How to Choose Hosting For WordPress

How to Choose Hosting for WordPress

Although WordPress is free and both individuals and businesses can use it as they wish without any problems, for any business website you really do need a good web hosting provider and your own business domain name. Look around, what reputable business does not have their own business website and unique domain name. So whether you’re creating a business shopping site or a simple blog for your company, you need a business website with your own unique domain.

Using an open source platform such as WordPress with your own domain gives you that unique identity and creates a promotable brand to encourage the sales, acceptance of your products or services, especially through advertising or other publicity.

Purchasing a domain name is easy, but you have to consider certain factors while choosing a hosting provider for WordPress websites.

First, make sure your web hosting company supports WordPress and that the Fantastico script is available for easy installation. Next, check the price, don’t go for a free hosting solutions, you’ll regret it in the long run, this is your business, your livelihood, you need to be in control. Select a reasonable, medium priced solution to get you started, you can always upgrade your package as required as your website expands to meet demand.

• Read my article, recommended domain name registers, for my WordPress hosting solutions.

WordPress can be used for any business website with really minor changes. It is a versatile development environment that can help in both small and not so small sites.

What happens if your precious business web site goes down? No visitor, no sales! This is really important to business web sites, check the support offered by the web hosting company, it must be accessible 24/7, user friendly with an excellent knowledge base (FAQ section). Google for good and bad reviews, if the bad reviews out-number the good reviews, don’t use that web hosting company. Don’t trust top 5 and top 10 hosting websites, these sites are usually affiliates of web hosting providers with no interest in your business. Use recommendations from the people who actually use the hosting they recommend (this site uses JustHost).

Another thing you have to consider is the user interface selected by the hosting provider. cPanel is one of the most popular, user friendly, control panels that gives you easy access and control of your website and contents. Choose cPanel hosting with good disk space and data transfer. Disk space must be above 300 MB with 3,000 MB data transfer.

Look at the guarantee offered by the hosting provider. Good hosting providers will give you a money back guarantee. If you are not satisfied you have the option to get a refund on the amount you have paid.

How to Choose Hosting for WordPress Conclusion

As stated above, you can research your domain name choices and hosting providers at any of my recommended domain name registers. Most of these registrars provide domain name registration, domain name hosting, free domain name search facilities and some even provide your domain name for free when you register for a domain name hosting package.

If you need a web-page design software solution then see my article, website design software solutions for my recommendations. Some of the design solutions presented are free, others, for a price. There should be an application to solve every problem you’re likely to encounter.

Should you require more information on email marketing services (autoresponders), then you will find my article, top recommended email marketing service providers valuable. If you’re an affiliate creating an email list (the monies in the list) these are the services you need most.

If you’re trying to get an online business started and need a fast-track solution, I would recommend you take a look at Chris Farrell Membership.

Well, I hope you found something useful and enjoyed this article, how to choose hosting for WordPress.