I own a few eCommerce websites running on WordPress and looking forward to building a few more (a total of 5 websites).
I put some thought into what I need and those are my criteria:
If it's your first time hosting a wp website, know that renewal price is the major pain
There are a few websites to compare hosting plans and reading reviews, my favorite is hosting advice
As a strategy, I look only at 4.9 stars with 200+ reviews hosting.
Visiting the pricing page and reading thoroughly.
Lastly, I read the worst reviews to see if any pitfalls are there.
Those are the top options I found
SSL - ✔️
Renewal price - 11.95$ (almost ✔️🤔)
Number of websites - 5 🤔
Support - great(reviews ) ✔️
Speed - good (reviews ) ✔️
Weekly Site Backup
Disk space and bandwidth is low: ❌
Unmetered Disk space = 5120 Mb
Unmetered bandwidth = 76800 Mb/Month
Refunds are not easy (reviews ) ❌
SSL - ✔️
Renewal price - 15$ ❌
Number of websites - unlimited ✔️
Support - good (reviews ) ✔️
Speed - good (reviews ) ✔️
Daily backups✔️
60gb bandwidth ❌
Strong CPU/Ram ✔️
Downtime issues (reviews) ❌
SSL - ✔️
Renewal price - 15$ ❌
Number of websites - unlimited ✔️
Support - good (reviews ) ✔️
Speed - Medium Performance (website) ❌
only 20GB of disk space ❌
Last time I researched Cloudways was a winner - hosting all my Woo sites on there.
Interesting - which plan did you choose?
I'm on the DigitalOcean $26 Managed Wordpress, works like a charm so far.