Who Else Has Trouble Choosing A Host?
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How do you choose what hosting company is best?
I knew nothing about hosting when moving this blog, and there are so many out there so how on earth do you choose?
You’re talking about hundreds of thousands of hosting companies, with some that are specific for blog hosting, specifications that can boggle the mind and a full range of price lists. This was all a little bit overwhelming for me, I had also heard that Wordpress had minimum requirements from a hosting company to be able to run properly, I got this from the Wordpress site:
PHP 4.3 or higher, MySQL 4.0 or higher, Apache or Litespeed recommended.
Which is fine if I had any idea what that meant. Now the nice thing was that the Wordpress site does give you good information and help, and in their wisdom have recommended a few hosting sites that comply and more with these minimum requirements (how handy). So I decided to use one of them and had a look through to see what I thought.
As I looked through their advertisements they had $6.95 per month or $7.95 per month, now before you get too excited, like I did, thinking that isn’t too much to pay out each month. Be aware that not all hosting companies charge you on a month by month basis, which from the adverts you would guess. It may be that much each month but they want you to pay upfront for the year or even two years to get that price. So fully research before you make your decision. It isn’t a problem if you have some money set aside you can use but not everybody has. Although there are some companies that let you pay on a monthly basis, I think one of them may be Gate.com but from what I have seen they do tend to be a little more expensive than the others.
I chose Bluehost from the recommendations, although I had to sign up for a year (at $7.95 per month) they did give you a choice of how long you could sign for. My reasons for this choice was their support has won awards 3 years on the run (I thought I would be needing the support). And amongst other things they had a one click installation of Wordpress’ latest version and a free domain name. While I am learning I am all for the easy life!
Realistically with so many companies out there with similar features it’s a case of sticking your toe in the water and see what happens. I have read really good reviews for Bluehost and at the same time I have heard some bloggers have had a really bad time and moved their blog. But I think this could be said for a lot of large hosting companies, one blogger can swear by a host while another wouldn’t touch it with a 10 foot barge pole. So I went for the one that appealed the most to me and had good features that compared to the others. And so far I have to say (touch wood) I have had no problems with Bluehost and the support has been really helpful with my questions (I’ve put the kiss of death on that now haven’t I). What has your experiences of hosting been?
Hope to see you tomorrow, if my blog doesn’t appear you know what’s happened!
Mandy
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I know EXACTLY what you mean. It’s been a while since being in the dilemma, but I remember doing so much research and comparison charts …augh!
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