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9 Absolute BEST Hosting Providers for Indian Websites in 2025
Getting a website to load quickly for an audience in India can be tricky. Few international hosts have data centers in the region, and local providers can be surprisingly slow. How do I know? I’ve spent a few months testing both Indian and international hosts as part of Website Planet’s massive web hosting comparison project. This is what I found. Some local providers look...
7 Best (User-Friendly) Hosting Services for Personal Sites [2025]
Most entry-level shared hosting plans have enough resources to support a small, personal website. The problem is that some providers pack these plans with unnecessary tools as a way to increase the price. For instance, why should you pay extra for fancy e-commerce features if you have no intention of selling products on your site, or for a bunch of advanced developer...
Concrete5 vs WordPress: Which Is Better for Beginners? [2025]
I know what you’re thinking: it’s WordPress, right? Well, I’m a big fan of WordPress myself, but having recently tested Concrete5, I have to admit that this match is closer than I thought it would be. In fact, WordPress and Concrete5 have a lot in common. But there's one area where WordPress comes out on top. Almost all web hosting providers that have 1-click installers...
7 Best OVHcloud Alternatives You Can Trust in 2025
OVHcloud is undoubtedly cheap, but in this particular case, you get what you pay for. Having tried it over the course of several months, I have to admit that I’m not a fan. It’s fast – I’ll give it that – but it compromises a lot in terms of customer support and ease of use. Most of the time, it’s just you, the knowledge base, and Google. Customer support is only available...
5 Best Free Email Hosting Providers (You Can Trust) in 2025
If you want clients and customers to take you seriously, you need an email address @yourdomain. Back in the day, you could get away with a Gmail or Yahoo! address, but now that web hosting is so incredibly cheap, there’s no reason not to have a professional email address. In fact, you can get an address @yourdomain for free, but it can be tricky to find the right provider...
5 Best WordPress Hosting Services in 2025 (Fast and Reliable)
Most web hosts claim that their plans are optimized for WordPress, but this isn’t always the case. In fact, you’ll find this is often just an excuse to put a higher price tag on regular shared hosting with a few extra features. The best WordPress hosts provide much more than that. They give you an infrastructure that is built for performance from the ground up. They...
Drupal vs WordPress: Which Is the Right CMS for You? [2025]
If we lived in a world where we were all expert web developers, I’d say that Drupal was better than WordPress as a CMS (content management system). But in reality, most users don’t have the experience they’d need to actually take advantage of Drupal’s capabilities. For most of us, WordPress is a better choice. Drupal is a powerful CMS for complex projects. Many government...
InterServer vs SiteGround – Why Users Like InterServer More 2025
SiteGround might be more popular than InterServer, but I like to base my conclusions on results, rather than reputation. To properly compare InterServer and SiteGround, I’ve extensively tested both services in terms of value for money, features, performance, security, and customer support. InterServer has come out on top in most instances. SiteGround offers managed...
Hostinger vs Hosting Raja: One Is Much Better in 2025
Hosting Raja is the fastest Indian host I’ve tested, and its prices are decent too. However, its performance is not as consistent as Hostinger’s, an international host with equally affordable plans and similar loading speeds for India. To properly compare Hostinger and Hosting Raja, I tested both services for several months and rated them based on pricing, features,...
10 BEST Hosting Providers for Australian Websites in 2025
When it comes to web hosting, Australia has it pretty rough. There are dozens of outstanding international hosts with data centers in the US and the EU, but few of them have servers in the Australasian region. Aussies are mostly stuck with small local providers, and since there isn’t a lot of competition, prices tend to be high while features are often scarce. But it’s not...
A2 Hosting vs SiteGround: Hard to Choose, but I Did 2025
If you’d asked me to decide between A2 Hosting and SiteGround a few years back, I have no doubt that SiteGround would’ve been my first choice. But you don’t care about which web host used to be good, and neither do your site visitors. You want to know whether SiteGround or A2 Hosting is better right now, and my most recent tests showed some surprising results. As it turns...
14 Absolute Best Hosting Providers for UK Websites in 2025
In theory, your website should load faster if it’s hosted nearer to your audience. So, if most of your website visitors live in the United Kingdom, a local UK host might seem like a good idea. But I’ve tested dozens of UK-based web hosting services, and not all of them delivered good performance in the region. I was also surprised to see that many local hosts don’t offer...