Portfolio Website

This article contains affiliate links. If you buy through them, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. This is a researched guide, not a hands-on review. Prices come from the provider’s own page, with one marked exception from a checkout page. One section is the author’s own experience of hosting a WordPress site on Hostinger, and it says so. TL;DR One weekend is enough. Saturday: domain, hosting, WordPress. Sunday: five pages and three case studies. Five pages: Home, Work, About, Services, Contact. Nothing else until those win you an inquiry. Case studies beat thumbnails. The problem, what you did, the result. Know the four-year cost before you buy: $143.52 upfront on Hostinger Premium, then $10.99/month at renewal. Both are before tax (Hostinger, read 12 October 2026). Checkout adds local tax: the same plan showed $169.35 at checkout in India. Give the site a keep-or-cut rule, the same as every other subscription in your tool stack. If you’re a freelance copywriter, designer, VA or coach, you’ve probably done the audit at least once: the card statement, read line by line, every subscription cost questioned. Is this one earning its keep, or do I cancel it? A portfolio website is the one line you can’t judge until it exists, so most solo freelancers put it off for months. ...

This article contains affiliate links. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend tools we’ve researched thoroughly, and I share my own experience where I have it. TL;DR Buy from Hostinger’s WordPress hosting page, not the general one. Hostinger sells a separate product called managed hosting for WordPress, with staging, automatic WordPress updates and a malware scanner listed as part of it. Pick the plan by site count. Up to three sites: Premium. More than three, or you want daily backups: Unlimited. Let hPanel install WordPress. The one-click installer handles the database, core files, and admin account. Add five plugins, not fifty. SEO, caching, security, backups, and an optional page builder. Budget for the renewal, not the promo price. Premium is $2.99 a month on a 48 month prepay and renews at $10.99 (Hostinger WordPress hosting, 10 October 2026). Building the site is rarely what eats the day. The back and forth is: the registrar tab, the host tab, the theme demo that wants one more plugin, the client asking for a preview link while you are half way through the install. The afternoon goes, and the site itself accounted for twenty minutes of it. ...

This article contains affiliate links. If you buy through our links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. We only recommend tools we’ve researched thoroughly, and I share my own experience where I have it. TL;DR Hostinger Premium is $2.99 a month on a 48-month prepay and renews at $10.99. Bluehost Starter is $3.99 a month on a 36-month prepay and renews at $9.99 (both pricing pages, 11 October 2026). Budget for the renewal rate. Your site count over the term decides which plan tier you pay for, so check the site cap before the price. Hostinger costs less across the prepaid term, Bluehost costs less once both have renewed, and hPanel is easier for getting WordPress live. Bluehost suits you if you want the WordPress.org-recommended host, cPanel, or phone support. The hosting bill that sends most freelancers to this comparison is the second one. You prepaid at a few dollars a month, the term ended, and the renewal charge landed well above the plan you thought you were on. Or you are about to buy, and you would rather that did not happen to you. ...