Wordpress Hosting
Standard Shared Hosting should support Blog hosting. All you need really is Linux shared hosting. To make it really easy, many hosts make blog engines such as Wordpress very easy to install with special installers such as Fantastico (on Cpanel/WHM) or Application Vault on Parallels Plesk.
Wordpress Screenshot WP-Andreas01 Theme
Also importantly because the vast majority of cheap shared hosting runs on Linux servers which support the “LAMP Stack” which consists of Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, mean that mod_rewrite is supported.
Mod_rewrite is important because many blog engines or CMS do not always produce search engine friendly URL’s out of the box. In Wordpress this is called “permalinks.” For instance a popular permalink in Wordpress
would be:
/%postname%.html
This would produce a nice search engine friendly URL, based on keywords which will help Google and other search engines find your site. This is expressed in “mod_rewrite” terms as:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
You would cut and paste this code into a file called .htaccess and upload it to the root of your webspace. Don’t worry, Wordpress works out the mod_rewrite code for you, in case you want to customize your permalinks.
Hostgator fully support, Linux, LAMP, mod_rewrite and a number of Blog engines. You can sign up with Hostgator below:
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