When comparing web hosting services, most companies consider either cheaper shared hosting plans or more robust and expensive dedicated hosting packages.
A virtual private server (VPS) falls between these two options, allowing customers to host one or multiple websites on a slice of a virtual service saved just for them WordPress.
VPS hosting services offer a balance of flexibility and affordability that can be perfect for your business.
The best VPS hosting services offer both managed and unmanaged plans with generous storage, RAM, and bandwidth.
In this article, we take a look at all the top platforms in the industry.
A2 Hosting
Considering the generous storage, RAM and transfer limits, A2 Hosting is one of the best VPS hosting services you can choose. A2 Hosting outperforms the competition because of its ideal balance of pricing and features, including a 99.9% uptime guarantee, 24/7 support, and money-back guarantee. Also, A2 Hosting claims to have the fastest response times.
An unmanaged plan starts at $4.99 a month, which is one of the more affordable VPS options for what you get. Managed VPS plans start at $39.99 per month, a much more expensive solution for beginners. If you can take advantage of a discount, make a three-year contract worth the commitment; A2 Hosting sometimes offers up to 57% off the regular price.
bluehost
Bluehost offers semi-managed VPS hosting services that are comparable to most of their competitors – even the price.
Although known for cheap shared hosting services, Bluehost prices its virtual servers a little higher. You can usually get your first month at a discount, but the renewal fee is $29.99 per month, which is standard, if not slightly higher than other hosts.
Bluehost VPS hosting services are semi-managed because you get full root access, but you also get help from the 24/7 support team.
Keep in mind that Bluehost treats their VPS pricing differently than shared hosting costs, so you don’t get a huge discount for signing up for three years. You get a free domain name for the first year, which is not common for most VPS hosts.
ScalaHosting
One of the most unique features of Scala Hosting’s VPS offerings is their DIY managed VPS plan. You choose how many CPU cores, GB of RAM and GB of storage you want, in any combination.
The minimum custom plan includes 50GB of storage and 2GB of RAM for $14.95 per month. In short: pay for the features you need.
Interestingly, unmanaged VPS hosting has a higher cost. Sure, you get more features, but it’s unusual among Scala Hosting’s competitors.
It is much more common to see a hosting company offer the same amount of RAM, storage and bandwidth or data transfer for unmanaged or managed but charge a higher fee for managed VPS hosting.
With ScalaHosting, you get free access to the company’s SPanel (a proprietary alternative to cPanel). The control panel you use with a Scala Hosting VPS plan is similar to cPanel but uses far fewer resources.
Hostinger
Hostinger offers various solutions like Shared, Cloud, VPS and WordPress Services. Also, for game fans, there is a Minecraft VPS service.
Also, they have a website builder and ecommerce plans to build an online store.
During our review, we saw that the company covers the world market and has data centers in the UK, US, Brazil, Netherlands, Singapore, Indonesia and Lithuania. In addition, it uses Cloudflare CDN technology to improve the performance of its services.
Hostinger offers three Shared Hosting plans in the Web Hosting Category called Single, Premium and Business. They are precisely labeled – the first is for a Single site, the second has Premium features, and the last is aimed at Enterprises.
All three plans offer a free SSL certificate, a Managed WordPress solution, WordPress Acceleration for fast performance and GIT access. Other things worth mentioning are Cloudflare’s protected nameservers included for DDoS and Spam defense, 24/7/365 support, DNS management, and available access manager.
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