The Best WordPress Hosting 2025: 20 Tested, 8 Recommended

To find the best WordPress hosting, we’ve purchased hosting accounts from 20 popular hosting providers, deployed identical test sites, and started monitoring their performance 24/7, 365 days a year. We started this project in 2020, and we now have over 5 years of historical performance data for most hosts. Based on the latest 2025 performance data:

The best WordPress hosting services are WordPress.com, GreenGeeks, Hostinger, Cloudways, WP Engine, Kinsta, and Pressable. We selected these hosts from 20 companies, eliminating slow-performing hosts and recommending only reliable, faster hosting providers. We’ve provided direct links to all our performance reports generated by the monitoring tools, giving you the utmost confidence in our data-driven reviews.

Best WordPress Hosting [Overall] – Hostinger

Hostinger is the best shared WordPress hosting for beginners and small businesses to get started. Their performance includes a strong TTFB of 491ms and an average load handling time of 247ms. We’ve tried their Business plan, which includes HostingerCDN, and the load handling response time is exceptionally fast at 31ms. This is on par with premium-priced hosts like WP Engine and Kinsta, which have a load test response time of 19ms and 27ms, respectively. Its uptime is 99.99% so far in 2025, the highest among the shared hosting providers we’ve tested.

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Hostinger doesn’t offer the fastest TTFB like GreenGeeks, but it has an exceptional uptime reliability of 99.99%. One of the most common issues with shared hosting services is inode limits: companies offer limited inodes per plan and try to upsell to a higher plan. But Hostinger offers the highest inodes of 400,000 to 2,000,000 among any of the companies in the industry. This alone makes Hostinger a solid choice for us to recommend.

What makes Hostinger well-suited for small business owners is its pricing. Small business owners are price-sensitive and expect the best value for money. Hostinger fits this category well with long-term introductory discounts and affordable renewal pricing. Their starter plan costs $2.99/month, which is similar to most shared hosting plans. However, Hostinger offers this pricing for a 48-month billing cycle, while most shared hosts limit these discounts to only 36 months.

Best For: Hostinger is best suited for most WordPress business sites that are just getting started. Their premium plan is recommended for low traffic sites, while we recommend the Business plan for sites with existing traffic, as CDN offers 10x faster load handling.

Best WordPress Hosting – GreenGeeks

GreenGeeks is our top recommended beginner-friendly WordPress hosting. It offers a strong TTFB of 418ms and an elite load handling time of 26ms, which is only slightly slower than WP Engine and better than every other host we’ve tested. Their uptime in 2025 stays at 99.98%.

Performance Metrics:

• TTFB: 417ms (Strong tier)
• Uptime: 99.98% (Strong)
• Load Test: 26ms (Elite handling)
• Performance Score: 8.8/10 (Very Good)

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What makes us believe GreenGeeks is the best WordPress host for beginners is their simplified cPanel. Let’s accept that cPanel is great, but it also feels bloated with too many options and steps to manage your sites. As a beginner, it takes some learning to understand cPanel and make changes. GreenGeek fixes this by offering a simplified dashboard that brings most cPanel features within one click.

Do you want to install WordPress, create a staging site, or need to create and manage new email accounts, as well as manage security features like installing SSL and managing DNS? Everything can be done in the GreenGeeks dashboard itself without logging into cPanel. With 10 years of industry experience, I see no other host that has managed to deliver this kind of simplified cPanel setup. With this approach, I strongly believe that GreenGeeks is the best WordPress hosting platform for beginners.

Best For: GreenGeeks is ideal for beginners, first-time WordPress users, bloggers, and environmentally conscious users, as well as anyone starting a WordPress site seeking a balanced performance, simplicity, and competitive pricing. GreenGeeks plants one tree for every new hosting account.

Best WordPress Hosting – WordPress.com

WordPress.com is the best WordPress hosting we’ve tested recently. It has outperformed GreenGeeks and Hostinger, which are our previous top picks. In October 2025, we conducted 43,800 tests, and WordPress.com clocked an average speed of 344ms and 100% uptime. It handles our load test with a 16ms response time. All the performance scores are the highest we’ve recorded among shared hosts, thanks to their fastest global edge-caching CDN and DNS. Their industry-first “automated datacenter failover” feature replicates your site in real time to its second datacenter. This ensures that if your primary data center goes down, the site will still remain live through its second data center. In this way, they offer a 99.999% uptime guarantee, the highest among any company. If performance is your priority, nothing beats WordPress.com as of now.

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Out of the 25 hosts we’ve tested so far, WordPress.com is the only one to offer the same renewal price across all its plans. The plan starts at $2.75/month and renews at the same rate, exclusively for Hostingstep customers. There are no visitor limits on any plans. You read it right, let the traffic be 1000 or 100,000 visitors, you can stay on the same plan with no overage fees. You’ll also get unlimited access to all their premium themes and plugins. The plans are differentiated based on features. The personal and premium plans don’t include developer tools like SFTP/SSH, WP-CLI, Git commands, and GitHub Deployments. The Business plan includes all these developer features, as well as the commerce plan recommended for e-commerce sites. We recommend personal or premium plans for bloggers, beginners, and hobbyists. If you are a business owner, go with a business plan for complete access and maximum value.

Best WordPress Hosting – WP Engine

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The best WordPress hosting overall is the WP Engine. It offers an elite TTFB performance of 354ms, the fastest among all the hosts we have tested. Their uptime also stands out, with 99.99% uptime as of the data collected from January to June 2025. The most impressive part of WP Engine is its load handling capacity. It handled our load test with a response time of just 19ms, outperforming all other hosts we’ve tested. In total, WP Engine surpassed all 17 other WordPress hosting providers in every performance metric.

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Honestly, we haven’t recommended WP Engine in the last four years due to its slow performance. However, things changed in mid-2024 with visible performance improvements across all the metrics. When they introduced Edge caching, TTFB improved immediately. However, I remained skeptical about the uptime percentage and load handling, which can’t be improved with edge caching alone. To my surprise, we saw massive improvements in uptime, and load handling was the best we’ve experienced so far. This suggests that WP Engine simply didn’t add edge caching; instead, they upgraded their entire infrastructure to compete with their competitors.

Regarding features, WP Engine includes everything you expect from a managed WordPress host. They have automated backups stored for up to 30 days, as well as staging, development, and production environments, global data center locations, security fixes, and Layer 3+4 DDoS protection, among other features. 

Pricing:

• Startup: $23/month (25,000 visits, 10GB storage, 75GB Bandwidth)
• Professional: $105/month (75,000 visits, 15GB storage, 150GB Bandwidth)
• Growth: $290/month (100,000 visits, 20GB storage, 240GB Bandwidth)
• Scale: $730/month (400,000 visits, 50GB storage, 550GB Bandwidth)

Best For: WP Engine is ideal for business sites, high-traffic blogs, WooCommerce stores, and critical WordPress applications where performance and reliability are more important than pricing.

Best Managed WordPress Hosting – Kinsta

If you are looking for the best managed WordPress hosting, check out Kinsta. It has an excellent performance score of 9.3/10 in our testing. Their TTFB is 444ms in the “Strong” rather than the “Elite” category, but they excel in two critical tests: Uptime and load testing. It recorded 100% uptime in 2025, while it consistently achieved 99.99% uptime with 1-2 minutes of downtime in previous years. Their load-handling score is 27ms, similar to WP Engine’s, placing them in the “Elite” category.

Performance Metrics:

• TTFB: 446ms (Strong tier)
• Uptime: 99.96%
• Load Test: 27ms (Elite handling)
• Performance Score: 8.2/10 (Excellent)

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The reason we rate Kinsta as the best managed WordPress hosting is due to its WordPress-centric features. First, Kinsta utilizes Google Cloud as its infrastructure partner, enabling you to host sites across all 37 global locations. Second, for critical WordPress applications, APM (Application Performance Monitoring) tools are essential and Kinsta offers its APM tool for free on all its plans. Third, Kinsta uses the fastest Google Cloud servers. If you are new to this, Google offers various server types, each specialized for different use cases. Kinsta utilizes top-tier C3D and C2 servers, which provide the fastest hardware performance, as confirmed by our benchmarks.

WP Engine offers an APM feature, but it is only available on Enterprise plans. They don’t allow access to all Google Cloud locations, and they don’t use C3D and C2 servers on starter plans, which are only available on advanced plans. These are a few of the reasons we feel Kinsta deserves to be the best for managed WordPress hosting.

Pricing:

• Single 35K: First month free, then $30/month (35,000 visits, 10GB storage)
• WP 2: $59/month (70,000 visits, 20GB storage)
• WP 5: $96/month (125,000 visits, 30GB storage)

Best For: Kinsta is best suited for resource-intensive WordPress applications, online stores, membership sites, and blogs, as well as small businesses that need managed WordPress hosting.

Best Mid-Range WordPress Hosting – Cloudways

If you are looking to upgrade from a shared host and are not willing to pay a premium price for a managed host, then check out Cloudways. It offers managed Cloud hosting services across five cloud providers, with pricing starting at $11/month. We tested their standard plan at $11/month and it recorded an average TTFB of 443 ms and 100% uptime in the first two months of 2025. Their load handling score is 128ms, which is good for WordPress sites.

Performance Metrics:

• TTFB: 441ms (Strong tier)
• Uptime: 99.99%
• Load Test: 128ms (Average handling)
• Performance Score: 7.7/10 (Very Good)

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Cloudways is positioned in the mid-range category due to its pricing and plans. At $11/month, it allows you to host unlimited websites, a feature not typically found on shared or premium managed hosts. They have a custom control on par with WP Engine or Kinsta and it is better than cPanel. Additionally, they have their own caching plugin, Breeze, which works similarly to WP Rocket, helping you save money. They also offer Cloudflare Enterprise services at just $4.99/site, which costs over $200/month when purchased directly from the official Cloudflare site. So, if you simply look at its outstanding pricing and its plan offerings, Cloudways is the clear sole winner in the mid-range WordPress category.

Pricing: 

• DO 1GB Plan: $11/month (1 core, 1GB RAM, 25GB storage)
• DO 2GB Plan: $24/month (1 core, 2GB RAM, 50GB storage)
• DO 4GB Plan: $46/month (2 cores, 4GB RAM, 80GB storage)
• DO 8GB Plan: $88/month (4 cores, 8GB RAM, 160GB storage)

The starting prices mentioned above are for DigitalOcean. Before signing up, check our exclusive Cloudways deals to get up to 30% off discounts with free migrations. Other Cloud providers are available at different price points, like Vultr and Linode at $14/month, AWS at $20.56/month, and Google Cloud at $37.45/month.

Cloudways is also the best WordPress hosting platform, offering AWS and Google Cloud hosting options. We say this after testing all the Cloud providers offered by Cloudways, and the performance scores are almost identical across them. WP Engine is the only other best option for WordPress hosting to host on AWS and Google Cloud. However, they offer AWS only on custom plans.

Best For: Cloudways is best suited for website owners who need more power and flexibility than shared hosting offers and are not ready to pay the cost of premium managed WordPress hosts.

Best WordPress Hosting For Agencies – Kinsta

Kinsta is our recommended WordPress hosting for agencies. If you are an agency, Kinsta’s agency perks do not match any other host. First, agencies can receive up to $10,000 in credits based on factors such as client volume, existing portfolio, and growth potential. These credits can be used during client site onboarding. Second, agency sites can get a free hosting account to host their very own business websites, adding more savings options.

However, we don’t simply recommend them as the best host for agencies because of perks; their performance is top-notch across all tests, with a TTFB of 446ms, 99.96% uptime, and a 27ms load handling capacity.

My favourite part of using Kinsta is the option to host client closer to their visitors through their 37 global data centers. Their latest automatic WordPress update feature will save agencies a lot of human work: it will automatically run theme and plugin updates, and if something breaks after the update, it will revert to the previous version and notify you of the issues. If the site doesn’t break out, the update will be applied automatically. They also utilize the most powerful Google Cloud VMs, enabling Kinsta to offer the fastest hardware performance, as verified by our benchmarks.

Fastest WordPress Hosting – Pressable

Pressable is the fastest WordPress hosting we’ve ever tested. It has recorded a 335ms speed, 100% uptime, and a 12ms load-handling response time, based on 43,800 tests in October 2025. These performance scores outperform every other 25+ WordPress hosts we’ve tested as of now. What makes them special? They have built their own infrastructure from scratch, including data centers, DNS, and CDN. As a result, they outperform any Cloudflare Edge caching CDN-enabled hosts, such as WP Engine, Kinsta, and Rocket.net, in multiple performance tests. By default, each site comes with 5 Base PHP Workers and expands up to 110 PHP workers, so auto-scaling will never be an issue.

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It comes with Geo-redundant High Availability Cloud, meaning your sites are replicated across multiple data centers in real time. Even if your site goes down due to a primary datacenter failure, it stays live through its other datacenters. In this way, the company guarantees 100% uptime SLA, the only WordPress host to do so. You’ll get all the regular perks, like unlimited free site migration, malware removal, automatic managed updates, backups, and 24/7 customer support with an average initial response time of ~4 minutes. Pricing starts at $20.83/month when paid annually and $25/month on a monthly plan.

WordPress Hosting Performance Comparison Table

Expert Validation

Our testing methodology has been reviewed by many WordPress experts. 

Anton Aleksandrov, developer at WPBenchmark.io (https://wpbenchmark.io/), quoted 

“Very interesting WordPress hosting comparison article – the author spent quite a bit of time looking through various speed and performance aspects. If you are doing your own research, check out what things have been tested; they all make sense.”

Notable Mentions

Rocket.net: Offered the first-of-its-kind Cloudflare Enterprise-powered Managed WordPress hosting, but competitors are catching up. WP Engine now integrates CF Enterprise and has achieved better TTFB performance than Rocket. This could be due to various reasons, but I see WP Engine’s Google Cloud platform makes the difference here. With pricing similar to WP Engine and unable to load-test, we didn’t include them in our top recommendations.

Nexcess: We recommended them as a solid option for agencies, but their performance is a bit disappointing for the price. The inconsistent support is also a letdown and truly not a great fit for agencies. Their pricing seems affordable at the initial stage, but as renewal comes in, they are on par with WP Engine and Kinsta.

WPX: The company has a very good performance score of 9.6. However, we noticed that first-time visitors often experience very high TTFB due to a low cache hit rate. We didn’t see such varying discrepancies among other hosts with CDN services. This makes their CDN not worth the hype, but we acknowledge that their CDN is faster for returning visitors.

Their control panel is one of the slowest we have experienced, displaying a buggy loading screen for more than 10 seconds every time we navigate between options, which makes their hosting experience less than pleasant. WPX’s USP is offering 5-site hosting for $25/month, but it’s not the only option now. You could consider Cloudways (DO 2GB RAM plan), Hostinger Cloud Startup, or Bluehost Pro as alternatives with better server specs and similar performance.

How to Choose the Best WordPress Hosting?

Final Verdict: The Best WordPress Hosting of 2025

While no WordPress hosting is perfect, we picked the seven best WordPress hosting out of the seventeen hosts we’ve tested so far. Our recommendations are based on extensive testing:

Best Overall: WP Engine got a perfect 10/10 performance score. Their introductory discounted pricing is the highest among their competitors. So, easily the best combination of performance and pricing to get started. 

Best Budget: Hostinger achieved a performance score of 8.4/10, ranking as the top shared hosting provider. Their prices are often under $3/month, making them suitable for anyone looking for affordable hosting. We’re also offering an exclusive coupon for 10% off all hosting plans. (Check Hostinger Coupon)

Best Managed: Kinsta is the best and most powerful managed WordPress hosting. Their hardware offerings are second to none, making them a great host for your resource-hungry WordPress sites.

Best Mid-Range: Cloudways offers the affordability of shared hosting with the performance of managed WordPress hosting.

WordPress hosting requirements vary depending on the specific needs of website owners. A simple WordPress blog can run well on A2 Hosting or GreenGeeks, while WooCommerce, membership sites, or critical WordPress applications require maximum performance, and premium hosts like WP Engine or Kinsta are better suited.

Unlike many review sites, we don’t favor companies based on commissions. This is evident from the fact that we don’t recommend most of the popular WordPress hosting providers, even though they’re recommended everywhere else.

Which is your existing WordPress hosting provider? Does our guide help you learn something new about choosing your hosting partner? Let us know in the comments.