EPISODE · Feb 15, 2021 · 7 MIN

Godaddy vs Siteground vs Kinsta vs Cloudways

from BarrazaCarlos.com Digital Marketing, Entrepreneurship & Professional Development · host Carlos Alberto Barraza Lopez

As a blogger, once you keep walking on this path, one big question that arisses for the website builders is, which Hosting is the best one for WordPress? The thing is, that as you start, you have no clue to decide which WordPress hosting to choose. There are hundreds of different hosting service providers, that all offer and say to be the best one. Well, just reading their websites is not the best way to decide. They all proclaim to have fast connection, good prices and so on. I am not a full web developer engineer, but certainly I have learned what has worked and what has not worked among the different WordPress Hosting Services. I will talk about Godaddy vs Siteground vs Kinsta vs Cloudways, since those are the hosting services that I have used. Of course there might be another good and better services, but probably at different prices. When I started in this WordPress Blogging world, I started with Godaddy. Godaddy has been one of the most known services for domain and hosting for websites. Godaddy had also very cheap hosting services, and as a small blogger this might be one thing to consider, the price. But eventually, as I kept learning, and as I kept knowing more about WordPress, Godaddy hosting was really slow. It was getting frustrating, the speed that I was achieving. So eventually I searched for more wordpress hosting reviews, and found about Siteground. I bought Siteground 3 years GoGeek plan since it was offering multiple website hosting, email hosting and they had a good discount. I think it was during cyber-monday. Godaddy vs Siteground, it was easy to win the fight here by Siteground. With Siteground, my website increased in speed, and I hosted more WordPress websites on it. I started to use Elementor on my website and that affected my website speed. The good thing of Siteground was that most of their Customer Service Tickets resolve pretty fast any issue, or they guide you. That is one of the best things I consider about Siteground, Customer Service. Eventually, I learned about what was the meaning of shared hosting, and how this can affect your speed. Many cloud services were starting to become popular. Plus, also listenting too much about Google Cloud Platform made me to have the desire to try Google Clouds Platform for WordPress Hosting. Since I am not any high tech guy, going into GCP was a bit confusing, and there were some Youtube tutorials that showed you how to use Google Cloud for one Year for free. Even Google Cloud Platform website recommended the managed services for WordPress, WPengine and Kinsta. I liked Kinsta website, it seem a good service. So I choose to try the first simple plan that costed around $30. The WordPress website speed was fast. And even to consider that I didn’t have it properly optimized, but for sure it could have even better numbers. I was happy with Kinsta, until I got to know their business. Kinsta counts the number of visits that you have on your website. If you exceed the number of visitors they will charge you. Of course, this will make you to consider jumping into a bigger plan. The thing is that I didn’t like that in that number of visits, Kinsta also take into account Bots Visits so this was a really pain in the ass. You have to pay for fake visitors. So I would say that don’t go for Kinsta. As I noticed this, I contacted their support, and of course they helped me to reduce the number of bots visits so that they are not taken into account. Eventually my website exceeded the number of visitors month after month, so I dropped Kinsta and went back to Siteground. To read full story visit: Godaddy vs Siteground vs Kinsta vs Cloudways