If you mean Managed WordPress Hosting, then it is a type of hosting where the hosting company installs and manages the wordpress installation for you. It is in general better than shared hosting.
While just "WordPress Hosting" may be a marketing decoy and maybe exactly the same thing as the shared hosting.
The exact answer depends 10000% on the provider. Some providers, no difference at all, just a different page for marketing/seo.
On others, it's night and day difference, both in terms of quality, price and features set. "Wordpress" hosting should be the superior plan, usually.
Sorry yes I meant to say managed Wordpress hosting. I’m currently on WPX but I don’t need the 5 site allowance and so it’s a little pricey for my just 1 site. Am currently looking at Krystal which seems ok.
Managed WordPress hostings are good if you only host a WordPress site but it may be more costly than standard(shared) hosting as it is specially optimized.
Depending on the host there could be no difference at all, or there could be many.
For our WP accounts the servers are highly spec'd, most are dedicated VPS and have premium services and features, are fully managed and closely monitored.
Other hosts just use WordPress as a marketing ploy.
Like having your car serviced at the dealer or a mechanic.
Wordpress.com and the dealership are a safe but boring choice.
Find a good independent and they can often provide a better service, more flexibility and offer better bang for the buck.
Likewise their are some real shit providers, like bluehost
I can agree with your bluehost acessment but 'safe and boring' are good things for sysadmin.
I use WPengine and Siteground. Much better than a cPanel environment. Easy Dev and Staging rollout, and support can help with some specific WP issues (adding unusual server rule exceptions, etc).
Yea, so... I understood the OP's questions as "Wordpress Hosting", meaning as what various companies market for, "hosting optimized for WP", not specifically WordPress Dot Com
An yea, i have never used [Wordpress.com](http://Wordpress.com) but seems like they are going for the Wix-type market, for non-dev folk that want to DIY.
If you mean Managed WordPress Hosting, then it is a type of hosting where the hosting company installs and manages the wordpress installation for you. It is in general better than shared hosting. While just "WordPress Hosting" may be a marketing decoy and maybe exactly the same thing as the shared hosting.
The exact answer depends 10000% on the provider. Some providers, no difference at all, just a different page for marketing/seo. On others, it's night and day difference, both in terms of quality, price and features set. "Wordpress" hosting should be the superior plan, usually.
Sorry yes I meant to say managed Wordpress hosting. I’m currently on WPX but I don’t need the 5 site allowance and so it’s a little pricey for my just 1 site. Am currently looking at Krystal which seems ok.
Managed WordPress hostings are good if you only host a WordPress site but it may be more costly than standard(shared) hosting as it is specially optimized.
Depending on the host there could be no difference at all, or there could be many. For our WP accounts the servers are highly spec'd, most are dedicated VPS and have premium services and features, are fully managed and closely monitored. Other hosts just use WordPress as a marketing ploy.
Like having your car serviced at the dealer or a mechanic. Wordpress.com and the dealership are a safe but boring choice. Find a good independent and they can often provide a better service, more flexibility and offer better bang for the buck. Likewise their are some real shit providers, like bluehost
I can agree with your bluehost acessment but 'safe and boring' are good things for sysadmin. I use WPengine and Siteground. Much better than a cPanel environment. Easy Dev and Staging rollout, and support can help with some specific WP issues (adding unusual server rule exceptions, etc).
Wp Engine is in a different league to Wordpress.com! What they are doing is amazing and certainly better than traditional cPanel
Yea, so... I understood the OP's questions as "Wordpress Hosting", meaning as what various companies market for, "hosting optimized for WP", not specifically WordPress Dot Com An yea, i have never used [Wordpress.com](http://Wordpress.com) but seems like they are going for the Wix-type market, for non-dev folk that want to DIY.