Thinking of starting a wordpress website with either
hostgator or bluehost?

Well, did you know only 1 of these webhosts is
an official wordpress recommended webhosting company?

and did you also know you can save 15$ with the same
webhost that is recommended by wordpress?

We will reveal the answer of these 2 questions in a second,
when we compare them head to head regarding price, benefits
and speed performance.

at the end we will reveal the webhosting company you should
choose to set up your website.

hey nick here from websiteexplained.com, the trusted source
for beginners to start their own website fast, easily, and without breaking the budget

you probably know what wordpress is or are familiar with it as a blogging platform

and you probably saw a few tutorials or read blog articles on how to make
money on the internet or how to start a website

and were recommended either hostgator or bluehost.

the reason for that is, that these 2 companies are 2 big players in the webhosting space
and also partner with thousands of content creators like me to advertise their
webhosting packages.

there are thousands of webhosting companies out there but only a few are really big
like hostgator and bluehost.

also you should know that both companies are owned by a company called Endurance
International Group (short EIG).

EIG is infamous for cramping up too many websites on the same server thus leading
to slow website performance and in my experience that holds true for one these 2
companies.

now let’s start the comparison

If you navigate to the official wordpress webhosting recommendations site
you will see a few hosting companies including bluehost yet hostgator is out of sight.

also from what I see, read and also experience on my own, the prejudices some have
against EIG companies are true with hostgator, because their servers really seem to be slow.

let’s check out the performance of 2 websites that we tested.

We uploaded the same theme, created the same site and used the same pictures for this test.
We also tested the 2 websites with 3 different website performance testing tools

GT Metrix,

id like to stay that we listed both webhosting companies in our webhosting deals
section on our website. yet only decided to include hostgator because of our
special 1 penny webhosting offer we have running with them so people can try them out.

Let’s compare pricing

these are the latest prices available for website explained.com users you can get
from our webhosting deals section (there’s also a link in the description for that)
for both hosting companies:

for the 3 year plan you can get the cheapest hostgator hosting package for 2.75

that’s cheaper than the equivalent from bluehost starting at 3.95

let’s take a look at the 1 year plan.

Hostgators prices it’s cheapest plan at 5.95 per month which is the same price as bluehost

so in that regard, hostgator has no advantage over bluehost

taking into account that bluehost offers you a FREE domain name that is usually around $10-20
it’s clear who the is in that regard.

HG 3 year plan: 2.75
HG 1 year plan: 5.95

BH 3 year plan: 3.95
BH 1 year plan: 5.95

BH Domain FREE ($15 Value)

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