What you need to know when buying hosting for WordPress website

Peter
Peter
Aug 8, 2017 · 3 min read

Nowadays, WordPress is the world’s leading open CMS. This is also a main platform with 28% of the web using. They’re from personal hobby blogs to the biggest news websites online. For many hosting providers, WordPress is really a fat profit if they know how to take advantage of the opportunity. So that, there’re many WordPress hosting services appear continuously day by day. Then, how to choose a quality hosting for WordPress website is now a big problem.

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Hence, in this article I will introduce to all you guys some points related to hosting for WordPress website. If you’re interested in about this then lets read to the end of this post.

Some basic requirements when buying hosting for WordPress website

WordPress works based on PHP and MySQL. So that, in order to work smoothly and have effective, you should choose hosting that have at least points below:

  • PHP version 5.2.4 or higher (recommend: PHP version 5.7 or higher)
  • MySQL version 5.0 or higher (recommend: MySQL version 5.6 or higher)

Read more: Guide to install WordPress on cPanel hosting

You can check these 2 parameters easily on cPanel as the image below

WordPress also encourages people using Apache webserver or Nginx webserver. They’re both powerful servers and have most features to run WordPress smoothly. However you can use any other types of webserver that have PHP and MySQL installed & supported.

Besides, you should consider some points below when choosing a web hosting (shared hosting)

  • 99% Uptime Guarantee
  • As much bandwidth as possible
  • The more disk space the better
  • The higher CPU limits the better
  • Have SMTP email sending supported
  • 24/7 support with quick response
  • Daily automatically backup (or weekly)
  • Have Apache mod_rewrite module supported, to use “pretty permalinks” and multi-site
  • Have Softaculous supported, to quick install many scripts, apps

Read more: Guide to install WordPress on cPanel hosting using Softaculous

You also need to check carefully about reviews that other customers wrote for the hosting service you’re going to buy. These reviews will help you much in your decision.

Nowadays, most hosting providers that have Linux hosting plans can meet all those WordPress requirements. But there’re some more points that you need to consider

Your server’s location

Firstly, you need to determine that who are your potential audiences and where do they come from? That means you need to know where are your main traffic sources from, or which are main countries that have much traffic to your website.

If you see that you have much traffic from US then your website should be placed on servers located at US. This will ensure that your website’s loading time is fast and reliable.

Google said that the server location is not important and not affect in SEO. But you can realize that it affects strongly on your website’s loading time. And the loading time is one of the most important factor in SEO. So that you need to make sure that visitors access to your site as fast as possible.

Some other factors you need to consider too

Mod Security: to help your site more safer
Dedicated IP: to help you many things in SEO, SMTP email and avoiding spam problems.
Automatically & Real-time Backup: to help your site more safer and avoid loosing your important database
SSD Drive: to increase the read/write data time to disk more faster
Cache Services: to help your site responses faster and increase the load capacity

Conclusion

Choosing a right web hosting for your WordPress website is not easy. So that you need to do it carefully. Compare many guys each other and read more reviews about each of them. To help you guys about this, I have this article about best WordPress hosting review. I think this will help you in your choice.

Good luck to you,


Originally published at ecoupon.io on August 8, 2017.

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