If you are looking for the best WordPress hosting for agencies through this post, we have a better recommendation for you. You can look into our master best WordPress hosting page where we are testing more than 30 hosting companies.
If you are looking for a summary, here are my thoughts:
Kinsta
If you are looking to get up to $10,000 in credits while moving your agency, then choose Kinsta. All eligible agencies that have an existing customer base can reach out to the Kinsta team and get up to $10,000 in credits based on your number of clients. This is the largest discount you can get from any hosting company in the industry.
We didn’t recommend Kinsta just because they are offering $10,000 credits for agencies, but it has the most premium hosting dashboard you can get from any of the managed WordPress companies. I am saying this based on being a paying customer of for more than 30 hosting providers, including Kinsta’s direct competitors like WP Engine, Pressable, Rocket.net, Cloudways and more.
Pressable
Pressable is our next recommended WordPress hosting for agencies that prioritize performance over pricing or anything else. It is the only WordPress hosting provider that offers a 100% uptime SLA, which benefits crucial production websites. We have been testing them for more than a year now, and we guarantee the uptime stayed at 100% throughout the period. Every other competitor like Kinsta, WP Engine and Rocket.net have brief downtimes, but Pressable has stayed consistently high with 100% uptime.
Cloudways
Cloudways is not as fast as Pressable or Kinsta, but it offers unlimited website hosting on any of its plans. Cloudways is powered by 5 different cloud providers. So you can choose any $50-per-month plan and host any number of client sites. Maybe it’s a tiny, or small, or a mixed kind of thing. You can host and keep your hosting cost at $50 per month while you can charge clients more and make better revenue. We have been testing Cloudways since 2020, and as per my data, it shows it has consistently delivered faster speeds and better uptime, although the load handling has degraded in recent years. You just need to keep a separate server for high-traffic websites and keep all other sites in another server.
Liquid Web
The biggest advantage of Liquid Web is that they own their own data centers. For this reason, it offers enormous bandwidth limits even on the starter plans. You will get a minimum of 2 TB of bandwidth on the starter plan. If you compare it with the competitors mentioned above, all of them use third-party data centers like Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, or Oracle Cloud. So they can’t offer you a massive bandwidth limit.
So if bandwidth matters to you a lot, then there is no second option you can think of apart from Liquid Web.
Bluehost Cloud
You might find it unusual that Bluehost Cloud is recommended here, but the thing is Bluehost Cloud is powered by WP Cloud, which also powers Pressable, WordPress.com, and many more hosts. WP Cloud is built by the Automattic, the team behind the WordPress organization itself. So they offer WP Cloud as a public service, and any hosting provider can offer the service on top of that. Thus, Bluehost Cloud is the same as WP Cloud. Bluehost Cloud also offers a 100% uptime SLA and every other feature that you get from Pressable.
The main reason we recommend it here is to get new customers. Bluehost Cloud offers massive discounts on long-term billing. For example, a $100 plan on Pressable can be bought for $75 per month on Bluehost Cloud. So if you plan to use long-term billing, then Bluehost Cloud is the best option for you.
