How to Find Best Webhosting for WordPress Blog

Search for Webhosting on Google and you will be bombard with 1000’s of Webhosting company on Internet. Most of them will show themselves as best webhosting company you can ever have. Your webhosting company matters a lot for your website future. A downtime can have bad impact in your blog SEO strategy as search engine bots will keep getting URL not found error and this will give them a great reason to de-index your blog posts. Another reason is Slow hosting may create problems in terms of crawling for bots and user experience and this will make your blog less search engine bots and user friendly. I’m considering SEO the most here because that’s one of the reason your blog will be loved by Search engine and will have a great impact on your blog traffic.

Here are some of the Point which I personally prefer while selecting hosting for me or for my client.

Requirement

Lay down your requirement before shopping for webhosting. Do you need unlimited webhosting or you just need a wehosting where you can host your websites with fewer pages. Many users are using wordpress as static websites (Great idea) and you might not need unlimited webspace in this case.

WordPress Friendly and System requirement

When you specifically looking for WordPress webhosting. You should understand what a wordpress blog needs. Technically speaking, a wordpress blog works great on php and mysql. But that is not all Php and Mysql version really matters a lot. Else you will get issues like plugin compatibility. WordPress needs php version 4.3+ and mysql 4.0. Which is very much available in any good renowned hosting. Also ask for mod_rewrite Apache module.Though it’s always a good idea to see the server specs of your choice of hosting before making the final decision.

Limited or Unlimited

Unlimited is a catch word with webhosting. No hosting gives you unlimited stuff. Can you imagine even a single thing which is unlimited. Obviously no. So ask about the catch of unlimited. Though they use words like unlimited because numbers are so high that even a big blog might not be able to fill those numbers. Usually 99,999 files or so on. So this is something which I actually consider, because if sometime traffics increases I might need that catch word unlimited because of unlimited bandwidth.

Fantastico

Fantastico is something which you should consider if you are shopping for wordpress. It will help you to install wordpress in 2 clicks. I have written about Fantastico tutorial earlier for two web hosting. Read them here

Install WordPress on Bluehost using Fantastico

Live Chat support

Initially when I shopped for Webhosting, I never considered Live chat support. Trust me its a must have for any top class webhosting. Reason being, if your blog goes down for any possible reason. You need a support ASAP. Even a 24 hour free phone support is something which you can consider. But a live chat support (Tech support) should be consider. Don’t misunderstood this with Sales chat support.

Pricing

Pricing is something which you should again never miss. You may get the same top notch service on other hosting with better price. Obviously there is a big difference between 20$ and 7$/month. So look upon this factor also.

Which Webhosting do I suggest ?

There are plenty of webhosting and its like picking the best out of the rest. Right now this website is hosted on baby plan of Hostgator. But I have also created a wordpress friendly hosting on my WordPress webhosting page. You might look to consider them

Still not clear which hosting do you need. Contact me with your requirement and get the free consultancy.