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What is the Best Web Hosting for Blogs?

What is the best Hosting Site for My Blog?

Best web hosting
This is a difficult question because it all depends on the number of visitors you receive, the size of your blog and how much you’re willing to pay.

However saying all of that, the best all round hosting provider I believe is SiteGround and this is the host I use to run this Blog/site.

There are many reasons why I chose SiteGround over other more popular hosts such as Hostgator, Bluehost, Dreamhost and Godaddy hosting. I’ve tried them all but settled with SiteGround. Here’s why:

The three most important factors to consider when choosing a host is Performance, Customer service and Pricing. SiteGround performs overall better results for all three.

Support

SiteGround offers much better value for money, particularly if you’re site receives higher traffic. It also provides brilliant customer support. In fact it’s the best I’ve received by any hosting provider. There hasn’t been a single occasion where my question didn’t receive a quick response from someone who knew what they were talking about. Plus unlike many host most customer service reps seem to be native English speakers – which can make communication a bit easier.

Performance

According to wpsitecare.com when tested for speed with 11 other top shared hosting providers, Siteground came second – second only to inmotion hosting. However Siteground provides caching for your wordpress blog which technically makes it the fastest.

This is because normally when someone visits your site, the server has to render each page normally. However caching means The next time you, or anyone else, visits your site, the server doesn’t need to do the processing and conversion to HTML. The server can cache in it’s memory parts of the site that do not change – such as the CSS.

Website caching is perhaps the biggest single technology to boost website speed and by doing so improve SEO (search engine optimization). By doing so it can increase conversions and user satisfaction if you’re selling services online.

By implementing caching, you aren’t just making your website faster, you’re also making it perform better — and equipping it to bear the burden of any sudden traffic spikes more efficiently.

This is why I think SiteGround is faster for higher volumes of users. Turning on Caching is as simple as logging into the control panel of SiteGround clicking a button.

Pricing

A webhost that includes such great performance for higher volume traffic and great customer service is something that usually carries with it a higher price tag. However at $2.75 SiteGround is well within the range of other more popular host who provide much less.

Site performance isn’t something they just handle for the more expensive plans, they make it a priority for everyone, even customers who are paying $2.75 a month.

Filed Under: Hosting Tagged With: blog hosting, siteground, web hosting

How to setup WordPress with Yahoo Web Hosting?

How do I setup WordPress with Yahoo Web Hosting?

In an earlier post I explained why you should re-consider setting up WordPress with Yahoo Web Hosting.  However if you choose to do so here is a step by step guide:

First visit smallbusiness.yahoo/webhosting:source=geocities and Choose your plan.

yahoo web hosting plans

You can then choose to register a domain with Yahoo or use one you already own:

Yahoo web hosting choose a domain

Before paying for Yahoo web hosting and perhaps a domain you will need to signup with Yahoo Aabaco Small Business:

yahoo web hosting signup
After you have completed the signup process, verified your email, added your details and you’ve received the getting started email you should end up back on the Yahoo web hosting home page where you can access your account.

Click “Access Your Account” to access the web hosting control panel

Yahoo web hosting Access your account

Click on the Create & Update Tab

yahoo hosting create and update tab

Scroll down and click on WordPress just under Blog Tools:

yahoo blog tools wordpress

Here you will see the form you need to complete in order to install wordpress:

Step 1. Add in login information, password, and Email you want to use with this site.
Step 2. Select the checkmark “Make my blog my homepage” to install your WordPress site on your homepage and for your entire site.
Step 3. Next choose “Install in this default directory…”. As yahoo does not allow you to install WordPress on your root directory, you must select a directory name or a pre-existing directly in which to install WordPress. It will still install your blog on your homepage.
Step 4. Accept the license agreement and then click Activate

Yahoo wordpress installation

 

WordPress should now be successfully Installed!

Yahoo WordPress successfully installed

Select “Edit Blog settings” to access your WordPress dash board where you need to enter the Username and Password you just created.

Yahoo wordpress dashboard
Or alternatively Select “Add a post” to add a post or “View your blog” to view your blog

[author-details=Simon Hough]

Filed Under: Hosting Tagged With: yahoo hosting

Can I use WordPress with Yahoo Web Hosting?

I would like to use Yahoo Web Hosting but does Yahoo Web Hosting Support WordPress?

Yes you can use WordPress with Yahoo Web Hosting and here’s a post explaining How to setup WordPress with Yahoo Web Hosting. However you should reconsider using Yahoo Web Hosting with WordPress for the following reasons:

My personal experience with Yahoo Web Hosting is that the customer service is poor and the server isn’t that reliable or fast. After trying many hosting providers I ended up with SiteGround, which is the best hosting provider bar none.

Just in case you’re still unconvinced as to whether to join Yahoo Web hosting, here are some reviews:

Yahoo Web Hosting Reviews

Here’s some recent reviews from others that reflect my own experience. Yahoo Web Hosting has an average user rating of 2.5 among 75 users.

The quality of the domain and web hosting was never spectacular, but over the years it just went from bad to worse.[star rating=”2″]

I have had a site with Yahoo for about 10 years. Their systems have been out of date for a long time, but they used to be reliable. Now the only thing that works reliably is my WordPress blog, but I have to fight my way into it every day… [star rating=”1.5″]

Yahoo does NOT allow you to cancel a plan unless you CALL them and good luck with that… I’ve been on the phone for over 60-minutes and they still can’t “figure out” how to cancel my plan… Just use 1and1 or another web hosting/domain service. You’ll save yourself time, money, and a lot of aggravation![star rating=”1″]

This is the worst company I’ve ever had to deal with. They said we couldn’t downgrade a plan, so we had to create a new one. Because of that, we were due a refund, and for 4 months now I’ve been fighting with them to get it…[star rating=”1″]

The customer service is outsourced to India and absolutely horrible. We switched payment from one credit card to another hosted on paypal and they couldn’t even look up our account… They have no clue what they’re doing. [star rating=”1.5″]

This is literally the worst customer experience ever. The call center is managed from India, the wait time to get someone is usually 25-35 minutes and they are useless when you do get a person. And, if you want to get your money back for canceling … forget it. I would recommend their service to no one![star rating=”1.5″]

Yahoo web hosting sucks. I’ve used them for 8 years and all was really great, then 3 months ago they were having problems and I haven’t been able to import or publish my site ever since. Losing customers and unable to get my domain name.[star rating=”1″]

Why Choose SightGround

The three most important factors when choosing a web host are Customer service, Performance and Price, with SiteGround performing best overall in all three.

Out of 964 reviews siteground scored 4.5 out of 5 stars:
siteground web hosting review

Customer Service

Siteground provides brilliant customer support. In fact it’s the best I’ve received from any hosting provider. There hasn’t been a single occasion where my question didn’t receive a quick response from someone who knew what they were talking about.

It only takes me seconds to receive a response from their live chat feature. Plus unlike other customer service reps, they seem to be native English speakers – which can make communication a bit easier.

Performance

According to wpsitecare.com when tested for speed with 11 other top shared hosting providers, Siteground came second – second only to inmotion hosting. However Siteground provides caching for your wordpress blog which when turned on can technically make it the fastest and it tends to perform better for higher volumes of trafic.

One of the reasons SiteGround tends to perform better for higher volumes of traffic is the caching. Turning on caching is as simple as logging into the control panel and clicking a button.

Pricing

SiteGround offers much better value for money, particularly if you’re site receives higher traffic. A webhost that includes such great performance for higher volume traffic and great customer service is something that usually carries with it a higher price tag. However at £2.75/month ($3.75/month) SiteGround is well within the range of other more popular web hosts who provide much less.

Click here to sign up

[author-details=Simon Hough]

Filed Under: Hosting Tagged With: wordpress, yahoo hosting

Should I use Free Web Hosting?

Should I use Free Web Hosting?

The short answer is no. I’ve tried many web hosting companies, some better than others. In this short article I give you the reasons why free web hosting is a bad ideas and why you should consider an affordable alternative I use myself

Poor Customer Service

I’ve discovered the main issue with free web hosting is the customer service. Free web hosting usually carries with it poor customer service. Getting an answer to a question can take significantly longer and having them solve a problem may be next to impossible..

With paid hosting, such as the one I use, you can have a problem solved within minutes and getting a reply via live chat can take just seconds

Poor Speed and Reliability

Free web hosting is usually slow or unreliable with low data transfer speed and limited bandwidth. A limited bandwidth means that once the number of monthly website visitors exceeds a limit, the website may not load and you’ll need one of their paid web hosting plans. This is usually the goal of a free web hosting company.

The less reliable your site and the longer it takes to load the lower you’ll fall in the search engine results. Google Search now takes into account page loading speed as a ranking factor.

Advertisements

They’ve got to make money some way, and those providing free web hosting often make their money via advertisements. This doesn’t look professional if you own a business. Some of these advertisements are non-intrusive. However others can be very intrusive, such as annoying popups.

Domain Ownership

Free hosting plans often don’t provide a free domain name you would recognize. For example .com or .net and domain registration can take awhile.

They will often provide sub domains within their own domain name, for example yourwebsite.wordpressc.com or yourwebsite.blogspot.com. If you want your own domain name (recommended) get paid hosting.

I’ve tried many affordable web hosting companies and found siteground to be the best value for money. They provide the best customer service I’ve ever received from a hosting company with live chat often resulting in an answer within seconds. Fast loading times with high bandwidth even for sites with high volume traffic. Also very reliable and flexible.

Please let me know what your experiences are with free web hosting companies and if you’ve tried more than one which would you recommend?

Filed Under: Hosting Tagged With: free hosting

Top Tools to Check the Domain History of your Website

What are the Top Tools to Check the Domain History of a Website?

If you’re planning to purchase a new domain name, it might be a good idea to check the domain history. This is because domains can have a long history with ownership changing hands a number of times.

They reason you may want to know a domains past is because the site may have contained malicious code that can cause it to be blocked or penalized by the search engines, or it may have hosted questionable activities. Or you may simply need to contact the previous owners of the domain name.

When registering a domain name one step is to provide valid and accurate contact information, this is known as WHOIS info. While some prefer to make this information private others provide detailed domain history such as the name and address of previous owners, DNS records and hosting information.

Here are some tools to help you research a previous websites content, the domains history and the domain name ownership history

WayBack Machine

Probably my favourite is WayBack Machine. For many years Wayback Machine has been backing up parts of the Web that would otherwise have been lost. Wayback Machine provides snapshots of how the site appeared months and often years ago. This will help you to identify what kind of content the site once contained.
Click here to visit Wayback Machine

DomainHistory.net

DomainHistory.net is a simple website that can check domain ownership history by providing current/past whois information and reverse email/registrar/IP. All you need to do is enter the domain name in the website and click the Search button. The historical whois data is shown in the results page and you can jump straight to the specific record date from the right hand side.

To get unlimited whois, domain history and export the reports you can buy a professional membership that costs about $29.99 per month with the first 30 years being free.

Domaintools.com
Domaintools.com is one of the most comprehensive services, offering a number of premium online tools for carrying out research on a domain. One such tool provides Whois Domain name History. This enables you to look up previous registrants, Name services, IP addresses, locations and more.

Unfortunately the Whois History features is only available with a professional subscription that costs $49.95. However you can still sign up for a 7 day trial account and then cancel your membership trial within 7 days, before your credit card is charged. Your subscription however will include access to some of their other great tools.

Filed Under: Hosting Tagged With: domain history, domain tools, web archive

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