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A nonprofit website has a different job from an ordinary business website.
It may need to educate visitors, attract volunteers, publish impact stories, accept donations, promote events, collect applications, distribute resources, and build trust with people who may never have interacted with the organization before. During a fundraising campaign or major public event, traffic can also increase suddenly.
That makes WordPress hosting more than a technical purchase. It is part of the infrastructure supporting your nonprofit’s mission.
The cheapest hosting plan may appear attractive when a nonprofit is working with a limited budget. However, a low monthly price can become expensive if the website loads slowly, goes offline during a campaign, suffers a security incident, or requires hours of staff time to maintain.
The right approach is to evaluate hosting according to the organization’s actual needs rather than choosing a provider simply because it advertises a low introductory price.
WordPress itself currently recommends a modern hosting environment built around PHP 8.3 or newer, MySQL 8.0 or MariaDB 10.11 or newer, and HTTPS. WordPress also recommends using a modern web server such as Apache or Nginx.
This guide explains how nonprofit organizations can evaluate WordPress hosting from both technical and practical perspectives.
WordPress hosting is the server environment where your WordPress website’s files, database, media, and related services are stored and delivered to visitors.
When someone visits your nonprofit website, their browser requests information from the hosting server. The server processes the request, retrieves the necessary WordPress files and database information, and sends the resulting webpage back to the visitor.
In simple terms:
Your domain is the address.
WordPress is the software running the website.
Hosting is the infrastructure that keeps the website available online.
Without hosting, a self-hosted WordPress website cannot be publicly accessed.
WordPress documentation explains that hosting providers generally offer either generic hosting that supports multiple applications or WordPress-specific hosting designed around WordPress. WordPress-specific services may provide features such as pre-installed WordPress, backups, updates, and developer tools.
For a nonprofit, the important question is not simply:
“Does this hosting company support WordPress?”
Almost every mainstream provider will say yes.
The better question is:
“Does this hosting environment support the way our nonprofit actually uses WordPress?”
That distinction is extremely important.
Hosting influences several aspects of a nonprofit website, including:
Imagine a nonprofit launches a major fundraising campaign.
The organization promotes the campaign through:
Thousands of people suddenly visit the website.
If the hosting environment cannot handle the traffic, the site could slow down or become unavailable precisely when the organization needs it most.
That creates more than a technical problem.
It can mean:
For a commercial company, downtime can hurt revenue.
For a nonprofit, downtime can interfere directly with mission delivery.
A nonprofit website may look similar to a business website, but its infrastructure requirements can be quite different.
A typical nonprofit WordPress website may contain:
Some organizations also operate:
Consequently, choosing hosting based purely on the number of website visitors can be misleading.
A website with 10,000 monthly visitors may need more resources than another website with 50,000 monthly visitors if it performs more complex operations.
For example, displaying a static article is relatively lightweight.
Processing:
can be substantially more demanding.
Before comparing hosting providers, document your current website.
Start with these questions.
How many visitors do you receive each month?
More importantly:
Does the website contain:
How much video and image content do you publish?
Are visitors primarily:
Who manages the website?
Do you have:
What happens if the website is unavailable for several hours?
This question is particularly important.
A small community nonprofit may tolerate occasional maintenance downtime.
An organization running an active fundraising campaign may not.
Before purchasing hosting, verify the technical environment.
According to current WordPress.org requirements, the recommended baseline includes PHP 8.3 or greater, MySQL 8.0 or MariaDB 10.11 or greater, and HTTPS.
WordPress’s hosting documentation also emphasizes that hosting environments should be compatible with current WordPress requirements.
Look for:
Don’t select a host solely because it technically meets WordPress’s minimum requirements.
Minimum compatibility is not the same thing as an optimal hosting environment.
There are several major hosting categories.
| Hosting type | Best suited for |
| Shared hosting | Small, simple websites |
| Managed WordPress | Organizations wanting easier maintenance |
| VPS | Growing websites needing more control |
| Cloud hosting | Scalable and variable workloads |
| Dedicated hosting | Large, resource-intensive websites |
There is no universal winner.
The right choice depends on your nonprofit’s:
Let’s examine each option.
Shared hosting places multiple websites on the same server environment.
It is popular because it is relatively inexpensive and easy to operate.
For a small nonprofit with:
shared hosting may be sufficient.
Shared hosting can offer:
The biggest concern is resource sharing.
Your website may share server resources with many other websites.
Depending on the provider and plan, this can affect:
Another concern is limited scalability.
If your nonprofit suddenly receives substantial traffic, a basic shared plan may become a bottleneck.
Consider it if your website is:
For many small nonprofits, shared hosting can be a perfectly reasonable starting point.
Managed WordPress hosting is designed specifically around WordPress websites.
The provider typically handles some technical responsibilities that would otherwise fall to the website owner.
Depending on the provider, this may include:
This can be particularly valuable for nonprofits without dedicated technical staff.
Instead of spending internal resources on server administration, the organization can focus on:
WordPress itself notes that WordPress-specific hosts may provide additional functionality such as backups, updates, and developer tools.
Managed WordPress hosting usually costs more than basic shared hosting.
But price should be evaluated against the amount of maintenance and technical work included.
A $15 monthly plan that requires several hours of technical work may ultimately cost more than a $30 plan that handles routine maintenance automatically.
A Virtual Private Server provides a more isolated and configurable environment.
It can provide greater control over:
VPS hosting can be a strong option for nonprofits with growing traffic or specialized technical requirements.
However, it generally requires more expertise.
Someone needs to understand:
If the organization doesn’t have this expertise, unmanaged VPS hosting can create unnecessary operational risk.
A managed VPS can reduce this burden.
Cloud hosting distributes resources across cloud infrastructure rather than relying on a traditional single-server model.
One major advantage is scalability.
If traffic changes significantly, resources can potentially be increased according to demand.
This makes cloud hosting attractive for nonprofits running:
Cloud hosting can also support advanced architectures involving:
However, cloud infrastructure can become complicated.
A nonprofit should not adopt cloud hosting simply because “cloud” sounds more advanced.
The architecture should solve an actual problem.
Dedicated hosting gives an organization an entire physical server.
This provides substantial control and resources.
It may make sense for:
For most small and medium-sized nonprofits, however, dedicated hosting is unnecessary.
The organization would typically get better value from managed WordPress, VPS, or cloud infrastructure.
Website performance is one of the most important hosting considerations.
A nonprofit website needs to load quickly because visitors may access it using:
Performance becomes particularly important when the website is asking users to complete an action.
For example:
Read an article requires relatively little interaction.
Complete a donation form requires significantly more engagement.
A slow page can increase friction at exactly the wrong moment.
Server location can influence network latency.
If most visitors are in India, for example, hosting infrastructure geographically closer to India may provide advantages.
If visitors come from several continents, a global CDN can reduce the importance of a single origin server location.
Before selecting a host, identify where your audience actually lives.
Use website analytics rather than assumptions.
Ask:
Then evaluate infrastructure accordingly.
A CDN, or Content Delivery Network, distributes cached website resources across multiple geographic locations.
It can help deliver static resources such as:
more efficiently to visitors around the world.
Caching can also reduce repeated processing on the origin server.
For example, instead of generating the same public article page repeatedly, the server can deliver a cached version.
However, caching must be configured carefully.
Donation pages, account pages, personalized dashboards, and other dynamic content may require different caching rules.
A good host should make this process manageable.
Uptime refers to how consistently your website remains accessible.
Hosting companies often advertise uptime percentages.
A small difference can have meaningful consequences at scale.
For example, even highly available infrastructure can experience downtime due to:
Don’t look at an uptime percentage alone.
Ask how the provider handles incidents.
Important questions include:
Reliability is not simply about preventing problems.
It is also about recovering from them.
Security should be one of the highest priorities when choosing nonprofit WordPress hosting.
Nonprofits can become attractive targets because their websites may contain:
A secure hosting environment should support:
WordPress’s hosting security guidance strongly recommends HTTPS to protect both WordPress logins and website visitors.
HTTPS encrypts traffic between visitors and your website.
It is particularly important for nonprofits because users may submit:
Modern WordPress hosting should make HTTPS straightforward.
The WordPress requirements page currently identifies HTTPS as required for installations.
Before buying hosting, verify:
Don’t assume that a provider advertising “SSL available” means everything is automatically configured correctly.
Backups are one of the most important features for a nonprofit website.
A backup allows you to restore the website after:
However, not every backup system is equally useful.
Ask:
How frequently are backups created?
Daily backups may be adequate for some sites.
A donation-heavy website with frequent transactions may need more frequent recovery points.
Also ask:
Where are backups stored?
A backup stored on the same server as the website is not a complete disaster recovery strategy.
If the server fails, the backup could potentially be affected too.
Look for:
The ability to restore quickly is just as important as the existence of backups.
WordPress websites consist of multiple moving components.
These can include:
Keeping these components current helps maintain compatibility and security.
WordPress’s own hosting documentation recommends maintaining awareness of changing server environments and compatibility requirements.
A nonprofit should determine who is responsible for updates.
Possible models include:
Your staff handles everything.
The hosting company handles selected updates.
An external development partner maintains the website.
The host manages infrastructure while your team manages WordPress content and selected plugins.
The important thing is not which model you choose.
The important thing is that responsibility is clearly assigned.
Malware can compromise a website and damage trust.
A hosting provider may offer:
These services can be useful, but no hosting provider can replace good WordPress security practices.
Your organization should also maintain:
Hosting is one layer of security, not the entire security strategy.
A Web Application Firewall, or WAF, can filter potentially malicious web traffic.
It can help protect against certain classes of attacks and suspicious requests.
For a nonprofit website, WAF protection can be particularly useful when the website has:
Ask whether the WAF operates:
Edge-level protection can have different performance and security characteristics from plugin-based protection.
This deserves special attention.
If your nonprofit accepts online donations, hosting becomes part of a broader payment infrastructure.
However, hosting should not be expected to handle every aspect of payment security.
Ideally, sensitive payment processing should be handled through established payment processors and appropriately designed integrations.
The website itself should use HTTPS and follow good security practices.
Before selecting hosting, check whether your chosen donation platform supports:
Also test the complete donation journey.
Don’t only test whether the donation form appears.
Test:
A hosting environment can appear perfect until an important integration fails.
Accessibility is not purely a hosting issue.
However, hosting can affect the ability to deliver a fast, stable, accessible website.
Your nonprofit website should be usable by people with different:
Good hosting supports performance.
Your website implementation must address accessibility itself.
That includes considerations such as:
Hosting should support the broader accessibility strategy rather than undermine it through poor performance or unreliable infrastructure.
Hosting is not an SEO strategy by itself.
However, hosting affects technical conditions that can influence user experience and search performance.
Important factors include:
A slow website can create a poor experience for users and search crawlers alike.
The goal should not be:
“Find the host with the best SEO.”
Instead, look for a host that provides a technically strong foundation for SEO.
Google’s Core Web Vitals focus on real-world aspects of user experience.
For a nonprofit, this matters because many visitors will arrive on mobile devices.
Your hosting environment can affect server response time, while your WordPress configuration affects the rest of the performance equation.
Performance depends on:
Therefore, don’t expect premium hosting to magically make a poorly optimized website fast.
Good hosting plus good development practices is the stronger combination.
Storage refers to how much data your hosting account can store.
This may include:
Bandwidth refers broadly to the amount of data transferred between your website and visitors.
A nonprofit publishing large annual reports, videos, photographs, and downloadable resources can consume considerably more resources than a simple brochure website.
Before buying hosting, estimate:
Don’t automatically pay for unlimited storage.
“Unlimited” hosting still operates under terms, technical limits, and acceptable-use policies.
Traffic averages can be misleading.
Suppose your nonprofit receives:
The monthly average doesn’t tell the complete story.
Hosting should be evaluated according to peak demand.
Potential traffic spikes can come from:
Ask prospective hosts:
“How does your platform handle sudden traffic spikes?”
The answer can reveal more about the infrastructure than a generic uptime promise.
A good hosting environment should give you a reasonable path for growth.
You don’t necessarily need expensive infrastructure on day one.
Instead, identify your upgrade path.
For example:
Stage 1: Shared hosting
Stage 2: Managed WordPress
Stage 3: Higher-resource managed environment
Stage 4: VPS or cloud infrastructure
The exact path depends on the organization.
The key is avoiding a situation where the only solution to growth is a complete migration.
Support quality is often overlooked during the purchasing process.
It shouldn’t be.
When something breaks at 11 PM before a fundraising campaign, your organization needs to know who can help.
Look for:
Don’t judge support solely by whether it is available.
Judge it by whether the support team can solve relevant problems.
There is a major difference between:
“We support WordPress.”
and:
“We can troubleshoot PHP worker exhaustion, database errors, caching conflicts, and failed WordPress updates.”
Many nonprofits don’t have full-time developers.
That should influence your hosting choice.
If the website is managed by a communications employee who understands WordPress but not Linux administration, an unmanaged VPS may be a poor choice.
Conversely, if your organization has experienced developers, paying for a heavily managed environment may not provide enough additional value to justify the cost.
Think about the actual people who will operate the website.
Your technical infrastructure should match their capabilities.
A staging environment is a separate version of your website where changes can be tested before they reach production.
This is extremely useful.
Imagine your nonprofit website uses:
You want to update several plugins.
Doing this directly on the live website introduces risk.
With staging, you can:
For organizations that regularly modify their website, staging can be worth paying for.
Automatic backups reduce dependence on manual processes.
A good backup system should ideally allow you to determine:
Before selecting a host, perform a test restoration if possible.
A backup that cannot be restored efficiently is not an adequate recovery strategy.
Website hosting and email hosting don’t necessarily need to be provided by the same company.
In fact, many organizations choose separate services for:
This separation can make migration easier.
For example, if your website hosting fails, your organization’s email can continue functioning independently.
Avoid unnecessarily tying every digital service to one provider.
Your domain name is one of your nonprofit’s most important digital assets.
Make sure the organization itself controls:
Do not allow a developer, volunteer, agency, or hosting provider to become the only person with domain access.
Your organization should maintain ownership and administrative control.
This becomes especially important when staff members or vendors change.
Nonprofit websites may collect personal information.
Examples include:
Your hosting environment should therefore be evaluated alongside your broader privacy strategy.
Consider:
Privacy obligations vary according to jurisdiction and the type of information collected, so organizations should obtain appropriate legal advice where necessary.
International nonprofits should pay particular attention to data location and legal requirements.
Questions worth asking include:
These considerations become more important as the organization grows.
Cost is obviously important for nonprofits.
But don’t reduce the decision to:
“Which host is cheapest?”
Instead ask:
“Which hosting solution provides the lowest reasonable total cost of ownership?”
Total cost may include:
A cheap hosting account can become expensive when it requires frequent technical intervention.
Many hosting companies advertise promotional pricing.
Always investigate:
What is the regular renewal price?
For example, a provider might advertise an attractive first-year price but charge considerably more afterward.
Before purchasing, document:
This prevents unpleasant surprises.
Free hosting can be tempting.
For a basic experimental website, it might be acceptable.
For a mission-critical nonprofit website, however, free hosting should be evaluated very carefully.
Potential limitations include:
If the website handles donations or important organizational operations, saving a small hosting fee may not justify the risk.
Some providers offer nonprofit discounts.
These can reduce hosting costs.
However, don’t automatically choose a provider simply because it offers a nonprofit discount.
Compare the discounted service with alternatives based on:
A discount on an unsuitable hosting plan is still an unsuitable hosting plan.
There is no universal correct amount.
A simple informational nonprofit website may need relatively modest hosting.
A large international organization with complex applications may require significantly more infrastructure.
Think in terms of tiers.
Likely needs:
May need:
May need:
Don’t pay for enterprise infrastructure before you actually need it.
For many nonprofits, the following features provide genuine value:
High priority.
Extremely useful for active websites.
Useful for organizations without developers.
Helpful for geographically distributed audiences.
Important for performance.
Useful security layer.
Often more valuable than extra storage.
Important for campaigns and growth.
Useful when switching providers.
Hosting packages often contain long lists of features.
Some may have little relevance to your nonprofit.
For example:
may not matter if your organization operates one simple website.
Always prioritize functionality over feature count.
Create a comparison table.
| Category | Provider A | Provider B | Provider C |
| Price | |||
| Renewal cost | |||
| PHP version | |||
| Database | |||
| Backups | |||
| Staging | |||
| CDN | |||
| Caching | |||
| Security | |||
| Support | |||
| Scalability | |||
| Migration | |||
| Nonprofit discount |
Then score each provider.
Don’t let price dominate the evaluation.
Ask prospective hosting providers:
These questions can eliminate unsuitable hosts quickly.
A simple scoring model can make the decision more objective.
Score each category from 1 to 5.
| Category | Weight |
| Reliability | 20% |
| Security | 20% |
| Performance | 15% |
| Support | 15% |
| Backups | 10% |
| Scalability | 10% |
| Ease of management | 5% |
| Cost | 5% |
This approach intentionally gives cost less weight than reliability and security.
Why?
Because saving $5 per month is not particularly useful if the website becomes unavailable during a major fundraising campaign.
Hosting should evolve with the organization.
A small organization may prioritize:
A growing organization may prioritize:
A large organization may prioritize:
There is no reason a five-person nonprofit needs the same infrastructure as a multinational foundation.
A small nonprofit often has a simple website.
Typical characteristics:
A quality shared host or affordable managed WordPress platform can often handle this workload.
The priorities should be:
Don’t chase advanced infrastructure unnecessarily.
Growing organizations tend to develop more complex websites.
They may add:
This is where managed WordPress hosting can become particularly attractive.
The organization gets additional infrastructure without necessarily having to become a server administration team.
Large nonprofits may need more sophisticated architecture.
Potential requirements include:
At this scale, hosting should be treated as part of an overall technology architecture.
Donation websites need special attention.
The website should be optimized for:
Test donation functionality after:
Never assume a donation form continues functioning simply because the homepage works.
Membership websites can generate more database activity.
A membership site may involve:
Caching must be configured carefully because personalized pages cannot always be cached in the same way as public pages.
For these websites, database and PHP performance may matter more than raw bandwidth.
Volunteer websites may rely heavily on forms.
These forms might collect:
Reliability is particularly important because broken forms can silently prevent people from volunteering.
After hosting changes, test every critical form.
International organizations should consider:
A global audience benefits from infrastructure designed for geographic distribution.
A CDN can be particularly valuable when visitors are located far away from the origin server.
Organizations working in:
may publish large amounts of media.
Images should be optimized before uploading.
Videos generally shouldn’t be stored and streamed directly from basic WordPress hosting unless the architecture is designed for it.
Consider specialized video platforms or object storage where appropriate.
Campaign websites are unusual because demand can be unpredictable.
A campaign might receive almost no traffic for weeks and then suddenly receive huge traffic after media coverage.
For these organizations, scalability matters.
Use:
Also conduct load testing before a major campaign if the website is expected to receive significant traffic.
Plugins are one of WordPress’s greatest strengths.
They are also a potential source of performance and compatibility problems.
A nonprofit website might use plugins for:
More plugins do not automatically mean a slow website.
Plugin quality and behavior matter more than raw quantity.
However, every plugin introduces another dependency.
Choose hosting that makes troubleshooting and staging easier.
Some nonprofits sell:
WooCommerce can introduce additional database and application requirements.
Hosting should be able to handle:
WooCommerce websites should generally receive more attention than simple informational websites.
The cheapest option isn’t necessarily the best value.
Always check what happens after the promotional period.
A backup system is only valuable if restoration works.
Overengineering wastes nonprofit resources.
Technical problems don’t happen only during office hours.
Old PHP and database versions can create security and compatibility risks. WordPress recommends current supported software rather than relying on legacy environments.
Testing updates directly on production increases risk.
Campaigns can change traffic dramatically.
The nonprofit should retain ownership of its digital assets.
Hosting is only one component of website performance and security.
Eventually, you may decide that your current hosting provider isn’t adequate.
Migration can be performed systematically.
Document:
Back up:
Install WordPress or migrate the existing installation.
Don’t immediately change DNS.
Check:
Once testing is complete, point the domain to the new host.
Watch the website closely after migration.
Before changing hosting, document:
This prevents small details from becoming major problems.
After migration, test:
Don’t simply look at the homepage and declare the migration successful.
Test real user journeys.
For example:
Visitor journey
Homepage → About → Program → Impact Story → Donate
Volunteer journey
Homepage → Volunteer → Form → Confirmation
Donor journey
Campaign → Donation Form → Payment → Confirmation Email
These workflows matter more than whether a random page loads.
You should consider upgrading when you repeatedly experience:
Don’t wait until the website completely fails.
Infrastructure upgrades are easier when planned.
Look for these warning signs.
Possible resource constraints.
A good WordPress host should help identify infrastructure problems rather than simply shifting responsibility.
That’s a serious concern.
Your growth path may be limited.
This can create security and compatibility problems.
This increases update risk.
Consider alternatives.
Your environment may need better testing or configuration.
Use this five-step process.
Document traffic, functionality, audience, and technical requirements.
Ask what happens if the website goes offline for:
Determine whether you have:
Calculate total ownership cost rather than monthly hosting price alone.
Score them based on:
This turns hosting selection into a structured decision rather than a marketing comparison.
There is no single best host for every nonprofit. The right provider depends on traffic, website complexity, budget, technical expertise, security requirements, and expected growth.
For a small informational nonprofit website, quality shared hosting may be enough.
For a growing organization, managed WordPress hosting can provide a better balance of performance and maintenance.
For complex or high-traffic organizations, VPS or cloud infrastructure may be more appropriate.
WordPress maintains a list of recommended hosting providers, which can be a useful starting point for research.
Yes, for some nonprofits.
Shared hosting can work well for small websites with modest traffic and relatively simple functionality.
However, organizations running significant donation systems, membership platforms, or high-traffic campaigns should evaluate more capable hosting environments.
It can be.
Managed hosting may reduce the amount of technical work required from internal staff.
This can be particularly valuable when the organization doesn’t employ a dedicated WordPress developer.
The decision should be based on the value of the included services rather than the label “managed.”
There is no universal resource requirement.
A simple five-page website may require very few resources.
A website with:
will require significantly more.
Start with actual usage data and expected growth.
Indirectly, yes.
Hosting can influence performance, availability, HTTPS, and server response time, all of which contribute to the technical quality of a website.
However, hosting alone cannot produce strong search rankings.
Content, technical SEO, accessibility, authority, relevance, and user experience all matter.
Not necessarily.
A CDN becomes particularly useful when:
A small local nonprofit may not need a complex CDN configuration.
Yes.
WordPress currently lists HTTPS as a required component of its recommended installation environment, and WordPress security guidance strongly recommends HTTPS for protecting logins and visitors.
It depends on how frequently the website changes.
A frequently updated donation or membership website may need more frequent backups than a static informational site.
The important factors are:
A nonprofit should avoid relying exclusively on backups stored in the same infrastructure as the live website.
If the hosting environment becomes unavailable, you want an independent recovery option.
It can, but free hosting should be approached cautiously for important websites.
If the site supports fundraising, volunteer recruitment, or organizational operations, reliability and security usually matter more than saving a small hosting expense.
Use a currently supported PHP release compatible with your WordPress version and plugins.
WordPress’s current requirements recommend PHP 8.3 or greater, while the WordPress Hosting Team currently recommends PHP 8.4 or later for production environments where the stack has been properly tested.
The key is not simply selecting the newest version.
Compatibility testing matters.
Not necessarily.
A nonprofit can run WordPress on standard hosting that meets the required technical environment.
However, WordPress-specific hosting can provide useful services such as:
WordPress documentation distinguishes generic hosting from WordPress-specific hosting along these lines.
If you’re choosing WordPress hosting for a nonprofit website, prioritize the following order:
Your website needs to be available when supporters need it.
Protect the organization, visitors, donors, volunteers, and staff.
Make sure recovery is possible after mistakes or incidents.
Fast websites provide a better experience across devices and connections.
Choose a provider that can help when something goes wrong.
Your hosting should accommodate reasonable growth.
The infrastructure should match your team’s technical capabilities.
Only after considering all of the above should you optimize for price.
The cheapest hosting plan is rarely the most important metric.
The goal is to find the hosting environment that provides the best balance between cost, reliability, security, performance, and operational simplicity.
Choosing the right WordPress hosting for a nonprofit website is ultimately a risk-management and resource-allocation decision.
Your organization has limited time and money. Every technical decision should help the team spend more of those resources on its mission rather than constantly dealing with website problems.
A small nonprofit may be perfectly comfortable with reliable shared hosting.
A growing organization may benefit from managed WordPress hosting.
A large organization with complex applications may require VPS or cloud infrastructure.
There is no universal hosting package that is right for everyone.
Instead, start with the website itself.
Understand:
Then evaluate hosting providers against those requirements.
At a minimum, choose an environment that supports modern WordPress requirements, HTTPS, current PHP and database software, reliable backups, strong security, useful performance features, and responsive support. WordPress’s current documentation recommends PHP 8.3 or newer, MySQL 8.0 or MariaDB 10.11 or newer, and HTTPS as the modern baseline.
Most importantly, don’t think of hosting as simply another monthly bill.
For a nonprofit, the website is often a critical communication, fundraising, recruitment, and public-trust platform.
Good hosting makes that platform dependable.
And dependable infrastructure gives nonprofit teams something extremely valuable: the ability to focus on their mission instead of worrying about whether their website will work when people need it.
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