When you run a Website building  agency, we deal with Australian hosting and get to test who is the best for service  price and affordability. We get Web Hosting for our customers for  small and large projects. We build  online shops, small biz sites an personal blogs  for our customers  and we get to actively analyse and and  compare the best  web-hosting for  performance and stability.

These are  some of our favourite web hosts for Australia!

Best Affordable Web Hosting for Australia – September 2017

Bluehost

http://www.bluehost.com

One of the oldest web hosts started in 1996, Bluehost has become the largest brand name when it comes to WordPress hosting. Bluehost is a web hosting company owned by Endurance International Group. It is one of the 20 largest web hosts, collectively hosting well over 2 million domains with its sister companies. Currently they are offering exclusive 63% off discount, a Free Domain, Free SSL, and a free Site Builder with templates.

Bluehost has a long standing partnership with the WordPress community. They are an official WordPress recommended hosting company since 2006.

Pros

Pricing: Their hosting plans are well within the reach of most users and are affordable.

No hidden Fees: There are any hidden fees when signing up, unlike some others.

Free domain: You get a free domain name for 1 year when you signup.

Cons

Higher domain renewal price their free domain renewal price is higher than average and renewals are charged higher.

Optional Addons: You can uncheck all the addons if you don’t need them when signing on.

Wpengine

http://www.wpengine.com

Over time, WP Engine has grown into an extremely popular web host. WP Engine is one of the most reliable and fastest WordPress host in town

PROS

Here are the main things I like about WP Engine –

• Premium managed WordPress hosting – Reliable and fast hosting. WP Engine’s uptime is backed by SLA – you get refunds if the host is not serving you enough uptime.
• Security – Daily backup and malware scan. They will fix everything if your site is hacked.
• Staging Sites – A staging- This feature allows you to test and redesign your site without jeopardizing your current site operation.
• Ever cache – WP Engine’s in-house caching technology for massive scalability and speed.
• 1 –click Restore – WP Engine supports instant backup plus 1-click restore with easy Snapshot Backups.

Cons

• Bot visits can affect your bandwith and usage data with wp engine
• Higher domain renewal price their free domain renewal price is higher than average and renewals are charged higher.
• Optional Addons: You can uncheck all the addons if you don’t need them when signing on

WP Engine is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and has offices in San Antonio, Texas; Limerick, Ireland, London, England and San Francisco, California. WP Engine is the leading managed hosting platform for websites built on WordPress, providing best-in-class security, performance, and premium support to over 70,000 customers.

Godaddy

http://www.godaddy.com

GoDaddy is the largest domain name registrar in the world, and offers one of the most comprehensive set of website building tools to its customers. Over the years, you’ve probably seen GoDaddy’s Super Bowl commercials and GoDaddy girls all around the internet.

Some internet veterans will not agree (GoDaddy used to be absolutely notorious) but recently GoDaddy has greatly improved their customer service since the mid-2000s. They have improved even more so under their new CEO, and the new direction they set out in July of 2013.

There are four plans available to pick from, starting at $5.99 per month. They all come with 24/7 support and website hosting. However, a domain name is not included in the price for all plans . Also, if you plan to open an online shop, you can only do this with their “Online Store” plan.

It is now possible to test the website builder during the first month for free: enough time to find out its pros and cons.

PROS

• GoDaddy Is Cheap.
• Their economy plan is $6.99/month with 12 month lock-in – but they always give away coupons for longer lock-ins and you can push it down to even $4.99/mo
• 24/7/365 Phone, Live Chat and Email Support
• GoDaddy Does Security Well
• This feature has to do with their huge scale (they have plenty of technology directed at thwarting spam and hackers)

CONS

• GoDaddy Uses A Custom Hosting Panel
• Yes, this seems technical – but the more in-depth you get with your WordPress site, the more the Hosting Panel matters. The industry leaders (and best) are cPanel and Fantastico. GoDaddy uses their own custom panel.
• No e-Commerce Tools – This version of Go Daddy website builder doesn’t come with any e-commerce tools.

GoDaddy Inc. is an American publicly traded Internet domain registrar and web hosting company. As of May 2017, GoDaddy has approximately 17 million customers. Based on our GoDaddy website builder review, if you are a small business owner, designer, musician, restaurant owner, a professional (lawyer, finance, and accounting) who want to build a website that’s creative, GoDaddy should be able to help you.

Hostgator

http://www.hostgator.com

Hostgator guarantees 99.9% uptime.  So far – I haven’t had any. HostGator has had its issues in the past though . Hostgator is known primarily for being a web hosting company, but also has its own website builder used by many EIG owned brands.

If you already have a shared hosting plan with Hosgator, then you can access the Basic plan of their website builder at no additional cost.

PROS

• Unlimited domains –  (on Baby and Business plans) means you can have literally unlimited websites on 1 plan
• No coding is required & excellent for beginners
• Unlimited bandwidth –  Means that you can scale, and not worry about # of visitors
• Unlimited subdomains and FTP accounts – so you can give secure access to any number of people.

CONS

• More expensive than other website builders

As with any platform, Hostgator has their own pros and con. It is good in terms of uptime and load times because all websites are hosted on this solid hosting provider with a 99.9% uptime guarantee.

CrazyDomains

http://www.crazydomains.com.au

Crazy Domains was established in 2007.

When you host with Crazy Domains, your website resides on state-of-the-art servers and a data centre connected to the Internet via high speed SLA backed services that pair with global backbone providers.

ECONOMY

7.00 $3.50

• Hosted websites 1
• Diskstorage  150GB
• Some features
• Cpanel
• 24/7 support
• Unlimited Bandwith

They offer the following locations for Web Hosting in Australia:

• Perth
• Melbourne
• Brisbane
• Sydney
• Queensland

Read more at https://www.crazydomains.com.au/web-hosting/

Netregistry

http://www.netregistry.com.au

Netregistry’s physical servers are housed at the Global Switch Data Centre in Sydney. Hosting in Australia typically provides a faster experience for Australian customers compared to hosting based overseas.

Cpanel starter plan

From $9.95 a month

• 20 GB storage
• 500 GB bandwidth
• 50 email accounts
• 3-page DIY website builder
• 24/7 support

All plans here – https://www.netregistry.com.au/web-hosting/cpanel-hosting/

Siteground

http://www.siteground.com

SiteGround.com is recommended by many on different blogs and forums. It is also officially recommended by WordPress.org, Joomla and Drupal.

The startUp plan offers the most basic set of features and lacks their famous caching plugin – the SuperCacher that boost websites performance, but makes up on low price.

The customer service at Siteground is 24/7 live help that helps!

Plans from

$4.95 a month  (regular price $9.95) for start up plan + 10 % GST

Features:

• One Website
• 10GB Web Space
• Suitable for ~ 10,000 Visits Monthl

The StartUp Plan gives you all the essential hosting features you need to accommodate a “just getting started” website or an existing average-size blog, personal, or business website. The StartUp Plan works well even for smaller online shops with a reasonable number of products. If you start to get more than 10,000 unique visits per month on a regular basis it’s a good idea to upgrade plans.

If you are using the StartUp shared hosting by SiteGround, but wants to use the addon functionality you need to upgrade your hosting plan from the Add Services section of your Customer area.

The Growbig and Gogeek plans are the next higher upgrade plans from basic.

PROS

• Good loading time
• Record up-time
• Good knowledgeable customer support

SiteGround has now more than 800,000 domain names worldwide, with data centres across United States, Europe and even Asia.

https://www.siteground.com/web-hosting.htm

Pressidium

http://www.pressidium.com

This is hosting built for wordpress. Pressidium is a Enterprise Architecture for WordPress – they have dedicated systems built with High Availability and Load Balanced architecture that won’t let you down.

Pressidium is a US-based managed WordPress hosting solution. Established in 2014, Pressidium was founded by a team of former Telecom, IT, and online media professionals

They have three main data centre regions in North America, Europe, Oceania & Asia Pacific, and 22 strategic edge locations spanning the entire globe. Pressidium Hosting includes Multilayer Adaptive Caching, consisting of five separate caching mechanisms. As a result, you don’t have to install and configure a caching plugin like W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache.

Standard Plans

Starting from $ 25 /mo

• Up to 50 WP installs
• Up to 1 milion visits
• Up to 40GB storage
• Free site migration

Pressidium also offers Enterprise plans, which are custom-designed for business clients who need dedicated clusters, additional security, dedicated search solutions

Digital pacific

http://www.digitalpacific.com.au

Digital Pacific is a carbon neutral Australian provider of quality web hosting solutions for individuals, small to medium-sized businesses and corporations range of scalable services including shared hosting, virtual private servers, dedicated servers and reseller hosting.

Digital Pacific operates services in five Data Centres around the globe with primary services hosted in Sydney, Australia and redundant infrastructure services in other locations. Sydney is the largest corporate and financial centre in Australia. Sydney is also the major interconnection point for international traffic traversing to and from Australia.

Prices From $9.69 mo

• Storage space 25GB
• Monthly traffic 100 GB
• Domains 1

Pros

• The Hosting Control Panel, Cpanel, uses the built-in software installer called Softaculous. Softaculous provides users with a one-click install option, taking any headache out of the setup process.
•  Australian support team is available 24/7

Cons

• None that i can find

WordPress

Crucial

They got shared hosting for wordpress but also a range of other hosting products including cloud and VPS. They have fully Managed VPS hosting powered by their high-performance cloud hosting platform. Proudly Australian owned and operated

They maintain 30 days of daily backups for every hosting plan, keeping 30 separate daily versions of all files and databases.

Their split shared plan starts at $10 Month (yearly $8.33/mo *Save 16%!)

What you get

• 256 MB Memory
• 10GB SSD Space
• Unmetered Bandwidth

Their most popular plan is the Professional plan and they also have a Business plan. More Plan details over here.

https://www.crucialhosting.com/hosting/split-shared/features

1 And 1 Hosting

http://www.1and1.com

The 1 And 1 Hosting has got the latest hosting technology with HTTP/2 and PHP 7.1 on their servers. They also provide SSL certificate, DDoS protection and geo-redundancy included. Their servers operate with NGINX and PHP 7 with OPcache and have upto Up to 2 GB RAM guaranteed for projects..

They have full SSD storage making the hosting jus that little bit faster than average hosting. Their wordpress hosting has Enhanced security with DDoS protection

1 And 1 has three plans Basic, Plus and unlimited.

Price for the basic is 12 months term  7.99 $0.99/month for month 1 ( then $7.99/month)

This is the best choice for medium-sized WordPress projects

The Plus plan is $4.99 and the unlimited is $8.99

What you get for basic plan

• 1 WordPress website
• NEW!
• 50 GB SSD storage
• NEW!
• 1 SSD database
• Unlimited visitors

+ 1 domain included

PROS

• You also get WP Expert Support
• 24/7 Support
• And pre live staging

With 1 and 1 in just a few clicks, you can install the latest WordPress version containing a wide selection of the most important plugins, themes, and extensions for your webspace.  They provide both Linux hosting and windows hosting packages for hosting.

All 1&1 products are hosted in 1&1‘s high-performance, green data centres in the USA and Europe. 1&1 Group manages more than 19 million domain names.

Browse their plans here

https://www.1and1.com/wordpress-blog-hosting#Packages

Where are their servers?

1&1 currently offers a wide range of Web hosting products, including email solutions and high-end servers in 10 different countries including Germany, Spain, Great Britain and the United States.  1 and 1 serviceable Area is AFGHANISTAN, ALAND ISLANDS, ALGERIA, ANDORRA, ANGOLA, ANGUILLA, ANTARCTICA, ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, ARGENTINA, ARMENIA, ARUBA, AUSTRALIA And many more areas.

(WHUK) WebHosting UK COM Ltd

http://www.webhosting.uk.com

Web-hosting UK has three plans the Lite, starter, and premium plans

Prices start from  £0.99 /mo ex VAT

What’s included in Lite plan

The most affordable single-domain WordPress plan.

1GB SSD Storage

• Unlimited Bandwidth