Best WordPress Hosting? WP Engine vs Kinsta vs SiteGround (and more)

[@marcoanello891]

Hi Tony, thank you for your excellent content. We'd greatly appreciate your advice on how Cloudways with Vultr HF server(s) compares to Kinsta and Pressidium for a WP internationally available site. Image file handling will be our main issue, likely mostly solved via CDN provided by 5CentCDN (Enterprise level). Scalability is also of great importance to us, so Pressidium's "no single-point-of-failure, Load Balanced Fault Tolerant High-Availability Architecture" platform sounds extremely comforting, but is it unique among these competitors? Also, as relative technical newbies, we would be in trouble without excellent support. We know the brick-and-mortar side of things well, but not the tech side, so your advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Hi Marco. It's my opinion that load balancing isn't necessary unless you expect a high volume of traffic at one time (like 1,000+ per minute), or consistent high volumes of traffic. While this might be the case for your website, if it's not, this isn't an important feature. To answer your question, I don't think most hosting providers offer this feature, so if this is important to you then I would lean towards Pressidium. For a website where you have a global audience, a CDN will be the most important feature as you have mentioned. Pressidium does have some amount of CDN bandwidth built in, but it looks like you already have a CDN provider picked out. In general, if cost weren't an issue and because you stated that you are not technical, I'd choose a managed WordPress provider (like Kinsta or Pressidium) over a managed VPS provider (i.e. Cloudways). In my experience, Cloudways has good support, but Kinsta's support is top-notch. I don't have as much personal experience with Pressidium support. There's a lot of variables, but that's the best answer I can give with the information I have. Please let me know if you have other questions!

[@marcoanello891]

@@TonyTeachesTech Thank you so much for your valuable guidance, Tony... very much appreciated. We'll definitely keep watching your excellent videos and we'll undoubtably ask more questions relatively soon. You're awesome!

[@kcdrummaster]

Great Video, Thanks! My Wordpress site uses a poorly written Plugin, but it crucial to my sites existence. I'm on my second Managed WP Host, currently 20i, but I'm still not happy with the performance. Do you think creating an AWS environment using Elastic Beanstalk, EC2 Server, Separate RDS database for performance, and CloudFront as the CDN would be a good option?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

It seems like you did your research and that sounds like a viable solution (although I'm not that familiar with all of the technologies you listed). It definitely would be worth a shot to test out that setup and measure its performance. See how it does compared to your current setup and/or another managed WordPress host... a lot of them have at least a 30 day money-back trial period.

[@kcdrummaster]

@@TonyTeachesTechThanks. I have a little experience with AWS, but overall, it'd be a bit of a learning curve to get it all done and working successfully. I've used your SiteGround referral and bought a years worth of the middle option (Grow Big). I see it comes with Clowdflare's Railgun feature which is usually only available on the Cloudflair Business option ($200 pm) so seems like it may be a good choice. If not, I'll try the AWS option. You have a nice selection of videos on the exact topics i'm researching at the moment, so it was a nice find. Thanks

[@TonyTeachesTech]

@@kcdrummaster I'm also having an internal debate with myself of: do I use an established managed WordPress host or do I spin up a VPS and DIY. I think you're right though that it's a big learning curve and lots of maintenance to take the DIY approach. I'm leaning towards "not reinventing the wheel" and leaving it up to the pros. I'll continue to research my options and publish my finding on here. I appreciate the feedback Kelvin. SiteGround is a good option.

[@emrecullu]

What do you think about Google Cloud? I think it is free if you have low traffic website.

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Already made a video about free hosting on GCP kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGaZgXptht2dfKs Like you said, this will work for very low traffic websites. You are limited to 1 GB of network data per month.

[@BrantK147]

What about CloudWays?

[@ravi-gadhiya]

overall SG is best option 👍, Thanks

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Good balance between performance and price

[@janali1]

i searched a lot about pressidium but didn't find many reviews on youtube, only yours. why is that so?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

I'm not sure exactly, but they are fairly new (2014)

[@BironClark]

Great video

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Thanks!

[@holliecapel1525]

Out of curiosity who do you use to host your site? And what webuilder do you use for your WordPress?

[@TonyTeachesTech]

Right now I'm using WPX for most of my websites, Kinsta for 1, and Namecheap and Dreamhost for a few other. (I have a lot of website lol)

[@holliecapel1525]

@@TonyTeachesTech lol fair enough I really like you're videos nice and simple I have a site on wix and looking to move to WordPress, wix just ain't good enough to many issues with java script etc. from what I've seen so far I'm going to use siteground as my host, generate press for my theme stil unsure what webuilder plugin to use yet 🤔

[@TonyTeachesTech]

@@holliecapel1525 I've always wanted to check out Wix and compare it to WordPress. I'm sure they both have their pros and cons. I can confidently recommend GeneratePress. I use that across most of my websites. Depending on how "custom" you want your website, you might be able to get away with just GeneratePress without a page builder plugin