Web Hosting Reviews from 0z.co.uk

According to Blogpulse there are over 90,000 new blogs going online every day so not surprisingly the Blog Hosting market has seen some explosive growth in the last few years, as all these blogs have to be hosted somewhere!

The result is many web hosting providers offering affordable Blog Hosting solutions with easy install of popular blogging engines, such as Wordpress, b2evolution and Nucleus, and other CMS such as Joomla and Drupal. Some specialist Blog Hosting companies such as Typepad provide their own custom blogging platform.

Should one go for free blog hosting or paid web hosting with your own domain? It depends on the purpose of your blog. Your “money site” should always be on a paid hosting service with your own domain, with your free blogs feeding traffic, link juice and authority to your “money blog.”

Having your own domain reduces the chances of your site being removed at the whim of the free blog host, something which Blogger is particularly prone to do. Also some free blog hosts frown on excessive commercial exploitation of their services (especially affiliate marketing).

Popular Blog Hosts
The following Blog hosts are actually mainstream web hosts but using script installers make installing and maintaining a blog much easier:

Because Hostgator deploy Cpanel/WHM and Fantastico on their servers, there is no problem getting your Wordpress Blog installed..

Setting up a blog and 1&1 Hosting will be a little more involved as it has to be installed manually. You will need to order one of 1&1’s Linux Hosting packages that support mod_rewrite, php and MySQL. You are then ready to create your MySQL database from the 1&1 Control Panel. Then its neccessary to upload the Wordpress source files (which can be obtained from Wordpress.org website) and edit your wp-config.php to work with your newly created database. Then you should be able to point your browser at the Wordpress install script and be good to go.