WordPress powers a huge share of the web, from personal blogs to busy online stores, and getting it running for an Australian audience should be simple and affordable. Rather than selling separate WordPress-only packages, we run WordPress on our shared hosting plans, where you install and manage it through cPanel, DirectAdmin or Plesk. Each plan includes a free SSL certificate that we install for you.
These plans are served from our data centre in the Netherlands and billed yearly from US$25 to US$79. For WordPress sites whose visitors are mostly in Australia and that need the fastest local response, such as large WooCommerce stores, a Sydney KVM VPS is the better home. This page covers choosing a plan, installing WordPress, speeding it up for Australian readers, securing it and knowing when to move to Sydney.
cPanel, DirectAdmin or Plesk hosting with free SSL, served from a Netherlands datacenter and billed yearly.
Datacenter: Netherlands · cPanel / DirectAdmin / Plesk
Install and manage WordPress from cPanel, DirectAdmin or Plesk. The panel gives you the database, file manager and domain settings WordPress needs, so you can launch a site without configuring a web server yourself.
A free SSL certificate comes with every plan and we install it for you. WordPress logins, comments and WooCommerce checkouts travel encrypted, and visitors never see a not secure warning in their browser.
Plans start at US$25 per year for Personal and top out at US$79, billed annually. That makes running a WordPress blog or small business site one of the cheapest parts of building an online presence.
Every plan includes email accounts on your own domain, from 10 on Personal to 75 on Pro and 100 on Business, so contact forms, order notices and team mail all come from a professional address.
Use sub-domains for a staging copy of your WordPress site or a separate blog. Business adds unlimited sub-domains and one addon domain, letting you run a second WordPress install on the same plan.
When a WordPress site outgrows shared hosting or needs Australian latency, move it to a Sydney KVM VPS with NVMe storage, an Australian IPv4 address, full root access and firewall plus DDoS protection.
We do not offer separate WordPress-branded plans. Instead, WordPress runs on our standard shared hosting plans, which already provide everything it needs: a web server, PHP, a MySQL-compatible database and a control panel to manage them. The plan table on this page shows those same plans.
This approach keeps things simple and affordable. You get a single hosting account where you can run WordPress alongside email, sub-domains and, on the Business plan, an addon domain. If you later decide to run a different application, or no application at all, the hosting still works for you.
Linux plans with cPanel or DirectAdmin are the natural home for WordPress, because WordPress is built on PHP and MySQL. Plesk on Windows can also run PHP sites, but unless you have a specific reason to use Windows, choose cPanel or DirectAdmin for WordPress.
Our shared and WordPress hosting is served from a data centre in the Netherlands. Our Sydney Tier III facility hosts VPS, dedicated servers and RDP, not shared plans. We want that to be clear before you choose.
For many WordPress sites, this location is perfectly adequate. A blog, portfolio or brochure site with page caching serves most pages as ready-made files, and a content delivery network can store images and scripts close to Australian visitors. With these in place, readers in Sydney, Melbourne or Auckland can still enjoy fast page loads.
Distance becomes more noticeable when pages cannot be cached, for example logged-in member areas, WooCommerce carts and checkouts, or sites with heavy personalisation. Each of those requests must travel to the server and back. If your WordPress site depends heavily on that kind of dynamic traffic from Australia, a Sydney VPS will give a noticeably quicker experience.
WordPress itself is small, but media libraries, plugins and backups grow over time. Here is how the plans suit typical WordPress projects:
With 1 GB of space, 25 GB of bandwidth, 10 email accounts and 5 sub-domains for US$25 per year, Personal is enough for a new blog or portfolio with a modest number of images.
Pro offers 5 GB of space, 60 GB of bandwidth, 75 email accounts and 10 sub-domains for US$39 per year. It gives a growing business site or image-rich blog plenty of room, plus space for a staging copy.
Business includes 10 GB of space, 100 GB of bandwidth, 100 email accounts, unlimited sub-domains and one addon domain for US$55 per year. Use it for a small WooCommerce shop or to run two WordPress sites. The largest plan costs US$79 per year.
Getting WordPress running on your new hosting account takes only a few minutes:
Use a unique administrator username rather than admin, and a long password stored in a password manager. If you get stuck at any step, open a ticket and we will help.
A well-tuned WordPress site loads quickly even from a distant data centre. Focus on these areas:
Test your site with a page speed tool from an Australian test location before and after each change, so you can see which steps make the biggest difference for your audience.
Because WordPress is so popular, it is also a popular target. Nearly all successful attacks exploit outdated software or weak passwords, so good habits are your best defence:
Your free SSL certificate protects logins and form submissions in transit. Combined with the steps above, it gives a WordPress site a solid baseline of security.
A reliable backup routine turns a disaster into a minor inconvenience. Use a backup plugin or your control panel's tools to back up both the WordPress files and the database, and store copies away from your hosting account, such as on your own computer or a cloud storage service. Schedule backups at least weekly, and daily for sites that change often, such as shops.
A staging site lets you test updates, new plugins or design changes before they reach visitors. Create a sub-domain such as staging.yourdomain, copy your site to it, and try changes there first. Protect the staging copy with a password and ask search engines not to index it so it does not compete with your live site.
Always test that you can restore a backup. A backup you have never restored is only a hope, and practising a restore on your staging sub-domain is a quick way to confirm everything works.
WooCommerce turns WordPress into an online shop, and it runs on our shared plans. For a small catalogue with modest traffic, the Business plan with 10 GB of space and 100 GB of bandwidth is a sensible starting point.
Online shops are more demanding than blogs, though. Carts, checkouts and customer accounts cannot be cached in the same way as ordinary pages, so each of those requests travels to the server. With hosting in the Netherlands, Australian shoppers will notice more delay at checkout than they would with a local server.
If your store sells mainly to Australians and is growing, consider moving to a Sydney VPS. Our V2 plan, with 2 vCPU, 4 GB of RAM and 80 GB of NVMe storage for US$49 per month, comfortably runs a cached WooCommerce shop with an Australian IP address. Larger plans offer more headroom for big catalogues and busy sale periods.
When your site needs Australian latency, more resources or full control over the server, a Sydney VPS is the next step. Our KVM plans run on NVMe storage in a Tier III Sydney data centre, with an Australian IPv4 and /128 IPv6 address, firewall and DDoS protection, and your choice of Linux or Windows. Plans run from US$34 to US$199 per month.
To migrate, set up a web server, PHP and database on the VPS, or install a control panel of your choice. Then copy your WordPress files and export and import the database. A migration plugin can bundle everything into a single archive. Test the site on the new server using a hosts file entry, then update your DNS to the VPS address.
On a VPS you can add server-level caching, tune PHP and the database for your site, and run background tasks without the limits of shared hosting. Australian visitors benefit from the shorter distance on every page, cached or not.
Choose a plan from the table on this page and pick cPanel or DirectAdmin for a typical WordPress site. You can register a new domain at the same time, including a .com.au if you meet the registry's eligibility rules, or connect a domain you already own.
Plans are billed yearly in US dollars, and you can pay with crypto, Visa, Mastercard, PayPal or bank transfer. Once your account is active, your control panel details arrive by email and your SSL certificate is installed for you.
We have been providing hosting since 2008. If you are unsure whether your WordPress project belongs on shared hosting or a Sydney VPS, open a ticket describing your site, expected traffic and audience, and we will recommend the most sensible starting point.
We do not sell separate WordPress-only plans. WordPress runs on our shared hosting plans, which are shown on this page, and you install and manage it through cPanel, DirectAdmin or Plesk. This keeps costs low and lets you use the same account for email, sub-domains and, on Business, a second website.
WordPress sites on our shared plans are hosted in our data centre in the Netherlands. Our Sydney facility is used for VPS, dedicated servers and RDP. If your WordPress site needs to be hosted in Australia for the lowest local latency, run it on a Sydney KVM VPS instead of a shared plan.
For most WordPress sites, choose cPanel or DirectAdmin on Linux. WordPress is built on PHP and MySQL, which are the natural fit for Linux hosting. Plesk on Windows is aimed mainly at ASP.NET sites. Both Linux panels give you the database, file manager and domain tools that WordPress needs.
Our shared plans that run WordPress are billed yearly from US$25 to US$79. Personal is US$25 with 1 GB of space, Pro is US$39 with 5 GB, and Business is US$55 with 10 GB plus an addon domain. If you need a Sydney VPS instead, plans start at US$34 per month.
Yes. Every plan includes a free SSL certificate that we install for you. After installing WordPress, make sure the WordPress and site address settings use https so every page loads securely. SSL protects logins, comments and checkout details, and avoids browser warnings that could put visitors off.
Yes, a small WooCommerce shop can run on our shared plans, with Business being a sensible starting point. Because carts and checkouts are hard to cache and our shared hosting is in the Netherlands, busy shops selling mainly to Australians usually perform better on a Sydney VPS with local latency.
Use a page caching plugin, compress and resize images, choose a lightweight theme, keep plugins to a minimum, and add a content delivery network so static files are served from near your visitors. If your site relies on uncached, dynamic pages, moving to a Sydney VPS gives the biggest improvement.
Yes, we can advise you on the process. Typically you set up the web stack on your Sydney VPS, copy the WordPress files, import the database and switch DNS to the new Australian IP. Open a ticket describing your current site and we will suggest a suitable plan and the steps.
Tell us where your users are and what you plan to run. An engineer will reply with a recommendation through the ticket system.
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