We’ve worked with most of the popular server companies and have a few favorites we’d like to share with you.
Updated: October 13th, 2024
Hosting for Mission-Critical Startup Sites
If you have a mission-critical site that always needs to be fast no matter what, you'll need dedicated server resources. Shared servers (no matter what they claim), suffer from something called the 'noisy neighbor effect', which is where your site slows down because someone on the same server you are sharing eats up all the server resources.
If you absolutely can't tolerate a slow-down from time to time, then you should be on a dedicated server.
This can mean a few things, traditionally it meant a physical (on-metal) server. These days it means dedicated resources on a cloud server which you don't share with anyone.
Best Premium Servers for fully managed Wordpress Sites
If you are using WordPress as your CMS, our current recommendation is Kinsta.
WPEngine has been our favorite wordpress host for many years (and we still like them), but recently they have been called out by Automattic for not contributing to WordPress core as much as they should.
The company that made wordpress (Automattic) also has server solutions. Because of the recent turmoil turned legal battle between them and WPEngine, we are currently not recommending either company to our clients.
Hosting for smaller projects
If you’re starting small project and you are on a budget, there's a ton of servers that will charge you less than $10/mo. Those all suck! Some of the are downright dangerous in that they can be hard to transfer your site off of, or they are insecure and out of date and your site can get hacked.
Best Small Project Hosting (Wordpress Sites)
- https://kinsta.com/?kaid=PKNVJFMLZSVK
- Runner Up: Siteground is also great for small personal sites, we'd use it for small personal blogs or anything where the budget is super tight
Free Hosting for Startups? What!?
What if we told you you could host a static site for free. It's true, there are actually a few options here. It can be done with github pages, Kinsta or with render.
These need some more setup work, also you can't use them with dynamic content management systems like Wordpress, but if you have a static site or want to use a static site generator along with a headless cms, these could be good options for you.
