Web Hosting for Bloggers

Monday, 28 February 2011

Bloggers are some of the most intelligent people sometimes.  Even though intelligence may be seen in their insightful opinions that they post to their blogs, they may not have chosen the right web hosting for their blogs.  It is important for beginners to understand what it takes to choose a hosting option for their up and coming blog.  Most webhosting services actually make it much easier to create a blog now. Webhosts that use a content management system or CMS software installation will make it possible to start up a blog in minutes after purchasing and validating the hosting.  The user simply needs to know what they will want to blog about and they are ready.  Most blogging software bundles are actually ready for indexing and will be able to beacon themselves out to the search engines without much work from the website owner.  The big thing with hosting for bloggers is the price.

Blog hosting is usually very cost effective.  A few dollars per month to be able to voice your opinion and have the complete control of what gets posted to the site is always a great thing to have.  The most that a blogger can expect to pay will be based on how popular their blog site gets.  Very high traffic blogs will more than likely make use of higher amounts of storage, bandwidth and memory.  The more of these resources that are needed the higher the costs of the hosting.

The great thing about most hosting services is the fact that they are now offering specialized blogging hosting packages.  These packages allow the blogs to have unlimited resources and the blogger can still maintain an affordable price range for their website budgets.  While this is true for some webhosts, it is still a very important issue with others hosts that still only offer basic resource packages for blogging sites with their plans.

How to start with a Blog Hosting?

CMS - the content management system needs to fit their writing style and can be easy enough for them to use without having to go through loops to post their blog posts.  The best options that are currently available are WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and a wide variety of others that are free and open source.
Storage - The storage capacity of the site is necessary to be higher for websites that plan on posting media on their sites.  The more images, sounds, videos and other media that is directly uploaded to the site, the more storage will be used.

Bandwidth - Bandwidth is the amount of transfer that can be made between the readers and the website.  Traffic going up to the site is usually known as uploading.  The traffic going to the readers is usually known as downloading.  The more readers, visitors, viewers and basically the more the site is exposed to others, the more bandwidth will be needed to keep the site running.