Best Web Hosting For Affiliate Marketing

This is probably the biggest and the most exhaustive test that I’ve done, and this is all because I wanted to have my websites hosted on the best WordPress web hosting service.

By best I mean the fastest the cheapest and the most stable web hosting service. So over a month ago I set out on a journey to test out as many web hosting services as possible.

I tried VPS hosting services, which basically means virtual private servers, which also means in a hard case server you allocated a dedicated space for your website.

It is unlike a shared hosting service where your sites are hosted together with many other websites, sharing the same resources, and honestly I made a few shocking discoveries!

My initial thought and impression was that virtual private servers are going to outperform shared hosting services, I was wrong!

In a virtual private server space, a well-known web hosting service called Vultr is said to be the best performing, but it is not!

My current web host, SiteGround, which was said to be one of the fastest shared hosting providers on the market, turns out to be the slowest!

And, finally some of the low-key web hosting services which I never thought would be at the top, turns out that they are at the top!

So, there is a saying “If you never try or test something out, you never know”, right?

And I’m glad that I went through all these hassle instead of trusting what someone else said.

Now, if you haven’t watched these two videos yet, I highly recommend that you do so because that way, you will know how I’ve conducted the test and whether or not I was fair and objective.

But, just to give you a gist, I’ve exported the content and database of one of the sites that was hosted on SiteGround and I’ve imported them to a completely blank WordPress sites that are hosted across many different web hosts.

So, each web host will have a dedicated domain name, but all the contents plugins, themes, and database are the same.

So, everything is tested on equal grounds.

If a web host runs on the lightspeed server, the lightspeed caching plugin was used.

And, for apache and Nginx servers the WP rocket plug-in was used. So, that’s the only difference.

Now, before I get into any details, I want to mention this.

The results in this test is not meant to bring any negative or malicious intent towards the web host, and I am not in any way asking you to leave your current web host, let me be clear about this!

Whatever decision you make is up to you. This video is meant to create awareness so that the web host that are ranked at the bottom can do better for their customers.

And, this video is also part of the research for me to decide which web hosting service I’m going to migrate to for the next couple of years, and hopefully forever!

So I’ve done hundreds of manual google PageSpeed insights tests on VPS web host and have also relied on an automated tool to do hourly google PageSpeed tests on all the web hosts.

I’ve collected hundreds of data points on each of the web hosts, and here are the results.

Now, putting them together really gives a different perspective right. I have two more web hosting services I want to add to this list.

Vivek asked me to test mechanic web, I did.

MD Abdullah told me that Namecheap stellar hosting is fast, so I did the test as well.

Let me first add the data from namecheap stellar plus. This is the plan that I’ve used.

Now let’s go to the tool I’ve used to do the automated test. Let’s go to namecheap, open this up, these are the data that I’ve collected. Let me grab the average we only need the mobile data.

So, let’s copy this let’s head over back to the spreadsheet and paste it here.

Now I’m actually quite surprised that name cheap is faster than all these web hosts, because it is much cheaper and less popular.

But, in general, it is still not fast as compared to these over here.

Plus, name cheap happen to be the slowest among all the hosts that use a lightspeed server.

Now, let me style this a little bit.

Next, we have mechanic web.

Honestly, I have high hopes for this web hosting provider because I have heard many good things about them. So, maybe mechanic web may turn out to be the fastest? Who knows? Let’s check it out.

Let’s open the spreadsheet and let me grab the average.

Let’s copy this and paste it over here. And unfortunately this is not what I’ve expected.

Mechanic web did not perform very well compared to its peers.

Let me add mechanic web here. Let me combine these two lists of data and let’s sort them out by score and we can see that the top three fastest WordPress web hosting is actually from shared hosting.

And, at the fourth and fifth place we have these two VPS hosts. So this goes to say that VPS hosts don’t translate to a faster web host.

It is more of not having your resources shared with others, and it gives an additional layer of security.

And, if you are building projects that require root access, VPS is definitely the choice and when it comes to scalability and flexibility you should be looking at VPS.

It doesn’t make much difference when it comes to speed so when it comes to a normal blog or you just need a simple WordPress website without the hassle of managing everything on your own. If your site is down you can rely on a support team to fix things for you, then shared hosting is what you need.

And, for my case I run several blogs and I honestly don’t want to troubleshoot my website when things go wrong so my choice is going to be a shared hosting service.

But just to be objective, we now know which are the faster web hosting services, so we will take the top five providers into consideration to see which is the best in terms of the price and stability, so let’s go.

So, these are all the plans I’m considering I don’t mind paying for three years of hosting because I’m in this for a long haul, and it gives me more discounts.

My goal is to shift to a web host that allows me to host unlimited websites and I know unlimited websites are not really unlimited, it is more of a fair usage.

As long as I don’t hoard their ram and disk space, it should be fine. But, 50 gig of storage space should be enough for me.

I am also concerned about what if there is a traffic spike what is going to happen to my sites.

We are looking at bandwidth in this case.

Also what is the hard disk they use, is it NVME SSD or just the SSD? I’m only considering NVME because it has more processing capacity.

Next, do they provide free automatic backup or do I have to pay for it? The SSL certificates are a norm.

Can they help me with site migration what are the security features do they help you prevent hackers ddos protection, etc.

And, finally what is the uptime? I’m only looking for 99.9 because that’s the downtime of an hour in a year.

If it is 99 percent only it is 3.5 days of down time in a year which is not good, so these are the things I’m looking for in the web host.

Let’s first check out Contabo.

For Contabo I’m looking at this VPS S plan. Now, looking into VPS, you basically manage everything.

You can install the security features as you desire, like the mod security or firewall, so we don’t need to talk about security in terms of vps.

VPS are generally more secure than shared hosting, so security is checked.

And then, we have 4 CPU cores and 8 gig of ram which is suitable for you to host a lot of websites on the server, but limited to 50 gig of NVME storage, which is what I’m looking for.

In terms of traffic spikes, I have no worry because there is no limit to the incoming traffic.

We don’t need to talk about backups in VPS because it depends on the control panel you use.

You can even use CyberPanel although it is not listed here.

It depends on how you install it but most control panels allow you to do automated backup so this checks out.

Does it provide free ssl certificates? Yes.

Will they help me with site migration? I did some research, and the answer is no, you have to do it on your own.

And, finally what is the uptime? I can’t find any information on the site, so I have to rely on third-party information.

Well, I’m not trusting this, but I just want to look at this data, and it says that the uptime for Contabo is 99.7 which is not what I’m looking for.

So, out of the eight features I’m looking for in a web post Contabo passes six.

Next, let’s go to UltaHost.

Now, as for UltaHost I’m looking at this VPS business plan.

We don’t need to talk about security and backups, they are checked by default because they are managed by you.

If I pay yearly, this is about $7.90 per month, but if I pay monthly, it is $9.50 per month.

It provides me with 50 gig of NVME SSD storage.

It provides free SSL certificates.

As for the traffic spike, I have no worries about it as well, it provides me with unlimited bandwidth.

It gives 99.9 uptime which is what we are looking for.

It also provides us with free migration services, plus the support is 24/7.

So, out of the 8 features I’m looking for UltaHost seems to check everything, which is good!

Now, let’s check out Kualo hosting.

For Kualo I’m looking at the WordPress performance plan because it provides us with 50 gig of storage space.

And, unfortunately it does not provide us with NVME storage.

It does provide us with free SSL certificates, 30 days of free backups and restoration.

It provides us with free site migration.

As for the security features, it provides us with malware scan, bot defence, machine learning firewall, WordPress patching, and what’s cool is that each customer is allocated its own resource pool, and it has full account isolation.

So, Kualo hosting has very good security features.

As for the traffic spike, I can’t find any information, so I guess you have to upgrade to a higher level plan.

As for the uptime, it is 99.99%, which is good.

So, out of the eight features kualo hosting passes six of them.

We will talk about the price in a while because kualo hosting is kind of expensive, but for now let’s check out dream host.

Now, as for dream host, we are looking at the WordPress Shared unlimited plan as it provides unlimited websites and unlimited storage space.

But unfortunately, it is not NVME storage.

It provides us with unmetered bandwidth, so this protects our sites from sudden traffic spikes.

It provides us with free SSL certificates.

It also provides us with a free migration tool, automated daily backups, and as for the security features, I think they provide the basics which I think is good enough, like the mod security and malware remover, as well as the firewall.

And finally, the uptime is 99.94 which feeds our criteria.

Overall, we have seven out of eight features for dream host.

Now, let’s finally check out a2 hosting.

Alright, as for a2 hosting, I’m looking at the turbo boost plan because it provides us with a limited websites as well as unlimited NVME storage, and I can leverage on their turbo servers.

This is the plan I use for this test as well.

Now, let’s check out what happens when there is a traffic spike.

There are so many things they categorize over here, which is good!

It shows that they are transparent, but I really need to find the feature, so I need to rely on the search function.

So, the performance plus traffic search protects our site from sudden traffic spikes and it is available for the turbo boost plan which is good.

What about SSL Certificates? Is it free? Yes!

Do they provide free backup? Yes.

How about site migration? Yes.

In most cases, they can migrate your site for free unless it is a complicated case which is unlikely for me.

So generally for me, this feature is free.

What about the security features?

They have all these security features built into all the plans, and this is really a steal!

I know there are some hosts that charge you for security features, and I feel that these features together go beyond the standard security features.

So, this is a big yes!

And finally, the uptime.

a2 hosting got a 99.94% which meets our criteria.

Again, I think we have a winner in terms of the features.

a2 hosting checks all the features I’m looking for, so now let’s wrap everything up, we’ll include the price into consideration as well.

So, let’s wrap this up. In terms of speed you guys know a2 hosting is the fastest.

As for the features, a2 hosting and UltaHosts are head to head.

And, now let’s talk about the price.

As you know I’m willing to pay three years worth of hosting so that I can get the most discounts.

As for Contabo I need my web host to be situated in the west of the us, so it is an additional of $1.50 per month which adds up to 101.88 per year.

For three years, it will cost $305.64, which equates to $8.49 per month.

As for UltaHost, it costs $98.37 per year for the VPS business plan.

For 3 years, it will be $295.11 which equates to $8.20 per month.

Now, as for Kualo hosting, this is the most expensive of all.

I thought this $9.99 was the price for three years, but I read wrongly. It was just for the first month.

So, if I select the 36 month plan, it costs $479.76, which is $13.33 per month.

Now, for dream host and it’s supposed to be $3.95 per month for the three year plan, but they upsell you on the security which I need so I will take this into account.

So, they will charge you $145.20 up front and they will bill you $3.00 per month.

If we add them up for three years, it will be $253.20, which equates to $7.03 per month.

And, finally for a2 hosting, it is $251.64 for three years, which equates to $6.99 per month.

So with this, a2 hosting is the fastest, it provides the best features, and it is the cheapest by a small margin, and hence my decision is to go with a2 hosting.

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Honestly, I want to hear from you. What do you think about this analysis?

Are there anything that I’m missing? Please let me know in the comments down below.

I really hope this video helped because it took more than a month and a lot of hard work to get to this final analysis.

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