WordPress optimized web hosting

[Ani-D]

Hi, firstly an awesome new year to everyone! I'm new here, so please forgive me if this has already been addressed. I am looking for a WordPress optimized web host. Also need WHM & CPanel. I have been looking at IveCloud, Domains.co.za and Host King, just doing a Google search. I am currently hosting with 1-Grid, who doesn't offer SSD storage and I find that my websites are very slow. Can anyone please be so kind to make recommendations.

 

[JOEY_8]

Domains.co.za is pretty good. I also really like Pressable but that does not have cPanel.

 

[Bryn]

Hi, firstly an awesome new year to everyone! I'm new here, so please forgive me if this has already been addressed. I am looking for a WordPress optimized web host. Also need WHM & CPanel. I have been looking at IveCloud, Domains.co.za and Host King, just doing a Google search. I am currently hosting with 1-Grid, who doesn't offer SSD storage and I find that my websites are very slow. Can anyone please be so kind to make recommendations.

SSD is the least of 1-Grid's problems. Genuinely the worst host I've come across, including GoDaddy.

I recommend Domains or Absolute Hosting. Both have excellent reputations. And I recommend DirectAdmin ahead of cPanel. cPanel is the devil imo.

 

[craigcul]

Absolute hosting is good they have packages specially for Wordpress also they use direct admin which does not have expensive licensing that CPanel has.

 

[Bryn]

Absolute hosting is good they have packages specially for Wordpress also they use direct admin which does not have expensive licensing slow server response times and hellish DNS that CPanel has.

Fixed.

 

[Zertop]

If you can, definitely setup Cloudflare in front of your WP site! There's a great plugin (WP Cloudflare Super Page Cache) that sorts out caching, timeous purging etc. Also, it's all free

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

Thanks @craigcul & @Bryn for the recommendation.

In addition to @Zertop's recommendation, we strongly recommend installing and setting up LiteSpeed WordPress Cache plugin which is available for free if your host runs enterprise version of Litespeed web server

LiteSpeed Cache

All-in-one unbeatable acceleration & PageSpeed improvement: caching, image/CSS/JS optimization...

wordpress.org

Heres the guide for setting up litespeed

Beginner's Guide | LSCache for WordPress | LiteSpeed Documentation

The Beginner's Guide to the LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress Plugin

docs.litespeedtech.com