| Cloudways | $50 | Unlimited | 4 GB | 80 GB | 4 TB | Unlimited | Free | Yes | Cloudways CDN @ $1 PER 25GB (per application) | Global | Cloudways WordPress Migrator, Other 3rd Party Migration Plugins, or One Managed Migration | Phone (Limited Hours), Email, Live Chat, Support Ticket | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 6 hours Min | 4 Weeks Max | Yes | 7.1-4, 8.0 | MariaDB | Memcache, Redis, Varnish, Nginx | Yes | IP Allow/Block Lists, Bot Protection | Custom | Any migration plugin as well as direct access to files and database. | 100% SLA. Service Availability refers to Cloudways Platform Console and related services and in no case we are guaranteeing here the Service Availability of our Partner Cloud Providers. | Global | |
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| GreenGeeks | $25.95 | Unlimited | 3 GB | Unlimited | Unmetered | Unlimited | free | Yes | yes, free | Chicago, Phoenix, Toronto, Montreal and Amsterdam | yes, free | Phone (Limited Hours), Email, Live Chat, Support Ticket | yes | yes | Yes | Yes | nightly | 24 hours | Yes | 7.4.12 (Native or default version), 8.0, 7.3.17, 7.2.30, 7.1.33, 7.0.33, 5.6.40, 5.5.38, 5.4.45, 5.3.29, 5.2.17 | MariaDB | LS Cache | Yes | We have developed a wide range of cleaning methods for almost every scenario and while we can’t fix everything, we’re able to successfully resolve 99% of the most common types of infections and patching repeat issues on customer websites. At the same time, adjusting our network-level detection to prevent further compromises to other customers. Pro-actively recommending customers remove old and unused installations of scripts, themes or plugins to safeguard against attacks. WordPress update support for core versions, themes, and plugins as well as improve overall website performance. Continually update our in-house malware definition base with the latest threats and common points of compromises, focusing on trends to thwart issues. | cPanel | Clients are free to migrate away, if needed. | Best, quick summary can be found here: https://www.greengeeks.com/support/article/greengeeks-sla-credit-policy/ | Global | Check "Premium" details here: https://www.greengeeks.com/support/article/greengeeks-shared-hosting-pricing/ |
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| ICDSoft | $10 | Unlimited | 2 GB Per process memory limit | 100 GB | 5 TB | 1 site. | Free. | No | No CDN integration. | We operate our own servers in the USA, Europe, and Hong Kong. | Free site migrations with every plan purchase. | Email, Live Chat, Support Ticket | No Git integration is available. | Yes, staging environments are a part of the WordPress toolkit we include with every hosting plan. | Yes | Yes | Every 12 hours. | 7 days. | No | We support multiple PHP versions - PHP 5.3, 5.6, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.0. | Percona | Nginx, PHP is running with OPcache. Server-side caching powered by NGINX. | Yes | When a high-impact vulnerability is announces, our Incident Response Team reacts within hours protecting vulnerable sites, by updating them, or implementing custom WAF rules. Hacked websites are suspended and the customer is provided with cleanup instructions. | Custom | We offer several backup systems allowing every customer to create and download archives of their WordPress files and databases. | We do not offer an SLA. | Global. | Plan limits: 500,000 inodes; 100 CPU minutes / day sustained load (soft limit). |
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| Nexcess | 19 | Unmetered | cloud - variable bursts | 30 GB | 3 TB | 1 | Free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates for each live domain | Yes, but not recommended for Managed WooCommerce | Nexcess Edge: 250GB/mo free, overage billing starts at $0.10/GB thereafter - https://help.nexcess.net/77208-cdn/nexcess-cdn-overage-billing | Michigan (US), California (US), Miami (US), United Kingdom, Netherlands, Australia | We offer free white glove migrations and a free plugin for DIY migrations | Phone (24/7), Email, Live Chat, Support Ticket | Yes | Yes, one per site | Yes | Yes | Nightly | 30 days | Yes | PHP 5.6 - PHP 8.0 | MariaDB | Redis, Nginx, WordPress/Woo integrated MU plugin with flexible full page caching | Yes | All of our environments are PCI and SSAE-18 compliant, each plan includes iThemes Security Pro, proactive 24/7 monitoring, automatic plugin updates, initial server hardening and other server level protections, and a continuously updated web application firewall. In the rare case of a hacked site, our support team will do their best to remedy the issues. | Custom | Our support team can share the data in a downloadable file upon request, or the customer can easily migrate using a tool of their choice. | We include 100% access to power and connectivity. You can see our SLA here: https://www.nexcess.net/policies/service-level-agreement | Global | |
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| Pressable | $45 | 50,000 | 512 MB / Process | 30 GB | Unlimited | 3 | Included for free | No | Free integrated CDN | Amsterdam; Ashburn, Virginia; Los Angeles; Dallas | Free migrations via Plugin or managed by our CS team | Email, Live Chat | no | yes | No | Yes | daily | 30 days | Yes | PHP 7.4, 8.0, 8.1 | MariaDB | Memcache, batcache | Yes | Free Jetpack. WAF. Free hack-fix assistance. Threat monitoring. | Custom | https://pressable.com/knowledgebase/move-site-off-pressable/ | 100% network availability, guarantee the functioning of all server hardware components , We will credit your account 5% of the monthly fee per hour of downtime. | global | | |
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| raidboxes | 50€ | Unlimited | 4 GB | 20 GB | Up to 10Gbit | 1 | SSL (Lets Encrypt) is free for all domains. We can import custom certificates for a little charge | Beta | No. We are still working on a integrated CDN feature. | Falkenstein, Germany | We have a free migration service with 1:1 supporter help. | Live Chat | You can use git via SSH | There is a free staging feature which is currently in public beta | Yes | Yes | Nightly backups mostly between 3:00-5:00am. You can create manual backups, too. | 30 days for automated backups, unlimited for manual backups | Yes | PHP 7.2/7.3/7.4 | MariaDB | Nginx | Yes | We have several security features in our dashboard like a bruteforce prevention (called Login Protector) for the wp-admin login, UserAgent Blocker, IP Blocking (Whitelist and Blacklist Mode), CORS header editor, WP session eraser, xml-rpc blocker, tools to disallow wp core file editing and a way to stop user enumeration. Hacked websites are often detected by our staff or with the help incoming abuses. We have different ways to prevent a hacked website from doing malicious things like spamming mails or providing phishing content. Some of them can be deployed without having to shutdown the customers website. We always try to keep the websites up as long as possible. Of course there are cases where we absolutely need to take customers offline. In every case we try to get in touch with our customers by chat, mail or phone to get a good solution for them. If they are not able to fix their websites by themselves, we try to support them with knowledge, recommend WP experts or offer a in house malware removal for about 100€/hour. Besides the public available customer settings in the dashboard, we have several security setups running in the background. We have a custom malware detector which was developed by our team, a lot of software firewall setups, virtual root environments for customers, defined access levels/rights for our own staff to prevent damage and risk of curse. I think this topic is absolutely huge and should be discussed in slack maybe :) | Custom | You can easily download your backups or download all your files (including the whole wordpress core) using git, sftp or ssh. No need for annoying exports. Database backups are stored in the box backups and can be made manually using the "adminer" webinterface | We do not offer official SLAs but things are well written in our Terms & Conditions. When it comes to Server Uptime, we relay on the SLAs provided by our datacenter providers. | Currently most of our customers are coming from Europe. More specific, Germany. Our Dashboard is multilingual and should be usable from everywhere in the world. | |
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| SaveinCloud | BRL 510 | Unlimited | Up to 8 GiB Based on usage. | Up to 20 GB | Unlimited | Unlimited | Platform built-in SSL and Let’s Encrypt are free. | Yes | HTTP/3 Premium CDN powered by Verizon Edgecast. Data Transfer: 100 GB Free | Brazil (São Paulo) is the region for tests. Additionally, customers can host their applications in many other regions offered by SaveInCloud (Fortaleza Ceará - Brazil available too) | Migration by means of standard WordPress plugins is free. Migrate Guru plugin usage is recommended (https://jelastic.com/blog/migrate-wordpress-site/). Other plugins that use migration via SFTP (like Duplicator, All-In-One WordPress Migration) can also be used. Free migration support assistance is available per request. | Phone (Limited Hours), Email, Support Ticket, Whatsapp Live Support | Available https://docs.jelastic.com/deployment-guide | Available as a separate dedicated environment, not included in the plan | Yes | Yes | Daily | 7 days. | Yes | PHP 7 | MariaDB | LSCache and Redis | Yes | LiteSpeed Web Application Firewalls - https://www.litespeedtech.com/support/wiki/doku.php/litespeed_wiki:waf - WAF Rule Set: Comodo Litespeed WordPress Brute Force Attack Protection - https://www.litespeedtech.com/support/wiki/doku.php/litespeed_wiki:config:wordpress-protection - Default value is Throttle. If allowed Login Attempts limit reaches 10 within 5 minutes, Throttle gradually slows down the speed of the server response, drop severs the connection without any reply, deny returns a 403 response, and captcha or drop redirects to a captcha if reCaptcha Protection is enabled and drops otherwise. Layer-7 Anti-DDoS Filtering - https://www.litespeedtech.com/products/litespeed-web-adc/features/layer-7-anti-ddos Jelastic Isolation - https://docs.jelastic.com/environment-isolation Jelastic Firewalls - https://docs.jelastic.com/setting-custom-firewall | Jelastic PaaS Dashboard | Migrate Guru plugin is recommended (https://jelastic.com/blog/migrate-wordpress-site/). Other plugins that use migration via SFTP (like Duplicator, All-In-One WordPress Migration) can also be used. Free migration support assistance is available per request. | 99,5% SLA | Brazil | Primary limitation is based on a chosen plan resources. |
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| Servebolt | $99 | Dynamic Requests are set per plan | Umetered | 6 GB | Unlimited | 5 | Digicert included | Yes | Servebolt CDN | New York, Amsterdam, London, Singapore, Johannesburg, Oslo, Dallas | Free | Email, Live Chat | Yes, with automatic deployment | Unlimited | Yes | Yes | Nightly | Up to 30 days | No | PHP 7.4 and up | MariaDB | Redis, Nginx | Yes | Managed WAF, rate limiting, DDOS Protection, Apparmor, chroot, firewalled service access | Custom | Full access with SSH, SFTP and PHPMyAdmin | 99,9% uptime– reimbursement included, 100% guarantee uptime network and power SLA upgrade available. | Worldwide | | |
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| SiteGround | $39.99 | No hard limit. Recommended ~400,000 | N/A | 40 GB | Unlimited | No limit | Free Let’s Encrypt and paid wildcard SSL from GlobalSign for $90 per year | Yes | All plans include Free CloudFlare and a paid version with additional features. | Iowa USA, London UK, Eemshaven NL, Frankfurt DE, Singapore, Sidney AU | Paid migrations are offered at the price of $30 per website | Phone (24/7), Live Chat, Support Ticket | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 24 hours and up to 5 on demand | 30 days | Yes | PHP 7.3, 7.4, 8.0 and 8.1. Older versions are to be deprecated. | MySql | Memcache, Nginx, SG Optimizer plugin for WordPress | Yes | Isolated environment for every website, In-house developed WordPress Security plugin, automatic updates for WordPress, mod_security, up-to-date software, latest PHP versions, 2Factor Authentication. | Custom | Transfer over FTP/SFTP, SSH, WordPress backup plugin, WordPress data export. | We guarantee network uptime 99.9% on an annual base | Global | 600 000 inodes, CPU Seconds/ Program executions - 4000/hr, 40 000/day, 800 000/month, Memory limit per process - 768MB, Database size limit - 1000MB |
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| WordPress.com | $45 | Unlimited | N/A | 200 GB | Unlimited | 1 | Included at $0 via Let's Encrypt | No | Included at $0 | USA (East, West, Central) and Europe (Amsterdam) | Free, using automated tools. https://wordpress.com/support/moving-from-self-hosted-wordpress-to-wordpress-com/#option-1-migrate-from-self-hosted | Email, Live Chat, Support Ticket | Yes, using Github Actions | No | No | Yes | Real time | As long as the plan is active | Yes | 7.4, 8.0, 8.1 | MariaDB | Memcache, Nginx | No | Web Application Firewall (WAF), DDoS mitigation, and brute force login detection and blocking are included in our plan. We also offer security scanning via Jetpack and cleaning of hacked sites. https://wordpress.com/support/malware-and-site-security/#what-will-wordpress-com-help-with | Custom | All data can be exported using WordPress's native WXR export tool, phpMyAdmin and SFTP, and/or by downloading backups from Jetpack. | N/A | Global | | |
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