European WordPress hosting providers

WordPress hosting is hosting tuned for one application. Instead of a generic server, you get PHP and database settings matched to WordPress, caching in front, staging sites, automatic core and plugin updates, daily backups and malware scanning. Because WordPress runs a large share of the web and has a large plugin and theme ecosystem, specialist hosts have plenty to optimise for.

A WordPress site holds comment authors, form submissions and often shop customers, so the database location is part of your privacy notice. Raidboxes, Hostpress, Combell WordPress and Strato WordPress run from European data centres. WordPress is open source and exports cleanly, so moving to a European WordPress hosting provider is mostly a matter of migrating files and a database, with a DNS change at the end.