What a Wordpress Blogger Should Look for in a Hosting Provider
I have been asked the following questions from the submission of questions to me last week, by a Wordpress Blogging Seminar attendee last week. This is part of the series of Submit in your Questions about Wordpress or Blogging.
What is the capacity in terms of space and bandwidth that we should look at, for a regular blogger?
For HostGator, how frequent have they revised their subscription rates when such revisions had also been imposed on their existing subscribers?
For HostGator’s Baby Package, does the “unlimited Addon or Parked Domains” mean that we can put up several different blogs on different topics (so we don’t have to pay to subscribe to different hosting for each blog)
To answer the first question about the required bandwidth and space, Hostgator provides more than adequate bandwidth and space for a new blogger, to start with.
The basic package for a new Blogger would be Hatchling. They provide 350Gb of the disk space and 3,000Gb of bandwidth.
Now, for a new blogger, you would usually use text to write your blog posts and perhaps include image as well as videos. These would generally not take up alot of space nor bandwidth.
Bandwidth will affect you if you are expecting to launch a new product or service of your own, and expects a huge surge of online traffic within the new launch period.
Hostgator does not revise their Subscription rates annually, as far as I have observed. They revise their subscription rates only now and then. And usually the revision subscription rate would be about a dollar or two more, on the monthly subscription.
Lastly, to answer the last question here. Under the Baby package in Hostgator, what they meant by Unlimited Domains Allowed is you can Host as many number of your own Domains into one Account. These Domains can be in different types of niches.
You are the owner of your own registered Domains and they can be about any types of niches you choose. And you can Host all of your Domain names in one Hostgator account for the price of US$7.95 per month (RM25.00 monthly @ Exchange rate of 3.1), at 600Gb of disk space and 6,000Gb of bandwidth and UNLIMITED Domain names, with cPanel and Fantastico.
A plus point here is, this is a USA based web hosting provider. If you are a Malaysian, this is an added advantage if you are blogging about “sensitive” issues, I have been told.
Let me know if I am wrong on some of the facts here.
Do you have any of your own views here that you can add on?
Tags: addon domains, bandwidth, blogger, blogging, hostgator, hosting provider, wordpress
5 Comments
wan
May 20th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
that was a very helpful insight, certainly helpful for beginners who want to start subscribing for a paid hosting site or for those who want to migrate/upgrade from free blogs to paid ones. thanks may
keep up the good work!
Gee
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:47 am
May,
On HostGator’s “Baby Shared Hosting” plan:
1) Does this US$7.95/month hosting fee applies only if one pays 12 or 24 months of hosting fees in advance? What if you pay monthly - Is it US$9.99/month?
2) Does the package offer:
a) Disk space or storage space 1,500 GB or more?
b) Bandwidth or data transfer 15,000 GB or more?
c) Free domain?
3) Does it include:
a) Free listing with search engines?
b) Generous online ads credits with Google or Yahoo?
4) What about its customer support? Does it usually solve your problem in 1 reply after a discussion at their end (like GoDaddy usually)? Or, usually in multiple replies from different staff members?
It’s good to gather more feedback and compare hosting packages before committing as it is quite troublesome to change web hosting after committing.
I always hope that web hosting firm will reward loyalty of their existing customers by constantly upgrading their package to those offered by their competitors.
Cheers
Gee
May Ong
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Gee
Under the second Package called “Baby”, you only pay on a monthly basis. You can choose to stop your hosting account with Hostgator anytime, no questions asked. Again, its for UNLIMITED number of Domain names.
For Package Specifications - please read them under the respective Package.
I had bad experience with a Free Domain that comes with Hosting. Hosting company do not give you back the Domain name and you are bust!
Free listings with search engine - you can do this yourself in 5 minutes.
Online Ads Credit with Google or Yahoo - I get this Offer all the time. No need to get them from your Hosting.
Customer Service at Hostgator - if you are their customer, you chat online with only 1 customer service person at a time. And no - you are not sent here and there by them. That person will resolve it for you there and then in a jiff. It is 24 hours, 365 days and 7 days a week service.
Hostgator is giving out 20% Discount now for 1 year subscription or even the monthly service. Do take advantage of them, as they do not do that often.
May Ong
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Wan
That was your question sent to me by email. Thanks for attending my seminar at Crystal Crown, PJ.
I was glad that I can be of help to you. Anytime.
If you need to ask more questions, just send them to me.
Cara Bauer
November 13th, 2008 at 10:17 am
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