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LA-based DreamHost has been offering web hosting for 25 years, and serves over 1.5 million websites. It offers quite a gamut of web hosting services, from inexpensive shared hosting to high-end dedicated servers, and regularly features among the best web hosting services.

DreamHost review: Snapshot

DreamHost’s pricing is highly competitive. Performance is good, too, and plans are straightforward to understand and packed with value-adding features. Above all, DreamHost has a focus on privacy and security not often seen in most bigger web hosts.

It may have less than half as many customers as bigger rivals Bluehost and HostGator, but it punches above its weight. It’s consistently cheaper than Bluehost and HostGator, yet doesn’t skimp on the most important features. 

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WP Engine is a WordPress hosting platform that offers a wealth of advanced tools for WordPress developers. In our WP Engine review, we’ll help you decide whether this is the best web hosting service for building your WordPress site.

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WP Engine is a powerful managed WordPress hosting platform built with the needs of developers in mind. It includes essential features like automated backups, integrated development and staging environments for testing out changes, and top-notch performance. In addition, WP Engine offers 10 built-in WordPress themes and a simple block-based WordPress website builder.

WP Engine isn’t cheap, but for the money we think it offers far more powerful tools than Bluehost, one of its main competitors. That said, WP Engine can be daunting…

InterServer is a full-service web hosting provider with four data centres in the US. In our InterServer review, we consider its key features and pricing, and compare it with the best web hosting services we’ve tested.

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InterServer offers a complete range of hosting products, from shared hosting to dedicated servers, and it positions its pricing to be consistently cheaper than the majority of its competitors. Throw in its unlimited bandwidth and storage and free Cloudflare CDN, and it looks like a top buy.

However, InterServer’s speed, reliability, and customer support need improvement. SMEs requiring a solid, dependable host with useful technical support may regret choosing InterServer just to save a few dollars a month. Competitors like Hostwinds and…

Liquid Web is right up there with the best web hosting services in the world, especially for larger businesses and enterprises looking for a high-end solution. As our Liquid Web review will show, this company offers a range of managed WordPress, cloud, VPS, and dedicated server hosting options. 

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All products are backed by modern server infrastructure, and Liquid Web is known to have some of the best performance in the industry. The managed WordPress solutions, provided through partner Nexcess, are excellent. Setting up and building your site is extremely straightforward, and you will benefit from a neat range of management tools. 

In addition, Liquid Web boasts some of the best customer service we’ve seen. There aren’t any budget options, but the company…

As part of our search for the best web hosting services, we took a closer look at eco-friendly hosting solutions. With its 300% renewable energy match and other green actions, GreenGeeks is a clear leader in this space.

GreenGeeks review: Snapshot

GreenGeeks offers competitively priced hosting solutions backed by excellent security and a range of other neat features. You will have to sign up for a long-term plan to access the best prices, though, and the self-help resources on offer are very basic. Competitors like Hostinger certainly offer much more budget-friendly hosting, which is worth keeping in mind. 

We also monitored GreenGeeks’ performance over a two-week period, and the results were generally positive. Creating a new WordPress site is quite straightforward, and in general,…