Web Hosting and Your Blog

By Bruce · Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Did you know that where you have your webhost for your blog can make the difference of success or failure? Yes indeed! Choosing a good webhost is one of the most important things to use when first setting up your blog. Of course, you can blog on the Free blog platforms like “Blogger.com,” Or “WordPress,” and you will be automatically be hosted on their webhost since they own the platform and webhost.

But if you want full control over your blog destiny, you have to make sure you host it on a reliable and high quality webhost. My favorite by far is Hostgator.com. I have been using them for over 4 years now and can say that I have never had a problem with them. Maybe twice, I had a minor issues with them but they were mostly my fault. Their phone support was quick and response and solution was done within minutes. I purchased the “reseller” package which means that I have access to a master web host account where I can literally set up an unlimited amount of websites on it. Since I manage over 65 blogs, I need a webhost that will never let me down.

A good web host company, other than being super reliable, needs to have the storage space and bandwidth that will more than cover all the websites you will ever use on their servers. A great plus, is that they should have “cpanel” admistrative section that allows you to control many different functions of your web accounts, such as setting up email, looking at statistics, adding sub domains and one click set up of blogs.

I would suggest you “shop” around and compare the best web hosts out there.