Hosting is the one WordPress decision that’s genuinely expensive to reverse later, since migrating a live site carries real risk of downtime or lost data. It’s worth choosing carefully the first time.
Shared
From $2-3/month
VPS
From $8-10/month
Cloud
From $15/month
What actually matters
- Speed: server response time affects both user experience and search ranking.
- Uptime: look for a guarantee of 99.9% or better.
- Traffic capacity: matters especially for e-commerce or high-traffic content sites.
- Backups: automatic, regular, and easy to restore from.
- Server location: pick a region close to your actual audience for faster load times.
Rough cost by tier
- Shared hosting: from around $2–3/month, fine for a small blog or personal site sharing server resources with others.
- VPS: from around $8–10/month, better performance and stability for a growing site.
- Cloud hosting: from around $15/month and up, flexible resources that scale with traffic, suited to a growing business.
Hosting cost by tier
A word of caution
The cheapest plan on any host’s pricing page is rarely the right choice for a business site; it usually means shared resources, limited support, and no real backup guarantee. Match the tier to how much traffic and downtime risk the site can actually tolerate. Our own hosting is bundled into the first year of any website build we deliver.