WordPress [Question] Does hosting matter for ranking ?

[ATruringtest]

I have a new side project nothing fancy just some experimental Ai stuff and few twists.
I've set aside a budget of £150
I will probably try and find an expired domain - though my luck in the past was terrible lol
So I'll register that for 3 years - £30 ish.
When it comes to plugins I'm not sure I need them - but for arguments sake £30
I have a fully licensed top tier Theme I bought a year ago and never used.
So that leaves me with £90 for a single site hosting.
Suggestions please + your logic

P.S I might attempt a full stack site instead of Wordpress - not sure yet

 

[roydan]

Honestly I love Hostinger. Never had a problem with them and my sites rank fine and relatively fast even though I know nothing about these optimizations. I also use cloudflare.

Generally hosting is dirt cheap in the first period, whether one year or 4.

 

[Atif55]

Hostinger is best

 

[Prey24]

Honestly I love Hostinger. Never had a problem with them and my sites rank fine and relatively fast even though I know nothing about these optimizations. I also use cloudflare.

Generally hosting is dirt cheap in the first period, whether one year or 4.

+1

 

[LuxRiches]

If you're comfortable managing everything yourself, you might want to consider something like DigitalOcean's Shared CPU Droplets, starting at $4 per month.

If speed is your priority (and it should be if you want to rank well on Google), I recommend Vultr's High Clock Speed CPUs, which start at $6 per month. They're currently offering up to $300 in free credit to get started: https://www.vultr.com/coupons/ (I'm not affiliated in any way).

It's a much better option than traditional shared hosting.

Personally, I use DigitalOcean, but through a managed hosting service.

 

[Dopious]

It does not matter in general, but it needs to be fast. Why not use FlyWP with Vultr HF VPS, FlyWP has a free account where you can only host one VPS with one WordPress install, I tried it and it is very fast.

 

[LuxRiches]

Vultr HF VPS

No other hosting provider really comes close to these High Clock Speed CPUs in terms of performance. Glad to hear about FlyWP! I'll probably give it a try and see how it compares to Cloudways.

 

[ATruringtest]

It does not matter in general, but it needs to be fast. Why not use FlyWP with Vultr HF VPS, FlyWP has a free account where you can only host one VPS with one WordPress install, I tried it and it is very fast.

So I've been on their site I take it I need to buy some Vultr time and a SSL cert to use FlyWP ?

 

[Dopious]

So I've been on their site I take it I need to buy some Vultr time and a SSL cert to use FlyWP ?

Yes, you need to get a Vultr account so you can access their API key to use on FlyWP to set up your server and system, FlyWP is fixing the SSL, so no need to buy one.

Check this post: https://flywp.com/docs/account/server-providers/vultr/ and this: https://flywp.com/blog/8647/how-to-connect-a-vultr-server-with-flywp/

 

[Vix]

You should be very careful with shared hosting, as the IP address is often used by many other website owners. If any of those sites are involved in spamming or have been penalized by Google, it can negatively affect your website’s authority in Google’s eyes.

For less important projects, I always choose shared hosting that offers a unique IP address.
For more important projects or clients, I go with a VPS or dedicated server, also with a unique IP, to avoid these risks and ensure better performance and SEO reliability.

 

[ATruringtest]

Yes, you need to get a Vultr account so you can access their API key to use on FlyWP to set up your server and system, FlyWP is fixing the SSL, so no need to buy one.

Check this post: https://flywp.com/docs/account/server-providers/vultr/ and this: https://flywp.com/blog/8647/how-to-connect-a-vultr-server-with-flywp/

I think I'll visit this if my sites starts getting some traffic. At the moment I use a host to be fare are a decent price and all my sites are sub 2 sec load (once i cloud flared them and did the correct SEO lol).
I've check the ip and its in London with no bans against it.
I will set up the site as I can host 3 on my plan and if it starts to outstrip the plan then I'll go your route.

Thanks for all your replies and I'll take it all on board

 

[polecat]

Basically speed plays a role in for example your site takes 10 seconds to load because your hosting terrible and another site takes 3 second to load they will outrank and probably make more sales than you .

 

[IMGuy]

Yes hosting quality matters for ranking.

 

[BlogPro]

You should be very careful with shared hosting, as the IP address is often used by many other website owners. If any of those sites are involved in spamming or have been penalized by Google, it can negatively affect your website’s authority in Google’s eyes.

This has largely been refuted. For about 14 years now.

Here's a video from 2010, where Matt Cutts clarified this.

Here's another video, where John Mueller refuted this

John Mueller has at different times tweeted as well against this. He has mentioned tons of CDNs sharing the same IP. Unfortunately, his tweets are protected now, so I can't find them.

We have half the internet using Cloudflare DNS proxy and their nameservers. Every other CDN has their own DNS now. So it's a moot point.

Edit - Found a SEJ article with John Mueller's responses quoted - https://www.searchenginejournal.com/ranking-factors/ip-address

 

[Vix]

This has largely been refuted. For about 14 years now.

Here's a video from 2010, where Matt Cutts clarified this.

Here's another video, where John Mueller refuted this

John Mueller has at different times tweeted as well against this. He has mentioned tons of CDNs sharing the same IP. Unfortunately, his tweets are protected now, so I can't find them.

We have half the internet using Cloudflare DNS proxy and their nameservers. Every other CDN has their own DNS now. So it's a moot point.

Edit - Found a SEJ article with John Mueller's responses quoted - https://www.searchenginejournal.com/ranking-factors/ip-address

I wouldn't trust anything that comes out of Google's "mouth". They are filtering CDNs.
I have had numerous instances where they penalized sites based on IPs.