Wordpress Blogging Mastery Malaysia

Here is the first question posted by a blog reader to me. The question is What other essential or useful features should be included, apart from cPanel and Fantastico that was highlighted in Wordpress Blogging Seminar, last week. This is part of the series of Submit in your Questions about Wordpress or Blogging.

In my seminar talk last week, I recommended my seminar attendees to pick Hostgator, as their choice hosting provider. I did not have much time to elaborate on the finer details of what Hostgator have to offer due to limitation of time.

I will try to elaborate further in this blog post, as to why Hostgator is my preferred hosting provider for my Wordpress blogging needs and as a blogger.

Hostgator web hosting provides cPanel, which is a control panel that is Linux based server. In other words, cPanel is the administrative area where you log in with your Username and Password.

On cPanel, you can create your own:

* personalized Email address attached to your Domain name

* create your own MySQL Database

* create SubDomains

* install Bulletin Boards

* install Blog platforms like Wordpress

* install Content Management like Joomla, Drupal, phpWebsite

* install Customer Relationship like PHP Support Tickets or Help Center Live

* install Discussion Boards like phpBB or SMF

* install E-Commerce like OS Commerce, Zen Cart

* install Image Galleries

* install Wikis

Now, I am not a web programmer nor have I studied PHp programming, but I have learned to use the functions in cPanel effectively to install my Wordpress blogs. If you learn to use cPanel effectively, you are in effectively called a Webmaster, because you controls your own cPanel.