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<!--&gt;-->   <ul><li>WordPress preinstalled</li><li>No large price jump upon renewal</li></ul><p><strong>Cons:</strong></p><ul><li>Shared hosting plans are cheaper, offer similar features</li></ul><h3>Tiered hosting options</h3><p>GoDaddy Web Hosting offers four tiered WordPress hosting plans: Basic, Deluxe, Ultimate and Ecommerce. Basic and Deluxe plans have data limits in place of 30 and 75GB, respectively. Basic and Deluxe plans also accommodate 25K and 100K site visitors a month, respectively. Ultimate and Ecommerce plans offer unlimited data and site visitors. The Ecommerce plan also helps get your online store up and running fast.</p><h3>Security features</h3><p>Each plan includes an SSL certificate, automatic daily malware scans and daily backups. Deluxe, Ultimate and Ecommerce plans also include secure file transfer protocol access. </p><h3>Uptime</h3><p>GoDaddy has an industry-standard 99.9% uptime guarantee. This means you should expect your site to be down for about nine hours a year.</p><h3>Customer support</h3><p>GoDaddy customers have 24/7 phone and chat customer support, plus a help center full of guides and videos.</p><h3>Other information</h3><p>WordPress is preinstalled with each hosting plan. Unlike other services, when plans renew there isn't a drastic increase in price. Some plans only increase by one dollar.

What’s confusing about GoDaddy is it offers shared hosting plans that have similar features to its WordPress plans. The introductory and renewal rates are less than the WordPress plans, and the shared hosting plans come with a one-click WordPress installation tool, too. With that in mind, why not go with a shared hosting plan and save yourself some money? 

Prices start at $11 a month.

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<!--&gt;-->   <ul><li>Staging tools available to let you test out site changes</li><li>Seven tiered plans</li></ul><p><strong>Cons:</strong></p><ul><li>Pricing more confusing than other services</li></ul><h3>Tiered hosting options</h3><p>Nexcess offers seven tiered WordPress hosting plans called Spark, Maker, Designer, Builder, Producer, Executive and Enterprise. Plans have limited storage, ranging from 15GB with Spark to 800GB with Enterprise. Plans also differ in the number of websites they can host, ranging from one with Spark and 250 with Enterprise. Each plan comes with unlimited business email accounts.</p><h3>Security features</h3><p>Every Nexcess plan includes security features like an SSL certificate, automatic daily backups and iThemes Security Pro, which is an $80 annual value.</p><h3>Uptime</h3><p>Nexcess has an uptime guarantee of 99.99%. That means customers should expect to experience an average of less than an hour of downtime per year -- far less than the average downtime.  </p><h3>Customer support</h3><p>Customers can access customer support 24/7 by phone, chat and email. You can also submit a ticket for more support. The 24/7 telephone lines have numbers for the US, Australia and the UK.</p><h3>Other information</h3><p>Each plan also comes with staging sites so you can preview changes to your site before they go live. Nexcess also tests WordPress plugins for you. They make a copy of your site and test the plugin so you don't have to worry if something will work on your site or not.

Unlike other web hosting services, monthly promotional prices for Nexcess are only good for three months before your price jumps. Most other services offer longer promotional periods. Annual plans don’t offer promo prices, but they’re still cheaper than a full year of monthly prices — even with the promotional discount.

Prices start at $14.70 a month.

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<!--&gt;-->   <ul><li>WordPress preinstalled</li><li>24/7 site security monitoring</li></ul><p><strong>Cons:</strong></p><ul><li>Add-ons can cost more than hosting</li><li>Add-ons are not available to all</li></ul><h3>Tiered hosting options</h3><p>AccuWeb Hosting offers three tiered WordPress hosting plans called WordPress Starter, WordPress Pro and WordPress Business. Each plan offers unlimited WordPress websites, but other resources -- like storage and bandwidth -- are limited. </p><h3>Security features</h3><p>Each plan includes an SSL certificate, malware protection and DDoS protection and mitigation tools. </p><h3>Uptime</h3><p>AccuWeb Hosting guarantees an impressive 99.99% uptime. That means you should expect less than an hour of downtime per year, compared to nine hours for companies that only offer 99.9% uptime.</p><h3>Customer support</h3><p>WordPress customer support is available 24/7 by phone, chat and ticket submission. AccuWeb Hosting also says its ticket submission system has a response time of under 90 minutes. Most other services that have ticket submission don't give a timeframe for response so AccuWeb Hosting giving a 90-minute or less response seems good.</p><h3>Other information</h3><p>WordPress comes preinstalled with each plan, making it easy to start working on your site as soon as you purchase a plan. Each AccuWeb Hosting plan also offers 24/7 site security monitoring, so if your site goes down while you're not looking, someone should already be aware and working to fix it.

After purchasing a plan, you can purchase 10GB of additional disk space for $5 a month. You can also purchase 100GB of additional bandwidth for $20 a month, but only if you are hosting your site out of the Denver data center. If you purchase both of these add-ons, the total can be more than the cost of the WordPress Starter plan after renewal.

Plans start at $4 a month.

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GreenGeeks

Mochahost

DreamHost

Hostinger

WebHostingPad

Bluehost

Hostwinds

Web Hosting Hub

iPage

These services either don’t offer tiered plans, lack basic security features and customer support options, or have an entry price at least 10 times higher than some other services. We don’t think they’re as robust as our other picks, but they could be right for you and your needs.

Kinsta: Offers 10 tiered WordPress hosting options, SSL certificate and hack and malware removal included, has a 99.9% uptime guarantee, and customer support is available 24/7 by phone or chat. Prices start at $30 a month.

WP Engine Web Hosting: Three tiered WordPress hosting options, SSL certificate and threat blocking security included, 99.9% uptime guaranteed with higher tier plans, as well as 24/7 phone and chat support available with higher tier plans. Prices start at $20 a month.

Pantheon: Three tiered WordPress hosting options, automated backups and DDoS protections included, 99.9% uptime guarantee and customer support available 24/7 by phone or email. Prices start at $41 a month.

NameCheap: Three tiered WordPress hosting options, SSL and security features included with higher prices plans, 99.9% uptime and customer support available 24/7 by chat or ticket submission. Prices start at $2.08 a month, billed at $24.88 a year.

Glowhost: Shared, VPS and dedicated WordPress hosting plans are available, but there are no tiered options within each plan, security features are available separately, plans have a 99.95% uptime guarantee and customer support is available 24/7 by phone, chat or ticket submission. Prices start at $10 a month.

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