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Choosing a good host for your blog is not an easy task. But the future (and present) of your blog depends on a good host. You can not just go and buy space from any host. Here's a list of factors to consider when choosing a host for your WordPress blog.
1. No Unlimited Plans: Most of companies that offer unlimited storage fill up their servers with lot of sites and this decreases speed. And just think, is there something like "unlimited"?
2. Know your Requirements: You should have an idea of bandwidth and storage requirements. It will be a waste of your money if you buy a bigger plan and use only a small percentage of resources.
3. Ask other Blog Owners: Who can tell you about services better than people who use it. Ask a few friends whouse the host about their customer care and reliability.
4. Look for Fantastico: Fantastico is a free script installer. With Fantastico, you can install many popular scripts(WordPress etc.) without any uploading. If you do not want to install WordPress manually, Fantastico is the way to go.
5. Downtime: If your blog remains down for a lot of time, no one will care about it. Make sure the host you use has good uptime record.
6. Search Google: Finally, search "<host name> problems" or "problems with <host name>" on Google. This will definitely bring up some complaints.
Which host do we use? We use Doreo Hosting for Blogging With Success.
Why? When we decided to move from Blogspot to WordPress, we did a lot of search. Every host seemed good. But we were looking for honest recommendations. Then one day, we found out that Daniel Scocco from Daily Blog Tips recommending Doreo hosting. Take a look at excerpt from his recommendation:
One day I came across Doreo and decided to give it a try. What convinced me? Mainly the fact that overselling. Their basic plan costs $6.99 monthly, and it comes with 60G of bandwidth transfer and 2G of disk space. That is pretty limited, you might say, because there are companies out there offering terabytes of monthly bandwidth and several gigabytes of disk space for the same price. Exactly! That is the difference between overselling and offering a reliable service. These companies that offer miraculous specifications need to jam thousands of websites on a single server, and the quality of service goes down hill.
Without wasting a second, we bought their package and are glad that we chose them. Their customer care is fast and they can help you with almost anything.
Proof of Doreo's Good Service: Go to Google, search for "Doreo Hosting Problems" and see the results. They will speak themselves! Now search for some other host and see the difference.
Which host do you use? How's your experience with them? Tell us.
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After a long period of downtimes and many emails from my side they moved my sites to a “cloud” server and within 1 day finally took all my sites down because my sites keep using high resources (note: i wrote them an email and let them know my thoughts and told them i don’t agree with their sneaky upgrade plans) and i still have about 5 months hosting left on that account, and they won’t refund me these months ($5 x 5 months = $25).
As I understand it, 'cloud server' is a means to spread your website load across multiple servers. This is something very large sites do to make sure their resource consumption is well distributed and visitors don't experience downtime. Often they pay for this extra power based on usage. Naturally, I have (and should not have) any of your dealings with Doreo but I do suggest you escalate your complaint. Our experience with them has been positive. Good luck.
Thanks for these tips, these are beneficiary and helpful, i am suggest you continue because my desire is write my experiences about blogging.
yeah i use hostgotar
I am using ixWebhosting from last 3 months, got into trouble once ,but now they seems to be running fine. Well pointed out i searched google for best hosting plans not the domain name problems !
Maybe this is often overlooked…..
I'd consider the hosting area carefully before I decide anything. As bandwidth is expensive and rare here in Indonesia, it wouldn't be wise to host your site on America, for example, if the targeted visitors reside in Indonesia.
IIX hosting service is far much better on this scenario.
Of course, this is but a small example from me, yours might be very different from me.
I've been with Host Gator for years, and according to this, it's too good to be true. However, when it comes to Host Gator, it's every inch as good as it seems. It is also one of the most recommended hosts, when ever someone asks about good hosts, there's bound to be numerous people pointing to their direction. Sure I get database connection problems every now and then, and sometimes the site is down, but I can count those times with one hand fingers during an equal amount of years with them.
We also had a few DB problems but due to WP-Super Cache, very few people noticed them. It is very good plugin and I have heared of its good performance when blog gets down as it keeps serving cached pages.
I'm with LunarPages … very affordable but I have had problems with downtime periodically in the past year. It's been pretty good for awhile now, so I'm trying to remain optimistic.
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