My Recommended Web Hosting Services in 2024

Through my clients, I have encountered tons of web hosting services. Some are great, while many are awful.

Based on my experience as a full-time web developer, these are the web hosting services that I use and recommend:

VPS Web Hosting

I use Gridpane for all of my personal sites (including this one) and my high-traffic clients for its speed and reliability. Gridpane is a hosted control panel that makes server management easy. I use it with Vultr VPS hosting (purchased separately).

Vultr’s servers are blazingly fast and reliable, and Gridpane’s customer support is great. Use Gridpane with Vultr if you need the ultimate speed, as far as site load time is concerned.

Shared Web Hosting

I use SiteGround shared hosting for my client sites with moderate traffic. Their servers are fast, and their reliability is superb. And they offer free SSL certs which are relatively easy to set up with one click, daily backups for 30 days, and one-click staging sites.

High-End Managed WordPress Hosting

For high-end managed WordPress hosting, I recommend WP Engine, also with built-in staging sites.

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Low-Cost Web Hosting Service

For my clients with very low budgets, i.e., hobbyist sites, personal portfolios of clients just starting out, personal blogs, etc., I recommend Namecheap. Namecheap is known for domain name hosting, but their web hosting is actually pretty awesome for the price.

Site Builder Service

If you can’t or just don’t want to do a full-custom website, there are many site builder services out there that let non-developers build great-looking sites. If you have a purely informational site without a lot of custom features, this might be the right option for you.

I recommend and use Squarespace for clients who are in that situation:

Domain Name Hosting

Your domain name is one of the most valuable components of your web presence. It’s best to register it yourself at a domain name hosting company – don’t let your web developer “take care” of this!

I recommend NameCheap for quality affordable domain name hosting (about half the cost of GoDaddy):

Porkbun (yes, that is their name, but they are legit) is slightly cheaper but does not offer wildcard or catch-all email forwarding for their domains.

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Brian Shim

I am a freelance web developer and consultant based in Santa Monica, CA. I’ve been designing websites using WordPress and from scratch using HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript since 2010. I create websites and web applications for businesses, nonprofits, and other organizations. I have a degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from California Institute of Technology and a degree in Engineering Management (MSEM) from Stanford University.

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