Dotty Scott explains why shared hosts like GoDaddy and Bluehost slow down websites and recommends switching to managed WordPress hosting instead. Upgrading can improve both site speed and search rankings.
If you're in shared hosting with GoDaddy or Network Solutions or HostGator, Bluehost, or any of those real popular ones, shared hosting is not fast and it never will be. It doesn't matter what you do to your website, it will never be fast.
So I'm using a local org— a local company. I don't know if that's shared hosting or not. You could ask them.
If you're on WordPress, Janet, you want to be on managed WordPress hosting.
I am. I'm not on the— yeah, yeah.
If you're using cPanel, you're in shared hosting. Yeah, if that rings a bell to anybody.
Yeah, got it.
Yeah, so an upgrade to your hosting could also seriously upgrade where you get ranked in the search engines.