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= Is Wordpress dedicated hosting actually better? =

TL:DR: I have InMotion hosting for at least another year. I'm currently on an OLD plan. Despite only having a few sites, they are all slow (7-10 seconds for the initial page). All sites are Wordpress. Is Wordpress hosting actually better than regular hosting? And is it worth the slight monetary upgrade?
Okay, so a bit more information. I've had InMotion for a few years now (3 years I think) and despite them upgrading their backend a lot, I'm still on an old plan that, while good at the time, seems to be well behind their current plans. At first, my sites were fast, but over the past year and a half or so they've gotten much slower. I've done all the regular troubleshooting using pagespeed and gmetrics, worked with support for both inMotion and my Wordpress theme, but despite this, I can't get a constant decent speed. When I run these, it says the response to the server is the biggest delay. When I explain this to inmotion, they give me 100 things to try that don't work, never taking any blame, telling me it could be my theme while my theme blames them (isn't that how it always is?)

I'm under contract with InMotion for at least 1 more year at this point and have two options. Upgrade to the new version of my same plan which promises it's faster or upgrade to Wordpress only plan that offers much faster speeds, built-in cache, and more

I've been building websites in one way or another for 20 years, but it's always been on regular hosting, so I know little to nothing about Wordpress hosting, so any advice on this (or other ideas) would be really appreciated. The Wordpress hosting is slightly higher price, but only by a small amount, which will be split between a few clients and me, so the upgrade cost isn't a factor

Addition: While 1 site has a good amount of content, I wouldn't consider any of them truly large sites that would bog down a server. Of course, I understand about shared servers and all of that, which is why I originally reached out to InMotion, but they didn't seem to think it has anything to do with their server specifically

Thank you! I talked to inmotion support and I ended up getting the upgrade to the new but same plan for free so I'm trying that out. It's supposed to have 2x the performance than my old one, but that's just a fake stat that has no real meaning so we will see
I will look at the link you sent either way so I know for the future

I believe some hosts are selling 'Wordpress hosting' with no additional benefits whatsoever other than an automatic installer

Wordpress runs on standard hosting just as fine so usually there are no special provisions needed. But in order to have a speedy website it must have a solid server set up, and that can be achieved with standard hosting as well

With that being said, site speed is part server quality, part the way the site has built. Reading your message makes me believe the problem is somewhat on the server side

Depending on how many sites you have and how much you're paying InMotion Hosting, you may as well invest in your own server (eg. a VPS server, which is essentially a very cheap dedicated server), a cPanel license (so you can manage your websites and mailboxes) and do it all yourself. It may seem daunting but it actually is not. If InMotion is not providing you with the performance you need, then there's no reason to continue

I do have a small business that design, host and do maintenance on Wordpress sites and I have actually helped a client set up their own server, so if you need any help just let me know

Thanks for the info! I have considered going this route in the past because this isn't a full-time job (and the income from my web services at the moment is slim), it wouldn't be in the cards. InMotions WordPress hosting actually has a lot to offer in terms of benefits for WordPress over their standard hosting, so this is the route I think I'll go. I'm just worried it won't fix the problem and I'll be stuck with it for another year, Then again, I'm already under contract for the next year so what is there to lose..

In my experience, developers and theme developers are quick to blame the host but most of the time the problem lies with the theme or the way the website has been designed. Having said that, avoid GoDaddy and hosts associated with EIG

I'd find a competent developer to look into the speed issues with your website

Some hosts do call their hosting Wordpress hosting when it doesn't have features that Wordpress hosting should have IMHO such as exclusive plugins, WP-CLI support, a development staging environment and so on

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