When I say highly recommended hosting service for blogging, I mean the most affordable (not too expensive) and most reliable (very minimal downtime, easy to contact, etc.).
Answer: Warning! Using unreliable cheap hosting can leave you devastated when your hard work disappear without warning. Web hosting is one of the most important part of your business and can mean the start or the end of your business.
To answer your query, here are 7 qualities to look for in a good web hosting. An excellent hosting:
- lets you try their service for free or at very low price,
- gives more-than-enough diskspace,
- offers no limit on bandwidth,
- gives multiple add-on domains,
- has friendly Site Builder with thousands of unique templates,
- has QuickInstall to quickly install apps like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, OSCommerce, ZenCart and more
- can be easily upgraded to VPS or one of the best dedicated server plans if and when your business require.
To answer your question, why not try Hostgator. If you need an “unlimited” hosting plan, experts usually highly recommend going with Hostgator because they are the best hosting and domain registrar around.
With more than 4 million websites hosted, a “Hostgator sucks” comment cannot be avoided. See the drawbacks of Hostgator in the section below. Objectively, HG has an amazingly long, 45 days money back guarantee so you have ample time to test them out. They are rated A+ by Better Business Bureau which shows their commitment to customer satisfaction. You also do not have to pay for the first month. You can just try their fully functional hosting service – you pay only $0.01 (you need to use the special coupon code). Do you know any other hosting company that can give you that kind of assurance? Anybody can grab an account from Hostgator for almost FREE.
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Hostgator Complaints
No web hosting service is perfect. Some complaints about Hostgator plans include:
- No free domain name included – but you can easily get a domain name from the best domain registrar such as Godaddy or Namecheap for $10 or less. Would you agree that a website is not complete without a domain name?
- You need to pay full price after your first invoice – well, they need to make money too and all the support and great service do come with a cost. It is like they say, you get what you pay for.
If you are still not sure if HG is right for you, or you have specific query about anything at all, try the Live Chat at HG. They are fast and knowledgeable. Just ask and you shall receive.
Hosting Hunter says
f you are having problem choosing a web hosting to use, I suggest you do the following:
1. Go to the webhost review sites such as webhostinggeeks or web-hosting-top.com and list down about 3 common top hosting companies.
2. Next, for each web hosting X, do a “X sucks” search on Google. Read some complaints and see if you may encounter the same problems like them. Some of the complaints may relate to certain groups of users only such as VPS, dedicated server users or resellers. So you may not be affected if you are not from these categories.
3. Eliminate those hostings you feel uncomfortable with, and look for the best bargain hosting for your money.
Fatcow, Stablehost and Webfaction are some of the most affordable and reliable host for blogging.
Good luck.
kee says
UPDATED:
Some services provide hosting, platform, and domain name all in one. The one of the most popular all-in-one and/or platform-only service is WordPress (http://wordpress.com ).
However, there are other options, so see:
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/08/21/blog-hosting-which-hosts-top-blogs-use/
http://www.whoishostingthis.com/top-blog-hosting/
http://www.dailyblogtips.com/open-discussion-what-is-your-favorite-web-hosting/
MORE INFORMATION:
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/02/15/choosing-a-blog-platform/
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2007/12/03/what-blogging-platform-do-you-use-poll-results/
http://www.dailyblogtips.com/qa-how-do-i-choose-a-web-hosting-company/
Lahks says
Also check out Go Daddy for all in one solutions.
http://www.godaddy.com/default.aspx
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