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Web Hosting Recommended? (HostBrr or Namecrane) And any optimisation suggestions?
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Hello all,
Looking for low end web hosting.
I have a company website which is mainly facing customer in South America and some in Europe so I decided to choose USA location if possible.
I currently have it build by WordPress and hosted in USA using HostBrr's DirectAdmin 10 GB - USA plan. But using pagespeed.web.dev it gives me the following results:
First Contentful Paint 3.0 s
Largest Contentful Paint 3.0 s
Total Blocking Time 150 ms
Cumulative Layout Shift 0.116
Speed Index 4.7 s
I have another DirectAdmin Shared Web Hosting with NameCrane, I don't know if I should switch it to them although there are less spec.
Here's comparison of the two plan
DirectAdmin Webhosting - USA
10 GB NVMe Gen4 SSD DISK SPACE
2 CPU Cores
2 GB RAM
$3.75 USD per Year
DirectAdmin Shared Web Hosting - US East (New York City)
5GB NVMe Storage
1 CPU Core @ 5Ghz+
1GB DDR5 RAM
$8.00 USD per Year
I'm also open to any other offer, budget below 10USD per year.
Also happy to take any optimisation suggestions for wordpress. Will CDN help a lot?
Thanks to all and have a nice day 
Comments
I can vouch for both of these plans and both are amazing value for money. PageSpeed score does not mean the hosting itself is necessarily slow but it's likely that your WordPress needs to be optimized. It is possible to get low PageSpeed score on a site hosted on Vercel or Cloudflare as well which are arguably as close to the "edge" as possible.
Yes you should use a CDN. Even if you don't need all CDN features, a service like Cloudflare will cache and secure your site often for free.
Optimizations:
1. delete unused plugins and themes
2. enable Redis or other caching in your hosting
3. use a WordPress caching plugin e.g. W3
4. there are queries and tweaks you can do to improve performance e.g. optimize SQL tables, disable REST API if not used, etc.
5. often the theme is a problem - it is poorly coded which has negative impact
6. and yes use a CDN like Cloudflare
BONUS: use a plugin like SimplyStatic to turn your WordPress site into a static site then serve that.
Con: updates are not immediate as you need to rebuild
Pro: 🚀⚡🏃♂️
For the sake of completeness, I am a satisfied customer of Limitless Hosting as well. Their premium DA plan is 10.8USD and standard DA is 6USD. But I would stick with HostBrr for now as there is no need to change immediately.
Hope this helps.
Thanks for the help. You are right that I should focus on making wordpress better instead of changing plan. Thanks again and have a nice day.
Namecrane is good!