Finding the fastest WordPress hosting takes more than just reading a few reviews or trusting what companies say about themselves. Every provider claims to be the best – I’m yet to come across one that doesn’t – but without real data, those words don’t mean much. 🤷♂️
So, I put them to the test!
Over the past four years, we’ve run 19,940 individual tests (as of Apr 2025, and counting) to measure speed and reliability across 15+ of the top WordPress hosting providers. We bought these hosting setups with our own money, so there were no freebies, no sponsorships, and no biased results – just hard numbers!
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Most hosts provide a no-cost LetEncrypt SSL. Namecheap does not. After the first year, you get dinged for an SSL certificate. So users really need to factor that in when comparing costs vs. speed.
Thank you for doing and sharing this.
How about adding hosts from EU, Asia and Australia into the mix as well since you are testing from these regions?
Thanks for your comment, Mithun 🙂
We love Kinsta, we use it ourselves 🙂 We will look into an update of this article.
Thanks 🙂
Any comment on how to work with your current hosting company to address slow load times? For example, how can you negotiate for better performance if it is clear from Chrome developer diagnostics that the host server itself (not content, images etc.) is creating more than two seconds’ delay on a site?
Honestly Matt most of us that are Influencers have affiliate links. I think the article was unbiased, nowhere in the article did they hey choose this one we think they are best. The author listed all the sites they felt were good and gave a short snippet on why.
I take your points onboard but the first 4 recommendations (in the 1-10 list) all have affiliate links and over half the links in the article to external hosting sites do the same. I still think this makes for a biased article.
It’s not the first time someone mentions the affiliate links. And it’s not the first time we’ve explained that affiliate marketing doesn’t interfere with our editorial staff. Our writers work independently and don’t have a “hidden agenda”. Links are added afterwards – because they are a source of revenue. But this does not mean that our articles are biased.
For transparency, we also have a disclaimer at the end of the post mentioning the aff links. Also, we’re discussing this openly with you, so hope this adds to your lost trust 🙂
Chances are you may end up buying an expensive WordPress hosting and still won’t get good results.
For better performance, you must make sure that:
1. Using Premium DNS or Route53 (Amazon AWS)
2. The Best CDN, MaxCDN or CloudFront
3. The Server is on Litespeed Technology
4. You can make your website load fast even on a shared server, all you need to know is optimization.
We moved our sites to SiteGround and A2 Hosting. I would proudly say they are the best!
When it comes to fast WordPress hosting, the provider, which immediately comes into my mind is BGOcloud. Their services include CloudFlare CDN, SSD storage, and other features, which help websites to achieve faster loading time and better performance.