WordPress Hosting Comparison
One of WordPress.org's historically recommended hosts — primarily US-focused shared and managed WordPress hosting.
Bottom line: Bluehost's WordPress.org recommendation has long made it a default choice for new sites. For UK businesses, the US-based infrastructure, limited management, and support timezone are significant practical disadvantages.
£25/mo
Dedicated bare metal · All features included · No traffic limits
Bluehost
£2.75/mo
Shared cloud (Newfold Digital)
| Feature | WP Pro Host | Bluehost |
|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure | Dedicated bare metal | Shared cloud |
| UK data centre | ||
| Web server | LiteSpeed Enterprise | Apache (shared) |
| True WordPress management | Full management | Partial — auto-updates |
| Staging environment | All plans | Pro tier only |
| Daily backups | All plans — included | Add-on (CodeGuard) |
| CDN | QUIC.cloud — included | Cloudflare (basic) |
| Malware scanning & removal | Included free | Paid SiteLock add-on |
| WAF | Included free | Paid add-on |
| Plugin & theme updates | Managed — included | Manual |
| Free migration | First site only | |
| Uptime SLA | 99.9% with compensation | No formal SLA |
| UK-based support | ||
| Support timezone | UK hours | US Central Time |
| Published scaling policy |
* Competitor information based on published pricing and feature pages. Prices may vary.
Your resources are not shared. Bare-metal Ryzen 9 7950X3D with dedicated vCPUs, ECC RAM, and NVMe RAID -- not a slice of someone else's cloud.
Over £330/mo of tools are bundled into every plan. CDN, WAF, backups, malware scanning, plugin updates -- no itemised add-on invoices.
Published scaling policy, defined resource allocations, no traffic overage charges. You know exactly what you're paying and what you're getting.
Engineers who understand WordPress, available when UK businesses need them. Not a first-line script-reader in a distant time zone.
WordPress.org's hosting recommendations are influenced by commercial arrangements with recommended providers. Bluehost pays for this placement. The recommendation reflects that Bluehost can run WordPress — not that it's the best choice for a business site, and not that it has been independently evaluated against managed hosting alternatives.
Bluehost's infrastructure is primarily US-based. UK visitors to a US-hosted site experience 80–120ms of additional latency on every request. Support is US-based and operates on US Central Time. For a UK business targeting UK customers, a UK-based host with UK support is the more appropriate choice.
Bluehost does not include daily backups as standard — CodeGuard backup is a paid add-on. WP Pro Host includes daily backups with 7–60 day retention on all plans.
Free migration is included on every WP Pro Host plan. We handle the full process — files, database, DNS transition, SSL — with no downtime. Migrating from Bluehost is straightforward and typically completed in under 24 hours.
Free migration included. We handle DNS, SSL, databases, and content. Average migration completed in under 24 hours.