How to choose the best hosting for Divi

The 4 best hosting providers suitable for Divi websites

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Features available with Siteground, Flywheel, Cloudways, and Pressable hosting

Elegant Themes selected the 4 best hosting providers for Divi based on a number of factors that which include the following;

Siteground is recommended by both Elegant Themes and WordPress.org and is the host of choice for Divi Theme Examples. Their hosting plans are extremely affordable with heavy discounts available for prepaying the first 1-3 years and again for the subsequent 2-3 years. Overall a good quality web host with a large range of features to keep your site running smoothly. DiviThemeExamples.com and DiviLayouts.com are both hosted on Siteground.

Divi hosting by Siteground

• 70% discount on the first term, up to 3 years
• CDN Included
• Free SSL Certificates
• Managed Security & Updates
• Google Cloud and SG Optimizer plugin, including website caching
• Create custom email addresses for each of your websites for free
• Free staging & cloning tools
• Advanced dev tools, including WP-CLI and SSH access.
• Daily automatic backups
• User Dashboard
• Fast 24/7 Support via live chat
• Thousands of five-star reviews on Trustpilot and ShopperApproved.

GO GEEK $14.99/ mo

• Discounted from $39.99/mo.
• Unlimited Websites
• 40 GB Web Space
• ~ 100,000 Visits Monthly

All Divi hosting plans from Siteground include Divi installation, Divi optimized servers, unmetered traffic, free WP Installation, free WP migrator, WordPress auto-updates, free SSL, daily backups, free CDN, free email, WP-CLI and SSH, unlimited databases, 100% renewable energy match, and 30-Days Money-Back.

Prepay and save with Siteground

This site is hosted with Siteground and uses the GoGeek plan which costs $11.95 per month for new accounts for a maximum of 3 years. After 3 years you can renew for another 2 or 3 years at a 20% or 33% discount respectively. The full, no-discount price for this plan is $34.95 per month.

Flywheel is a managed WordPress hosting company offering hosting packages for single websites or web design freelancers and agencies.

Divi hosting by Flywheel

• Choose from a range of global servers
• Free malware clean-up, automatic WordPress updates, two-factor authentication, and IP blocking.
• Staging websites and local development environments
• Built-in caching, a free CDN, and NGINX.
• Free Migration and website cloning
• Free SSL Certificates
• Daily backups of your website.
• Performance tools to monitor and improve your website’s performance.
• 24/7 Live Chat (phone support for their Agency hosting plans and above)

AGENCY $290/ mo

• 30 Divi Sites
• 400,000 Visits
• 50 GB Storage
• 500 GB Bandwidth

All Divi hosting plans from Flywheel include Divi installation, Divi optimized servers, free SSL, CDN & caching, assisted migrations, and website staging.

Pressable was founded way back in 2010 and was later bought by Automattic, the people behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, Akismet, Gravatar, Tumblr, and more. 

Divi hosting by Pressable

• From the creators of WordPress
• Built-in caching
• DDOS protection and automatic WordPress updates
• SFTP Access
• Staging Environments
• Free built-in CDN
• Free SSL Certificates
• Automated Migration
• Jetpack Premium for free
• Free WP101 WordPress training
• 24/7 Support

PRO $88/ mo

• 10 WordPress Websites
• 150,000 visits
• 30 GB storage

All Divi hosting plans from Pressable include Divi Theme pre-installed, Divi Optimized, Jetpack Premium plugin, 24/7 support, free SSL certificates, built-in CDN & caching, free auto migrations, and staging environments.

Cloudways offers a full range of managed cloud web hosting services that include a choice of different cloud servers such as DigitalOcean and Google Cloud.

Divi hosting by Cloudways

• CDN Included
• Free SSL Certificates
• Managed Security & Updates
• Great WordPress Performance
• SMTP Email Service
• Staging & Cloning Tools
• Advanced Features
• Collaboration Tools
• Automatic Backups
• Realtime Monitoring
• 24/7 Support

$96/ mo

• Unlimited WordPress Websites
• 5TB Bandwidth
• 160 GB storage

What are the key requirements for Divi hosting?

Selecting the best Divi and WordPress hosting for your website will help improve your visitors’ experience, boost your SEO and increase sales. There are many types of WordPress hosting options available that work with Divi theme including free, shared, dedicated, VPS, and managed. 

You can choose one of the elegant themes hosting partners or any host that meets the Divi hosting requirements. Below is a quick guide to each hosting option and the hosting requirements needed for Divi to run properly on your server.

Types of Divi hosting

• Free Divi hosting
  You get what you pay for in life and Divi hosting is no different. Unless you are just learning how Divi and WordPress work or want a website full of adverts and poor security, don’t ever use free hosting.
• Shared Divi hosting (start with this)
  Your website sits on a server with a number of other websites and shares its resources with them. The result is a cheaper price but reduced performance. This hosting is suitable for most new or low-traffic websites and is a great starting plan until your website starts to generate more traffic and income.
• VPS hosting for Divi
  A Virtual Private Server (VPS) means that a physical server is split into several virtual servers for each website. It is a shared, but not shared, server that allows you to set up the server to meet your own requirements.
• Dedicated server hosting for Divi
  A dedicated server is a physical server that you have to yourself. This is suitable for a large, high-traffic website and would be the most expensive option for hosting your Divi website. For most websites, this would be a waste of resources.
• Managed Divi hosting
  Managed hosting offers better performance and security as the server is optimized for your WordPress setup. The ease of use and performance boost does come at a higher cost, so it is better to have decent traffic and income before paying for these benefits.

What are the Divi hosting requirements?

To ensure your hosting plan is adequate to run the Divi Builder without errors or produce a slow website,  make sure it meets the minimum requirements set by Elegant Themes. These can be found in your WordPress dashboard under Divi > Support Center.

The following server settings must be available on your hosting plan to run Divi properly.

• PHP Version = 7.4 minimum
  This is the latest stable version of PHP and will ensure compatibility with Divi and speed up your website which in turn means less memory and CPU-related issues.
• PHP memory_limit = 128M
  Low default memory limits set by your host will lead to Divi crashing as PHP limits are exceeded so make sure they are at least 128M or that they can be increased via your hosting admin.
• PHP post_max_size = 64M
  Post max size limits the size a page or file can be on your website and will not load anything larger. If the limit is below the recommended it may mean that you cannot use the Divi Builder properly and/or you cannot load the premade layouts into your page.
• PHP upload_max_filesize = 64M
  Upload max file size is the maximum file size that you are allowed to upload to your server. If the limit is below the recommended you may not be able to load the premade layouts into your website pages.
• PHP max_execution_time = 120
  Max execution time sets how long a page is allowed to load before it times out. If the limit is below the recommended you may not be able to load the premade layouts into your website pages.
• PHP max_input_time = 60
  Max input time sets the maximum time in seconds a script is allowed to parse input data. If the limit is below the recommended the Divi Builder may time out before it is loaded and will not work.
• PHP max_input_vars = 1000
  Max input vars set how many input variables may be accepted and if the limit is below the recommended setting it may stop the Divi Builder from loading properly.
• PHP display_errors = 0
  Display errors sets if errors should be added to the page output or not. This should only be used during development.