Web hosting that works

I’m not saying Lunarpages sure work, well, they works fine so far. Anyway, there are people around still asking about paying for hosting or free hosting. I’m about to lost myself in this free hosting communities. To be honest, I would recommend paid host, it’s not that expensive these days anyway. I used to use a lot of free hosting, it’s not like I wanna use that much of free hosting, I was forced to change the free hosting due to whatever reasons they have.

Nowadays, due to the heavy competition around the market, webhosting pricing are dropping radically this few years. I used to see web hosting that cost USD7.99 per month for a 50MB space. Nowadays, the space would be more or less 1GB, imagine the differences of only space. If you’re blogging like us here, these are the priority (At least I think so).

1, Blogging platform stable.

Make sure whatever blogging platform you’re using are stable with the hosting itself. cPanel provided a built in blogging platforms, but it doesn’t mean the machine itself support the platform well.

2, Webspace

For the space, I do not think that lot of space would be needed for blogging, even with pictures. 1 or 2 GB would last for years already, unless you upload video on the hosting (Why waste time? YouTube!). As for myself, a good 3 years blogging needed only 5MB with some pictures.

3, Database space

A lot of people didn’t realize this, there are limitation on database space too. Some webhosting only provide a 10MB database storage, if using only one blog, I think it’s more than enough, but if you have lots of blog in a host, beware.

4, Bandwidth

In a simple term, bandwidth is the transfer limitation. So if you host images and a heavy graphic web, note down how many bandwidth you might need before looking for one. For instancemk if your site’s front page is 100KB, with 100MB bandwidth, you can only allow roughly 1000 visitors every month.

These are just for the blogging ones There are more to know about hosting of course, like script supported, php version and etc. It’s all up to one’s preferences anyway. So be smart in choosing a webhosting. Don’t be like me before

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