Hosting with the fastest load time?

It is not the most important factor. But if you want your site to load fast you must own a VPS. They are really really cheap these days. You can do caching a tune your site if you have edit privilages. Also, if we are talking about static pages only you can use plain html, don t use WordPress. And the server must by near your most users to have low latency. Or use a CDN.
For SEO purposes, ttfb (time to first byte) is important , not the loading time. But the whole loading time affects user experience. I mean, you can not have the user to wait twenty seconds just to see your page. If you have many high resolution images, for example, you must use some JavaScript tricks to avoid this situation. In my opinion, user experience is much more important than ttfb. There are much more important indicators for ranking your page than this, so don t worry so much. Worry most for your total loading page time. Believe me, WordPress is so slow!

You definitely need a Cloud Hosting Server for fastest load times. I'm using VMWare for it's flexibility/reliability/speed. I've added CPNginx Addon for both additional speed and additional protections. You start at that point and then tweak it as @FNet suggests above. Replace WP with regular HTML/PHP/CSS if at all possible. WP is a quagmire for sapping up speed. You should concentrate on reducing page loading times, again as @FNet has suggested.

Domain Hosting (Single or Multiple) on a shared server is the slowest speed of all>VPS>Server>Cloud Hosting>Cloud Hosting with addons. Not all Cloud Hosting VPS's are the same. It depends on the software they use to divide the server up. My personal preference is to use VPWare. But I'm not an expert of what is available.

Then you need to also examine what is it which is slowing everything down. It could be by just adding more RAM or Disk space is all you might need. Wordpress is a pig at slowing your server down, though. I doubt you will reach your targets you have set yourself, without significant investment in faster hardware

I admit that I'm not a wordpress expert. But you will definitely need the best cache available as a wordpress addon. If there is any other addons which claim to make wordpress faster. You should add them too.

I've used this free web hosting service freehosting.x10host.com/ for close to 2 months now since end of May 2017, and everything is running very smoothly, server uptime is good, and loading speed is also very impressive for a free web hosting. They have the Cloubflare CDN enabled, so that helps to speed up the server serving pages with remarkable speed. I test with 5.9MB in one page and it fully loads less than 5 seconds.

Give it a try freehosting.x10host.com/ and comback to share your experience with us.

VPS or Dedicated Server could be a great choice for you. Both of these come with independent server resources, fast speed, and premium resources. Unlike Shared Server there is no sharing of resources or any interference by other website users. Also you have the option to scale the server resources whenever required.

Ok, first not exactly correct information.

A. you don't need a VPS or dedicated server to get good page speed scores that is a myth that well frankly just isn't true in the world of hosting. There is shared hosting out there that would mop the floor of a VPS and even some dedicated offerings I have seen it first hand so scratch VPS and dedicated off your list because shared hosting is not only going to be a better choice starting out, if it's set up on a decent web host it is already going to be locked into dedicated resources by way of CloudLinux and you can get some shared hosting with up to 4 GB memory and 4 CPU cores which is more than enough for a startup WordPress website. Also under CloudLinux your account on a shared hosting server would not be disrupted by another account user that is virtually unheard of on a CloudLinux powered server.

The idea when it comes to web hosting is you scale your hosting as you grow you don't scale the hosting before you build your website...

B. forget what was said about WordPress and blah... blah... blah... You can easily get WordPress to load in 1s or less if you have the right web hosts and have optimized your website properly. I have WordPress websites that load in 1.1s and they are huge websites. WordPress would be the optimum choice for you as it is 10X more flexible than anything suggested, it's 10X easier to use if you are not familiar with development, and it is 10X better user community and support.

C. Google has total page loading times set to 3s and it is being gauged from mobile, not desktop easy enough to achieve.

D. WordPress is going to blow anything they suggested out of the water when it comes to SEO so think about that, as well. There is a reason why 30% of the internet is powered by WordPress with over 600+ new websites built each day using the WordPress platform.

E. Don't fall for the unlimited storage space and unlimited bandwidth market mumbo jumbo. Everything has limits so read the fine print. Most "unlimited" storage offering has a set amount of Inodes which are files and some host have this set up depending on the hosting plan anywhere from 150,000 all the way up to 500,000+ Inodes. While this isn't bad with a single WordPress website you might want something that starts around 250,000 Inodes or 350,000 Inodes. That will be plenty of space for a single WordPress website starting out. When it comes to bandwidth look for unmetered not unlimited. There is a difference here unmetered means it's not throttled or capped on the connection while unlimited usually means you will get throttled or be restricted when you reach a certain threshold.

F. Go for NVMe storage over SSD storage. NVMe is up to 7X faster than SSD storage and SSD storage can be up to 20X faster than standard HDD storage. Every part plays a role in the performance of your website so you will want the best server hardware. Also, make sure the host is using a Raid 1 or Raid 10 configuration. There is some host believe it or not that do not offer Raid configuration on a shared server and even on dedicated servers, they can charge between 50 to 150+ for a Raid configuration set up.

G. Make sure the web hosts you select have a good nightly backup service. Most host and I will not mention any names only pull a single backup once a week on a random day. This is a horrible backup service. The reason being is that they want you to buy into an added backup plan usually from some third-party provider they are reselling the service through such as CodeGuard, etc. There are quality hosts out there that do a weekly and nightly backup and this is what you want to look for. This way you have plenty of recent backups to select from for restore options if something should go wrong. If you are using WordPress sure you could use any of the many backup plugins they have available but all this does is create unnecessary bloat of your root directory by storing those backups on the server. A good backup service by a quality host eliminates this need altogether.

H. CDN is a must these days. There are plenty of options available when it comes to CDN services. Cloudflare isn't a bad "free" choice, but it's also not the greatest for websites either even on the paid plans they have. So do some shopping around there are better services out there that are low cost that performs much better than Cloudflare.

@jstubbs3 I am currently reviewing my shared/reseller hosting options. What I would really like is a DirectAdmin/CloudLinux/LitespeedEnterprise configuration. I don't use Wordpress. Would you have any recommended hosts? All the ones I look at look really expensive, when I would prefer to have something around $20+ for a reseller server I don't need the reseller, but they seem to have more resources. I have one main website with database, and 7 other websites which I just play around with. I could probably stretch to a VPS if it was around $30. Quality is paramount. Ease of use is paramount. I think my current host takes some pleasure in bewildering me with technicalities, rather than just fixing the problems.

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@jstubbs3 I am currently reviewing my shared/reseller hosting options. What I would really like is a DirectAdmin/CloudLinux/LitespeedEnterprise configuration. I don't use Wordpress. Would you have any recommended hosts? All the ones I look at look really expensive, when I would prefer to have something around $20+ for a reseller server I don't need the reseller, but they seem to have more resources. I have one main website with database, and 7 other websites which I just play around with. I could probably stretch to a VPS if it was around $30. Quality is paramount. Ease of use is paramount. I think my current host takes some pleasure in bewildering me with technicalities, rather than just fixing the problems.

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If you are looking for LiteSpeed reseller web hosting I'd say try A2 Hosting or better yet Name Hero would be the better choice. Name Hero uses cPanel but their reseller hosting depending on which package you get comes with up to 100 cPanel accounts and all their cPanel accounts are included in the price. LiteSpeed is totally awesome we use it on our server and nothing can touch it in performance and speed. It outperforms Apache and Nginx and it's only getting better. So give Name Hero a try you won't be disappointed they have top-notch support too and locations in both the US and Netherlands.

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If you are looking for LiteSpeed reseller web hosting I'd say try A2 Hosting or better yet Name Hero would be the better choice. Name Hero uses cPanel but their reseller hosting depending on which package you get comes with up to 100 cPanel accounts and all their cPanel accounts are included in the price. LiteSpeed is totally awesome we use it on our server and nothing can touch it in performance and speed. It outperforms Apache and Nginx and it's only getting better. So give Name Hero a try you won't be disappointed they have top-notch support too and locations in both the US and Netherlands.

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Thank you for your considered responses. I agree that both A2 Hosting and Name Hero are good options. I really want to get away from cPanel, which is why I included DirectAdmin as the Control Panel and whilst I think A2 Hosting and Name Hero are good options, they're not originally on my list. There are a growing number DirectAdmin hosts but it seems not enough of the best hosts seem to have adopted them yet

I've probably spent several/many hours at A2 Hosting and still not that much the wiser about their services Pretty much too much information (which I like because everything is spelled out).

Would you have any recommendations using Direct Admin?

stub said:

Thank you for your considered responses. I agree that both A2 Hosting and Name Hero are good options. I really want to get away from cPanel, which is why I included DirectAdmin as the Control Panel and whilst I think A2 Hosting and Name Hero are good options, they're not originally on my list. There are a growing number DirectAdmin hosts but it seems not enough of the best hosts seem to have adopted them yet

I've probably spent several/many hours at A2 Hosting and still not that much the wiser about their services Pretty much too much information (which I like because everything is spelled out).

Would you have any recommendations using Direct Admin?

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With a VPS server, you can install any software you wish. If you are looking for one that already offers DirectAdmin as an option then you could try out Hostens. Now with that said you most likely aren't going to get the best of both worlds here meaning you might get DirectAdmin but you may not get LiteSpeed and you might have to purchase that license separately or as an add-on, if they offer it, and if not then you will be purchasing it from LiteSpeed directly. I'd also ask about CloudLinux OS if you go this route because some hosts do not offer CloudLinux as an option for their VPS not even as an add-on. If they do not offer it as an option or an add-on then you will most likely have to bring your own license and you will be on your own for support and set up issues.

That's exactly what I was asking about in my first reply. CloudLinux, DirectAdmin, Litespeed Enterprise. A2Hosting definitely and I think Name Hero both offer CloudLinux, cPanel, Litespeed Enterprise. I really want to remove cPanel from the mix, because it has lots of stuff I don't really use. DirectAdmin is actually easier to understand (although less familiar). Almost all the desired combinations I've tried (quite a few) fall way short on the support front. Some are better than others. I guess I have been spoilt by the quality of support on KnownHost. Their support is top notch (after all the do stress they never want to lose a customer) But they charge additionally for CloudLinux and Litespeed, which makes them very expensive.

I am impressed with both A2Hosting and NameHero offers. Not the cheapest, which include cPanel instead of DirectAdmin. So I'm probably going to try one of them. Unless a find another decent host offering DirectAdmin (which isn't easy to find).

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That's exactly what I was asking about in my first reply. CloudLinux, DirectAdmin, Litespeed Enterprise. A2Hosting definitely and I think Name Hero both offer CloudLinux, cPanel, Litespeed Enterprise. I really want to remove cPanel from the mix, because it has lots of stuff I don't really use. DirectAdmin is actually easier to understand (although less familiar). Almost all the desired combinations I've tried (quite a few) fall way short on the support front. Some are better than others. I guess I have been spoilt by the quality of support on KnownHost. Their support is top notch (after all the do stress they never want to lose a customer) But they charge additionally for CloudLinux and Litespeed, which makes them very expensive.

I am impressed with both A2Hosting and NameHero offers. Not the cheapest, which include cPanel instead of DirectAdmin. So I'm probably going to try one of them. Unless a find another decent host offering DirectAdmin (which isn't easy to find).

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Sounds good I'm sure you will be pleased with either one of those hosts.

I have initially opened up an inquiry with A2Hosting despite them using cPanel. it's proving quite hard to find a quality DirectAdmin Host.

A VPS is only important if you have a site with a backend that the site relies on. Honestly, Wordpress isn't the way to go nowadays if you're looking for speed. Any serverless static site with a half decent CDN will run over any PHP-reliant site. I wish people would start to realize that Wordpress simply isn't the way to go anymore. Jamstack all the way.

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A VPS is only important if you have a site with a backend that the site relies on. Honestly, Wordpress isn't the way to go nowadays if you're looking for speed. Any serverless static site with a half decent CDN will run over any PHP-reliant site. I wish people would start to realize that Wordpress simply isn't the way to go anymore. Jamstack all the way.

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Whilst I agree. I don't think the subject is relevant to this thread.