WordPress.com Hosting Review 2024: Is It Worth It?

WordPress.com bietet fünf Hosting-Tarife an. Eine Domain ist nur in den kostenpflichtigen Jahresverträgen enthalten. Möchten Sie WordPress.com testen, nutzen Sie einfach den kostenlosen Tarif. Eine 14-Tage- oder 30-Tage-Geld-zurück-Garantie gibt es nicht. Die nachfolgend genannten Beträge beziehen sich auf eine jährliche Zahlungsweise.

• Kostenlos: WordPress.com is the only one of the hosts presented here that offers a free tariff that is unlimited in time but includes advertising, but without support. This offers at least 1 GB of storage space, visitor statistics and protection against spam, malware or brute force attacks.
• Persönlich: For 5 euros a month you get 6 GB of storage space, advertising freedom and support via email in the “WordPress.com Personal” tariff.
• Premium: If you pay 10 euros per month, you get 13 GB of storage space. Also included in the “WordPress.com Premium” package, for example, are detailed website analyses.
• Business: For 30 euros per month, the “WordPress.com Business” tariff includes 50 GB of storage space, a staging website, real-time backups through the Jetpack plugin, SEO tools and much more.
• Commerce: The tariff with the online shop WooCommerce costs 54 euros per. The “WordPress.com Commerce” package offers 50 GB of storage and the ability to process sales in 60 countries. There are also real-time backups through the Jetpack plugin, SEO tools and many other features.

Aufgrund der direkten Verflechtung mit der Entwicklung durch Automattic (das Unternehmen hinter WordPress.com) bietet WordPress.com einige Leistungen, die Sie sonst bei keinem anderen Hoster finden. Basierend auf unserer Analyse der aktuellen Tarifstruktur und Funktionsübersicht sind viele Premium-Leistungen jedoch erst in den teureren Tarifen verfügbar.

• Festplatten-Upgrade: If the storage space provided in the Business and Commerce tariffs is too small for you, you can book additional storage space for an additional charge. This option also applies to WordPress hosts[–>[–>Raidboxes and[–>[–>HostPress.
• KI-Funktionen: AI-generated texts as well as the creation of AI images are possible via the “AI Assistant”.
• 1-Klick-Installation von WordPress: The WordPress CMS is already completely set up so you can get started with your website straight away. Manual installation or server configuration is not required.
• Shopsystem inklusive: The WooCommerce online shop is already preinstalled in the WordPress.com commerce tariff. This eliminates the need to set up a separate shop system.
• Staging: On Business and Commerce plans, you can access a convenient staging test environment that shows you the impact of changes and updates before they go live.
• Automatisches Caching: For optimal performance of your websites, WordPress.com works with a server-side cache. This reduces loading times without additional plugin configuration.
• CDN (Content Delivery Network): WordPress.com’s servers are located in different countries, so the pages hosted on them can be accessed relatively quickly from anywhere in the world.
• Bezahlschranke und Abo-Tool: You can use the Jetpack tool integrated into WordPress.com to control access to content on your website via a paywall or subscriptions. The monetization features are configurable directly in the dashboard and do not require a third-party solution.
• Zugriffsstatistik: The statistical functions of WordPress in combination with Jetpack provide detailed analyzes of page views, visitor sources, search terms, real-time traffic and country-specific access.
• SEO-Tools: Jetpack’s SEO tools for search engine optimization of your content are integrated into the Business and Commerce tariffs. These include, among other things, meta descriptions, XML sitemaps and social previews.
• Social-Media-Schnittstelle: Thanks to Jetpack, posts from your website can be posted anywhere on Facebook, Instagram & Co. Automatic publishing is done via Jetpack’s built-in Publicize module.

Bei WordPress.com finden Sie integrierte Sicherheitsfunktionen, die laut Anbieter standardmäßig auf Hosting-Ebene implementiert sind und Ihre WordPress-Website proaktiv vor typischen Online-Bedrohungen schützen.

• DDoS-Schutz (Distributed Denial of Service): Protects your website from congestion attacks that target unavailability (downtime) through network-level traffic filtering. According to industry analyses, such hacker attacks are among the most common threats to publicly accessible websites.
• Schutz vor Brute-Force-Angriffen: Limits repeated login attempts and detects automated login attempts (hacker attacks) that aim to systematically guess passwords – a common method for compromised user accounts.
• Spamschutz: The integrated tool Akismet claims to reliably prevent spam in comment, form and text fields by automatically analyzing content and comparing it with global spam databases.
• 2-Faktor-Authentifizierung (2FA): In addition to logging in using your username and password, access to your WordPress.com account is secured by an additional protection mechanism via authenticator apps (e.g. from Microsoft or Google) or an SMS code.
• Malwareschutz: Automated malware scanning checks files and processes for suspicious patterns and removes detected malware according to the hosting security guidelines.
• Web Application Firewall (WAF): The firewall protects your website by blocking malicious traffic.
• Echtzeit-Backups: With the Business and Commerce tariffs, WordPress.com saves changes to your WordPress site in real time using the integrated Jetpack plugin. The restore takes place via the respective user dashboard. An additional, independently configurable server-side backup is not provided for in these tariffs.

• Serverstandort: WordPress.com servers are primarily located in the USA. As a rule, the data stored on it is not subject to the legal requirements of the GDPR, which prevents unlawful transfer and processing. Only in the Business and Commerce tariffs can Europe be selected as the server location.
• Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen: The terms and conditions of WordPress.com are very extensive and completely confusing. The provider’s ability to terminate the contract immediately and the right to transfer all rights to third parties are consumer-unfriendly. The jurisdiction agreement with consumers is invalid and the Jetpack plugin is questionable in terms of data protection. Therefore, the terms and conditions of WordPress.com only receive a test grade of 4 (sufficient). It just gets worse[–>[–>Hostinger with a grade of 6 (unsatisfactory).
• Datenschutzinformationen: The data protection information is also not convincing. For example, the transfer of data to third parties is described very vaguely. This is only enough for a test grade of 4 (sufficient).

WordPress bietet einen Live-Chat und Mail-Service, den Sie rund um die Uhr in Anspruch nehmen können. Eine Telefon-Hotline gibt es nicht. Negativ: Support erhalten Sie nur bei jährlicher Zahlungsweise und in den kostenpflichtigen WordPress.com-Tarifmodellen.