Most of the WordPress blogs run on a shared hosting environemnt and a small percentage of blogs which are big run either on VPS or dedicated servers. Majority of the webmasters are not aware of what version of PHP or mysql their blog runs on their host. As wordpress 3.2 is nearing its release which marks a major change in terms of Server requirements from previous WordPress versions. Is your WordPress blog and webhost is ready for this change? Click to continue…
Hosting
I have written about how to reduced server load on a shared hosting here and here. It seems I missed one of the vital ways to reduce WordPress server load on shared hosting. I will talk in brief about one of the best ways to reduce server load. Most of wordpress users are aware that it works using a database which keeps on growing with the number of posts, comments and even plugins. This growth normally is not very systematic and often lead to errors in wordpress database. In technical language, we call it ” Overhead“
In my last post I talked about how to start a self hosted WordPress blog. One of the things involved in that was , how to install WordPress on your Shared Hosting so that you can start posting on it. Today we will talk about that.I am assuming here that you have already bought a domain name and Shared hosting for your blog.
CREATE A DATABASE
The first requirement for installing WordPress on your shared hosting server is to create a user name and a database to be used by wordpress.If you are on CPANEL (control panel of your webshosting) , Navigate to Databases >> My SQL databases. Click to continue…
