Wordpress Hosting - Siteground or Hostgator?

I’m looking to do a basic Wordpress site for a friend’s consultancy business. Looking for advice on whether to go with Hostgator or Siteground, or any others?

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  • +3

    Visitors will be mostly from Australia? VentraIP and Zuver are quite popular here as they are Australia based hosting companies (note: VentraIP owns Zuver).

    • +1

      Had good experiences with both VentraIP & Zuver (is a relative comment as nearly all shared hosting is varying degrees of bad…)

      As far as I can tell they both use exactly same data centre so if you don’t want to pay extra for phone support, backups, and don’t need a dedicated IP, Zuver can work out really cheap. That said VentraIP commonly have new signup specials (today its 40% off) that bring their prices for the first year down to, or cheaper than Zuver

    • I tend to agree there's plenty of great web hosting providers here in Australia. ShortyX you should consider using one.

  • Hey, I'd suggest Wix or Squarespace instead - its easier to manage in the longer run and prices overall tend to be commensurate when you consider management, hosting, templates, etc

  • Haven't used Hostgator before, but did use Siteground for a client recently and have been happy with them so far.
    Zuver worked really well last time I used it too! Could be a good option for Australian hosting.

  • -2

    Nothing speaks more rookie than wordpress, does your friend want to attract clients or repel them. Try Laravel, heaps of video lessons to guide you at https://laracasts.com/

    • +2

      Nothing speaks more rookie than wordpress

      Perhaps a web developer might be put off, the rest of the browsing public won’t know and don’t care.

      While I get what your saying – Wordpress’ popularity, homogenised themes, and “developers” to deploy them means that sites can all blur into one.

      But there is nothing about using Wordpress as a CMS that places any restrictions what the frontend will look like.

      For a “basic site” that will be self hosted it remains hard to recommend anything but Wordpress.

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