consider choosing a host that monitors (publicly, it's a plus) their servers to ensure that your website is not or will not be unavailable every 2 weeks due to overloading their server.
Reliable backup devices at all times
When choosing your WordPress hosting, it is essential to try to understand whether backups are included in the services of the host that you desire.
If there is their frequency, are they available at all times guaranteed and where are they stored? In the same data center or not?
For example, EasyHoster takes data security very seriously. They perform weekly backups of all hosting accounts, including sending copies to servers abroad. They also use a premium backup solution to regularly make full copies of their servers. This ensures that your data is always safe and that the host has a DRP (Disaster Recovery Plan).
The safety layers provided by the host
Depending on its profit margin, a Web hosting company will be able to provide its customers with a larger or smaller number of security layers. For example, a cheap hoster will seek to save money on software solutions in which it invests or not compared to a premium web host... Logical!
It is therefore essential to learn about the software security layers your host has put in place for you.
Has he set up a system against attacks Gross Force Specific to WordPress?
Has it put in place a system to enableprevent intrusions at the heart of WordPress?
Finally, how can you not be mistaken in choosing your future host?
When choosing your hosting plan, if you bother to scrutinize the following 7 criteria, you should really find THE right host for your project:
- The performances that host can bring to your WordPress site
- The host management interface
- Specific tools for WordPress to save time
- Technical support (answers to questions and free interventions on WordPress)
- Server Availability (Uptime)
- Backup your data
- And finally, the security of your data
Many web hosting providers will be perfect for you if your project consists of creating a network of small sites or creating a small blog. However, if you are a demanding client and you have an ambitious project, focus on these 7 criteria and make a choice accordingly.
If you are in doubt, consult the hosts whose speeches you like and ask them if they have a free refund policy or trial offer so that they can judge their services without taking a risk.
