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Choose the Best WordPress Hosting Provider

Success comes from the Best WordPress Hosting Provider

You've started on your journey towards creating the next big blog and it is necessary to find the best WordPress hosting provider. After doing some required research into blogging, you might have noticed that most experts speak about finding a good host and installing WordPress as a blogging platform. However, most beginner bloggers are stuck when searching for the best WordPress hosting provider.

Searching on the internet for the best WordPress hosting provider can help, but could yield undesirable results. The reason for this is because most hosting reviews are written to convince you to use the mentioned provider because in almost all the cases the author of the article will receive a commission for referring you to that specific provider.

Finding the Best WordPress Hosting Provider

To find the best WordPress hosting provider is a lot of trial and error. Trial and error is all good, but not if every trial costs, you and every error can set you back. You need to consider things like pricing, limitations, and features. Especially be careful of MySQL query limits. If your site becomes popular, a low MySQL query limit can give a lot of downtime and raising the query limit can become a costly exercise.

To help you move in the right direction, we will discuss one particular hosting provider, named HostGator, only because we have been using them for our WordPress hosting needs for about 6 months now and consider them to be one of the best WordPress hosting providers. Most hosting companies have a live chat system where you can ask questions and find out more about the available services. If the particular hosting service does not have a 24 hour live chat system, skip them because the chances are good you will not get proper support to start with.

One of the most important aspects of any hosting service is the pricing and we must say that at HostGator we get value for the money. You can get your site up and running for round about $4 a month with their hatchling plan. This will give you a single free domain (www.yourdomain.com), unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, and a free shared SSL certificate. This is not bad, but we suggest the hosting plan we chose for a few other projects.

The business plan will give you almost no limitations and extra features you can write a book about. With this plan you get the same as above except you can have unlimited domains (only one free one), a free dedicated IP address, a private SSL certificate, and a toll free telephone number for support. This hosting plan will also not leave a hole in your pocket at about $12 per month, but if you pay for a year in advance, you will get it for about $10 per month.

Apart from the above features, you will also receive a $100 free Google Adwords credit, free website submission to Attracta, unlimited email addresses and more. Even though you have unlimited space, with the business plan you are allowed a maximum of 250,000 inodes that roughly translates into 250,000 files uploaded to your account.

Why the Best WordPress Hosting Provider Matters

The other limits are all about the processor. You are limited to 25 processes you may run at once. This is no problem, because a normal WordPress installation will constantly run about three. The last limitation we would like to discuss is the processor usage. Your processor usage is not allowed to exceed 25%. You don't need to worry about this because the W3 cache plugin and the CloudFlare service will take your processor usage down to almost zero on the HostGator server. Remember that these limitations are reasonable since you are sharing the server with others.

While hosting with HostGator we have not found many faults. Maybe common disadvantages shared between all shared hosting providers, but no faults. The 99.9% uptime is true. The support is truly 24/7/365 and professional. Overall, HostGator is one of the best WordPress hosting providers on the internet.


Hanson

Hanson is an internet professional with a strong focus in the hosting industry. Her experience includes everything from running her own hosting company to building websites. Connect with Hanson on Twitter and Google+.

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