Saturday, October 25, 2008

Why Shared Hosting is Best For WordPress Blogs?

By Dipankar Roy

WordPress is a script written in PHP that allows users to have an online personal or business journal style website. With WordPress, readers of your blog can comment on your latest blog posts. It needs a MySQL database to store the user data and a minimum disk space.

Now choosing the hosting provider for your WordPress blog is the most important job. WordPress itself provide a free hosting service for blogging. Also there are many free blog hosting and web hosting providers. But there are limitations for your blog, such as design, templates, add-ons etc. The main feature you need for your blog is the fantastico script installer, which must contain the latest version of WordPress.

As you don't need a huge amount of space and a large number of databases, shared hosting is best for your WordPress blog with your own domain. You don't need to be familiar with HTML to create your site, as there is an automatic installer of WordPress within the fantastico, which will you, find within your hosting control panel. The hosting provider also helps you in these situations. As an example in my company, if any customer places a ticket to install the WordPress and make all the things ready for him, we will do it with pleasure and it will take just 5-10 minutes to ready the website for him.

With the WordPress hosting you can only edit the header image of your blog and can use selected themes provided by WordPress. In paid hosting, you have the total control to your site. You can add as many pages you wish, can edit the pages also can edit the template; add different add-ons from the WordPress control panel. You could find different theme of WordPress and download them for your blog, unzip it and install to your own site.

If you wish to put Google-ad in your site, you can add that particular script from the file manager option in your control panel. You can define where the ads should be placed. This is not possible in wordpress. You also can optimize your site for search engine to put different Meta tag in the header file. In word press it is only possible by using different related tags. So if you need full freedom for your site and keep control in your hand then shared hosting is the best option.


I have worked in ComfortHost, where I have lot of experience in WordPress or blog hosting.

ComfortHost offers quality web hosting with preinstalled WordPress.

Dipankar Roy
ComfortHost.net

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