Web hosting is crucial if you want to create a legitimate presence online with your blogs.
Why do you need a hosting account for your blog? You can host your blog for free, right? Sure, there are free-hosted blog hosting services, such as Wordpress.com and Blogger.com, and they are really, really good. However, if you want to consider your blogs as something beyond blogging – as web properties or investments – You need to self-host your blogs.
Why you should go for self-hosted blog, instead of free-hosted blog
There are two crucial issues that free-hosted blogs lack: value and brandability. For instance, myhotblog.blogspot.com is not brandable and valuable enough compared to myhotblog.com. Sure, you can purchase myhotblog.com and point the domain name to Wordpress.com or Blogger.com, but the idea behind a self-hosted blog is the ability to max-out blog customisation.
The importance of web hosting in self-hosted blogs
Obviously, you want a reliable web hosting to host your blogs in – Near-100% uptime track record and fast, powerful, server are the essentials, along with services and support provided.
Your choice in web hosting company to partner with determines the complexity of your blog’s management. Here are some tips to consider when choosing a web hosting company for your blogs:
- Open a reseller account to host your blogs
Why? It’s super easy for your blog to be flipped for profit later on. What’s more, you can offer the web hosting space to go along with your blog sales – This adds value to the purchase price, and highly probably makes a good sales proposition since not many bloggers like to change web hosting account (unless they are already have one or yours suck big time…) Of course, you can sell excess web hosting spaces, too. - Choose web hosting that support CMS well
Many Blogs are built upon CMS (content management system) for easy content management. You have to ensure that your blogs are hosted on Linux server (most CMS are coded on PHP.) Try to avoid Windows server as they are having trouble with URL rewriting to give your blog post “nice” name for search engines and human visitors benefit – So you’ll stuck with myhotblog.com/p=123, instead of myhotblog.com/nice-blog-post-name-wohoo. - Choose the one that runs on Cpanel
Cpanel is not necessarily the best, but it surely the most common – Many webmasters and site owners are familiar with the look-and-feel and the features of cPanel hosting. - Choose web hosting company that offers Fantastico
Fantastico is, well, fantastic – You can install popular scripts, including CMS scripts, such as Wordpress and Joomla! in 1 or 2 minutes flat with ease. - Choose web hosting company that offers top-notch customer support
You would want your web hosting provider to support you well, preferably in real time using online chat, such as Host Gator. To know which web hosting companies excel in this, just make sure you read reviews on the Net. - Open a web hosting account with a web hosting provider that offer monthly payment options
Web hosting services paid monthly allows you to bail out easily when things went bad, unlike the yearly-paid counterparts that lose you money when you bail-out. The main draw back of web hosting paid monthly: You are more likely to miss payment, costing you late-fees and account suspension.
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I completely agree with the brandability you are discussing, especially since you are unable to personalize a blog used under WordPress to make it completely unique to what you are representing in your blog.
I use hostgator and it has all these features and it’s also cheap. Have you any experience with it?
thanks!You made some good points there. I did a search on the topic and found most people will agree with your blog.It will greatly help me in my activities.
Thanks though, i’m glad some people share good stuff like this! It will greatly help me in my activities
Another nice post and I fully agree if any webmaster is serious and interested in blogging should use a paid hosting program because it features so much more at such an affordable price nowadays. There are even 1 dollar web hosting services which are very very affordable.
Actually I hosted at Hostgator and they offer a good service. I recommend it for blogs.
self hosting is the way to go, I have 2 dedicated servers hosting some 40 + websites of mine. Being able to fully customise everything is so much better
I like the fact that you are recommending HostGator, I’ve used Godaddy in the past to host websites, but I would say my experience with HostGator was much better. I have a few friends who swear by HostGator =D On a different note if you are looking for a dedicated server, I really enjoy the services that ThePlanet provide.
Till then,
Jean
Nice info there quite useful thanks!
Obviously, you want a reliable web hosting to host your blogs in – Near-100% uptime track record and fast, powerful, server are the essentials, along with services and support provided.
Thanks for sharing :)
Agreed - No other better way!
Danny, Thanks for sharing - Yes, web hosting costs have dropped a lot these days - Price war is on web hosting companies! Lucky for us, the customers :)
Hostgator is fantastic - I enjoy the live support that has helped me a lot so far.
Yes - theme-wise it's possible, but function-wise, it's helpless :)
once you’ve hosted your own blog you never go back
Yes - I forget blogger.com, wordpress.com and stuff...
Great points, you definitely need your own domain if you are serious about doing this as a business.
hosting your blog with a provider is the best suited for those looking for customization and looking for generating revenue from the blog. Hosting is cheap these days and so is the domain registration. There is no reason why one should not consider paying few dollars a month to get quality hosting.
this is a great info.. people should be really so careful when choosing the right web hosting.. It must be appropriate with the business they had.
Any feedback from you?