If you’re up to building your own website, in a DIY form, you’ll first need to get a hosting service that suits your technical knowledge, or the lack of it. But you’re in luck, many Modern Hosting Providers nowadays offer a custom made Dashboard with great user experience, which lets anyone quickly learn and operate it with ease, while having little to no understanding of the things that go behind the scenes (boring server tech stuff).
Best Hosting Providers With Easy Panels For Beginner \ DIY WordPress Website Builders
Hostinger
Has a very easy to user Dashboard, from which you can control almost all aspects of your website.
Cloudways
A cloud based hosting company with a minimalistic Control Panel, which let’s you create a VPS (Virtual Web Server) on most of the top hosting server providers, such as Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, Amazon Cloud, etc. After you create a new server, you can create an unlimited number of WordPress websites, though make sure to choose the correct server resources based on the website quantity, size and traffic. You might want to seperate each 10 websites or so to several servers. If you’re building just one website, you won’t have to worry much about resources, and you can have a “strong” website with 2GB of Ram for about 20-22$ a month with the addons needed for your website, such as the 1 dollar addon for using the SMTP Mailing Service of Cloudways on your website.
Kinsta – to be continued
WPEngine – to be continued
Hosting Control Panels That Are Outdated And Less Recommended
If you’re looking at a hosting company and see the following panels, you should know that those solutions are outdated and the top hosting providers don’t use them, or shouldn’t use them.
cPanel – A very common Hosting Control Panel, with excellent features, all you need is in one place and a click away, there are some “plugins” and options which can help you as a webmaster, but the panel is not very user friendly, there are many options that are not needed and not used, which makes it hard to navigate through all the clutter. Never the less, cPanel works great, in most cases, and you can try using it if you find a very good hosting providers (like Fastcomet, which still uses it), and you want to give it a go.
DirectAdmin – You should avoid companies that provide this panel, because it’s very outdated, and it’s very basic, and “Free”, which means the hosting provider is outdated or wants to “spare a few bucks” on the software they provide.
Plesk – Great UX but a bit on the “heavy” side, which means the flow of work can be a bit slow while you click and wait for things to complete. This hosting control panel is very popular and not long ago most websites and many hosting providers were “on” and provided Plesk. While Plesk panel is great, it has it’s disadvantages and it’s not the best choice if you want a clean and modern control panel.
*All content in this blog is based on opinion only.