Every guy who is running a wordpress blog knows how important a webhosting solution is for the blog. There are tons of webhosts available all claiming to offer loads of features to run your blog/site smoothly.
When you start to search for webhost for your blog, you get very confused. The reason being the features which the Webhosts claim to offer are almost same and you cant decide which one to go for.
Same thing happened with me when i tried to move my another wordpress blog Avinashtech to a paid webhost. I was very confused. Finally i decided to host my blog with one of the big names in webhosting field ( i Wont name that webhost here though). I bought their 2 year shared hosting plan with unlimited bandwidth and unlimited space along with other features like one click installers for wordpress, forums etc.
I shifted my blog to the webhost and set it up with all my posts and plugins that are required for running of wordpress blog. All went good for 2 weeks then suddenly , my webhost shifted my blog to a lower end server and my site was offline for 1 day. The reason they gave was that i was using more server resources even though my blog was just having 1000 visitors/day maximum and was having 5 plugins with wordpress blog.
Finally i wasn’t able to reduce my blog resource taking stuff to the extent they wanted and my site was put offline for 2 days. I did my best but nothing happened. Their support just wanted me to move to VPS (Private virtual server) without trying to help me sincerely.
Finally i moved my blog to another Webhost after doing much more research. This time it was good and now my blog is running with much more plugins with same money i spent on previous host and its running great and smooth there.
So what you should really look for when you want to buy a hosting package. Well,The most important thing that you should look for is how much CPU usage they are permitting on shared hosting. Many hosts dont tell you that but it ranges from 1-8% and too find this you need to read their terms and conditions very precisely.
ON the average, the webhost give you just 1% CPU usage and you will know it later on. But good ones let you a limit of 8% of CPU usage.
Also, you should know, if your blog exceeds the CPU usage limit then what your webhost will do. Many of them will suspend your account and put your website offline. While the good hosts will let you use it for few days after intimating you thus giving you enough time to correct it.
You should even know on what hardware your server runs on and whats the Minimum RAM on it. Good host let you know this things. More RAM the server has, its better for your blog.
One more thing. Thats the most important too. How good its cutomer support is. For running a blog without a downtime you need a prompt and geek enough customer support of webhost. Your support tickets muct be answered promtly withing minutes or maximum 1-2 hours otherwise your site downtime may be more. Some webhosts take 1-2 days to answer your technical issues related to your site issues.
Apart from that almost all features that are offered are almost same with some minor differences but the major difference lies in the facts i stated above. Hope this article helps you in find a better webhost.
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What is the point in not naming the web host? I think it may be Justhost or Godaddy! Hostgator is quite good. Even a small Irish host like http://vade.ie are quite reliable! I did a lot of research on hosting.
You should have named the web host and also given your traffic stats .
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