Wordpress Hosting

How to host a Wordpress blog

When choosing a hosting provider to host your website you'll come across a number of different options. Each individual hosting provider all have different offers and packages to accommodate the needs of their customers. Simply put, they all market their services differently. However, one common name of such a package is WordPress Hosting. The hosting industry has understood the fact that over 50 million blogs and websites currently run on this popular content management system. And so, like any functioning business would, they explore the prospect of recruiting some new customers.

Find the best web hosting for Wordpress blogs

What WordPress hosting most often entitle the customer, except default hosting features like x amount of disk space on a server, domain name registration, x amount of bandwidth and email accounts, is an automated way to install WordPress. Any veteran webmaster will agree that basing ones choice of web hosting only on this additional feature is foolish and may very well return to haunt in the future. It remains a common perception that most hosting customers stay with their first chosen provider. This simply because changing hosting providers is too confusing and time consuming. Roughly translated - deciding on a hosting provider should not be done lightly nor based on a service that you will be able to perform yourself in 5 min.

Fundamentally, what WordPress requires to function is a server that allows PHP and a database of the type MySQL. But while this is offered by most professional web hosting providers there are many other things to consider when choosing a place to host your site - such as support availability and knowledge, server stability and uptime and control panel usability. Above we have listed a number of hosting providers that we've at one point in time have hosted our own WordPress sites on and can thus recommend.