As you might have noticed, our website is hosted at Bluehost and we regularly recommend them. But are they the only good WordPress web hosting outfit? Heck, no! We have also had some very good experiences with Hostgator and we are happy to refer WordPress users to them. What are the advantages of Hostgator over Bluehost? Hostgator is cheaper Hostgator has good technical support, at least as good as Bluehost Hostgator features cute little alligators in its ads (OK, that may not be a very good selling point to you, but ) The reason why Hostgator is our #2 web hosting recommendation is because, at the...

Using WordPress as a platform to build a website or blog is very wise move for all webmasters. Not only is it much easier to create a website with WordPress, the end result may very well appear slicker and more professional because of the excellent range of WordPress themes which are freely available. But before any of this can happen the webmaster needs a web host for WordPress. Does WordPress need anything different in a hosting company than any regular html website? Well, yes. WordPress provides an ever-evolving environment, delivering cutting-edge tools and techniques to deliver web content in an...

Since the introduction of WordPress 3.2 earlier this year, the hosting requirements for WordPress websites and blogs have changed. WordPress now requires hosting to provide: PHP 5.2.4 or greater MySQL 5.0 or greater PHP is the computer language that WordPress is written in and, due to some of the more advanced features present in WordPress 3.2, the higher level of PHP is necessary to execute the code. MySQL is the relational database management system (RDBS) that provides multi-user access to all the website’s content. Users of WordPress don’t have to know anything about either of these...

Why do I recommend Bluehost for WordPress web hosting? This was a question I was recently asked by one of the people on my email list. The answer’s easy – because Bluehost are honestly the best. How do I know? Well, I’ve used all of the major web hosting companies over the years and, while some of them have been very good, a few have been disastrous. In one case, a website that I created for paying clients was offline for 25% of the day for about a week because the hosting company was having technical problems. In another, my site was hacked into and the database was destroyed. And...

WordPress hosting can be a difficult decision for first-time WordPress webmasters. There are a lot of websites purporting to provide ‘WordPress Hosting Reviews’ but the information they provide is often contradictory and confusing. When you are just starting out with the idea of building a WordPress website, the last thing you need is another layer of technical geek-speak to contend with. So, just what do you need to look for in a WordPress webhost? OK – I may be inviting some controversy here, but I think there are only three things you really need to check out when you are looking...