Web Hosting for Photography Portfolios

No matter the genre of photography – be it wedding, event, portrait, fashion, landscape travel, or wildlife photography – having an online portfolio is essential. Building it requires high-quality images, page layout design, content development and SEO management services among other aspects. However, hosting is another crucial aspect when launching a portfolio website.

Most photographers aren’t IT engineers, so they prefer keeping coding and technical configurations to a minimum. Additionally, most don’t have the time or budget for hiring a web developer to build their website for them.

There are a few platforms out there that make creating an online portfolio easier than ever for photographers, without needing technical know-how or code knowledge. Popular examples are Wix, Zenfolio Squarespace and SmugMug.

These solutions come equipped with pre-loaded templates that can be modified using a drag and drop builder, as well as ecommerce features to sell prints or digital copies of your photos, along with marketing tools to boost visibility for your photography website. However, unlike a stand-alone hosted solution they don’t provide complete control over its appearance and content management system.

If you want complete control of your photography website, WordPress hosting is the way to go. With an easy drag-and-drop builder for designing custom themes and CDN support to speed up page loads faster – or install our image optimization solution Optimole that reduces disk size without losing quality!