Owning a high traffic WordPress site will demand that you go for the best web hosting company. There are a couple of known hosting companies which perform extremely well for viral websites. With traffic numbers in the neigbourhood of 1 million and 50 million, you’ll comfortably host your site with the companies we are going to list below.
- Kinsta
Kinsta is known for hosting medium and viral blogs. I own a website that gets 25 million page views per month and it’s hosted at Kinsta, even this site is hosted by Kinsta.
One thing you’ll love about this hosting company is that no matter how many visitors your site gets, it won’t experience downtime. In addition, the loading speed on websites hosted by the company load extremely fast.
The web hosting company has plans for small, medium and big websites where the cost of hosting is from as low as $30 per month,click on this link to see all the plans by Kinsta
Kinsta bills clients based on traffic numbers. If your site gets 600,000 visits per month, you pay $400 every month. 600,000 visits are equivalent to 5-10 million page views per month. If the monthly visits are 3 million, you pay $1,500 monthly. Monthly visits of 3 million are equivalent to 10 -30 million page views.
When your site is hosted by Kinsta, you are 100% sure that it will grow without interruptions. If you want to know some of the leading clients being hosted by Kinsta,click on this link to visit their website
At first I was thinking Kinsta was a bit expensive but when I tried several hosting company which I thought were cheap,I got so disappointed until I returned to Kinsta.
To start hosting your site with Kinsta,click on this link and visit their website,then create a free account and select a plan. They will migrate your blog for free.
Kinsta provides 30-day money back guarantee for every new client.If you realize that their services are not good within 30 days, apply for refund.
- Bluehost
Bluehost is recommended by WordPress to host small, medium and big websites. WordPress websites of any amount of traffic will be hosted by the company. Hosting costs as low as $3.95 per month. There are two types of WordPress hosting offered by Bluehost: WordPress Hosting and WP Pro.
WordPress Hosting plans, features and prices
BASIC PLAN | PLUS PLAN | CHOICE PLUS PLAN |
$3.95/mo* | $5.95/mo* | $6.95/mo* |
1 Website | ||
Free SSL Certificate | Unlimited Websites | Unlimited Websites |
50 GB SSD Storage | Free SSL Certificate | Free SSL Certificate |
Free Domain for 1 Year | Unmetered SSD Storage | Unmetered SSD Storage |
5 Parked Domains | Free Domain for 1 Year | Free Domain for 1 Year |
25 Subdomains | Unlimited Parked Domains | Unlimited Parked Domains |
$200 Marketing Credit | Unlimited Subdomains | Unlimited Subdomains |
Click here to learn more | $200 Marketing Credit | $200 Marketing Credit |
1 Microsoft 365 Mailbox – Free 30 Days | CodeGuard Basic Backup | |
Click here to learn more | 1 Microsoft 365 Mailbox – Free 30 Days | |
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To start hosting your WordPress Website at Bluehost,click on this link to visit the company’s website,then create a free account and choose any of the plans above. You will proceed to make payment that will enable you to start hosting the blog.
WP Pro
WP Pro is the second type of hosting WordPress sites at Bluehost.It was created later to host sites with millions of page views per month.
WP Pro plans, features and prices
BUILD PLAN | GROW PLAN | SCALE PLAN |
$19.95/mo* | $29.95/mo* | $49.95/mo* |
Get Started with: | Everything in Build, plus: | Everything in Grow, plus: |
Jetpack Site Analytics (Basic) | Jetpack Premium Included | Jetpack Pro Included |
Marketing Center | Business Review Tools | Unlimited Backups and Restore |
100+ Free WordPress Themes | Bluehost SEO Tools | PayPal Integration |
Daily Scheduled Backups | Jetpack Ads Integration | Unlimited Video Compression |
Malware Detection and Removal | 10GB Video Compression | Elastic Search |
Domain Privacy + Protection | Blue Sky Ticket Support | Blue Sky Chat Support |
1 Microsoft 365 Mailbox – Free 30 Days | 1 Microsoft 365 Mailbox – Free 30 Days | 1 Microsoft 365 Mailbox – Free 30 Days |
Click here to choose plan | Click here to choose plan | Click here to choose plan |
You can either select WordPress hosting or WP Pro depending on the amount of traffic your blog gets. If your blog receives more than 1 million page views, we recommend that you go for WP Pro plans.
- A2 Hosting
A2 offers WordPress for small, medium and high traffic website. For high traffic sites, Dedicated Server hosting plans are the best.
For the WordPress Hosting, here are the plans, features and prices:
STARTUP PLAN | DRIVE PLAN | TURBO BOOST PLAN | TURBO MAX PLAN |
Starting at $2.99 USD monthly | Starting at $4.99 USD monthly | Starting at $9.99 USD monthly | Starting at $14.99 USD monthly |
1 Website | Unlimited Websites | Unlimited Websites | Unlimited Websites |
100 GB SSD Storage | Unlimited SSD Storage | Unlimited NVMe Storage | Unlimited NVMe Storage |
Free & Easy Site Migration | Free & Easy Site Migration | Free & Easy Site Migration | Free & Easy Site Migratiion |
Anytime Money Back Guarantee | Free Automatic Backups | Free Automatic Backups | Free Automatic Backups |
Click here to learn more | Click here to learn more | Turbo (Up To 20X Faster) | Turbo (Up To 20X Faster) |
Anytime Money Back Guarantee | 5X More Resources | ||
Click here to learn more | Anytime Money Back Guarantee | ||
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If your website becomes so viral with over 3 million monthly visitors, upgrade to Dedicated Server hosting. Managed Dedicated Servers cost between $141 and $290 per month, these servers can host websites with even 50 million visitors,click here to see their features
- Liquid Web
Liquid Web is also one of the best hosting company for viral/high traffic websites. Their dedicated servers have features and resources that can accommodate millions of monthly visitors. Any website with more than 1 million visitors will perfectly fit into Liquid Web plans.
The hosting plans cost between $199 and $549 per month. Their features and pricing are as indicated below:
Intel Xeon 1230 | Intel Xeon Silver 4108 | Intel Xeon Gold 6130 | Intel Xeon 1230v6 Value Bundle | Intel Silver 4108 Value Bundle | Intel Gold 6130 Value Bundle |
$199 per month | $299 per month | $499 per month | $249 per month | $349 per month | $549 per month |
4 cores @ 3.9 GHz Max | 8 cores @ 3.0 GHz Max | 16 cores @ 3.7 GHz Max | 4 cores @ 3.9 GHz Max | 8 cores @ 3.0 GHz Max | 16 cores @ 3.7 GHz Max |
16 32 GB RAM | 32 64 GB RAM | 32 64 GB RAM | 32 64 GB RAM | 32 64 GB RAM | 64 128 GB RAM |
2 x 240 GB SSD Primary Disk | 2 x 480 GB SSD Primary Disk | 2 x 480 GB SSD Primary Disk | 4 x 240 GB SSD Primary Storage Hardware RAID 10 | 4 x 240 GB SSD Primary Storage Hardware RAID 10 | 4 x 480 GB SSD Primary Storage Hardware RAID 10 |
1 x 1 TB SATA Backup Disk | 1 x 2 TB SATA Backup Disk | 1 x 2 TB SATA Backup Disk | 1 x 1 TB SATA Backup Storage | 1 x 1 TB SATA Backup Storage | 1 x 1 TB SATA Backup Storage |
5 TB Bandwidth | 8 TB Bandwidth | 8 TB Bandwidth | 1 x 1 TB SATA Additional File Storage | 1 x 1 TB SATA Additional File Storage | 1 x 2 TB SATA Additional File Storage |
250 GB Acronis Cyber Backups | 250 GB Acronis Cyber Backups | 250 GB Acronis Cyber Backups | 8 TB Bandwidth | 10 TB Bandwidth | 15 TB Bandwidth |
Click here to select plan | Click here to select plan | Click here to select plan | Click here to select plan | Click here to select plan | Click here to select plan |
Flywheel
Flywheel is one of the best Managed WordPress Hosting companies in the world. It has plans for small, medium and high traffic websites. The company’s cheapest plan costs $13 per month and the most advanced goes for $242 per month. To start learn more about Flywheel ,click on this link
- Cloudways
Cloudways allows clients to pay hourly, monthly or annually, It’s one of the most preferred web hosting companies for small, medium and high traffic WordPress sites. If a client decides to pay on monthly basis, they will get the following features;
$ 10 /mo | $ 22 /mo | $ 42 /mo | $ 80 /mo |
RAM 1GB | RAM 2GB | RAM 4GB | RAM 8GB |
Processor 1 Core | Processor 1 Core | Processor 2 Core | Processor 4 Core |
Storage 25GB | Storage 50GB | Storage 80GB | Storage 160GB |
1TB Bandwidth | 2TB Bandwidth | 4TB Bandwidth | 5 TB Bandwidth |
24/7/365 Support | 24/7/365 Support | 24/7/365 Support | 24/7/365 Support |
Free SSL | Free SSL | Free SSL | Free SSL |
CDN Add-on | CDN Add-on | CDN Add-on | CDN Add-on |
Free Migration | Free Migration | Free Migration | Free Migration |
Unlimited Application Installation | Unlimited Application Installation | Unlimited Application Installation | Unlimited Application Installation |
Team Management | Team Management | Team Management | Team Management |
Dedicated Firewalls | Dedicated Firewalls | Dedicated Firewalls | Dedicated Firewalls |
24/7 Real-time Monitoring | 24/7 Real-time Monitoring | 24/7 Real-time Monitoring | 24/7 Real-time Monitoring |
Automated Backups | Automated Backups | Automated Backups | Automated Backups |
Staging Environment | Staging Environment | Staging Environment | Staging Environment |
Optimized With Advanced Caches | Optimized With Advanced Caches | Optimized With Advanced Caches | Optimized With Advanced Caches |
Auto Healing | Auto Healing | Auto Healing | Auto Healing |
Regular Security Patching | Regular Security Patching | Regular Security Patching | Regular Security Patching |
HTTP/2 Enabled Servers | HTTP/2 Enabled Servers | HTTP/2 Enabled Servers | HTTP/2 Enabled Servers |
SSH and SFTP Access | SSH and SFTP Access | SSH and SFTP Access | SSH and SFTP Access |
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