Host Site: Tips for Hosting Your Website

Start with your actual requirements, not the biggest plan available. Estimate your expected traffic and storage needs honestly — most new sites are better served by a modest plan with room to upgrade than an expensive one sized for traffic that may never arrive.

Set up backups before you need them, not after. A hosting plan with automated, easily restorable backups is worth paying for; recovering a site with no backup after a bad update or a compromised plugin is a far more expensive problem to solve after the fact.

Keep software up to date — your CMS, plugins, and any custom code. Outdated software is the single most common way hosted websites get compromised, and it's also the easiest problem to prevent.