Most times, it is very complicated to find a legit web hosting provider for your website and it also involves a lot of time and money.

With no doubt, there are several web hosting platforms with different costs, but which of these hosting providers is the best for your company?

Here, we shall provide you with the top 5 best and generally recognized web hosting platforms that suit your website.

All of the hosting services we are going to suggest for you are very legit, affordable and best suited for websites of all sizes. You can take a look at VPS or dedicated hosting providers if your website has started having a huge traffic, 80,000 visitors and above per month 

If you are yet to have a website and you are looking for the routes to create it, you can follow our guideline in this article.

Top 5 best hosting platforms in 2021

When choosing a web hosting platform, there are some important factors to consider, some of which are; it's accuracy, speed and performance, these factors matter a lot to your website.

Unlike olden days when web hosting platforms were not considered, the case is not so in these days where the quality of a hosting platform also determines the quality of your website.

Below are this list of top 5 web hosting platforms in 2021.

1. Bluehost – Best for New Websites

Bluehost is the best and generally recognized website hosting platform which has been in existence since 1996 and it still maintain its quality up till this moment. They are well-known hosting provider which has hosted over 5,000,000 websites. They are very affordable and recommended for new websites.

We placed them at the first position on our list because they are the fastest and uptime platforms – 99.5% and 713ms, respectively since the last 15-months.

This platform has some free features such as website builder, domain name, one-click install for WordPress  and Drupal through their control panel. Their premium price depends on how long you want, for instance their 3-years introductory price is $2.75/mo. Bluehost is mostly suitable for WordPress because it is a 'wordpress' officially hosting platform.

So we recommended this platform for newbies or beginners on the website. Some of their basic plan features are 50GB and Unmetered bandwidth.

Another exceptional feature about Bluehost platform is that it offers free email accounts, 24 hours live client support and security layer on all plans. It's a very simple and accessible web hosting platform for the beginners and it is also legit and secure. 

Additionally, the platform also offers managed WordPress hosting plans, dedicated for websites with a huge traffic.

2. Hostinger – Best Pricing ($1.39)

The second name on our list of top 5 best hosting platforms is Hostinger, it is a well-known hosting platform and contains a lot of features. From our previous analysis, it was shown that this platform has an average uptime of 99.8%. 

In September 2020, Hostinger recorded a very poor performance which resulted from a 14-hour outage. But since then, they have been working awesomely to achieve their goal, and they have successfully attended their normal position as they now have an average uptime of 99.9%. Nevertheless, they still have a low average speed of 382 ms.

Hostinger offers farthest, non expensive, quality hosting premiums, provides guidelines and precautions for the users most especially the new users. While the platform is not expensive, the features contained in it are so expensive and accessible to the users, most especially newbies in websites.

Hostinger platform has different kinds of hosting plans with several features, all these plans are their instructions to guide the users, it also has free SSL certificate, and 24 hours support. This company has a low plan of $1.39/month, and the renewals start exactly at $2.99/month.

They have unlimited databases and Bandwidth except if  you  select the 'Single Web Hosting' plan. The Single Web Hosting Plan just has 100GB bandwidth, 30GB disk space and one email account. Note that the cheapest plan doesn't contain a free domain. 

Some other features that are contained in Hostinger are WordPress, Windows VPS hosting plans and Email.

3. A2 Hosting – Fastest Shared 

A2 Hosting is a web hosting platform founded in the United States in 2001, it is known all over the world as one of the best web hosting companies. As of 2021, their speed increased to 284 ms.

The speed of A2 Hosting providers is high because they use LiteSpeed cache and their servers are optimized for WordPress sites.

With no doubt, A2 is a well-known hosting provider. They have an average uptime of 99.98% within an hour.

The US-based platform is popularly recognized for it's awesome performance with all popular content  management systems such as Drupal, WordPress, Joomla and OpenCart making them the most famous hosting company across the globe. The platform offers different hosting plans, in all these plans contain free website migration and free LetsEncrypt SSL certificate.

A2 hosting platform is very affordable, the lowest plan known as “Lite” is $2.99 per month and the renewal is $8.99 per month. Their plan comes with many free features such as a domain name for one year, many email accounts, and free Cloudflare CDN.

In addition to all it's characteristic features, this platform also has an active customer support team known as "Guru Crew Support". They attend to users through live chat, tickets, email, and phone and they are available at any specified time.

4. DreamHost

The fourth platform to consider when looking for the best web hosting platform is DreamHost, this company has been in existence since 1997 making them one of the oldest web hosting platforms.

 As history may have it, this great and ancient hosting company hosts over 2 million blogs, websites and applications in more than 150 countries across the globe and they still maintain their standard

Unfortunately, this hosting company has fallen in speed (1350 ms) and uptime (99.84%) as of 2021.

The only factor that differentiate DreamHost from several other hosting companies is that they provide an option for monthly payment whereas other web hosting companies' plan is yearly.

This implies that one can just select a monthly plan, pay $4.95 and start using his/her hosting account immediately. And if you are willing to go for 3-year-plan, it starts at $2.59/month and renews at 5.99/per month.

Some of its available plans are Storage, endless bandwidth, 1 website and free domain.

Additionally, The platform offers different kinds of domain management tools, very strong security and unlimited data transfer. However, the platform lacks cPanel, a tool that is common in website developers companies, but DreamHost have their own admin panel, which performs the same function as cPanel.

5. SiteGround 

The last but least in our list of top 5 best web hosting platforms is SiteGroud, it was established in 2004 in Sofia, Bulgaria. This trusted platform has been performing incredibly well and they are hosting millions of domains. Also, they are officially known by WordPress.

From our previous data, we found that the company has an average uptime of 99.99% and accurate speed of 651ms. 

SiteGround is popularly recognized for their benevolent act toward their users, they are always available to attend to their customers. Some available features on this platform are SSL, Cloudflare CDN, daily backups, website builder, email accounts, and SSH; interestingly, all these features are free for the users.

The platform has many plans, the least StartUp plan available for newbies begins at $4.99/month and renewals starts at 14.99/month. 

SiteGround offers several services such as Cloud hosting, dedicated server hosting, Managed WordPress hosting, WooCommerce hosting and others.