There is not a lot of guidance on picking the best hosting, so this video by Remkus de Vries stands out for its commonsense and practical advice.

From the I’m sure it is controversial department – Elegant Themes tested a bunch of WordPress hosting providers and the top three fastest were SiteGround, Pressable, and Cloudways. In this post they test these three against each other and SiteGround comes out first. I would have thought that Kinsta or WP Engine would perform better, but it has been a while since I used SiteGround.

Cloudways has been known for allowing users to pick their own cloud provider, sever size and customizations. Now they have announced a beta of their Autoscale service which is fully managed, auto-scaling, load balanced, and high availability.