Recommended Services & Tools

Many of our customers ask us for hosting and various other plugins recommendations, so we have prepared a list of useful hosting services and plugins to help you run a smooth WordPress website. The list includes, shared and managed hostings, anti-spam plugins, analytics plugins, SSL plugins, security plugins, backup solutions, migration solutions, etc. We will keep this list updated.

Shared Hostings

Shared hosting is a widely used hosting plan and the simplest type of hosting on the market. There are a countless number of hosting companies offering shared hosting plans but these are the ones recommended by us.

	Account Type	Cost / Month
	StartUp	$3.95
	WP-1000S	$6.99
	Basic	$3.95
	Starter	$5.95

Managed Hostings

Managed hosting is always a preference if you want better performance, security, and reliability. Managed hosting is quite pricey as compared to shared hosting due to its great reliability and performance.

	Account Type	Cost / Month
	Startup	$35
	Tiny	$14
	Starter	$30

Anti-Spam Plugins

Spam is the first thing every website faces, you should have a good solution to prevent spam on your website. So, take a look at some solutions which will help you to fight spam.

Akismet Anti-Spam

Akismet is one of the most commonly used plugins to stop spam. The number of active installs of this plugin is whooping 5 million+ and counting, yes you read it right, the reason for this huge number of active installations is; it comes with WordPress as a default option for spam prevention.

It is developed and maintained by WordPress core contributors including Matt Mullenweg. You can get an Akismet.com API key to use it, keys are free for personal blogs, paid subscriptions are available for businesses and commercial sites.

Antispam Bee

Antispam Bee is our second choice, it is installed on 300,000 WordPress websites which are also a good number to trust this plugin. It is a well-maintained plugin. Antispam Bee will block all spam comments and trackbacks quite effectively, without captchas and without sending personal information to the third-party services. It is free to use, ad-free and 100% GDPR compliant.

Analytics Plugin

Google Analytics Dashboard for WP by ExactMetrics

This Google Analytics for WordPress plugin doesn’t need an introduction but for a short description, it enables you to track your site using the latest Google Analytics tracking code and allows you to view key Google Analytics stats in your WordPress install.

SSL Plugins

Sometimes you experience some common SSL-related issues due to some small hosting-specific settings, theme code or plugin. The plugin recommended below will definitely help you to resolve all those problems.

Really Simple SSL

Really Simple SSL automatically detects your settings and configures your website to run over HTTPS. To keep it lightweight, the options are kept to a minimum. The entire site will move to SSL. This plugin is totally recommended by us as it fixes many of the SSL-related issues on any WordPress website.

Security Plugins

WordPress is the most liked open-source blogging platform out there. Security is one of the major concerns for any website running WordPress. Millions of websites including multiple famous blogs and professional websites are using WordPress as a content publishing software. So, hackers are more interested in hacking WordPress-based websites.

WordPress normally pushes regular updates to patch all the known security vulnerabilities and problems, but third-party themes and plugins can make WordPress vulnerable. Sometimes hackers also find vulnerabilities in WordPress that allow them to get control and hack the entire server. These are the security plugins we recommend for your WordPress-based websites.

Wordfence Security – Firewall & Malware Scan

Wordfence is the most popular security plugin used on 2 million+ websites. Wordfence keeps on checking your WordPress website for malware infection and threats. It scans all the files of your WordPress core, theme and plugins. If it finds any kind of infection, it will notify you. It includes an endpoint firewall as well as a malware scanner that was built to protect WordPress, themes, and plugins installed on your website.

Malware scanner checks core files, themes, and plugins for malware, bad URLs, backdoors, SEO spam, malicious redirects, and code injections. If you will opt-in for premium membership then you will get real-time malware signature updates via their Threat Defense Feed, however, the free version will also fetch the updates after every 30 days.

iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security)

iThemes Security is also a good choice for WordPress security plugin which provides 30+ ways to secure and protect your WordPress website. With one-click installation, you can stop automated attacks and protect your website. it also fixes various common security holes in your website. Some features of iThemes Security include registered users’ activity tracking, two-factor authentication, import/export settings, password expiration, malware scanning, and various other things which you can check out on their plugin’s page.

Backup Solutions

It is a fact that you don’t want to lose your website after investing so those countless number of hours working on it. So you must have a backup solution installed and activated on your website which should provide you an easy, good, secure, and multiple ways to allow you to create a backup of your website on-site and off-site.

These backup plugins will help you not only to create off-site backups but they will also offer you to restore them at any point in time because that is what backup for right?

UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin

UpdraftPlus simplifies the backups and restoration process for you. It is one of the highest-ranking and popular scheduled backup plugins, with over a million active installations.

Backup your files and database backups into the cloud and restore with a single click. Backup into the cloud directly to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (or compatible), UpdraftVault, Rackspace Cloud, FTP, DreamObjects, OpenStack Swift, and email. The paid version also backs up to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Storage, Backblaze B2, SFTP, SCP, and WebDAV.

Caching Solutions

The performance and speed of your website can cost you a lot. Immoderate website load times can restrict your traffic, punish your website’s Google search rank and reduce your website’s overall potential. However, a good caching plugin can easily avert this lag and other problems. These are some fine caching plugins we have got for you.

WP Super Cache

WP Super Cache is the most downloaded and used caching plugin with over 2 million active installs. it is free, easy to use, and requires very little to no configuration at all. It will generate static HTML files from your dynamic WordPress website. After the HTML files are generated, your web server will serve these files instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

WP Fastest Cache

W3 Total Cache is also used by hundreds of users with 800k+ active installs. This plugin will improve the speed and performance of your website which will then result in a good SEO and overall user experience. It is compatible with shared hosting, virtual private/dedicated servers, and dedicated servers/clusters.

Migration Solutions

Migrating a website from one host to another is quite a hassle especially if you are not so technical with respect to hosting, website, etc. So, the plugins recommended below can help you migrate your website without any trouble.

All-in-One WP Migration

This plugin exports your WordPress website including the database, media files, plugins, and themes with no technical knowledge required.
Upload your site to a different location with a drag and drop-in to WordPress.

Duplicator – WordPress Migration Plugin

Duplicator is another plugin that helps you migrate your website. It enables you to move, migrate or clone a WordPress site between domains or hosts with zero downtime and lots of other options.