So, setting up a self hosted wordpress blog is easy, but finding the right host isn’t. Its not because we do not have good webhosts around, with good blog hosting, but because we have too many of them. So, I am not suggesting you any hosting company as of now, but, I will give you a list of things that you need to look in to while searching for a good webhost for your wordpress blog.
1. Price
2. Support
3. Server Requirements
4. Additional features/offers
5. Wordpress friendly ?
Price: I know, price is something that you look at first. Decide how much you are going to spend. If you purchase a plan which comes with free domain for life, you can forget the cost of domain registration. Also, when you sign up, use coupon codes, or promo codes, which gives you additional features, or discounts.
Support: Quality of support, ( the speed at they reply to your emails/calls, the quality of their responses, knowledge, and time taken to resolve an issue …. etc ) can not be judged unless you are a customer, ( forget about fast responses to your sales quiries, they usually reply sales emails real fast ). So, go ahead and search about other peoples’ experience with the company that you are considering. Read forums, blogs, websites with reviews about them. That is the best way to find the quality of support.
Wait for the rest of this post. Here, soon …..
Dinu, Pl complete this will require this also can you recommend good places where I can buy Domain Name and Space? How much space is enough for a Blog?
@ Chirag Chamoli
I wrote a post about finding and registering domain name earlier
wordpress fresh installation requires only less than 1GB. Bandwidth depends on the number of visitors and size of your blog. You may need a maximum of 10GB for an average blog. ( 10GB is a lot actually )
Thanks Got it.
Ah well, its as if you read my mind! The whole of last week, I’ve been wondering how to get a “www” to my blog address once I buy the domain from wordpress… I harassed Joel and Anshul… Hehehe…
Ok, I’m waiting for part 2!
@ Chirag Chamoli
You are welcome
browse through the tag “hosting” and you will get more of it ..
@ Nikhil
Yea, I am the God who listens to to your prayers, and yea, I am lazy too ..
are you planning to sign up for your own hosting, or just register your domain and redirect it to wordpress.com blog, like ruhii did ?
@Dinu, I think Nikhil is just going for domain this time.
Anyway, complete this post as soon as possible….. we are waiting!!! (and sorry for not sending you that local-hosted WP post, I am too much busy doing *something* serious work!!)
P.S> ZnetIndia.com looks good to me, check out yourself!!
@ Suda
no need to say sorry man
you will see the rest of this post tomorrow, and I have 3 more posts pending for this one
Waiting for Nikhil’s clarification
I dont think one could prefix www in any blog hosted on wp.com with a domain mapping upgrage.
Dinu, could you set up other people’s wp blog etc for free… ?
@ Anshul
are you referring to the difference between http://www.domain.com and http://domain.com ? or something else?
Yes, of course, I can set up wp blogs for free .. no problem
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Yeah guys,
I want to know if I can get http://www.domain.com instead of http://domain.com through wordpress!
@ Nikhil
http://domain.com and http://www.domain.com, both are supposed to resolve to the same website. … if you want it to be different, you will need to contact your host, and make some DNS changes.
but, usually, both www and non www versions are supposed to work
@Nikhil, Dinu: Both will work, infact wp.com has a feature where it redirects all empty subdomains to the primary domain. But what Nikhil wants it vice-versa, he wants www as his domain URL and even his bare domain should be forwarded to it. While on wp.com you can only have a bare domain and you cannot add www to it. (As far as I know)
@ Anshul
not sure what wp.com is using for their DNS redirect, but, usually, both are supposed to work, by default ..
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Thanks for sharing the info. I’m going to move to a self-hosted blog soon as i can afford it. I’ll be back here to read up more then
@ Shivya
good luck
Qualitative resource
thank you