Choosing WordPress hosting for your Easy Digital Downloads store can feel overwhelming. There are hundreds of hosts, and most reviews focus on blogs or physical product stores, not digital sellers.
That's where we can help. Over the years, we've worked with many hosting providers, both through our customers and on our own sites. We know firsthand which hosts handle digital stores well. We've also built relationships with some of the top companies in the hosting industry, so the recommendations below come from real experience, not just spec sheets.
On this page, you'll find the hosts we recommend for Easy Digital Downloads (EDD), what makes hosting different for digital product sellers, and the exact server requirements your host needs to meet.
Selling digital products puts different demands on your hosting than running a blog or a physical product store. Here's what actually matters:
- File delivery speed, not just page load speed. Most hosting reviews measure how fast pages load. For a digital store, what happens after checkout matters just as much. Your server needs to deliver downloads quickly and reliably, even for large files.
- Storage for your product files. Every ebook, plugin, music file, or video course you sell lives on your server. A growing catalog needs room to grow with it.
- Bandwidth for download-heavy traffic. A customer downloading a 500MB product uses far more bandwidth than one reading a blog post. If your products are large or your sales volume is high, low bandwidth caps become a real cost.
- Server resources for dynamic requests. EDD processes checkouts, verifies download links, and validates license keys in real time. Hosts that aggressively cache everything can interfere with this. Quality hosts handle dynamic requests without slowing down.
Every host on this page handles these well. The existing sections below cover the other three factors to weigh: price, customer support, and room for growth.
Choosing the right host for your business comes down to many factors, but we believe there are three factors that should be at the top of your decision making process.
- Price
- Customer Support
- Room for Growth
There are WordPress hosts at all price points. Be sure to look for a plan that will cover your initial needs. You can always upgrade later (we’ll get to that in a moment). Some key factors are looking for the cost in relation to features like storage, reliability (sometimes called SLA), and security (included SSL certificates).
Your online business is open 24/7, so naturally, you want your hosting provider to also have customer support available when you need it. Make sure the host you choose for your WordPress site has 24/7 customer support to match.
As you scale your business, your website will need to scale with it. Make sure the host you choose has easy plan changes and migrations available. This ensures that when your business goes viral on social media or you send an email that really catches your audience’s attention, your site will be ready to handle the traffic.
If you want an in-depth review of the hosts that we recommend below, WPBeginner has put together an extensive WordPress hosting directory of the best WordPress hosting companies alongside reviews from actual customers.
For a broader comparison of hosting options for online stores in general, see our guide to the best WordPress hosting for ecommerce sites.
Below is a list of the best hosting providers that work with Easy Digital Downloads. Each one has multiple price options, plans, and features. Most importantly, they all provide hosting that meets our technical requirements, which we have outlined next.
