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He left his full time job as of 1st August, 2008 to earn his living as a problogger from blogging and freelance Internet projects. He also shares his 10 years of experience he gained in a giant multi-national company for Small Business companies and builds Corporate Identity. Read more about him!

May
29th

Your Blog Hosting Recommendations Wanted

By Mert Erkal in Blogging

I have received emails in the last few weeks asking for advice on blog hosts. There are four important things you should check before paying for a hosting service:

  • High uptime ratio (will your blog be up and running all the time?)
  • Availability for patches & updates
  • Cpanel (one click WordPress installation)
  • A server located in USA (because Google treat them special!)

Since very long time I am using Host Gator and I am very satisfied with their service. Their service met all above mentioned criteria. Apart from their monthly maintenance, my websites and blogs never went down. Their uptime ratio is quite high.

I preferred Host Gator‘s Baby Package with its $7.95 per month price. You get unlimited Disk Space/Bandwidth/Domains with that price. What else a problogger can need?

I still wonder your choice. Which hosting company do you prefer? What do you think about them? What suggestions would you give a new blogger shopping for a host for his new blog? What are your blog hosting recommendations?

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Comments

JohnSerra May 29th, 2009

Hi Mert,

You might want to check out JaguarPC http://bit.ly/1h3rZ in Atlanta. The price is a little bit higher if you want to pay month to month, but you can get good prices by paying for the year…
Also, my experience with Host Gator has been that they put too many sites on one server, slowing down your page load times.. JaguarPC hosting has the same control panel, cPanel, with the one click install for WordPress…
Host Gator servers are in Texas.. JaguarPC servers are in Atlanta.. If your audience is the US, then it doesn't matter, but if your targeting a Turkish audience, then Atlanta is one of the main lines into Turkey, so faster load times..

techvirgin May 30th, 2009

i really like Hostmonster. I have been using them for 2 years now and their service is very good. once every 3 months they seem to have maintenance which bring down the site for an hour like clockwork. other than that i haven't seen any problems whatsoever. Plus you have the benefit of unlimited everything and SimpleScripts. Here is my affiliate link: http://www.hostmonster.com/track/teqedgec

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rajsekhar291 June 1st, 2009

nowadays blogging is the top most thing every one wants to do.Now if there's a chance of earning money then why not.This was the scenario earlier but now people are blogging to earn money.So,it's important to post on these topics.

Miguel | Simply Blog June 2nd, 2009

Hey Mert,

I've been with Media Temple since I first started over a year ago. Customer service is timely and freely, and it's been smooth sailing! How your blogging academy and so forth? Again, I always enjoy what work here at Search for Blogging, keep it up my friend! Cheers!

-Mig

Jackie June 3rd, 2009

I've been using http://www.thiswebhost.com for a while, and they've been absolutely fantastic!

molly June 3rd, 2009

I really like reading you =) .. I’m a new blogger and I'm confused u_u, all webpages talk about making money for hosting videos, but not all of them are good and I have a lot of ideas. My cousin recommended me to visit (vismomedia.com) , he said I’ts a good webpage for bloggers. What’s your opinion ¿?

mert_erkal673 June 4th, 2009

Hi Miguel, I have been told that Media Temple s performance is quite good also. Mert s Blog Academy is going well, we have so many members that I still can not believe how it happened in my country where problogging is fairly a new concept. Thanks for your usual support Miguel!

katlupe August 27th, 2009

I use http://mediaserve.com for my blog at $8.95 a month and have never had a problem with them. In fact, my husband recommended them to me since he uses them to host our church site which he designed and maintains. Never have our two sites been down that we know of. Plus they are very quick to respond to any questions.

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