Best Web Hosts For WordPress Blogs

On the web you will get thousands of web hostings and most of those meet the minimum requirements of WordPress. Choosing the best web host for your WordPress site or blog from the crowd is the core important work. Below are few of the best web hosts for WordPress and all work best because of their rich hosting environment:

BlueHost Web Host

BlueHost Web Host is one of the best for the WordPress platform as it comes with WordPress Auto-Install feature. So, no big work to do while you are installing a WordPress website or blog. Moreover, all the latest updates of WordPress are made available on it within a day time. BlueHost Web Host offers unlimited data transfer and also clients can host unlimited domains on their single account with it. The company gives one domain name absolutely free to every client as long as the sites are hosted with it. More to this, it offers 2500 POP/ WebMail addresses, free control panel, 50 MySQL databases, free SimpleScripts, free Fantastico and mirrored storage backups. The host guarantees 99 percent uptime and has 24/7 network monitoring. The best part of BlueHost Web Host is that it has no hidden fees.

DreamHost Web Host

For last six years DreamHost has been voted the best WordPress support and since 1997 it has hosted more than a million domains. The company offers to all the clients, with special promotional price, unlimited domains, unlimited databases, and also unlimited emails. A free domain registration is even offered by the company forever. More to all these, BlueHost Web Host offers two weeks free trial and claims of 100 percent uptime. The latest updates of WordPress are automatically updated on it. So, it is one of the best for bloggers who wants to blog on WordPress platform.

MediaTemple Web Host

MediaTemple Web Host is a clustered hosting platform and is best for traffic spikes. You start a blog on MediaTemple and experience a big time hit when it starts reaching on Digg’s front page and gets unexpected shout-out on Oprah of its own. This host is a one-click installer and it offers a very good bandwidth and high-speed storage facility.

Laughing Squid Web Host

Based in San Francisco, the Laughing Squid Web Hosting offers dependable, friendly, and secure hosting services to small businesses, non-profit organizations, bloggers, artists and individuals. Laughing Squid Web Host is quite popular among bloggers across the world.
The above web hosts are some of the best in the hosting industry where you get the maximum benefit if you are having a WordPress blog.

How to launch a website ?

Wondering how to make a website ?

Have you ever wondered what actually do we need to make a website ? Don’t you, sometimes, feel tempted to make a website of your own ?

Of course, this requires some money as well as some dedicated work! Launching a new website  is no big deal and even a 12th standard student can do that! Yeah, of course if you’ll go with designing the whole website on your own, that will require strong working knowledge of few languages like HTML, CSS, PHP etc and will also need loads of hard work!

But if you are smart enough to design the whole website on your own, then you probably don’t need to read this article because this article is written to target those users who feel tempted to have some space and name on the web but don’t know how to get one or they just feel scary to give it a try because they either don’t know any language like HTML, CSS, PHP etc or don’t know that these things aren’t a MUST for launching a website.

Well, for making ( at least for launching ) a website you don’t really need to be professional ,even one who doesn’t know the “H” of HTML can make a website but basic idea about these languages is always a big plus -You will be able to optimize your site in a better and effective manner if you have the basic idea about these languages.

What do I need to do to launch a website :

Here are few points, that will give you the basic idea about what actually we need to do to launch a website :

1. You first need to buy a domain name from any domain registrar ( or you just need to register any domain like www.tabish.co.in ). The money you need to pay to the domain registrar depends on the domain name (  e.g .com costs more than .in ) and the registrar you chose to buy from! Your domain cost varies from registrar to registrar.

2. Once you get a domain registered, you got an address on the web. Mind it, it’s just an address and nothing else. At this point of time, no one will be able to access your site from anywhere unless you host your website. To host your website, you need to use a hosting site, either paid ones or the free ones – it depends on your need!

3. Once you have a domain name (e.g. www.tabish.co.in ) with a web hosting, all you need to do is to set your name server which is given to you by the hosting site ( looks like ns1.examplehost.com and ns2.examplehost.com ) on the the domain registrar settings panel.

4. Access your cPanle ( or the admin panel ) with the id and password which will be given to you by the web hosting site, where  you register for hosting your website,  visit the public directory and upload your content either by using filezilla ( ftp client ) or by following the instruction given to you by the hosting website.

5. You can either design your own templates or can use any free templates available for websites. There are lots of websites which offer you free website templates. You can either use them directly or can modify according to your need. If you want to do blogging, you need to install a blogging s/w in the public directory of your website. There are lots of blogging services including  wordpress that offer you free service for blogging!

This is all about what are the basic things that you need to know before getting started to launch a website. In my next article, I’ll tell you in details, how to register domain names and what are the things that we need to keep in mind before registering a domain with the domain registrar. Also, what are the available options for hosting and what else do we need to do to  make our site up will be shared with you! Please wait for my next article and do post comments about this one!