Finding The Best and Cheap WordPress Hosting Companies in 2016

Finding The Best and Cheap WordPress Hosting Companies in 2016

CheapASPNETHostingReview.com | Best and cheap WordPress hosting. Finding the best and cheap web hosting (and shared WordPress hosting usually) has traditionally been the first port of call for those new to self-hosted WordPress. The combination of server administration, low monthly fees, and tempting add-ons (such as free domains) make it an attractive option for new webmasters.

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Better still, prices have remained low over the years, while competition between the top WordPress hosting providers has continually driven the functionality on offer to new heights. That said, it can be a confusing world to navigate at times.
In this article,  we’ll break down the offerings of five of the most prominent WordPress hosting firms, and put real numbers next to different aspects of their performance, to help you choose the best WordPress hosting in 2016.
But before we dig into the numbers, let’s begin with some background on shared hosting and hosting generally, and the approach we took with our testing. We’ll start with the latter.

UPDATE (November 2016). Here’s the short version  if you’re in a hurry and you just want to see who the winners are among the best WordPress hosting plans out there:

Best WordPress Hosting Companies Compared 2016
NamePrice / monthAv. load time *Survey Rating
aspp-e1428978237554ASPHostPortal.com$5.000.37s4.6
hfl-e1427339326562HostForLIFE.eu€3.000.37s4.3
efhgef-e1429062589852DiscountService.biz$7.000.41s4.2

Who shared WordPress hosting is a good fit for

If any of the following scenarios are true for you, shared WordPress hosting could be an excellent fit:

  • You are a new business: As a new business, your immediate priority is getting a basic online presence established. Shared hosting is an excellent way of doing that quickly and affordably.
  • You have a limited budget and/or IT resources: Serious hosting and custom development require a major investment of both time and money. If you have neither to spare, shared hosting is a great way of getting started without breaking the bank or needing to hire full-time IT people.
  • Reasonable traffic expectations: If you’re simply looking to get your small brochure site or a basic e-commerce site set up, shared hosting is a great fit. If you are looking to launch a service with thousands of users that will IPO in six months, it is not.

Also remember, despite what the marketing material may say, you will be required to deal with technical issues somewhere along the line. Topics such as DNS settings and cPanel management are going to rear their head. If these areas are brand new to you, expect to have to do some quick learning.

Let’s move onto the typical elements on offer with a WordPress hosting package.

Best and Cheap WordPress Hosting

ASPHostPortal.com

Why we choose ASPHostPortal for the Best WordPress Web hosting provider?

asphostportal-icon-e1421832425840-120x120-e1424663413602Because ASPHostPortal is Awards Winning Hosting Company providing the full range of Superior ASP.NET Core 1.0 hosting services including Shared, Dedicated and Reseller ASP.NET Web hosting at affordable prices. They support the latest .NET hosting features as ASP.NET Core 1.0 ,5/4.5, MVC 5, MS SQL 2014/2012 and Windows 2016 with IIS 8. ASPHostPortal offer Unlimited site, Data transfer and Email accounts with their shared hosting plans with combination of Free Domain, 24/7 U.S. Based Customer Support, 30 Day Money Back Guarantee and more!

Make a smart choice and get the right WordPress hosting for you!


HostForLIFE.eu

hostforlife-icon-e1421832276583-120x120-e1424663388212With more than 7 Years of web hosting experience, HostForLIFE provide quality UNLIMITED WordPress web hosting,Windows Share and Windows Dedicated servers. They support the latest .NET stack as ASP.NET Core 1.0, 5, 4.5, SQL 2012/2014, Windows 2012 Server. You will also receive Unlimited Disk space and Bandwidth. That is quality you can count on. If you are tired moving your website between ASP.NET hosts. They are the right choice for your business. They own an operate their own UK based data center. Offer 24/7 live support. And much more!

Get reliable WordPress hosting and SAVE money now!


DiscountService.biz

discountservice-icon-e1421396726386-120x120-e1424663401956Meet the Fastest WordPress hosting in the World! Take advantage of DiscountService.biz powerful, on-demand WordPress hosting to boost the performance of your IT infrastructure. Multiple template options are available so you have the flexibility to customize instances based upon your needs. Rely on their Windows ASP.NET hosting to quickly scale and deploy IT assets when you need them, only paying for the resources you use. Their Windows hosting customers receive 100% Uptime Guarantee, Live 24/7/365 Australia. based customer support, and 12 Data Centers at Affordable price.

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Conclusion

Our hope is that the information above will help you do two things:

  1. provide a framework to distinguish between high-profile providers, and
  2. use their overall offerings as a sensible reference point if you are comparing with other hosting services in the market.

We’d love to hear more about your experience in finding the best web hosting for WordPress in the comments below. Get in touch!

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Cheap WordPress Hosting Tutorial – Effective Ways to Prevent and Remove Malware in WordPress

Cheap WordPress Hosting Tutorial – Effective Ways to Prevent and Remove Malware in WordPress

CheapASPNETHostingReview.com | Cheap and reliable wordpress hosting. WordPress is now the most popular website management software, currently powering more than 70 million websites worldwide. Software by it’s very nature is something that needs to be maintained, as new updates and patches become available. WordPress has been freely available since 2004 to create a website with, and versions remain online from 1.x to the most current (3.3.2).

From the very first version of WordPress, to the latest, there have been hundreds of updates available – some of which patch very big security holes. Over the last few years the term “malware” has been used in conjunction with WordPress websites that have been compromised (hacked) through one of these security holes. While malware is typically a term to describe a virus with a payload on a PC, the term is now more often used to describe a (WordPress) website that’s been infected with SEO spam, or malicious scripts or code.
The best prevention for malware in WordPress is simply keeping it up to date. As new releases become available, perform the upgrade as soon as possible. In addition, also be sure that your installed theme and plugins are up to date as well.

Tips for Malware Prevention


 

While updating WordPress is great preventative medicine there are multiple additional things that you can do to further protect your website:
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Remove old plugins: Be sure to remove any plugins that you aren’t using (that are deactivated). Even unused plugins can be a security risk. Also, be sure to only leave installed plugins that have had an update within the last 12-18 months. If you’re using plugins older than that, they may not be compatible with the latest version(s) of WordPress (or your theme) – and they could have security holes as well.
Review your theme: How old is your WordPress theme? If you purchased it from a developer, check and see if there is a recent update available for you to install. If you have a custom theme (or even one you coded yourself), be sure to have it reviewed by a competent developer or security expert about once per year to ensure it doesn’t have security holes.
Security and Hardening: You should install and configure one or more popular WordPress plugins to secure and harden your website (beyond the ‘out of the box’ setup). While WordPress is a very mature and secure platform, you can easily add multiple additional layers of basic security by changing your admin username, the default WordPress table name, and security against 404 attacks and long malicious URL attempts.

Tips for Malware Removal


 

If you think your WordPress website has been hacked or injected with malware, malicious scripts, spam links, or code, the first thing you should do get a backup copy of your website (if you don’t already have one). Get a copy of all files in your webhosting account downloaded to your local computer, as well as a copy of your database.
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Next install one of the many free malware scanner plugins in the WordPress official free plugin repository. Activate it, and see if you can find the source of the infection. If you’re a technical person, you might be able to remove the code or scripts on your own. Be sure to check all your theme files, and you might also need to reinstall WordPress.
If your WordPress core files are infected one of the best ways to remove the source of the infection is to delete the entire wp-admin and wp-includes folders (and contents) as well as all files in the root of your website. Inside the wp-content folder delete both the themes and plugins folders (keeping the uploads, which has attachments and images you’ve uploaded). Since you have a local copy of your website, you can reinstall the theme and you know what plugins were installed.
The best thing to do at this point is to download a fresh copy of WordPress and install it. Use the local copy of the wp-config.php file to connect to your existing database. Once you’ve done this, before reinstalling your theme and plugins you might want to login one time to your wp-admin dashboard and go to “Tools->export” and export and entire copy of all your content, comments, tags, categories, and authors. Now (if you want) at this point you could drop the entire database, create a new one, and import all your content so you’d have a completely fresh copy of both WordPress and a new database. Then last, reinstall your theme and fresh copies of all plugins from the official WordPress repository (don’t use the local copies you downloaded).
If these steps are too technical for you, or if it didn’t remove the source of the infection, you might need to enlist the help of a WordPress security expert.

Preventive Maintenance Moving Forward


 

If your website is important to you, or if you use it for business – it’s important that you protect it as if it were your physical business. Would would happen if your website were down or out of commission tomorrow? Would it hurt your business? A little preventative medicine goes a long way:
Backup and Disaster Recovery Plan: Make sure you have a working and tested backup solution in place (this is what most businesses would call a disaster recovery plan). There are many free and paid plugins and solutions to accomplish this for a WordPress website.
Cheap WordPress Hosting – Tips to Fix the Error Establishing a Database Connection in WordPress

Cheap WordPress Hosting – Tips to Fix the Error Establishing a Database Connection in WordPress

CheapASPNETHostingReview.com | Cheap and reliable WordPress hosting. If you have been surfing the web for a while, you have at least seen this error a few times. Error Establishing a Database Connection is one of those curses that could be caused by many reasons. As a WordPress beginner, this could be awfully frustrating specially when it happened on its own without you changing anything. We ran into this issue yesterday on our own site. It took a little over 20 minutes to detect and fix the problem. While doing the research to find possible causes, we realized that there was no good article that covered everything. In this article, we will show you how to fix the error establishing a database connection in WordPress by compiling a list of solutions all in one place.

Note: Before you make any database changes, make sure you have sufficient backups.

Why do you get this error?

Well in short, you are getting this error because WordPress is unable to establish a database connection. Now the reason why WordPress is unable to establish a database connection can vary. It could be that your database login credentials are wrong or have been changed. It could be that your database server is unresponsive. It could be that your database has been corrupted. In our experience, majority of the times this error happens because of some sort of server error however there could be other factors as well. Lets take a look at how to go about troubleshooting this problem.

Does the problem occur for /wp-admin/ as well?

First thing you should do is to make sure that you are getting the same error on both the front-end of the site, and the back-end of the site (wp-admin). If the error message is the same on both pages “Error establishing a database connection”, then proceed onto the next step. If you are getting a different error on the wp-admin for instance something like “One or more database tables are unavailable. The database may need to be repaired”, then you need to repair your database.

You can do this by adding the following line in your wp-config.php file:

Once you have done that, you can see the settings by visiting this page: http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/maint/repair.php

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Remember, the user does not need to be logged in to access this functionality when this define is set. This is because its main intent is to repair a corrupted database, Users can often not login when the database is corrupt. So once you are done repairing and optimizing your database, make sure to remove this from your wp-config.php.

If this repair did not fix the problem, or you are having trouble running the repair then continue reading this article as you might find another solution to work.

Checking the WP-Config file

WP-Config.php is probably the single most important file in your entire WordPress installation. This is where you specify the details for WordPress to connect your database. If you changed your root password, or the database user password, then you will need to change this file as well. First thing you should always check is if everything in your wp-config.php file is the same.

Remember your DB_Host value might not always be localhost. Depending on the host, it will be different. For popular hosts like ASPHostPortal, HostForLIFE, DiscountService, it is localhost. You can find other host values here.

Some folks suggested that they fixed their problem by replacing localhost with the IP. It is common to see this sort of issue when running WordPress on a local server environment. For example on MAMP, the DB_Host value when changed to the IP may seem to work.

IP’s will vary for online web hosting services.

If everything in this file is correct (make sure you check for typos), then it is fair to say that there is something wrong on the server end.

Check your Web Host (MySQL Server)

Often you will notice this Error establishing database connection when your site gets swarmed with a lot of traffic. Basically, your host server just cannot handle the load (specially when you are on shared hosting). Your site will get really slow and for some users even output the error. So the best thing you should do is get on the phone or livechat with your hosting provider and ask them if your MySQL server is responsive.

For those users who want to test if MySQL server is running yourself, you can do a few things. Test other sites on the same server to see if they are having the issue. If they are also getting the same error, then most definitely there is something wrong with your MySQL server. If you do not have any other site on this same hosting account simply go to your cPanel and try to access phpMyAdmin and connect the database. If you can connect, then we need to verify if your database user has sufficient permission. Create a new file called testconnection.php and paste the following code in it:

Make sure to replace the username and password. If the connected successfully, then it means that your user has sufficient permission, and there is something else that is wrong. Go back to your wp-config file to make sure that everything there is correct (re-scan for typos).

If you cannot connect to the database by going to phpMyAdmin, then you know it is something with your server. It does not necessarily means that your MySQL server is down. It could mean that your user does not have sufficient permission.

In our case, our MySQL server was running. All other sites on the servers were working fine except for WPBeginner. When we tried going to our phpMyAdmin, we ended up getting the error:

#1045 – Access denied for user ‘foo’@’%’ (using password: YES)

We got on the phone with ASPHostPortal and their support quickly found the problem. Somehow our user’s permissions were reset. Not sure how that happened, but apparently that was the reason. They went back in and restore the permissions and we were able to get the site back live.

So if you get the access denied error in either connecting to your phpMyAdmin or through testconnection.php results, then you should contact your host right away to get them to fix it.

Solutions that Worked for Others

It is important to note, that these may not work for you. Use at your own risk and make sure that you have sufficient backups if anything goes wrong.

Deepak Mittal said that his client was getting the error that database needs to be repaired. Even after repairing the database, the error did not go away. He tried various things and at the end, the issue was the site url. Apparently that was changed which caused the error to persist. He ran the SQL query by going to phpMyAdmin:

Make sure to replace YOUR_SITE_URL with the actual url example: http://www.wpbeginner.com. The wp_options will be different if you have changed the default WordPress database prefix.

This seemed to fix the issue for him and few others that commented on his post as well.

Sachinum suggested that he was able to connect the database with testconnection.php, so he changed the wp-config.php user to the root user. WordPress started to work perfectly fine. Then he reverted the settings back to the database-user, and it continued to work. He could not figure out what was wrong, but concluded that it was a typo.

Cutewonders suggested that they removed the content of active_plugins in wp_options table and edited the contents of recently_edited. Basically that seemed to fix the problem. Please their full response here.

We read on numerous sources that users simply uploaded a fresh copy of WordPress and it fixed the error.

This is a really frustrating error. What have you tried that seemed to work for you? We would be happy to expand on this resource, so others do not have to waste as much time finding a solution.