An agency does not buy hosting for one site. It buys a place to keep fifty, with logins for the team, a way to hand a site to its owner, and a cost per client that leaves a margin. These are the hosts that fit that work. If you would rather sell hosting under your own name with cPanel accounts, see our reseller hosting list. This is one of four audience lists beside our main WordPress Hosts list. The others cover small business, startups and enterprise.
How we chose
- Cost per client: per-server or per-site pricing, and what the twentieth site costs.
- Team access: separate logins and roles for staff, contractors and clients.
- Client handoff: transferring a site, or its bill, to the client.
- Workflow: staging, cloning and a repeatable starting setup for new projects.
- Support: answers good enough that your team is not the host’s help desk.
Verdict
Cloudways gives the best cost per client for agencies comfortable sizing their own servers, and Kinsta is the pick when client sites must be fast and the budget allows. Flywheel suits studios that hand the hosting bill to the client at launch, and Pressable suits portfolios of many small sites. 20i is the natural choice for UK agencies that host under their own brand, and InstaWP belongs in the toolkit whichever host you use. Hosting is only half of client care. Seahawk’s WP Maintain keeps the sites updated, backed up and monitored across every host, and WP Hosts lists more hosts to compare.