Elgg, WordPress Web Hosting

Elgg as a powerful social networking engine can be very server resources hungry especially on MySql database server. On this page we list companies who offer Elgg and WordPress hosting and is provided to help users looking for an appropriate hosting company. We use some of these companies for our Elgg/Wordpress testing and production sites.

Elgg can run on shared hosting but it is more likely to get slow over time due to memory and CPU limits of shared hosting environment. Shared hosting companies we list here are good to test and start your social network on as Elgg installation is smooth and with no problems and we have tested it. These hosts are also good and affordable for starting any website hosting not just Elgg and WordPress.

If you need Custom server setup/site migration please Contact Us

Good Shared Hosts:

Below are two affordable recommended hosting companies to start and test your Elgg community. They both offer VPS and dedicated as well that you can upgrade later and they will do free Elgg site migration as well.

Dreamhost

Dreamhost is great starter host for Elgg (or any other website). No Elgg Installation problems here. They offer 90 days money back guarantee and you can use promo code SEOJRCOM to get 50% Off on all plans.

Hostgator

Hostgator is another great starter host for Elgg (or any other website). Very fast and no Elgg Installation problems here. Use coupon code juipohosting to get $9.94 off.

Good VPS and Dedicated Hosting

Again you can run Elgg on shared server but to run popular, busy Elgg powered social network you will need either VPS or Dedicated server. Below we list some good and reliable Fully Managed VPS and Dedicated hosting packages that work great with Elgg.

1&1

1&1 is the best mid-priced VPS, dedicated or Cloud hosting.

We and many of our clients use them to host busy Elgg powered communities. Highly recommended. Click here to go to their website

Rackspace

Now this is for some serious web hosting. Rackspace offers full professional hosting with fully dedicated, managed dedicated servers, Managed Colocation and Cloud hosting as well. With Cloud Servers™ you get what you want when you need it. Make a new server for staging and four new servers for production. Delete one, create three more. You only pay for what you use! It is very cool. If you have a very large social network powered by Elgg this is a best hosting solution for you.

123systems

123systems is newly emerging hosting company that offers great promotions right now, offer budget VPS hosting. Go to 123system page , click on “Virtual Servers” and then use fully managed VPS ” VPS – Orlando,FL , VPS – Dallas and VPS – Chicago. We have Orlando server, Linux-512-SolusVM package with 1 GB burstable ram so I pay about $66 a year with promo code (half of what you’d pay for shared). They setup all stuff including Cpanel (we have Kloxo). Their customer service is awesome too.

The promotion code to use is LEB35 to get 35% off recurring discount on monthly packages, or promo code LEBFL45 to get 45% off recurring discount when you pay yearly.

Than mention ‘LEB Rocks’ in the Notes/Comments field during checkout you will receive an additional 250GB Of Bandwidth (Free for life) or 2x Your Dedicated RAM For EX: 256/512 would be 512/512.

We constantly monitor companies who host Elgg to help create and foster good hosting options for those wishing to run an Elgg powered site. If you encounter issues with one of the hosts listed here or If you have a favorite host you think should be listed here, please comment below.