4 Web Hosting Tips for Newbies Bloggers
Written by Tech Maish | Posted in Blogging | Posted on 
16-07-2010 | 
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Tags: blog tools, technology, web hosting
Web Hosting is one of the first thing you should care about, it’s the foundation. Foundation should be strong and healthy in order to get long term benefits. During selecting web host companies, one should always remember that buying hosting is the first step that will determine your blog/website popularity. A good web hosting company will give you secure blog and weak hosting will give you weak blog.
1. Price
Price is the first thing you should care about. Newbies can’t afford expensive web hosting plans. If the web hosting company you are going to select is providing limited features as compare to price, then don’t go for it. Search the web for all web hosting features and prices and then decide to select your hosting company.
Currently I am using HostGator because of its superb features and reasonable prices.
2. Support
As a newbie, you must select a web hosting company that provides Live Chat and 24 hours customer services. In case of any problem (example: blog hacked, crashed, log-in info lost, etc..) instant customer service is needed. During selecting web host don’t forget about this.
3. Promotions
Check previous promotional offers offered by the web hosting company. If one is good in term of Prices and Support + Offering Promos, then go for it. Promotion offers are normally related to renewing your existing package, free domains, free IP, free email clients, free software etc…
4. Reputation
Well it may be possible that a web hosting company will have all the above qualities, but still you can’t decide whether to choose or not. You will have to check if the company has its own blog, uses social media, optimized for search engine, created official profiles etc. Such factors will tell you that the company has good reputation and people trust on their service.
The above tips will help you to decide if a web hosting company is good for you or not. Think strategically and go for things that give you benefits for long terms. Hope these tips will help you in deciding a better web hosting company.
For those who have been with web hosts for a while, what other tips do you have for newbies?
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I'm on BlueHost which is alright, some people have had bad experiences with them but I'm sticking with them for now.
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I use HostGator as a dedicated server client. I have been a web host since 2005. And before that I tried a bunch of different hosts. I have even been scammed before by Surpassed Hosting.
It is important to do a search for your host and find out their reputation. There are forums dedicated to talking about web hosting and in the US, there is the Better Business Bureau – http://bbb.org/ . You can search there or through Google. On Google, just put your web hosts name and the word 'scam', and then hit the search button.
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Bookmarked! A friend is making the switch to a hosted WordPress installation from a "free" blog soon, so this is a great resource for him. Re: reputation. There are credible sources that do web host reviews – use them. Best one I can think of is clickfire.com.
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I wouldn't put price at the top of the list for new bloggers who aren't tech-savvy. Budget hosting companies routinely provide very poor-quality and even insecure hosting for WordPress (or anything else, for that matter), and the new user is going to be least capable of providing her own blog security or dealing with other problems. There's certainly no need to pay $50/month, and a dedicated server would be positively dangerous in such a person's hands, but $10/month instead of $5 could be well-invested. In fact, what I'm recommending these days is Page.ly, because they handle upgrades and backups and make things easy, never oversell server space, and so far have a spotless security record. I'd say that's worth $14.99/month, and you're not committed to a year in advance, so if you don't like it, you can always leave.
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There are a few smaller webhosts like myself that provide smaller packages that are cheaper but provide great service. I actually do mine with my dedicated server through Host Gator and have been since 2006. My own is http://webhost-solutions.net/
I probably have better response time than most larger hosting companies…lol
There are a lot of crappy small hosts and I have witnessed it first hand… which is why I got in because I was tired of hearing it.
I think if you look deep, you will find a good one or two budget webhosting that do not eyecandy up their packages.
You are right guy, ‘buying hosting is the first step that will determine your blog/website popularity’. I believe it’s like a train engine. If the engine of the train is good then the rest of the boxes would be run properly. Selecting poor or check hosting just to save a few dollars could be dangerous for the blog/website. There are many issue with poor or cheap hosting like down server, lost of content, lack of security, poor customer support etc…